iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer):
iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features, including the first image generation capabilities. Image Playground is a new app for creating images based on text descriptions, and you can add all kinds of costumes, items, backgrounds and more. You can even make your images look like your friends and family members.
Genmoji is similar to Image Playground , but it’s for creating custom emoji characters that you can use in Messages. The third image generation feature is Image Wand, which is Image Playground but in the Notes app. You can make a rough sketch and use Apple Intelligence to make it better. The update includes ChatGPT integration for Siri, so Siri can hand complicated requests over to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. For iPhone 16 users, the update adds Visual Intelligence to the Camera Control feature, so you can get more information on items and locations around you.
This guide highlights everything that’s new in iOS 18.2.
But besides another batch of Apple Intelligence features, this release also includes a series of changes to the system, from updates to Safari, Find My, and Photos to the arrival of new system-wide settings for Default Apps and more. Here’s a roundup of everything new besides Apple Intelligence in iOS and iPadOS 18.2.
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In addition to the new backgrounds, Safari now supports linking to text highlights on web pages. The idea here is that you can select text on any web page, tap ‘Copy Link with Highlight’, and share the copied link so that anyone opening it will immediately be shown the specific text you highlighted in yellow on that web page.
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Apple has finally re-added the ability to swipe right to go back pretty much anywhere in the Photos app, including when you’re several levels deep into an album folder. It’s hard to know whether it was a bug or if Apple was being intentional about not implementing the gesture in certain places in the app before, but I’m glad to report that it is now consistently available.
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Return of the volume slider on the Lock Screen.
Previously:
- iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1
- How to Highlight Text Fragments When Linking
- Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.2 and iOS 18.2
- AirPods 4
Update (2024-12-16): Tim Hardwick:
In iOS 18.2, Apple has introduced a thoughtful new feature for the Camera Control button on iPhone 16 models that helps prevent accidental camera launches by requiring the screen to be on before the button will register clicks.
Apple in iOS 18.2 has reinstated a Lock Screen feature that was unceremoniously nixed from its iPhone OS two years ago, leaving many users wondering why it was taken away in the first place.
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The mail categorizations feature on the phone requires many steps to disable it. You have to do it in all inboxes as well as for each inbox.
The mail contact pictures on the phone are a nice addition. Hopefully they add it to iPad. Adding images for important companies such as your bank is a nice security feature as you can recognize phishing by its lack of image. Yes an address can be spoofed to falsely have the image shown, so image doesn’t mean auto trust but lack of image does mean beware. Twitter profile images are a good source of simplified company logos that will look good at that icon size and have a small file size.
> Adding images for important companies such as your bank is a nice security feature as you can recognize phishing by its lack of image.
Supposedly, iOS Mail has already done that since 16.0: https://postmarkapp.com/blog/bimi-apple-mail
I guess the rule is "if you see a company logo, that means iOS Mail has verified its authenticity".
