The new beta iOS 18.4 version still lacks a parusie-Ai siri with a screen awareness and the application integrations that Apple promised in June at WWDC. If you are waiting for this, try your luck with iOS 18.5. However, 18.4 is not an empty update. The corrective should introduce priority notifications, and Apple Intelligence will now take care of more languages, which is excellent news for Apple users around the world. In addition, iOS 18.4 will make Apple’s information accessible in the European Union for the first time. Here is brand new with the next iOS update.
Priority notifications
One of the new features highlighted in iOS 18.4 is the priority notifications. When activated, your iPhone will use intelligence on devices to determine which notifications are really important and will highlight them in a new area of priority notifications above the rest of your pings.
However, in this beta version, it is not activated by default. Go to Parameters > Notifications > Prioritize notifications Then activate the functionality of starting to use it.
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Starting with iOS 18.4 Beta 2, you can also delete the applications of priority notifications – it was a matter all or nothing. If you do not want an application messages like Uber eats to appear in the priority notifications section, you can now deactivate them easily with a rocking in the same menu.
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Sketch style in image image
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When you create an image in Image Playground, you will see a new style option called Sketch. This style gives the impression that your image generated by AI has been drawn on paper. If it seems familiar, it is because it has also been shown to WWDC, but Apple simply added it to iOS with this update.
Visual intelligence arrives at the iPhone 15 Pro series
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Apple has brought the visual intelligence functionality, which allows you to use a real -time video to get the help of Apple AI, to the iPhone 16th despite its lack of camera control button, and now with the iOS 18.4 update, users of iPhone 15 Pro will also get it.
From now on, users can map the Action button functionality, which even works like another way for phones with camera control to throw it.
Apple Intelligence arrives at the control center
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If you want to use your hardware buttons for something else, but you would always like to access visual intelligence, you can also add a new visual intelligence control to the control center. In fact, the SIRI section of the control center has been renamed Apple Intelligence & Siri, and it also has controls to speak to Siri and Type in Siri.
All new emojis
Sometimes it is the new emojis that lead users to upgrade their iOS, rather than on new features. In iOS 18.4, Apple brings out seven new distinct emojis. There is a new face emoji called face with bags under Eyes (my new personal favorite), and there is also an emoji of fingerprints. You also have a shovel, a harp, a leave -free tree (AWW), a splashing emoji and the sark flag. Here’s what they look like.
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New ambient music function in the control center
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Apple already has a function of background sounds that generates nature sounds for ambient reading. However, in iOS 18.4, you will find a new section of ambient music in the control center. There are four options: sleep, cooling, productivity and well-being. Press one, and he will play an Apple Music corresponding reading list.
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Apple has mapped a reading list each button by default, but you are not locked in any of them. If you enter the Control Center editing view, then press a check, you can choose a different reading list (Apple offers you four different options for each control), or you can choose any reading list in your own collection.
New shortcut actions
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IOS 18.4 presents many new actions to the shortcut application, most of which have to be seen with the modification of the parameters for Apple applications such as safari, cards, calendar, recall, television, books, notes, vocal memos and weather. It is ideal for people who really like to tinker with Apple’s default applications, but it could also lay the foundations for Apple’s next Siri Siri feature, which will allow Siri to take control of applications and carry out actions on your behalf.
However, as an example of what you can do for the moment, the Safari shortcuts will now allow you to switch the contextual blocking, close the tabs, modify the search engine, etc.
Apple Intelligence arrives at the EU
In addition to becoming available for EU users, Apple Intelligence now supports the French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (simplified). In addition, there is now support for English located for India and Singapore.
The recipes come to the News + application
The news application has a new Apple News Food + section for the payment of subscribers. Here you can access tens of thousands of aesthetically pleasant recipes. There are also stories, restaurant criticism and more.
The new messaging application comes to the iPad and Mac
With iPados 18.4 Beta and MacOS 15.4 Beta, the redesigned messaging application arrives on the iPad and Mac. Once you have updated, you will have access to messaging categories and other AI features on your tablet and computer.
A much better genmoji button
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When I wrote on Genmoji, I was tried to call it a hidden functionality, because that’s what it was. Genmoji was just a multicolored smiling face nestled in the corner of the Emoji keyboard.
Apple seems to have learned its lesson: with 18.4, the new icon called “Genmoji” right next to a Rainbow Smiley Face icon.
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The Podcasts application now has two new widgets: one for Libraryand one for Shows. The library widget can show you all the recorded episodes, the downloaded episodes or the latest episodes. The program widget is to highlight all the episodes of a single show. You can choose a program, then access all the latest episodes of the show from the home screen.
More choices for default applications
The selection of default application options by Apple increases. You can now define a different translate application by default, and if you are in the EU, there is now a support to also choose a default navigation application. (If you are not in the EU, try to use the card redirect as a bypass solution.)
Carplay changes
For some usersIt seems that Carplay adds a third line of application icons on the home screen. It seems that you see it depends on the vehicle you have.
A new App Vision Pro application
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The iPhone now has a new companion application for the Apple Vision Pro. This application can be used to explore applications and vision pro content, and to download them in the helmet when not used.
Other small changes
The main applications like iOS 18.4 generally include a number of smaller changes in addition to those more notable. Here is what iOS 18.4 updates on your iPhone:
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When you create a new device with iOS 18.4, you will be invited to select an age group for this. You can choose between Child (12 or less), Teenager (13 to 17), and Adult (18 years old or more). Apple says that it will only use this data to help configure parental checks.
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When you change your albums, you will see a new list view option, hope that reorganize them more easily.
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There is a new button in the recently deleted section of the photo application quickly Delete Photos.
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Although it is not yet added, on the basis of the code in iOS 18.4, it seems that Apple plans to add the management of NAC (North American load system) for the Apple Maps EV route planning function.
