Would love to chat about it, I hate going back to Reddit but I do with Sink It! for the small communities, just like iOSBeta.

Learned a ton of QoL stuff there in this release that wasn’t covered in the Keynote and isn’t on the preview page:

• Recents in Phone now have a call button instead of tap to call, which prevents accidental calls.
• T9 dialing has been added, just enter the first few letters of a contact’s name via the dialer and their contact appears.
• Apple TV controls on Lock Screen tuck away into a dropdown, preventing accidental scrubbing.
• Long-press the Flashlight button in control centre, and on Dynamic Island models you can set beam width by dragging right or left, and intensity by dragging up and down.
• Calculator has full history, editing of already entered numbers, multi line.
• Reminders show in calendar now and can be tapped to complete them.
• Calendar UI has been totally reworked, multi-day view is awesome.

The more notable stuff is also on https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-18-preview/ which I encourage everyone to read. It started being less comprehensive in the iOS 17 cycle which is disappointing, but it still covers lots that wasn’t talked about in the keynote.

EDIT - I posted the preview page and release notes, trying to help stir up some discussion.