10 AMAZING things your iPhone can do right now! (iOS 18)

[@ProperHonestTech]

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[@ProperHonestTech]

@@AllisonMoon-SheWandersFeral I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about...

[@ernestgalvan9037]

To ‘Proper Honest Tech’… I REALLY appreciate the screenshots with the LARGE red animated arrows showing just where to click/choose. Extremely helpful, and puts you one-up on other KZbinrs . On a down-note, your ‘jumping up and down’ while talking is (to me) very jarring. Your speech and cadence are spot-on perfect. Overall, many thanks.

[@ProperHonestTech]

"Jumping up and down while talking"???

[@ernestgalvan9037]

@@ProperHonestTech ..mayhaps “bobbing” is a better word? “Moving”?

[@ProperHonestTech]

@@ernestgalvan9037 Yeah. Honestly, my presentation style doesn’t include sitting motionless like a corpse, so that won’t be changing.

[@waynez1025]

Your presentation style is spot on. Thank you.! I have no idea what he’s talking about either.

[@KeemEats]

Motion sickness cues are an absolute god send! It pretty much eliminated my motion sickness in cars and trains. Absolutely love this feature!!

[@prashantyelonde9507]

I have motion sickness too. Do I need to keep looking at it or whenever I feel motion sickness. Fyi I tried it already, didn't work 😅

[@KeemEats]

@@prashantyelonde9507 Motion sickness affects everyone differently, so the intensity can vary from person to person. Personally, I don’t focus on it directly all the time. I mostly keep it in my peripheral vision, and when there’s a lot of movement or the balls are moving rapidly, I’ll glance over and focus for a moment. That seems to help balance things out for me. I have a friend who experiences more severe motion sickness than I do. While they found some relief using this feature, it didn’t completely resolve their symptoms like it did for me. It’s definitely worth trying, but I think the level of effectiveness can depend on how sensitive you are to motion.

[@MrMaelstrom07]

It actually increased motion sickness for me. I don't usually have an issue with it.

[@nerevarchthn6860]

@@KeemEats did nothing for me

[@CanRau]

Yea sadly doesn't do anything for me so far 😢 had high hopes as it can get pretty uncomfortable

[@DanSchaumann]

The currency conversion tip is a game changer! I convert a lot from Canadian dollar to Brazilian real. When I tried the first time it knew straight away this is the conversion I wanted.

[@richardrubin120]

Thanks!

[@ProperHonestTech]

Thanks very much!

[@siddharthsonawala491]

Among N number of videos on iOS on KZbin, yours is different, unique and very useful! Great job!

[@ky314]

Yes. The Motion sickness cues are working quite well to keep me from getting queasy. Very happy with that.

[@markmetz7912]

10:32 Hello, first, I would like to say that I very, very rarely comment on videos. However, I think it’s important for me to tell you how much I enjoy your channel, and that I learned actual useful information from your channel. There are a great deal of Apple content creators on KZbin, and most of them feature a great deal of hyperbole and speculation, and very few actually try to teach you something. Yours is a channel that I always learn useful information from. So again thank you very much. Keep doing what you’re doing and I will keep watching and liking your videos.

[@wolf-bass]

You always manage to find something interesting and new even for long time iPhone users like myself. Many thanks!

[@tjwash2]

I wish that when you move a photo from the general gallery to a folder it would no longer be in the gallery.

[@michaelroselius5450]

What's the impact on battery for vocal shortcuts? Constantly listening usually equals constantly draining.

[@amoghthegreat]

@@michaelroselius5450 I used vocal shortcuts for a week just to try them out and yes the battery does drain slightly faster(about 2-3% more than with vocal shortcuts disabled) so I switched it off. Besides, Siri does the same stuff if you just say one word more

[@AhmadN]

Omg. Thank you very much. Those photos you add and screenshots not showing up and I was like what the heck, I just literally added that, where is it ? That saved my day because it was literally driving me crazy. This was so helpful

[@Arsalan_2210]

8:25 When you told us about sorting photos by recently added. That changed the way i use my photos app. Very useful tip. Thank you Tom

[@TravelWithKabirCD]

The motion, sickness in a car feature is fantastic, I had absolutely no idea about that. If only there was a way to build a shortcut to enable that with just one tap!

