iOS beta 18.4 and the new features

6 features from iOS 18.4 that you can use right now

The official launch of iOS 18.4 is at hand. But the public beta already allows users to enjoy 6 iOS features including Apple Intelligence. As you wait the official update, you can manually install the public beta and start enjoying the iOS 18.4 experience.

The following list includes 6 interesting features you can try from iOS 18.4 using the public beta. Then it’s up to you. The official update will bring every feature and the security and privacy solutions already fixed for your device.

The new iOS 18.4 and the features of the public beta

Superpowered Siri with ChatGPT

Siri now integrates ChatGPT and becomes the most useful assistant for your daily inquiries. You can ask from sports results to lottery numbers or recipes recommendations.  Another interesting aspect in the new iOS 18.4 is the renewed interface.

New iOS features: updated Mail app

The Maill app from Apple includes several improvements in iOS 18.4 beta. It can automatically organize mails in Categories like Main or Adds. Then you can always have the most important messages in one side and newsletters and other stuff in the other. It also integrates writing skills from Apple Intelligence to summarize mails, write according to different tones and correct grammar mistakes. You can also ask Mail to answer automatically through AI functions.

Main and summarized notifications

The new iOS 18.4 includes an intelligent system to organize notifications according to relevance parameters. Apple Intelligence can understand the content of a message and show you a highlight of the most important ones.

Thanks to the summarize feature, iOS won’t let you miss any important message or data from work, family or friends. With just a peek you can already know what the mail is about.

Control Center background music

In case you need music to focus at work or for relaxing at home, you can automatically activate background music from the Control Center. There are different categories such as Productivity, Relax and Wellfare. It’s a simple and funny feature to enjoy thematic music from your Control Center.

Photos magical eraser

The magical eraser for Photos is a tool to eliminate objects and people that ruin your photos. It makes use of Apple Intelligence to identify and select elements that you can automatically erase from any photo.

Article summaries

Artificial Intelligence features in iOS 18.4 allow for Apple Intelligence to summarize the articles you want to read. It can give you a customized summary with the most important information according to your own likings.

How to test iOS 18.4 right now?

Even when the official iOS 18.4 version will arrive on April, you can download the public beta right now. Follow these steps:

  1. Go to beta apple and Log in.
  2. Open Settings –> General –> Software update from your iPhone.
  3. Go to Beta updates and enable public beta.

After some minutes you will have iOS 18.4 installed in your device to start testing its features. From iPhone 15 Pro onwards you can already test the new public beta for the iOS 18.4 version.


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