Apple has not yet released all the new features of iOS 18. These iOS 18 features will be released in 2025!
iOS 18
Last year, iOS 18 was the major update for the iPhone. The new software version gave you as a user more freedom in arranging the home screen and the Control Panel. This way you decide where you place apps and which controls you add to the menu. That’s not all, because Apple also announced Apple Intelligence. The new technology brings many additional functions to your iPhone.
In 2024, iOS 18 was the biggest update, but iOS 18.4 may become even more important. This software version brings the first functions of Apple Intelligence to your iPhone. Many features are added, such as Siri becoming much smarter and your iPhone getting a handy writing assistant. Curious about which iOS 18 features will come to your iPhone in 2025? We have listed the most important ones for you.
1.Siri 2.0
Siri will receive a major update in 2025. Apple’s voice assistant is being expanded with new language models, making conversations much more natural. In addition, Siri will work with ChatGPT from this year. This means that you can ask the voice assistant almost anything, and an answer will then be searched for via ChatGPT. Another benefit: Siri now has support for written commands.
That’s not all, as Siri also gains screen awareness. This allows the voice assistant to know what is on your screen. This makes it easier to ask Siri questions or have commands carried out. Entering commands becomes even easier, because Siri understands personal context. This way you can refer to a message you just received or to a specific appointment in your calendar. That is not yet possible.
2. Genmoji: infinite emojis
Do you sometimes not know which emoji to choose? Apple has come up with a solution for this in iOS 18, because you can compose emojis yourself. This way you can combine different pictures to make one emoji. Would you like to create a more personal picture? It is also possible to create an emoji of yourself, a friend or a pet in iOS 18. This handy feature of iOS 18 will finally be available in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2025.
To create your own emoji (called genmoji by Apple), all you have to do is enter a text command. A new picture is then created using Apple Intelligence. You will be given several options, so that you can choose the nicest or most suitable one yourself. In iOS 18 from 2025, you will have an infinite range of emojis to choose from!
3. Summarize notifications
Apple will make it easier to read notifications in 2025, because notifications will be summarized in a later version of iOS 18. If you receive multiple notifications from an app, they will be bundled into one message. This way you can see the news at a glance or get a summary of a group conversation on WhatsApp. The function is not yet working properly, but that will probably change soon.
That is not the only change that Apple is making with iOS 18 to the Notification Center in 2025. Apple Intelligence distinguishes between notifications that are and are not a priority. Important notifications are placed at the top of the overview, so you are less likely to miss them. Consider notifications that have a time indication and must be read within a certain time.
4. Image Playground
Apple will bring a completely new app to iOS 18 in 2025, because your iPhone will be expanded with Image Playground. In this application you can compose images yourself, based on the commands you enter. You can adjust the style and certain parts of these images. You currently have a choice of styles Aanimation, Illustration or Sketch.
The pictures are therefore not realistic, but have a drawn style. There may be a style that resembles a real photo in the future. With Image Playground it is possible to take a personalized photo for someone’s birthday, or to create a suitable picture for your report. The images from Image Playground are based on a photo or a written assignment, so you can put together the picture yourself.
5. More Apple Intelligence
On the iPhone there is Apple Intelligence your own assistant, who helps you with almost all apps. You can perform multiple tasks with AI, including composing and organizing emails, writing text messages and summarizing notifications. That’s not all, because you can use Apple Intelligence with almost all applications. Here are some examples of using Apple’s latest technology:
- Integration of AI into To informwhich allows automatic responses to be provided;
- Writing aid for summarizing, rewriting and checking texts;
- New AI features in Apple Music to create playlists;
- Apps like Keynote and Pages are also expanded with AI;
- Photos easier editing with the use of AI;
- Phone calls can be transcribed;
- Notes has support for recordings and transcripts;
- Images create in Notes with AI.
Release of iOS 18 updates
With Apple Intelligence, there will be major changes to iOS 18 in 2025. Unfortunately, not all iPhones will be expanded with Apple Intelligence, only devices with the A17 Pro or A18 chip work with the new functions. This means that only the iPhone 15 Pro (Max) and the iPhone 16 series have support for Apple Intelligence. There are few new iOS 18 features planned for the other iPhones.
However, iOS 18.3 will introduce a small adjustment for all iPhones, as it will then become possible to add robot vacuum cleaners to the Home app. iOS 18.3 is expected to be released this month. iOS 18.4 will be released in April, and that month we will finally have access to Apple Intelligence in the Netherlands and Belgium. So just be patient, because in a few months Apple will release the most important iOS 18 update of 2025.
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