Apple announced iOS 18 at its WWDC developers conference on June 10. One of the biggest software updates we've ever seen, iOS 18 brings some incredible new features and more customization options to the iPhone than ever before. But the biggest addition is Apple Intelligence – Apple's set of AI features. Unavailable in the first betas, plenty of Apple Intelligence features are now featured in iOS 18.1 Developer Beta 1.
Writing Tools now allow for rewriting, proofreading, and summarising text across various apps. Siri sports a new design with a glowing edge light, supports seamless switching between text and voice interactions, and can maintain context across requests. The Mail app gets an urgent emails section, email summaries, and Smart Reply. A new Focus mode limits notifications to urgent ones only. The Photos app now offers natural language search, specific moment searches in videos, and storyline-based Memories creation.
