Wersje RC – iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, watchOS 11 oraz macOS Sequoia
Tuż po zakończeniu dzisiejszego Apple Special Event udostępnione zostały ostatnie w zamyśle testowe wersje systemów przed ich publiczną premierą 16 września.
Wersje RC charakteryzują się tym, że często zawierają również pełną listę zmian. Podobnie jest i tym razem, choć póki co w języku angielskim:
iOS 18
Home Screen
- Flexible arrangement to place app icons and widgets in any open position on the Home Screen, such as along the bottom or off to the side, to create the ideal layout for each page
- Dark icons give your Home Screen look a darker aesthetic, and can automatically adjust when your iPhone enters Dark Mode, or always appear dark
- Color tinting lets you apply any color to app icons and widgets or have iOS suggest a color that complements your wallpaper
- Larger icons allow you to make all the app icons and widgets on your screen appear larger, removing the name underneath
Photos
- Photos app redesign features the biggest update ever with a simplified layout that puts everything into a single view
- Collections automatically organize your library by helpful topics that you can browse in a collage, grid, as a memory, or on a map
- Customization options let you reorder, add, and remove Collections rows, and add just the items you want to Pinned Collections to keep within easy reach
- Groups in People and Pets include photos of your favorite people or pets who frequently appear together
- Trips automatically organizes your travels into collections so you can relive each trip
- Recent Days lets you view your recent photos organized by day without clutter like screenshots
- Filter button in the grid helps you reduce clutter by filtering to specific media types, your favorites, or by hiding screenshots from the view
- Video speed control lets you slow down high frame rate video content with in and out points
- Utilities includes additional helpful collections like Documents, Receipts, QR codes, and more, and items you’ve recently edited, viewed, and shared
- Recovered album in Utilities surfaces images that are on your device but were not previously visible due to database corruption in a locked album
Messages
- Messages via satellite lets you message friends and family when you are without cellular or Wi-Fi connection by connecting to a satellite in space (iPhone 14 and later)
- Text effects bring your conversations to life by visually amplifying any letter, word, phrase, or emoji in iMessage with dynamic, animated effects like explode, ripple, and nod
- Text formatting lets you add bold, underline, italics, and strikethrough to any letter, word, or phrase in iMessage
- Emoji and sticker Tapbacks allow you to react to a message using any emoji or sticker, giving you access to the Tapbacks you and your friends send the most with just a swipe
- Send Later enables you to compose a message now and schedule it to send later
- RCS messaging support includes delivery and read receipts, higher resolution photos and videos for messaging people without an iPhone and requires carrier support
Control Center
- Redesigned Control Center features convenient groups of controls, the ability to arrange controls just the way you want, and support for controls from third-party apps
- Groups of controls can be accessed by continuously swiping from the right edge, including your most used controls, Home controls, Media Playback and Connectivity, with the option to build out entirely new groups too
- Controls gallery displays the full set of available controls, including controls from third-party apps, that you can add right into the group you choose
- Resizable controls let you drag from the lower right of a control from within Control Center
Lock Screen
- Custom Lock Screen controls let you choose controls from the controls gallery from your favorite apps
- Action button can be customized with controls from the controls gallery (iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max)
- Font options allow you to customize the time with 12 numeral scripts in Arabic, Arabic Indic, Bangla, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meitei, Odia, Ol Chiki, and Telugu
Safari
- Distraction Control helps you hide items on a webpage that you find disruptive to your browsing
- Highlights surface key information from the webpage you’re visiting with summaries, locations, and more
- Redesigned Reader offers even more ways to enjoy articles with a streamlined view of the article you’re reading, a summary, and a table of contents for longer articles
Passwords
- Passwords app lets you see all your credentials for websites and apps in one place, making it even easier to access your passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and verification codes
- Verification codes for two factor authentication can be set up right in Passwords so you can easily copy them or autofill them into Safari without opening an authenticator app
- Secure syncing ensures your accounts saved in Passwords sync seamlessly with iCloud with end-to-end encryption so you can access them on your other devices
- Windows support through the iCloud Passwords app so you can access your passwords on Windows devices
Maps
- Topographic maps display features like trails, contour lines, elevation, and points of interest
- Hikes are available across all U.S. national parks and can be saved to your device to access while offline
- Custom walking and hiking routes can be created with just a few taps for hikes in the park, regular exercise routines in your neighborhood, walking tours while on vacation, and more
- Places Library combines all your saved places, guides, and hiking routes into one location for easy access
Gaming
- Game Mode minimizes background activity to sustain the highest frame rates and dramatically improves responsiveness with wireless accessories like game controllers and AirPods
Wallet
- Tap to Cash lets you exchange Apple Cash quickly and privately, without sharing phone numbers or email addresses, just by holding your phones together