[@V_for_violence]

There is, you can toggle it in the control centre

[@Stuntman707]

@@TravelWithKabirCD you can add it to control centre.

[@zizzie4081]

Not sure I see the difference between vocal shortcuts and just asking Siri to execute the command? What am I missing. Thanks

[@gordonb1737]

I'm still learning IOS, coming from Android. I really appreciate this info, especially highlighting the text you want to show in the preview for messages. That's very handy. Thank you

[@ever4hue]

Thank you for your tips! Custom Phrase action helps a lot 💫

[@MarceldeJong]

Obviously with the vocal shortcuts, you can use Siri instead. Just say “Siri, take a screenshot” will do the same thing.

[@jmatt98]

@@MarceldeJong good point but Siri may not do all the commands

[@sirshadowdragon]

I find I pretty easy to just press the proper buttons for it. Seems easier to me 😊

[@adrianjeager790]

@@MarceldeJong the mic 🎤 is always listening to us, it has to hear us speak “Siri”so it’s not a battery drainer I have a 15 pro and on the latest 18 beta I charge my phone at least once a day I 🤔 everyone else is safe to use it

[@javtimestwo]

The photos and calendar tips are very good. I had no idea that was possible. iOS 18 continues to impress.

[@BitSmythe]

10:40 *THIS IS THE BEST TIP. Now we can get rid of all the crap. Thank you!*

[@teadish1448]

Excellent overview! Thank you so much for taking the time to create this 🎉

[@notsurewhat2put]

Omg thank you I super needed to customize my photos app

[@SteamDriven]

If Apple just fixed the basics like the Mail App not fetching and no notifications then that would be a good place to start IMO.

[@Kneeslider64]

100% agree, I abandoned the mail app for these exact reasons

[@stealthzi7465]

Has worked for me for many years.. I don't use notifications though but I have like 6 email addresses lol didn't think people did

[@ihavenot]

@@stealthzi7465 Same here, no problems with multiple email addresses and notifications from accounts on different providers also, such as Google, Yahoo, etc. Not an Apple issue.

[@kevinsmithfox4614]

@@SteamDriven mine works fine, fetching every 15 minutes as i set.

[@Harbiscus]

Great share about the link customization and adding quotes!!

[@NOTLeavingLV]

3:47 - who else was let down he wasn’t showing us how to make sick stop motion animations?

[@DanielCalderazzo]

About calendar view on minute 9: you can pinch in and out the screen in order to change the view

[@ronanb3]

Great video with a real work on new features, not just the list from Apple.

[@mikebedford4362]

Just soooo valuable. Thanks Tom!

[@citibori]

The motion sickness feature definitely works for me

[@G.Freeman92]

You can tell Siri to turn on Vocal Shortcuts, then use it, then turn it back off.

[@kxngdavid]

The most helpful feature was the automatic math and currency conversion in messages. However, it only supports conversions to USD, not from USD to other currencies.

[@chinchorrero]

Great video! 👍

[@craigdaly5111]

Very helpful post thanks for sharing 👏

[@maxpro1234]

T9 dialing is awesome! ty sir.

[@svijayrao]

great video. learnt something new today 🙂

[@1robboard]

Really good and very helpful, thanks

[@richardrubin120]

Why are we unable to list albums alphabetically?

[@BitSmythe]

Has anyone figured *how to stop camera videos from continuously repeating?*

[@irisheylen]

@@BitSmythe would also like to know this!

[@cole301]

Settings, Apps, Photos, and deselect Loop Videos.

[@Sam-Retina]

Truly helpful, thank you!

[@samunanisasaba4698]

IOS18 sure brought more widgets optimization but it kinder feels like a downgrade considering, most of my Third Party apps no longer has access to widgets and the ones that work has lost functionality ( e.g: My calendar use to show upcoming events now it just show the date.) tried getting a better calendar no luck since there widgets are disabled by default.

[@philiprand3720]

Well done, as usual.

[@razfilmstv]

the video pause button is great.

[@henrifischer1119]

doesn't Siri already the same as Vocal Shortcuts will do? Using Siri for this could prevent accidentally triggering a shortcut.

[@TheGuyBehindTheGuy]

Always learning something new from you. Didn’t know about Safari quoting to Messages.

[@robertbrzheintzbrz147]

When I write 5CHF= (my home currency) it also converts to USD. BUT! when I use THB, £, € it converts to CHF. Exactly what is needed!

[@morphadi]

Awesome video as usual, thank you. The vocal shortcuts option turned on, gave me a strange outcome in using CarPlay. The car would switch from vocal input to CarPlay so the sound would switch from mono to stereo randomly. It was a crazy mess and sometimes stayed on only on vocal input.

[@hovelad]

As always a few items I was unaware of.

[@ldavies3280]

I was really pleased about the vocal shortcuts, but unfortunately only one out of 6 that I setup responds to my command. So worse than using Siri, which is something I thought I would never say!

[@konspirationsteoretiker]

I have one vocal shortcut set up, and sometimes it launches when I’m talking to myself, which is pretty annoying. 😂

[@ademb]

How is this not different than your phone constantly listening out for “Siri or hey siri” so isn’t our mic constantly listening anyway??

[@ProperHonestTech]

If you set it to. But many people, myself included, disable the feature.

[@BitSmythe]

9:00 *I HATE that the calendar adds a blank week between months. That makes it difficult to scroll to count days/weeks between events.*

[@ArnoudRoeland]

Thank you for the update. There are some interesting changes in iOS 18. One thing I have not heard a lot about is that the keyboard settings concerning language are different. I used to have three keyboards, one for English, one for Dutch and one for Swedish. Now I have two, one for English & Dutch and one for English & Swedish.

[@6or7breadsticks]

Shortcuts arent an app, they are a utility. The difference being that one is os baked and the other you have to goto the appstore to get

[@antonvons8559]

Another helpful video. I'd like to mention that I have waited update after update for a fix for the annoying way you can't connect "grab" a device when it has been connected to one iOS unit. So if I have been listening with buds connected to my iPad and I go to bed and try and connect the buds to my iPhone I can't without getting up and find my iPad, open its settings and hit "disconnect" even although it was switched off. It maybe a Bluetooth isuue, not Apple but it is still lame.

[@sylobloc4774]

Is Vocal shortcuts going to consume a lot of battery? When activated, it turns on a light near the front camera. Im afraid it will drain battery.

[@Munahidfrommars]

Sort with recently added changed my life because I was so annoyed by the date feature

[@alstroemeria1031]

I think the pause video button is my favorite new feature. Thanks

[@Lorichs]

Some realy cool tips in this one. Thanks 🙏🏼 It is funny how an ios-update can seem quite underwhelming at first glance but once we dive into it all the cool stuff is revealed. I can have a issue with motion sickness and i have some long trips ahead of me in the near future. So i’m looking forward to test the feature. Also the that calculator/conversion works throughout ios i huge for a math dummy lile me 😊

[@Swimcore]

When I changed the Lock Screen's camera settings, the logo didn’t change to a camera, although it opened my chosen camera settings. Why is that?

[@kerlandelder3800]

Vocal shortcuts is kool but in my experience it shuts down Siri . Cause Siri stop responding to my commands. So probably you either choose one or the other.

[@Hammerback0]

I wish they wouldn’t have eliminated the ability to remove a bunch of photos at once.

[@Jaimz.]

It’s not that I don’t like the new photos layout, it’s just it’s really bugged. Pictures are overlapping when scrolling, not being able to manually navigate videos in slow motion, whilst zooming into pics and videos it doesn’t work properly in screen mirroring. Zooming into videos and trying to manually navigate through them causes all kinds of issues like crashes, video to reset and only being able to navigate a couple of seconds. I’m sure there’s a few more I’ve forgotten.

[@maldohh7451]

the video pause option just arrived at iOS 18, but androids have had it for a decade.. I wonder why! However, the motion sickness dots are sick!

[@sharon2436]

The math conversion also works in Reminders & in fields on web forms (I’ve only tested in Safari). For example: I use a scheduling app that also tracks pricing and payroll. I can adjust in line and do the math right on the screen when I need to adjust the cost or pay for a housekeeper.

[@crittervan]

I was able to get the selfie shortcut but it opens in portrait mode facing out. I have to manually flip the camera to face me. Is this normal? Not a problem but wondering if I missed something. Thanks!!

[@MichalCilekAI]

Ywes, I was driving with a friend and tried it and it works miracles, also it works in public transport. Wow. Thank you

[@DiogoNeves]

Thanks for the video 🙏 What region do you have your phone set to? It should default to the region in settings and if you’re like me you probably set it to the US to test the new AI 😊

[@jbrooksga]

I thought the vocal shortcuts was a cool thing to setup. However it caused my CarPlay audio to sound horrible (mono). I drove myself nuts trying to determine the cause (cables, dirt in lightning port, radio firmware) but nothing helped. I later found an Apple Support post discussing this. Disabled vocal shortcuts and now the CarPlay audio is back to normal again. I suppose this is a bug with iOS 18 (Currently on 18.0.1)

[@1csearle]

I tried that math in messages and couldn’t get it to work is there something I’m missing?

[@GauravSingh-mp8je]

where is the call settings in ios 18? i cant find

[@NegyedMisi]

Do you think iOS will ever allow or have special keyboards layouts for certain languages? Like Gboard. I'm not talking about letters like éáöü, but those being placed where they are on a specific keyboard for that language. As an example, I'm Hungarian and when i type á or é I'm not striking towards a or e (left of the keyboard) and longpressing them will allow á and é but these are right on the keyboard next to L. It's not about muscle memory it's a significant thing I use every minute.

[@whitneyannie]

Instant like 👍

[@petercooke3671]

When are we likely to see Apple AI in the UK?

[@ProperHonestTech]

December I believe.

[@petercooke3671]

@@ProperHonestTech thank you, I heard that if I switch my country from the uk to the USA it will be sooner, is that possible or even wise? Would it revert to no AI when I switch back to uk location?

[@ProperHonestTech]

@@petercooke3671 You can switch your location to US and Siri language to US and download the Beta. It’s how I gain access for my videos, but I do it on a backup phone as betas are always a bit risky. If it were me, I’d wait, but entirely up to you of course.

[@swimlilfizhy]

Camera short cut doesn’t work on my iPhone 15 Pro. The done button on the lock screen is not functional after choosing the camera short cut.

[@thesushifiend]

Testing the maths thing. 2+2=4 Clever!

[@lpsmaduk]

Guvna B!

[@philipz794]

9:44 you can also pinch zoom in calendar to get in-between views / more or less info on screen!

[@amoghthegreat]

10:03 iPads can’t do this. Not that anyone makes videos on iPads, but it’s amusing

[@YehhhJerry]

8:17 this was already possible on the previous and better Photo app by just tapping the tabs at the bottom. “Recent” for recently added photos, and also “library” for it to be in chronological order

[@sandy7108]

Great video really enjoyed it

[@susanterry4276]

I love the new calendar view you showed and have changed my phone accordingly. Love your content - keep it coming!

[@johnskap2004]

T9 Dialling (finally) !!!!!!!!!!!! 😍🙌👏

[@alastairmc]

Superb advice, easily understood. Top man!

[@shelberz1]

Thank you

[@dannyalex4016]

When the vocal shortcut is enabled .. I'm getting weird notification sound when i receive any notifications. Is any one facing the same in iphone 16 series ??

[@Sunila_DragonladyCH]

I really don't like the new photo app as well. Previously, when tilting the phone to landscape it would show a full format view instantly. Now I have to click on the image again to get rid of the pointless UI. I found out how to have videos play automatically but they also show as small vignettes and getting them to show in full format is a pain. Why add so many pointless features and remove the ability to just look at your gallery ?

[@davidstulc]

9:10 You can also pinch in/out to change the calendar view 😉

[@KimberlyLetsGo]

As always, TFS. I followed along with the voice shortcuts (great for when I need the flashlight to turn on) and the reordering my photos, just to name a couple.

[@DipDuoCoding]

1542/4=385.5

[@nixl3518]

iOS 18 might be “out for a while now“ but my iPhone 15 only goes to 17.7!! Any idea what’s going on? Thank you.

[@ProperHonestTech]

iOS 18 will feature as a separate update on the Software Updates page in Settings, usually further down the screen. You need to select it.

[@nixl3518]

@@ProperHonestTech thank you for your reply. Strangely, it does not appear on my iPhone, though it momentarily appeared on my iPad Mini 6, and then disappeared!! I will try again, including restarting after finishing with the 17.7 iOS security update! Nevertheless, it is strange that it does this after all this time.

[@Thebibleauthority]

Thanks for the tips. It is beyond ridiculous, that in the 21st century, and with the rise of ai, we still have to go through so many steps just to do a simple task, you said you can change which camera opens with a few simple steps, well, I counted more than 10 steps just to do that simple task, lol, that is Stone Age technology if you ask me.

[@michaelgourlay1746]

I also like Photos redesign

[@gregparks1785]

Great video and information! I really like that you go step by step and you don’t go so fast that one has to constantly pause the video.

[@martinasemeraro]

9:07 I don't have the list option in the calendar view

[@ArgirisBothos]

the text calculation doesnt work for me

[@jackfromthe60s]

works on my iPhone13. What phone do you have?

[@Darren-r8m]

@@jackfromthe60s doesn’t work on mine as well IPhone 15 pro I looked on the net but couldn’t find any reference to it?

[@jackfromthe60s]

@@Darren-r8m are you sure you are doing it right? Are you putting the "=" sign at the end? Do you have predicitive text enabled?

[@Darren-r8m]

@@jackfromthe60sdoh yes that forgot thank you.

[@0ricky7]

A number row above the keyboard would be a nice inclusion

[@tnargs57]

No iOS18 update showing up on my iPhone 13 as of 2024-10-12, so what's the deal with that?

[@arashy]

After updating to a higher version of iOS 17, my phone stopped showing 18. I had to manually search for available software updates. Hope that’s your issue.

[@Dumbledore6969x]

Man I wish we could set a different password for our hidden photo folder. I hate that anyone who has your password can find your hidden pics.

[@ryanwaugh1]

@@Dumbledore6969x don’t cheat on your wife and you would be ok 😂

[@Dumbledore6969x]

@@ryanwaugh1 you can’t tell me what to do, you’re not my dad.

[@ryanwaugh1]

@@Dumbledore6969x 😂😂😂

[@patoloco1000]

Change your password then

[@drestrick3899]

Xlocker

[@glinleyt]

If Apple could finally change the "Home" label for email addresses in Contacts it would be great. FFS

[@zignetvs]

Apple still missing one single very important core ability. That is 3 decades behind in. That is the ability to sort album by size and length

[@jnitesh3]

Please note, if you tap and hold the camera button it will provide you the same 4 options and you can select say for e.g. selfie or portrait selfie and take the photo. I have it in my control center.

[@ProperHonestTech]

That's not how the Lock Screen camera button operates (which is what is discussed in this video)

[@izatsn4767]

@@ProperHonestTech hahaha nice one