After many months of rumors and speculation about what could be the news that Apple will introduce with the arrival of iOS 12, the guys from Cupertino presented yesterday, some of the main news, not only in iOS 12, but also in watchOS 5, tvOS 12 and macOS Mojave. One of the features that iOS users have been demanding for years, the dark theme, is still not available on iOS.
However, this dark theme will be available in macOS Mojave. The reason? They only know it in Apple, since despite the special emphasis they have put to show how well they is macOS Mojave with the dark theme, the reason for the unavailability in iOS 12 has not been mentioned at any time. If you missed the keynote and could not follow us on social networks, then we will show you all the news of iOS 12.
Performance improvements, especially on older devices
One of the points that has most attracted the attention of the keynote, with respect to iOS 12, is that Apple has worked on improve the performance of all and home one of the oldest devices, including the iPhone 5s and iPad Air, older devices with fewer features.
iOS 12, according to Apple, has been designed so that faster user experience and the responsiveness is higher than in previous versions. It is striking that Apple had never paid special attention at this point, so if it claims that the performance has been improved we will have to check it to see if it is true.
FaceTime with up to 32 participants
One of the demands of FaceTime users was the power expand the number of interlocutors. With the arrival of iOS 12, Apple offers us the possibility of making video calls through FaceTime with up to 32 interlocutors. The person who is speaking at that moment will appear large on the screen, while the rest of the interlocutors will be located at the bottom of the screen.
Memoji: custom Animoji
La Apple's answer to Samsung's AR Emojis it's called Memoji. Thanks to Memoji, iOS 12 allows us to create personalized emojis down to the smallest detail, to show our mood, feelings ... In addition, we can create so many alter egos as we want to use through the Messages application and FaceTime.
New Animojis
The number of Animojis that Apple will offer us with iOS 12 is expanded by adding four new characters: Koala, Tiger, Ghost and T-Rex, to animate our conversations through the Messages application or through our FaceTime calls. One of the novelties of the animojis, we find it in the Tongue detection, a function with which thanks to the Face ID camera the device can track all the movements we make with the tongue.
Augmented reality is now a thing of 2
ARKit 2 allows developers create more immersive augmented reality experiences, so that even several people can interact together. AR objects can now be sent through the Messages and Mail application. Augmented reality reaches the iPhone camera through a new function that allows us to perform measurements directly without using third-party applications.
How we use our device
For all those users who want to know how much time they spend on their iPad or iPhone every day, Apple makes the Screen Time application available to us, an application that will offer us detailed information about the time we have used the applications. Through this option, we can establish a maximum usage time of the applications that we use the most, if we consider that our statistics are excessive.
But the best of all, we find it through En Familia, since it will allow us limit the use of both iPhone and iPad, as well as the applications that our children have installed on their devices, in this way we will be able to control at all times when and how they use their devices.
New management of notifications
With iOS 12, comes one of the functions most demanded by users, a function that will finally allow us to group the notifications of the same application, so that when we check which are the last ones we have received Let's not spend half our lives scrolling through the notification center.
From the notification center itself we can silence the application directly, discard them all or access them directly. Siri will also show us smart suggestions based on interactions we have made in the past. Thanks to this new function, we will be able to quickly see all the notifications without leaving us a life.
New do not disturb mode
The new do not disturb mode, allows us to set the time during which we want not to be disturbed, for example, until we leave the location where we are, until an event on our calendar ends, until the evening ... During all that time, the iPhone will not send us any type of notification without having to enter the sections configuration of this mode.
New photo sharing feature
Thanks to facial recognition, we can quickly share the photos we take with our iPhone with the people who appear in them and who previously the Photos application has detected. A quick and easy way to share your photos from your last outing with friends or family.
Another novelty is found in the search options offered by the Photos application. In this way, we can search by places, people, locations, specific places ... all of this aided by the suggestions that Siri will show us when we perform a search.
Siri shortcuts
The integration of the Workout application with iOS comes from the hand of Siri shortcuts. Thanks to this new application, we can perform various tasks together through a single command of voice. For example, for when we lose our keys, we can create a Siri shortcut called Look for the keyss. This shortcut will be responsible for opening the Tile application and starting a search for our environment to locate them. The next time we lose the flames, we just have to tell Siri Look for the keys.
Aesthetic updates and new apps for the iPad
As had been rumored in recent months, Apple has renewed not only the name of the iBooks application, becoming Apple Books, but also the content it offers us and the aesthetics when it comes to showing both the application store and the interface when reading the books that we have downloaded or buy in the future.
The application that many users store in a folder where all the applications that we do not use are located, Stocks, has been completely redesigned, like the application to make audio recordings, an application that reaches the iPad, finally, which will avoid having to use third-party applications to record the conversations that interest us most. All recordings are stored in iCloud, so they will always be available on all devices, including the Mac, where the voice recorder has also arrived.
Another novelty of iOS 12 is found in CarPlay since allows us to use third-party applications such as Google Maps or Waze. The function that offers us information about the status of the battery, expands the information that it offers us. The Wallet application offers us the student identification card, so that just by showing the iPhone we can access the library events of the educational centers that have adopted this technology.