If you’re interested I suggest just making a few posts. It sometimes doesn’t take much breathe life into a community.
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.
Bring it on. I’m still deciding if I should risk it
48 hrs in and for me this is by the best beta 1 ever. Outside of the initial SOC warmup everything has been uneventful. iPhone 13 Pro.
Looks like flash light beam width only works on phones that have more advanced flashes. It requires a flash that can control both light intensity and flood.
For example, I think it works on the 15 pro, but not the base 15’s less sophisticated camera assembly.