Apple software updates regularly bring new capacities, and iOS 18.3 is no exception. Aside from a few Apple Intelligence adjustments, iOS 18.3 and iPados 18.3 provide other new features and quality of life, so take your iPhone or iPad and follow us.
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Activate Apple Intelligence by default
Apple Intelligence is automatically activated when you update your iPhone, iPad or Mac to iOS 18.3, iPados 18.3 or MacOS Sequoia 15.3 as part of the integration process, even if you have previously extinguished. In the previous versions, you must have turned it on manually, which means that Apple Intelligence went from an opt-in function to an opt-out function.
If you are not interested in AI, you can deactivate Apple Intelligence at any time in the settings> Apple Intelligence & Siri on iOS and iPados and in the System> Apple Intelligence & Siri on macOS. Better yet, choose “Configure later” during the configuration.
Deactivating Apple intelligence deactivates the following features:
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Image Games Area
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Genmoji
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Visual intelligence
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Image patter in the Notes application and the Apple Crayer tool palette
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Writing
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Chatgpt integration into Siri and writing tools
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Cleaning and creating memory movies in the Photos Application
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Notification summaries
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Development mode “Reduce interruptions”
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Intelligent breakthrough and switching sineling in the development settings
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Natural language search on photos
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Smart responses and summaries AI in mail and messages applications
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Priority notifications in the messaging application
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Summary of web articles in Safari
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New SIRI design and improvements such as improving language understanding, product knowledge and the SIRI functionality type
In fact, you would be wise to deactivate Apple Intelligence if you don’t use it. By Apple Assistance pageThis will release approximately 7 GB of device storage that Apple Intelligence reserves for its disk AI models and other needs. After deactivating Apple Intelligence on my iPhone, iPad and Mac, I managed to recover 21 GB of combined storage space!
Apple Intelligence is available on the iPhone 15 Pro, the iPhone 16 range and iPads / Macs fed by Apple silicon fleas (M1, M2, M3 and M4, and their variants).
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Add calendar events for posters or leaflets
Visual Intelligence, exclusively available on the iPhone 16 range, has been updated in iOS 18.3 to allow you to add identified events on various posters and leaflets to your calendar. Launch the visual intelligence by pressing on and holding the camera control button, then point the camera on a concert poster or a leaflet of events. After about a second, the option of adding an event dedicated to the integrated calendar application appears near the top of the screen.
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Identify plants and animals in real time
Visual intelligence in iOS 18.3 can also identify plants, animals and insects. As before, visual intelligence provides a range of fast contextual actions on the text detected in your environment. For example, you can see options to translate, summarize, read aloud, call phone numbers, get routes, visit websites, etc.
It is not new; The photos application and the visual search function can also detect plants and animals. That said, having this capacity in real time via visual intelligence is pleasant.
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Quickly deactivate the summary notifications
IOS 18.3, iPados 18.3 and MacOS Sequoia temporarily deactivate the notification summaries of disturbed AI for all applications in the category of news and entertainment of the App Store on reports on news titles summarized in error from the news titles from BBC News and the New York Times.
Summaries of notification in iOS 18.3 can also be disabled directly from the lock screen: slide left on the notification, choose “Options” and select “Disable summaries”.
You can also individually switch the notifications summarized in the parameters> Notifications> Summarize notifications.
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Better distinguish summaries of AI notification
The notification banner of notifications summarized by Apple Intelligence uses text in italics and a glyph. Italics are often used to emphasize, so this change helps to distinguish the notification of the AI of your regular notifications.
Apple also added warnings when authorizing the notification summaries to clarify that errors occur because it is a beta functionality. “This beta functionality will sometimes make mistakes that could distort the meaning of the original notification,” he says.
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Perform repetitive calculations
The application of calculator integrated in iOS 18.3, iPados 18.3 and MacOS Sequoia 15.3 supports repetition operation, an old feature temporarily removed in the redesign of the calculator in iOS 18.0. Press the equal sign again to repeat the last mathematical operation.
For example, if you make a 3×2 calculation and get six as an answer, pressing the equal sign again, multiply the result (six) by two again, and continue to do it whenever you press the key. This feature can save time when calculating things as well as the compound interest.
The shift to delete the last figure is always MIA. Another discomfort is to exchange the AC button for the delete key; However, you must touch it and maintain it to erase a long number at a time instead of the number by figure.
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Watch out for Culture PDF screenshots
IOS 18.3 and iPados 18.3 introduce a confidentiality warning when you try to save a full page scroll screen as a PDF in the integrated screenshot tool. Apple wants you to know that the cropped content is not physically deleted from the PDF file.
“The content outside the short area will not be visible in most PDF viewers, but it can be made visible in certain applications.” This is only true for the screenshots recorded in PDF; You cannot return to changes for ordinary PNG or JPG screenshots. This confidentiality warning does not appear in MacOS.
Many PDF applications have reduced sensitive information with a highlighter or a black box that can be easily deleted. To avoid this, use a dedicated Redact feature in trust software such as Adobe Acrobat, Apple’s preview or Readdle PDF expert.
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Capture image screen recordings in the image
The screen recording tool integrated in iOS 18.3 and iPados 18.3 provides three undocumented improvements that 9TO5MAC has discovered. First, it now captures stereo sound using on -board microphones instead of mono sound before. Second, the Screencasts now capture HDR content. In iOS and iPados 18.2 and earlier, the use of screen recording when visualizing HDR content released the screen and captured your screen as a SDR video.
And thirdly, you can now save the screen with a live camera superposition in image mode in mode, similar to SharePlay screen sharing sessions on FaceTime. This allows you to create comment style videos without using additional applications or equipment. Count me excited!
The live superposition of the camera in the screen recording will not be live in places like the European Union until Apple sails on local confidentiality laws.
You can also associate live camera superposition in the screen recording with facetime video calls to transform your device into a personal podcast studio and capture audio and video parts of the call. The screen recording saves the video in the Photos Application, while FaceTime saves audio recording only in the call records in the Notes application, and you also get an automatic transcription with the top names -parters and horodatages.
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Bring a new animated wallpaper
IOS 18.3 and iPados 18.3 bring the new “unity rhythm” wallpaper for iPhone and iPad as part of the Apple celebration Months of the history of blacks. The wallpapers have personalized lettering by writing the word “unity”, which changes orientation when the device locks, unlocks and landed on the home screen, According to Apple’s announcement.
Watchos 11.3 brings the face of the matching rhythm watch that animates the wrist elevation. To apply the new face of the watch, touch and hold your current watch face, then press the button further right and select “Add” in the Unity Rhythm section.
IOS 18.3, iPados 18.3 and MacOS Sequoia 15.3 also include fixes for the disappearance of keyboards when entering Siri reading and audio after closing the musical application, as well as fixes for more than two dozen vulnerabilities, including one that has been actively exploited.
