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ALL the New Features in iOS 18.1
Mar 11, 2025
Article on Cult of Mac: More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Produced by Extra Ordinary for Cult of Mac Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones Chapters: 0:00 Intro 00:16 Apple Intelligence 3:20 AirPods Hearing Aids 4:05 Apple Watch Sleep Apnea 4:33 Control Center 5:02 Record Phone Calls 5:24 Other Tweaks & Features Follow us! Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cultofmac Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/ X: https://x.com/cultofmac
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iOS 18.1 is expected on Monday and comes
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with a veritable boatload of new
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features Apple intelligence hearing aid
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support for airpods sleep apnea
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detection on Apple watch phone call
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recording and so much more let me show
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you the first Apple intelligence
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features are here for the iPhone 15 Pro
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all iPhone 16 models all Macs and iPads
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with an M series chip and the new iPad
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Mini writing tools let you proofread
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change the tone of or reformat text it's
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available anywhere that uses a standard
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text input all of Apple's apps like
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Notes mail messages Safari and most
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thirdparty apps I've been most impressed
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by its ability to reformat ordinary
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writing into a small multicolumn table
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notification summaries gives you a
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single sentence description of a whole
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stack of notifications like a busy group
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chat or a bunch of app notifications
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it's a great way to see at a glance
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what's going on image cleanup is a new
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tool that lets you intelligently erase
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objects from a picture open a picture
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tap edit and use the image cleanup tool
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on the bottom you can remove people from
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a background remove objects or things
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off of a table or a wall you can remove
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hair on a dark shirt or even Circle
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someone's face to pixelate it it's much
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easier than using Photoshop or other
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Advanced image editing tools photo
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search lets you be more descriptive when
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searching for a photo or video video
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Griffin wearing a hat Lewis playing the
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accordion Leander with a beard no more
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manually pilfering through your entire
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library to find that one image photo
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memories lets you create memory movies
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out of your pictures using a text prompt
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you can tie together names of people
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events locations dates and times even a
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genre of music to play along with it
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suggested replies to messages appear
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above the keyboard with AI generated
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responses just tap on it and it won't
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automatically send the message it'll
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just fill it in the text field where you
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can edit it first and thank God for that
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because I find most of them kind of
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pointless and robotic I don't talk like
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that but they're easy enough to ignore
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at least you can transcribe a recorded
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phone call to see who said what in a
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conversation transcriptions are also
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available for any voice memo you place
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inside a note in the Apple notes app the
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transcription quality isn't Fant
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fantastic even small whisper models do
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better around capitalizing proper nouns
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and punctuation but the recordings are
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pretty convenient more on that later
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reduce interruptions is a new Focus mode
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that uses AI to judge on the Fly which
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notifications sound important enough to
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bother you you don't have to manually go
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through and add a giant list of contacts
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and apps that are wh listed or
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blacklisted which can be a lot of work
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and you can enable its intelligent
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breakthrough and silencing on on top of
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any of your existing focuses Siri
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product knowledge can answer your
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questions about Apple products like how
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to share a Wi-Fi password or how to edit
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your home screen with nicely formatted
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instructions and finally you can text
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Siri by double tapping the home bar for
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the situations where you don't want to
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talk out loud moving on from Apple
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intelligence if you have airpods Pro 2
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the software update will let them
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function as clinically approved hearing
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aids setup includes taking a hearing
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test using your airpods and your iPhone
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and it will enable them to boost the
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specific sounds that you need help with
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your hearing profile is automatically
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applied to music movies phone calls
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across all your devices with no
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additional setup required and according
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to early testing it works pretty well in
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cases of mild to moderate hearing loss
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if you have severe hearing loss you
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might still want to stick to traditional
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hearing aids though I highly recommend
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everybody with airpods Pro 2 try this
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out as most people with hearing loss
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don't realize they have hearing loss in
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a similar vein if you have an Apple
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Watch series 9 series 10 or Ultra 2
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it'll start collecting data for
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potential sleep apnea it needs at least
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10 nights of overnight sleep tracking to
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start and it'll crunch the numbers once
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every 30 days so don't worry it won't
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inundate you with notifications every
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single morning I highly recommend you
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enable this during setup or afterwards
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in the health app as most people who
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experience sleep apnea don't realize it
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there's a number of improvements to
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control center if you don't like that
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big connectivity widget you can now
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replace it with the two or three toggles
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that you actually want with the addition
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of separate toggles for airdrop and
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satellite all of them are now available
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as individual buttons and if you try
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removing it and accidentally mess it up
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Beyond repair you can now go to settings
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Control Center and tap reset control
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center
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to get it back to its default layout you
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can now record a phone call or FaceTime
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audio call from the call screen tap the
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record button in the upper left both
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people will hear this call will be
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recorded and you can find the recordings
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later in notes in the call recordings
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folder and if you have apple
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intelligence enabled you'll see a
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transcript of the conversation labeled
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by each person on the call as well on an
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iPhone 16 with camera control you can
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now use the cameras toggle to flip
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between the rear facing and the selfie
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cameras you can share what you're
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listening to on Apple music to your Tik
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Tok tap and hold on any song playlist or
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album or tap the three dots button
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anywhere you see it tap share and then
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pick Tik Tock from the share sheet you
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can choose whether to share it as a
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video photo or direct message and
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finally if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or
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iPhone 16 you can capture spatial video
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for Vision Pro using the new spatial
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mode of the camera it's to the right
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between portrait and Panorama switch
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between photo and video using the
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separate toggle switch reminiscent of
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iOS 6 so those are all the new features
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in iOS 18.1 18.2 is already in beta
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testing with even more Apple
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intelligence features image playground
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gen Emoji visual intelligence and more
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awesome features like daily sidoku
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puzzles in Apple news plus so remember
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deerin Jones with Cult of Mac
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