In a recent press release, Apple confirmed that iOS 18.4 would be published in April.
Announcement of Apple News +food:
Coming with iOS 18.4 and iPados 18.4 in AprilApple News + subscribers will have access to Apple News + Food, a new section that will include tens of thousands of recipes – as well as stories on restaurants, healthy food, kitchen essentials, etc. – The best food publishers in the world, including allrecipes, good appetite, food and wine, good food and serious dishes.
The first beta version of iOS 18.4 is already available for developers and public beta-testers.
The first beta iOS 18.4 version does not include any of the new features of Apple Intelligence for Siri who were originally expected, such as the personal context and the awareness of the screen, but the update has always a handle D ‘Other new features and changes.
Below, we highlight some of the new key features of iOS 18.4.
Available now
Priority notifications
IOS 18.4 presents an Promised Apple Intelligence Functionality which can automatically identify and surface your most important notifications on the lock screen.
The option can be enabled in the Settings Under Notifications → Profit notifications.
Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15 pro, iPhone 15 pro Max or any iPhone 16 model.
Appores Appaires + Food
IOS 18.4 adds a new food section to the Apple News application on the iPhone. This section will provide Apple News + tens of thousands of recipes and other content related to well -known publishers linked to food, without additional costs.
Here’s how Apple describes the new food section:
With the new food feature, users will be able to find stories organized by Apple News publishers, as well as by navigating, searching and filtering tens of thousands of recipes in the recipe catalog – with new recipes added every day. The beautifully designed recipe format facilitates the examination of the ingredients and the directions, and a new cooking mode takes on step by step on the full screen. Users can also save their favorite recipes for later and access them offline.
Apple News + is available in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The service offers digital access to hundreds of major publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Magazine, People, The Athletic, Rolling Stone and others. In the United States, Apple News + costs $ 12.99 per month, and it is also included in the Apple One Package alongside other Apple services for $ 37.95 per month.
Ambient music
IOS 18.4 adds a new ambient music feature at the iPhone control center.
This feature allows you to quickly listen to a collection of songs from four different categories, including sleep, cold, productivity and well-being.
More
- IOS 18.4 makes Apple intelligences available in more languages, especially French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (simplified), English (Singapore) and English (India).
- There is a new “sketch” drawing style for the image playing field function, alongside the “animation” and “illustration” styles. This feature, fueled by Apple Intelligence, allows you to generate images according to text descriptions.
- In some vehicles equipped with very large dashboard screens, Carplay displays an additional line of application icons on a single page.
- IOS 18.4 allows you to define a default maps application, such as Google Maps, in the EU. You can also define a default translation application worldwide.
Read our IOS 18.4 functionalities guide for even more.
Come later
Vision Pro Application
It is not in the first beta version, but iOS 18.4 will add a new Apple Vision Pro application to the iPhone.
The application will offer professional vision users a new way to download applications and games from the App Store, discover Apple TV content, learn useful vision pro tips, quickly access information about their own professional vision, etc.
The application will appear for vision vision users when they update their iPhone to the iOS 18.4 version, and it will also be available in the App Store.
New emoji
iOS 18.4 will include new emoji, according to the code seen by Macrumors Contributor Aaron Perris.
IOS 15.4, iOS 16.4 and iOS 17.4 all introduced new emoji, there was therefore a good chance that the trend continues with iOS 18.4.
Last year, the Unicode consortium presented in preview the new emoji which should come with iOS 18.4, with new options comprising a face with bags under the eyes, fingerprints, a leave without leaves, vegetables- Roots, a harp, a shovel, splashes and more.
