These are all the new features that will arrive with iOS 12

iOS 12 is possibly the most exciting version of iOS in the last five years, we find few additions but quite necessary, and above all a significant improvement in performance at a general level in iOS, avoiding LAG and unnecessary delays. We bring you the definitive list with all the news that will arrive with iOS 12 on September 17. It is time for you to start making your backups because iOS 12 is just around the corner and for many it could be the best version they have ever used, or not, because Apple is sometimes capable of the best and the worst in a very short space of time.

However, it is highly important to know first which devices are compatible with iOS 12. Well, if you are running iOS 11 today, don't worry, because all devices compatible with iOS 11 will also be compatible with iOS 12, the most widespread mobile operating system compatibility ever.

The Photos app keeps growing

Photos needed a slight tweak at the user interface and features level, Apple knows it, and although Photos is always an application that suffers (or suffers) improvements during the development of iOS, in this case they have taken it slightly more in I laughed. Now it has been improved the photo search tool that will take into account by analyzing the photo what the image offers and it will direct us directly to it, that is, if we write "guitar", will offer us a photograph containing this object.

They have also added the feature For ti which will offer suggestions and compilations, but the most interesting thing is that in the "albums" section We will find news at the icon level and a better distribution, for example, of the deleted photos folder.

Voice Notes and Books change their appearance

There are three applications that are going to undergo major design and user interface changes. For example the application Stock Exchange now it will show news related to the economy in rigorous direct. In addition, this application will finally reach the iPad, where it was not present until now.

Meanwhile Voice notes It has been completely redesigned and rewritten offering a much more functional and intuitive design. Also, as with the application Stock Exchange, application Voice notes now it is fully compatible with the iPad, another platform where it was not naturally present. And finally we have Books, the usual reading app on iOS that changed its name recently, the redesign is considerably smaller but introduces a shortcut to audiobooks.

Siri is smarter and now lets you help

Every year we are promised that Siri will have more and better capabilities, but it has always suffered the same problem, and that is that it does not learn from the user. This is going to change with iOS 12, now Siri will be even more compatible with third-party applications. In addition, as happens for example in the Apple Watch, it will offer us different suggestions on the lock screen.

But the most interesting thing is undoubtedly Shortcuts, the new application combined with Workflow that Apple has fully incorporated iOS 12 and Siri at the same time. So we will be able to create workflows to which we will assign specific phrases, for example we can go through the Workflow to the application of adjustments change the WiFi or do any management and decide what type of phrase is assigned to it.

Grouped notification system

This was another of the main demands of iOS users, the notification management system had been getting out of date and was not very functional in the face of the huge number of notifications we receive every day. Now with iOS 12 the system will group notifications intelligently with many different possibilities depending on our needs and of course our tastes. We will be able to continue managing the grouping of notifications through the Settings application, if we go to the notifications section and go down to the notification grouping system we will have three options: Automatic; By App or Off.

If we want to do it even fasterWhen we find a group of notifications and we open it, we see a three-point icon in the upper right that will allow us to adjust these parameters of grouped notifications. And this is how Apple intends to put a little order in our notifications, and the reality is that with the months that we have been testing this new system we must say that we really love it.

Usage time to improve our "vice" to the smartphone

Now we can check the information about the time we use the iPhone and above all how we use it, even defining parameters that allow us to limit the managed applications:

Weekly reports: To have all the information about the time and how to use our iPhone weekly.
Idle time and application usage limit: We will define a time to be away from the smartphone and we will put limits on our categories of applications so as not to use the iPhone more than necessary.
Content and privacy restrictions: This is a new section that will improve parental control and especially privacy thanks to the direct restriction of explicit content, purchases and downloads, among other functions.
"Time of use" code: We will manage the time of use of the smartphone for ourselves or for the smallest of the house through a code that will lock the device.

FaceTime with group calls and new Memojis

The cast of Animojis has been increased, but also the memoji, which are basically custom Animojis to represent ourselves and whom we can give the appearance we want. They will also move and represent the gestures that we indicate to them.

We also have a good addition to FaceTime, and it seems that group calls have definitely arrived, in addition to fully integrating the Memojis and Animojis in its user interface. However, this capacity has been interrupted several times during the beta period, so we do not rule out a significant delay.

IOS 12 Compatible Devices and Release Date

iOS 12 will officially and definitively arrive on all compatible devices through Settings> General> Software Update next September 17. These are the supported devices: