What's New:

iOS 12 brings performance improvements and heady new features to iPhone and iPad. Photos introduces new features to assistance you rediscover and share the photos in your library, Memoji—a new, more customizable Animoji—brand Messages more expressive and fun, Screen Time helps you and your family understand and make the most of the time spent on devices, Siri Shortcuts deliver a faster fashion to get things washed with the ability for whatever app to work with Siri, augmented reality becomes fifty-fifty more engaging with the power for developers to create shared AR experiences, and new privacy features help protect yous from being tracked on the spider web. This update introduces new features and improvements to:

Performance

  • iOS has been enhanced for a faster and more responsive feel across the system
  • All supported devices run into improved performance, going back to iPhone 5s and iPad Air
  • Camera launches upwards to 70 percentage faster, the keyboard appears upward to 50 percent faster and typing is more responsive*
  • Apps launch up to twice equally fast when your device is under heavy workload*

Photos

  • New For You tab helps yous discover great photos in your library with Featured Photos, Result Suggestions, and more
  • Sharing Suggestions proactively recommend sharing photos taken at events with the people who are in them
  • Search enhancements make information technology easier to detect your photos with intelligent suggestions and multiple keyword support
  • Search for photos based on the place, business organization name, or result where you were when you lot took them
  • Improved camera import with faster performance and a new large preview mode
  • RAW support for editing images

Camera

  • Portrait fashion improvements preserve fine detail between subject and background when using Stage Light and Phase Light Mono effects
  • QR codes are highlighted in the camera frame, making them easier to scan

Messages

  • Memoji, a new, more customizable Animoji, brand Messages more expressive with personalized characters that are various and fun
  • Animoji now too include T. rex, ghost, koala, and tiger
  • Brand Memoji and Animoji wink and stick out their tongue
  • New camera effects bring Animoji, filters, text effects, iMessage sticker packs, and shapes to the photos and videos yous capture in Messages
  • Animoji recordings can now capture up to 30 seconds

Screen Fourth dimension

  • Screen Time provides detailed information and tools to aid you and your family find the correct balance of time spent with apps and websites
  • See the time spent in apps, usage across categories of apps, how many notifications are received, and how frequently devices are picked up
  • App limits assistance you set up the amount of time you or your child can spend in apps and on websites
  • Screen Time for kids lets parents manage how their child uses iPhone and iPad correct from their own iOS devices

Do Not Disturb

  • Turn off Practise Non Disturb after a gear up time, location or calendar effect
  • Do Not Disturb during Bedtime hides all notifications from your lock screen while yous sleep

Notifications

  • Notifications from the same app are automatically grouped together to help y'all manage your notifications
  • Instant Tuning gives you control over your notification settings right from the lock screen
  • New Deliver Quietly option silently sends notifications direct to Notification Center without interrupting you

Siri

  • Siri Shortcuts deliver a faster mode to go things done with the ability for any app to work with Siri
  • Add shortcuts using the "Add to Siri" push button in supported apps, or in Settings > Siri and Search
  • Siri suggests shortcuts on the Lock screen and in Search
  • Go motorsports results, schedules, stats and standings for Formula 1, Nascar, Indy 500 and MotoGP
  • Search for photos by fourth dimension, location, people, topic or recent trips to notice relevant photos and Memories in Photos
  • Translate phrases in more languages, with back up for over 40 language pairs
  • Bank check facts most celebrities, such as when they were born, and ask questions virtually food, including calories and nutrient content
  • Turn flashlight on or off
  • More than natural and expressive vocalism now available in Irish English, Southward African English, Danish, Norwegian, Cantonese and Mandarin (Taiwan)

Augmented Reality

  • Shared experiences in ARKit 2 let developers create innovative AR apps you lot can experience together with friends
  • Persistence enables developers to save and reload experiences correct from where you left off
  • Object detection and image tracking gives developers new tools to recognize real world objects and track images while they movement through space
  • AR Quick Expect extends AR throughout iOS, letting you view AR objects with congenital-in apps like News, Safari, and Files and share them with friends with iMessage and Mail

Measure

  • New augmented reality app to measure objects and spaces
  • Draw lines across surfaces or in free space to measure out, and tap on a line's label to see more than information
  • Automatically mensurate rectangular objects
  • Capture, share and markup screenshots of your measurements

