Thursday, October 17, 2024

7 Settings Every iPhone User Should Change After Installing iOS 18

 17th October, 2024:  Auckland, New Zealand.  Blog uploaded by: David Lim@davidlim#davidlim@davidlimnz

7 Settings Every iPhone User Should Change After Installing iOS 18

There's certainly a lot to love about iOS 18: personalized home screens, iPhone Mirroring, new Messages formatting and animations, and so much more. All those new features can make it hard to figure out where to start. That's all software-based too. If you snagged a new iPhone 16, you've also got a brand new button in the form of the Camera Control to figure out. 


To help you get started, I've put together my list of 7 features and settings you should change right now, including some of the top-tier features and a few that fly under the radar. Although Apple Intelligence isn't quite here yet (unless you install the iOS 8.1 public beta), there's still a lot to explore.


For more on what's new in iOS 18, learn about improvements to Apple Maps and the Messages app. Don't forget to consult the iOS 18 upgrade checklist, which includes making sure you have a proper backup before upgrading.


Set up some of the new tasks available on the Action button

The Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max replaced the dedicated mute switch found on every other iPhone model with a configurable control. By default it serves the same purpose -- hold it to turn Silent Mode on or off -- but you can configure it for other actions like opening the Camera app, performing multiple actions at once or even ordering coffee.


In iOS 18, the Action button gets new capabilities. You can bypass Control Center and choose a control of your choice, such as opening the Remote interface for navigating Apple TV or using Shazam to identify a song.

To choose a different action for the Action button, go to Settings > Action Button. Swipe sideways to select and activate one of the available actions. For the Controls, Shortcut and Accessibility options, tap the Choose button to pick which specific action to run.

You can also quickly turn compatible apps into widgets that display more information. Maps, for instance, can be a map of your current location with shortcut buttons to search for places or bring up a list of nearby places (such as dinner spots). Touch and hold the app icon and look for a row of resize buttons in the menu that appears. Once expanded beyond the standard icon size, you can drag the handle in the bottom-right corner of the new icon. To get it back to its single icon size you need to touch and hold again and choose the single-icon button

What if you want to match a color from a background image? Tap the eyedropper button and then drag the reticle to pinpoint the color you want -- the border indicates the selected color.

The tint is applied not only to icons but to widgets as well. For a widget such as Photos, the images it displays show up as duotones to match the theme.

Large icons: Do the labels below each app icon seem redundant to you? Now you can remove the labels and increase the size of the icons with one setting. Open the Customize options as described above and tap the Large button.

After making any of these changes, tap anywhere on the screen to apply them and exit the Customize interface.

Change up how the Control Center looks

Control Center was once a convenient place to quickly access controls such as playback volume and Airplane mode, but under iOS 18 it's a configurable playground. You can position controls where you want, resize many to reveal more information and add new controls on multiple screens.

Swipe down from the top-right corner to reveal Control Center (or swipe up from the bottom on the iPhone SE). To enter edit mode, touch and hold or press the + button at the top-left corner.

Just as with moving apps, drag a control to another slot on the screen to reposition it. Many of the controls also include a bottom-right handle that can resize the control -- in most cases, it reveals the name of the control and its current status (such as Flashlight Off).

Control Center also now spans multiple screens. Swipe up to view controls for media currently playing, Home controls for smart lights and appliances and a page dedicated to the communication options that appear when you long-press the Connectivity block containing Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular and others. Look closely and you'll see that those screens are actually individual controls expanded to occupy the entire Control Center area.

You can rearrange the order of those screens by moving their controls. Suppose you want Home controls to be the first swipe instead of Now Playing: In the editing mode, drag the large Home control up to the previous screen (Now Playing will shift to the right to make room).

See the rest of the article here:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/7-settings-every-iphone-user-should-change-after-installing-ios-18/

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