How to use the best new features of iOS 12

Finally, iOS 12 is here, bringing a lot of new features to tinker. Most (if not all) of these features are not really overwhelming, in part because Apple has devoted much of its development process to cleaning up the mess of iOS 11 and turning its suite into something worthy of Apple's name. In fact, many already exist on competitive operating systems in one form or another.

But that does not mean that they are neither amusing nor useful, nor that they are not welcome. At Macworld, we spent the last few months tinkering with all these new options in the iOS 12 beta, and over the years, a few have become our favorites. Once you get used to them, iOS 11 feels old and inefficient in comparison.

To celebrate the release of iOS 12, we have compiled the instructions associated with them in one convenient article, so that you can now get the most out of it from day one.

How to use Screen Time to limit the use of applications

Concerns about smartphone addiction have intensified over the past two years, and Apple is doing its part to help reduce it with the introduction of Screen Time. It's a handy feature that shows you a daily or weekly report detailing how you or your kids have used your iPhones. This gives you a lot of freedom to restrict the use of the iPhone at certain times, limiting applications to specific hours per hour. day, or even prevent access to R-rated content on the iTunes Store. Fortunately, it's very intuitive too.

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Animoji had a big success with the iPhone X, but iOS 12 sees Apple moving beyond animals to create play games. animated versions of our real faces for texts and fun photos. As with Animoji, Memoji uses Apple's TrueDepth scanning technology created for Face ID to capture your smiles, laughs and eyebrows.

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Bulk notifications are one of the best features of iOS 12, end point. Basically, they compile all notifications from a single source (for example, messages) into a single stack so that your notification screen is not cluttered with single posters. To see more notifications, just click on the stack. It massively reduces scrolling.

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Does he hate that you always have to look for a ruler or tape measure when you have to measure something? If you do not care about ultra-precise details, you'll love how the new "Measure" app uses your camera and Apple's ARKit technology to measure the size of nearby objects with impressive accuracy. We would not use it to tell your carpenter how long a replacement piece of wood should be, but it is much more accurate than "looking" at something.

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This feature probably will not be very useful for everyone, but I'm a writer and I think it's amazing. Basically, this feature ensures that you no longer need to go through a separate web page or application to use a thesaurus in iOS 12 when you search for a better word. Instead, you can simply select the offensive or boring word in almost any application and use "Search" to search for a better one.

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Sometimes, it does not matter if you are in bed or at work, you just want to be alone. And now, with iOS 12, Apple l & # 39; obtains. Bedtime mode darkens the screen and prevents notifications from appearing on your home screen at specific times, giving you a break (hoping to be welcome) from the stream of notifications that you probably receive when you are awake.

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With iOS 12, the Voice Memos application manages to integrate several new features without sacrificing its intuitive simplicity. Fortunately, you can still start recording a memo, but you can now replace sounds, insert new sounds in the middle of a file and easily crop files. Best of all, you can also easily import voice memos to GarageBand.

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The AirPods are already practical, but with iOS 12, you can use their microphones to transform the genuine Apple Wireless Bluetooth Earphones into makeshift hearing aids. With Live Listen, in other words, you increase the way you listen to the world around you rather than the music you play in the speakers.

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No other app sets the Apple Watch as the Activity App, to which Apple refers in "Close Your Rings ", advertisements that you may have seen recently. With iOS 12, you can insert animated stickers associated with the Activity app into texts for your friends, whether to encourage them or to talk to them a bit.

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Favicons are small icons appearing next to the name of a website in a tab of a web browser such as Google Chrome, which makes it very easy to identify the page when you open a tab. After what seems to be forever, Apple has finally brought the feature to iOS 12 (and MacOS Mojave, from elsewhere). The only problem is that you have to turn it on, so we're here to tell you how to do it.

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