5 lesser-known iOS 18.2 tricks that are coming to your iPhone and how try them

Date:
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:26:36 +0000

Description:
The iOS 18.2 developer beta is full of interesting new features for your iPhone. Here are a few you might have missed.

FULL STORY ======================================================================The new iOS 18.2 developer beta gives us a glimpse of future features You'll soon be able to choose new default apps thanks to a new menu Other tricks include being able to delete stock Apple apps

Apple has just launched the iOS 18.2 developer beta , and with it come all sorts of useful new features for early adopters. The expanding launch of
Apple Intelligence is grabbing all the headlines, but there are plenty of lesser-known additions to iOS 18.2 that are just as interesting.

One of our favorites is the way iOS 18.2 lets you set your own default apps for various categories (see below). Previously, you were locked into Apples choices when it came to your default apps for messaging, emailing, calling
and more.

Now, though, that has all changed, and Apple lets you pick new default apps
in the following areas: web browsing, calling and call filtering, emailing, messaging, passwords and codes, and keyboards. While some of these were previously available, youve not been able to change your default messaging
and calling apps before.

You can manage these choices in a new Default Apps section in the Settings app. That makes it a lot easier to change your default apps with a few quick taps. Although Apple previously said that this section would be arriving for users in the European Union (EU), its actually available to people anywhere
in the world. Its thought that Apple will soon add the ability to change your default contactless payments app, as well as other settings. (Image credit: Future / Apple)

Speaking of apps, iOS 18.2 also lets you delete a bunch of Apples own apps from your iPhone, including the App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and
Photos apps, provided youre based in the EU. If youre in the US, you can hide these apps instead.

The only apps that EU users cannot delete are the Settings and Phone apps
any of Apples other apps can be re-downloaded from the App Installation section in the Settings app. Apple Intelligence tweaks and changes (Image credit: Future / Apple)

There are a few other interesting new features in iOS 18.2 that have flown under the radar. Apple has integrated ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence and
Siri , and in iOS 18.2 you can disable the prompts where Siri asks for permission to send your data to ChatGPT.

You can also direct all your Siri queries to ChatGPT by saying Ask ChatGPT at the start of your request, and also ask Siri to get ChatGPT to create an
image for you (this bypasses Siris own Image Playground , which is part of Apple Intelligence).

While were on the topic of Apple Intelligence, iOS 18.2 has an intriguing twist on Apples Genmoji feature, which lets you create your own artificial intelligence emoji. While you need an iPhone that is compatible with Apple Intelligence in order to create Genmoji, any device regardless of compatibility can receive them. But whats more interesting is that non-compatible phones can save received Genmoji to their emoji library and
use them in their own messages. Its a nice little touch for devices that cant create their own Genmoji.

Note that in order to get the iOS 18.2 beta, you need to have an iPhone that can run Apple Intelligence in other words, an iPhone 15 Pro , an iPhone 15 Pro Max , or any device from the iPhone 16 range.

If you want to try these features out, youll need to download the iOS 18.2 developer beta with all the usual caveats that the versions aren't anywhere close to final, which means you can expect bugs, slowdowns and other issues. Weve got all the info you need in our guide to downloading iOS 18 . You might also like Genmoji and Image Playground are finally here in the first iOS 18.2 developer beta Apple will soon let you delete the App Store in some markets heres why How to download the iOS 18 public beta on your iPhone



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