Take Control of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18

Keep up with the latest changes in iOS and iPadOS!

Version 1.3, updated April 29, 2025

iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 overhaul your iPhone and iPad with major new features and interface changes. These include Apple Intelligence, which will continue to gain features and affect many aspects of how you use your device. In this book, Josh Centers shows you what's new, plus what you have to look forward to in future updates.

Introduced in the fall of 2024, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 bring a host of changes to your iPhone and iPad, including many that are part of Apple Intelligence. Josh Centers introduces you to all the changes you'll see and how to navigate them. He discusses the redesigned and now completely customizable Control Center (plus more customizations for your Home Screen), major changes to apps such as Mail, Messages, Notes, Maps, Photos, and Safari, the new Passwords app, and much more. (Note: As Josh was unable to update this book, version 1.3 was updated by Glenn Fleishman.)

This book shows you:

• A list of major new features in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 up through 18.4.1

• How to determine whether the new software will run on your device, and the steps to follow to install the upgrade

• How to use Apple Intelligence features, including ChatGPT integration, Image Playground, writing tools, and (for iPhones only) Visual Intelligence

• How to modify your Home Screen, including turning app shortcuts into widgets

• What's new in Control Center (almost everything) and how to take advantage of its new features

• The changes—both useful and controversial—in the Photos app

• New capabilities in Messages, including text formatting, animation effects, and scheduled messages, plus support for satellite messaging and RCS

• The new Page Menu and the redesigned Reader mode in Safari

• How the new Passwords app makes it easier for you to access items in your keychain

• Many new capabilities in the Notes app, including Math Notes, richer formatting, highlighting, and attachments

• Additional options for hiking and walking routes in Maps

• The redesigned Calculator app, which now offers a much wider range of conversion options

• Improvements to the Journal app, including Journal widgets for your Home Screen

• Message categories in the Mail app

• Smaller changes to apps including Calendar, Files, Fitness+, Freeform, Home, Music, Phone, and TV

• Systemwide changes to Accessibility, AirPods, Game Mode, Contact Sharing, Emergency SOS Live Video, Flashlight, and SharePlay, plus new iPad-specific changes and a way to paste links over text