Privacy and Security

  • Enhanced Intelligent Tracking Prevention in Safari prevents embedded content and social media buttons from tracking cross-site browsing without your permission
  • Suppresses advertizement retargeting past reducing advertisers' ability to place iOS devices uniquely
  • Strong and unique passwords are suggested automatically when creating an business relationship or changing a password in nigh apps and in Safari
  • Reused passwords are flagged in Settings > Passwords & Accounts
  • Security code AutoFill presents one-time security codes sent over SMS as suggestions in the QuickType bar
  • Sharing passwords with contacts is easier than e'er using AirDrop from Passwords & Accounts in Settings
  • Siri supports speedily navigating to a password on an authenticated device

Apple tree Books

  • All-new design that makes discovering and enjoying books and audiobooks easy and fun
  • Reading At present makes information technology elementary to get dorsum to the book you're currently reading or find slap-up recommendations for what to read next
  • Add together books to the new Want to Read collection to keep rails of what y'all'd like to read adjacent
  • The Volume Store makes it easy to find your next favorite read with new and popular selections from our Apple tree Books editors and recommendations chosen just for you lot
  • The new Audiobooks store helps you find immersive stories and informative nonfiction books narrated by your favorite authors, actors, and celebrities

Apple Music

  • Search now supports lyrics and then you tin can apply a few of the words to find a vocal
  • Creative person pages take an easier to browse design with a personalized station of whatsoever artist's music
  • The new Friends Mix is a playlist of songs you'll dearest from everything your friends are listening to
  • New charts to bear witness y'all the daily summit 100 songs in countries effectually the globe

Apple News

  • Apple News is redesigned to make it easier to discover new channels and topics
  • The new sidebar on iPad and Channels tab on iPhone make it easy to bound direct to your favorite publications and discover new ones

Stocks

  • All-new design lets you easily view stock quotes, interactive charts, and pinnacle news on iPhone and iPad
  • Top Stories section includes articles selected past Apple News editors to highlight the latest news driving the market place
  • Read Apple News stories correct in the app, formatted to expect not bad on iPhone and iPad
  • Watchlist includes colour-coded sparklines that let you lot run into daily performance at a glance
  • See an interactive chart for every ticker symbol, plus key details including after-hours toll, trading volume, and more than

Voice Memos

  • All-new blueprint with improved ease of apply
  • iCloud keeps your recordings and edits in sync across all of your devices
  • Available on iPad with support for both portrait and landscape orientation

Tv

  • Get notified when movies and TV shows are bachelor to watch in Up Next
  • Share your favorite movies, Idiot box shows, and sporting events with universal links

Apple Podcasts

  • Now supports chapters for shows that include them
  • Skip xxx seconds or to the next chapter with forwards and back buttons in your car or on your headphones
  • Easily manage new episode notifications from the Listen Now screen

Accessibility

  • Live Listen now works with AirPods to help you lot hear more clearly
  • RTT telephone calling now works with AT&T
  • Speak Selection now supports using the Siri voice to speak text that you take selected

Other features and improvements

  • Camera furnishings in FaceTime transform your look in real-time
  • CarPlay adds support for third-party navigation apps
  • On supported campuses, use contactless student ID cards in Wallet to access buildings and pay with Apple Pay
  • Website icons can appear in tabs on iPad by enabling them in Settings > Safari
  • Weather includes air quality index in supported regions
  • Quickly swipe upward from the bottom of the screen to become dwelling house on iPad
  • Swipe down from the pinnacle right to access Command Center on iPad
  • Marker Upwardly includes a palette of additional colors and options to modify line width and opacity for each tool
  • Battery usage chart in Settings now shows your usage for the concluding 24 hours or ten days, and you lot can tap a bar to see app use for that menstruation of time
  • On devices without 3D Bear on, touch on and hold the keyboard Space bar to turn your keyboard into a trackpad
  • Maps adds support for indoor maps for airports and malls with indoor positioning in Cathay
  • New definition dictionary in Hebrew, and bilingual dictionaries in Arabic and English, and Hindi and English
  • New English thesaurus
  • Automatic software updates allow iOS updates to exist installed automatically overnight

Previous Versions:

  • Apple iPod touch 6G iOS Firmware Update eleven.0
  • Apple iPod touch 6G iOS Firmware Update 10.1.1
  • Apple iPod touch on 6G iOS Firmware Update 10.1