Apple Announces iOS 12 With Speed Boosts, Grouped Notifications

First, Apple will start stacking and grouping notifications in threads similar to Android.

Apple announced during its WWDC keynote on Monday that iOS 12 – the upcoming latest version of its mobile operating system – will give a performance boost to older iPhones, and it could be a great reason to keep your older iPhone instead of buying a newer model.

Many of these new Photos features revolve around the search function.

Other digital wellbeing features to launch with iOS 12 include enhancements to the “do not disturb” feature, including a bedtime mode that dims the display and hides all notifications from the lock screen until prompted in the morning.

The most notable enhancement is called “Screen Time”, an activity report showing how much time you’re spending inside of individual apps, how often you pick up your phone and which apps are sending you the most notifications.

More importantly, parents can access the same usage statistics for their children.

In the Music app, you simply type in a line from the song, and Apple Music will comb through lyrics to find the track you’re looking for.

The company also will allow broader use of in-app voice controls, which it had limited to a handful of apps, such as PayPal and Uber. There are also enhanced notifications that’ll let you interact with third-party apps, letting you do things like modify the time of a reservation with Yelp on your wrist.

There are a lot of iOS 12 features that Apple didn’t talk about on stage yesterday but are noteworthy.

Two other big features of iOS 12 that will prove popular with most users is group FaceTime that supports up to 32 people in one video call, and “Me-Moji” (exclusive to iPhone X), which is like the Animoji from previous year, but improved to allow users to create a likeness of themselves. Parents will be able to choose times when certain apps or app categories can’t be used. With iOS 12, Apple has made a small but notable improvement here. Apple’s virtual assistant Siri will also make suggestions for notification settings based on which alerts people act upon. “They definitely don’t want the scandal of removing a security feature because of something they didn’t anticipate”, Duff said in regards to the new mechanism.

The new gesture bodes well for Apple’s 2018 iPhone lineup which will comprise of three new iPhones, with all of them lacking a home button and featuring Face ID.

Apple’s Craig Federighi introduces iOS 12. With Measure, you can measure objects or walls around you thanks to some new augmented reality tools from Apple.

Two Apple shareholders sent an open letter in June asking the company to take on phone addiction among children.

Family using a smart phone at home.