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18 Hidden Features in iOS 18
Mar 11, 2025
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I've made videos covering all the major
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features of iOS 18 but now it's time to
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show you the little details and hidden
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features let's start with of all things
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the phone app on the dial screen if you
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start to type in somebody's name based
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on the letters written on each number
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like an old T9 cell phone it'll look up
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that contact in your address book it
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could be much faster looking up a
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contact than pilfering through a long
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list of contacts in the photos app last
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year Apple introduced a feature called
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copy edits if you make a bunch of
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changes to the Hue color saturation
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brightness tint of an image you can copy
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those edits and paste them in bulk to
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apply to a whole set of images but if
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those images vary in exposure and white
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balance the pasted edits might not look
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the same well with adaptive copy edits
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it'll compensate for those two features
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so that when you paste the edits it'll
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look more uniform in the files app if
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you use iCloud drive to sync files or
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documents between your iPhone Mac iPad
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or more there's a new keep downloaded
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option that'll make sure those files are
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always available on your iPhone they'll
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never be offloaded or deleted to make
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space iOS has always supported multiple
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languages and it's really easy to switch
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between languages on a keyboard but now
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you can have two languages
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simultaneously on the same keyboard
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it'll intelligently recognize which one
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you're typing in you can even slide to
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type or use voice dictate
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in both but of course some languages
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with different alphabets might not be
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compatible on the same keyboard last
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year iOS 17 allowed you to download
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portions of Apple maps for offline use
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and now you can sync those maps to your
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Apple watch so you can get maps offline
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without internet without cell service
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and without your phone for years now
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you've been able to adjust the
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brightness of a flashlight but now if
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you have a newer iPhone you can adjust
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the width of a flashlight as as well
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whenever you press the volume buttons or
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the side buttons you'll see a new
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animation that looks like you're
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squeezing in the black from the edge of
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the screen there's a new more accessible
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way to turn off your iPhone you no
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longer need to physically squeeze the
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power and volume buttons you can do it
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from control center tap and hold on the
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power button then slide to turn off your
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iPhone in the settings app if you find
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yourself searching for the same things
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over and over again there are now search
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suggestions that appear when you tap on
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the search field also in the settings
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app you'll find a redesigned iCloud
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screen that makes it really easy to see
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how much storage you have available and
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what features you're using in different
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places in the settings app you'll see
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these big informational cards at the top
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of the screen explaining what you'll
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find in each section apple is finally
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bringing together reminders and calendar
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when you set a reminder for a specific
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date and time you'll see that appear in
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your calendar and inside the Calendar
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app just as easily as you can create an
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event you can create a new timed
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reminder and even assign it to to a
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specific list among the many options for
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customizing your home screen in iOS 18
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you can make the icons bigger and hide
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their labels in case after 18 years you
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finally learned that this is a phone and
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this is mail if you don't use the
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flashlight or camera buttons on your
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lock screen you can now switch them out
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for whatever button you want any button
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you can put in control center is a
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button you can put on your lock screen
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and these can be customized for every
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lock screen you have and thus every
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Focus mode you have so you can have
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controls specific to your work focus
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sleep Focus or driving
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focus and don't worry even if you switch
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out the camera button you can still
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always access the camera by swiping left
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and if you have an iPhone 15 Pro any of
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those same controls can also be assigned
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to the action button remember the action
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button you you still have an action
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button in its biggest year of updates
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ever the calculator app has new features
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for conversions you can convert units of
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force mass weight currency area angle
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and more in the messages app unlike
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previous versions of iOS where a link
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would be converted to a rich link with a
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preview of the content after you send it
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you now see that preview inside the
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message compose field so you can see how
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it's going to look before you send it
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and if you want to remove the rich link
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you can tap the X and finally in the
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notes app you can highlight important
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parts of the text in up to five colors
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blue purple pink orange and mint and
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those are all the hidden features in iOS
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18 remember to like And subscribe I'm
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driffin Jones with Cult of Mac
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