First Thing You Should Try in Apple’s Public Beta for IOS 12
You signed up for Apple’s iOS public beta program, you downloaded and installed the new iOS 12 public beta , and you finally have the latest Apple mobile OS on your iPhone or iPad. You enter your PIN, authenticate on your device and … now what? Where to begin?
iOS 12 comes with a number of fun updates and improvements, and if this is your first beta, you might be surprised to find that there is nothing in iOS that can describe – like on one page – all the fun things that you can do. in this new, updated version.
Here are a few of my favorite features you’ll find in iOS 12 (this is by no means an exhaustive list of all the changes in iOS 12, including the unpublished ones . We’ll be here all day).
Messages and Memoji
I don’t have an iPhone X, so I can’t help you with the latter – I know, I know. Memoji are pretty, but not for $ 1,000. However, I love the small augmented reality additions Apple has added to the messaging camera. And, oddly enough, only a message camera.
You can’t stick a sticker next to your smiling face in the regular camera app, but if you open Messages, tap the conversation, tap the camera icon, and then tap the weird star icon in the bottom left corner, you can put text, shapes and stickers wherever directed your front or rear camera. And if managing the stickers while you are trying to create the perfect image is too difficult, you can always add them after the fact.
More time on the face
Yes, we all know that now you can add tons of people to the giant FaceTime chat – and replace your Animoji head, add stickers to your call, and do a lot of other, more stupid things. You may not know that you can now set your iPhone X to recognize two faces, not just yours. So, if you’re incredibly trusting (or sharing your iPhone X with your loved one), go to Settings> Face ID & Password> Customize Alternate Appearance.
And if you’re the kind of person who really goes all weekend and is frustrated that your iPhone X can’t recognize your glamor for whatever reason, this is also a great way to take another look at your analyzer device.
Get statistics on your iPhone or iPad.
The new Apple Screen Time feature in iOS 12, which you can check by going to Settings> Screen Time, gives you detailed statistics on how often you use your device and what for. You can find your information on any iPhone or iPad connected to your Apple ID, which includes: a brief chart of your usage by category (and time), a list of your most used apps, an estimate of how many times you choose to turn on your phone, to use it and count the number of notifications received and the time. If you’re a statistics fanatic or just wondering how much Bloons Tower Defense you really play, you’ll love Screen Time.
And once you get over the embarrassment of how often you use the Facebook app, you can set various restrictions on the apps you use too often, or simply set up a convenient “downtime” that allows you to only bother the apps you care about. – if you are feeling depressed.
Give your device a little more protection
While there is probably no reason most of you would ever have to fear someone trying to pull all information from your device (or brute force it) through its connector, Apple makes it a little more difficult. In iOS 12, go to Settings> Touch ID & Password and scroll down. By default, USB Accessories should be disabled, which means your iPhone will not allow the connection if more than an hour has passed since the device was last locked.
To throw away caution and get a little more convenience, just check the On box. When you do this, any USB accessory will be able to connect to your device normally. Well old-normal; not the new normal Apple.
God-like control over your notifications
Praise Apple for finally delivering compound notifications, which has made my lock screen a lot less annoying over the past few weeks. But Apple’s change isn’t just cosmetic. You can now swipe left on any notification to clear it (or stack); view it in a small nice pop-up window (with a blurred background); or tap Manage, which allows you to remove app notifications from the lock screen (but not from the notification center), turn off app notifications entirely, or quickly jump to specific settings so you can decide how and where they should disturb you. …
No, really; do not bother me
If you don’t like being overheard or fear the dreaded “someone is sending a cocky message while I show my screen during a presentation,” Do Not Disturb is a great feature for mastering iOS. Now in iOS 12, you may notice that your device is picking up signals from your calendar and prompting you to turn on Do Not Disturb during various appointments.
If you swipe up on the screen and long press on the moon icon in Do Not Disturb mode, you now have a few more options to tell the device that you don’t want to be disturbed: an hour until the evening until you leave. your whereabouts until your meeting ends (if you are currently at it), or on a regular schedule that you set.
Check out all updated system apps
With iOS 12, Apple has improved a number of essential apps that come with your iPhone or iPad. You’ll find big new settings for News and Stocks (the latter includes snippets of the former), in addition to improvements to Voice Memos (including iCloud sync support and a new app icon) and Apple Books – formerly iBooks. Photos also have several huge new features that make finding past memories much easier, including an all-new For You tab filled with helpful suggestions and flashback collections.
What’s missing in the iOS 12 public beta?
While you can customize Siri shortcuts in the Siri & Search section of your preferences app – new phrases you can use to trigger common actions on your device, such as receiving email – you won’t find a separate shortcut app that Apple does. teased in the Big Opening of iOS 12. Once that happens, probably when iOS 12 is ready for official release in the fall, you can use the same personalized voice commands to trigger all sorts of fun activities in iOS and other third-party apps like what you can do in the Workflow app now.
While this was promised at WWDC this year, you can’t (yet) use CarPlay with third-party mapping apps like Waze or Google Maps. I don’t know if it will be iOS 12 or the app company, but I will be migrating to much better Google Maps in my car as soon as I can iOS 12.
Apple is also bringing many augmented reality enhancements to iOS 12 with the next generation ARKit 2. While you can play with the new Measure app on your iPhone or iPad, ARKit won’t work. 2, until third-party developers start shipping apps and games that can take advantage of its new features, such as multiplayer support. And to be honest, it seems to me that people just don’t care about augmented reality apps – at least after a few minutes of novelty when you throw a dinosaur into your living room. Or is it just me?