- New pass designs have a beautiful new look and great new features, including a new event guide with helpful information about the venue and smart recommendations from your favorite Apple apps
- New ways to pay with installments and rewards on supported credit and debit cards when you check out with Apple Pay online and in apps
Journal
- State of mind can be logged right from within Journal, and emotions or mood logged in the Health app are included in Journaling Suggestions
- Insights view shows your writing streaks, a calendar, and other fun stats that help you track your journaling goals
- Search lets you easily find past entries, and the ability to sort shows your entries in your preferred order
- Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen show your current streak or writing prompts that change throughout the day, so you can reflect on what’s going on in the moment
Phone
- Recent calls search helps you find previous calls, voicemails and contacts using phone numbers, names, or even a word transcribed from a voicemail
- Keypad search helps you quickly find and call existing contacts by typing in their number or name on the alphanumeric keypad
- Automatic mic mode picks the right mic mode for you, toggling between Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum, and Standard mode depending on your environment
Privacy
- Locked apps let you protect your sensitive apps and the information inside them by requiring Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode to open them and hiding the content from search, notifications, and other places across the system
- Hidden apps have the same protections as locked apps, plus they are placed in a new hidden apps folder that is locked, and you won't receive notifications or calls from the app
- Improved Contacts permission empower you to choose which contacts to share with an app
- Improved Bluetooth pairing lets developers offer a seamless pairing experience, while protecting your privacy
AirPods
- Hands-free Siri Interactions let you respond to Siri announcements with AirPods by simply nodding your head ‘yes’ or shaking your head ‘no’
- Voice Isolation on AirPods Pro provides clearer call quality for those you are speaking with, even in windy conditions or places with loud background noise
- Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming with AirPods puts you in the middle of the action with sound that surrounds you combined with a new API for developers that makes it easier than ever to enable
Apple TV app
- InSight delivers real-time information for every live-action Apple TV+ movies and shows that complements what you’re watching onscreen
- Enhance Dialogue enables you to hear what’s being said onscreen more clearly, especially when loud effects or music is playing
- More dynamic Subtitles automatically appear at just the right times, like when the content language doesn’t match your device language, when you mute the audio, or when you skip back while watching a program
Notes
- Audio recordings can be started right from inside a note, and kept with related comments, checklists, and documents
- Live transcriptions show as you record audio, and transcripts are fully searchable so you can always find what you need (iPhone 12 and later)
- Math in Notes let you enter expressions and equations in your note to have them solve instantly
- Collapsible sections help you simplify and hide text in long notes; just tap next to a section header to lighten up your most text-heavy notes
- Highlight text in your note with a choice of five colors allows you to make your text standout
Accessibility
- Eye Tracking makes it possible for people to control iPhone with just their eyes (iPhone 12 and later and iPhone SE (3rd generation))
- Music Haptics syncs the iPhone Taptic Engine with the rhythm of songs so those who are deaf or hard of hearing can enjoy the Apple Music catalog (iPhone 14 and later)
- Vocal Shortcuts help people with severe atypical speech record custom utterances that trigger specific actions
- Vehicle Motion Cues can help reduce motion sickness for passengers in moving vehicles by placing dots on the screen that move with the vehicle without interfering with content
This release also includes other features and improvements:
- Emergency SOS Live Video enables you to share streaming video and recorded media during emergency calls with participating US emergency operators (iPhone 14 and later)
- Math Notes in Calculator let you evaluate expressions, assign variables and even create graphs on iPhone
- Calendar lets you create, view, edit and complete reminders alongside with your events
- Recently Deleted list in Reminders lets you view and retrieve deleted reminders
- Screen sharing in SharePlay lets you tap and draw on someone’s screen or ask for permission to remotely control their iPhone and take actions yourself
- Scenes in Freeform allow you to organize your content into sections, then save, label and order them as you like
- Redesigned Fitness+ makes it easy to find personalized recommendations, or search for something specific
- Guest access in Home app lets you provide visitors with date and time- based access to locks, garage doors, and alarm systems
- Electricity usage and rate plan information in Home app are displayed for eligible customers when connecting their utility account, starting with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California
- Repair Assistant prompts you to configure the genuine Apple parts replaced on your device after a repair (iPhone 12 and later)
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices. For more information, please visit this website:
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all iPhone models. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
iPadOS 18
Home Screen
- Flexible arrangement to place app icons and widgets in any open position on the Home Screen, such as along the bottom or off to the side, to create the ideal layout for each page
