If you’re running iOS 18, then these are a few of the features and settings that you should definitely know and try it out. Go through this article and know the top 9 hidden features of iOS 18.
Top 9 Hidden iOS 18 Features
1. Restart your iPhone from Control Center
If you’re running iOS 18, then you don’t have to press any physical buttons to restart your iPhone. This redesigned control center features all the classic controls you’re used to, like brightness, volume, orientation, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but also there are several other new controls, including restart your iPhone.
- You Just need to swipe down from the top-right of your iPhone and press and hold down on the new power button in the top-right of the control center.
- You have to hold it down for a second and then the slider to power off your iPhone will appear.
- But, you’ll still need to press and hold the physical side button, if you want to turn your iPhone back on.
2. Use a QR Code to Share your Wi-Fi Password
To share a Wi-Fi network and password with people via your iPhone, there are a few ways you can use and now there’s a new way to do it on iOS 18. To quickly share your Wi-Fi information, you can now use a QR code on iOS 18.
- Share with several people at once. Instead of individually sending your Wi-Fi password, everyone can scan the QR code from your phone.
- Share with someone not saved as your contact. Share Wi-Fi with someone nearby whose number is not saved as your contacts.
- Share with someone that has Android. Nearby share and AirDrop don’t work with Android devices. But this new feature of iOS you can share your Wi-Fi with someone that has Android.
If you don’t want to text the Wi-Fi password to anyone, then you can use the QR code.
- Go to the new Passwords app, and go to the Wi-Fi section.
- Tap on the network you want to share and then click on ‘Show Network QR Code’ option below.
- If the other person scans the QR code with their camera, they’ll be connected to the Wi-Fi network.
3. Now you can Adjust your iPhone’s Flashlight Beam Width
The flashlight on the iPhone is getting a big upgrade. On iOS 18 you can now also adjust the beam width of the light. You can now to cover more area with less light, or go narrow, to use more intense light over less area, and everywhere in between.
- To use the new feature, turn on your flashlight (use the lock screen or control center), and a new user interface will appear in the dynamic island.
- You can change the light intensity by swiping up and down, but to change the beam width, you’ll need to swipe left and right.
- If you tap anywhere in the dynamic island, you can turn the flashlight off and on.
4. Hide App Labels to Look your Home Screen Cleaner
If you want look your home screen clean, then this new feature of iOS 18 could help you. Now you can get rid of app labels, or the names of the apps that you see underneath each app icon on your home screen with iOS 18. Who needs the label if you can recognize an app from just the icon?
- To hide app labels, press and hold down on any blank space on your home screen, until you enter jiggle mode.
- Then click on ‘Edit’, then select ‘Customize’ from pop-up menu.
- A bottom menu will appear at the screen, from menu select the ‘Large’ option.
- Large option will make your app icons slightly larger and also remove the app labels.
5. Change an App to a Widget without Leaving the Home Screen
Not every iOS app has a widget for your home screen, but if it does, you don’t need to dig through the widget edit page to find it. If you’re running iOS 18, and you want an app to turn into a widget, then you can do that quickly right from your home screen.
- On a supported app, press and hold down on the icon on your home screen to bring up the quick actions menu.
- If the app has a widget, you’ll see an app icon next to a variety of widget icons (up to three).
- Yo change the app to a widget, tap on any of the widget icons.
- If you want to go back from the widget to the app, go to the quick action menu and click the app icon on the left.
6. Secretly Identify Any Song using the Action Button
To identify songs you can activate Music Recognition on the iPhone and get an answer quickly. But to get the answer means very noticeably that you can either asking Siri to run Shazam or activating Music Recognition in the control center. But, now in iOS 18, you can Secretly identify songs using the Action Button (currently available just on iPhone 15 Pro models) and surprise your friends and they will think you’ve been blessed with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music.
- Go to the Settings of your iPhone, then select ‘Action Button’ and swipe through the options until ‘Recognize Music’ is selected.
- To make it work, just press and hold the Action Button for a couple of seconds.
- Shazam then appears to listen what’s playing and identifies the song.
7. In the Photos app you can Now Find Images with Handwriting and illustrations
In iOS 18, you can see a lot is changing in the Photos app from the way things are organized to the ability to use generative AI to remove objects in images (coming next month). to help you sort through your library Apple has also tucked a few surprises into the app.
- Scroll down the main library itself to view the categories such as ‘People and Pets’ and ‘Memories’ until you find ‘Utilities.’
- Tap on ‘Utilities’ to view the full list, but note that a new feature of this interface is the ability to swipe left to view additional panels. Prior to iOS 18, Utilities included the options to view hidden, recently deleted and duplicate photos.
- But, now Utilities includes many more options. You can tap on ‘Handwriting’ to view images with handwriting in them.
- If you are looking for images that are illustrations and not photographs, then you can tap on ‘Illustrations.’
8. Share a Specific Section of a Podcast
If you want to share the specific part of your favourite podcast with someone, then in the Podcasts app in iOS 18, you can send an episode to a friend with the playback advanced to that moment.
- Open the Podcasts app and tap on the ‘Now Playing bar’ at the bottom of the screen to view the playback controls and pause the episode. You can use the progress bar to go back to the start of the section you want to share.
- Next, tap on the three horizontal dot (…) More button and choose ‘Share Episode.’
- In the sharing options that appear, tap on ‘From Start’ below the episode title, and then select From (the current time) and tap on ‘Done’.
- Finally, choose the method of sharing, such as via Messages or Mail.
- When the recipient receives the shared episode and opens it in the Podcasts app, they’ll see the option to ‘Play from’ (the time).
9. Transcribe Voice Memos and Make them Searchable
The Voice Memos app is incredibly convenient for capturing ideas or song snippets, but they’ve always been difficult to understand. In iOS 18, Memos app can create transcriptions of your voice memos and search for words that were previously available only as audio waveforms.
- In the Voice Memos app, tap one of your memos to reveal its controls and then tap on the ‘Edit Recording’ button, which looks like a waveform.
- Or, you can tap on the three-dots button to the right of a memo and select ‘Edit Recording.’
- Next, tap on the ‘Transcribe’ button to create the transcription or view the text if it’s already been transcribed and then tap on ‘Done.’
- Now, when you use the Search field, the app looks through the transcripts in addition to the titles for results. The text is also available throughout iOS – when you perform a search from the home screen, you’ll see Voice Memos as a category with the memos that include the search term, you may need to tap on ‘Show More Results’ to reveal it.
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