- Dark icons give your Home Screen look a darker aesthetic, and can automatically adjust when your iPad enters Dark Mode, or always appear dark
- Color tinting lets you apply any color to app icons and widgets or have iPadOS suggest a color that complements your wallpaper
- Larger icons allow you to make all the app icons and widgets on your screen appear larger, removing the name underneath
Photos
- Photos app redesign features the biggest update ever with a simplified layout that puts everything into a single view
- Collections automatically organize your library by helpful topics that you can browse in a collage, grid, as a memory, or on a map
- Customization options let you reorder, add, and remove Collections rows, and add just the items you want to Pinned Collections to keep within easy reach
- Groups in People and Pets include photos of your favorite people or pets who frequently appear together
- Trips automatically organizes your travels into collections so you can relive each trip
- Recent Days lets you view your recent photos organized by day without clutter like screenshots
- Filter button in the grid helps you reduce clutter by filtering to specific media types, your favorites, or by hiding screenshots from the view
- Video speed control lets you slow down high frame rate video content with in and out points
- Utilities includes additional helpful collections like Documents, Receipts, QR codes, and more, and items you’ve recently edited, viewed, and shared
- Recovered album in Utilities surfaces images that are on your device but were not previously visible due to database corruption in a locked album
Messages
- Text effects bring your conversations to life by visually amplifying any letter, word, phrase, or emoji in iMessage with dynamic, animated effects like explode, ripple, and nod
- Text formatting lets you add bold, underline, italics, and strikethrough to any letter, word, or phrase in iMessage
- Emoji and sticker Tapbacks allow you to react to a message using any emoji or sticker, giving you access to the Tapbacks you and your friends send the most with just a swipe
- Send Later enables you to compose a message now and schedule it to send later
Control Center
- Redesigned Control Center features convenient groups of controls, the ability to arrange controls just the way you want, and support for controls from third-party apps
- Groups of controls can be accessed by continuously swiping from the right edge, including your most used controls, Home controls, Media Playback and Connectivity, with the option to build out entirely new groups too
- Controls gallery displays the full set of available controls, including controls from third-party apps, that you can add right into the group you choose
- Resizable controls let you drag from the lower right of a control from within Control Center
Lock Screen
- Custom Lock Screen controls let you choose controls from the controls gallery from your favorite apps
- Font options allow you to customize the time with 12 numeral scripts in Arabic, Arabic Indic, Bangla, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meitei, Odia, Ol Chiki, and Telugu
Notes
- Handwriting Refinement automatically refines your handwritten text in real-time to be smoother, straighter, and more legible (iPad models with A14 Bionic, or M1 and above)
- Paste as Handwriting lets you copy text from a webpage, document, or email and paste it in your own handwriting (iPad models with A14 Bionic, or M1 and above)
- Handwriting Reflow allows you to paste in the middle of paragraph or add some space and your written text will automatically reflow to fit your content
- Check Spelling for Handwriting underlines spelling errors and can fix them while keeping your own writing style (iPad models with A14 Bionic, or M1 and above)
- Math in Notes let you enter expressions and equations while typing or writing with your Apple Pencil to have them solve in your note
- Math Notes from Calculator automatically sync to your Notes in the Math Notes Smart Folder
- Audio recordings can be started right from inside a note, and kept with related comments, checklists, and documents
- Live transcriptions show as you record audio, and transcripts are fully searchable so you can always find what you need (iPad models with A14 Bionic, or M1 and above)
- Collapsible sections help you simplify and hide text in long notes; just tap next to a section header to lighten up your most text-heavy notes
- Highlight text in your note with a choice of five colors allows you to make your text standout
Calculator
- Math Notes let you evaluate expressions, assign variables and even draw graphs by simply typing or writing out math
- Solve written math naturally by writing out an equation horizontally or even vertically using Apple Pencil, and Math Notes will solve your expressions inline as soon as you write an equals sign
- Solve typed math in Math Notes, or type out math in other apps like Messages and Mail to see results as suggestions in your keyboard
- Variables let you assign a value to letters and words like “x=10” and can then be used to quickly solve an expression or graph and equation
- Graphs help you visualize written or typed equations, and can be zoomed in on, panned around, resized, or combined to show multiple equations at the same time
- History shows you your previous calculations so you can quickly get back to them or copy results to use in other apps
- Unit Conversions allow you to quickly convert categories of units like length, weight, currencies and more
Gaming
- Game Mode minimizes background activity to sustain the highest frame rates and dramatically improves responsiveness with wireless accessories like game controllers and AirPods
Safari
- Distraction Control helps you hide items on a webpage that you find disruptive to your browsing
- Highlights surface key information from the webpage you’re visiting with summaries, locations, and more
- Redesigned Reader offers even more ways to enjoy articles with a streamlined view of the article you’re reading, a summary, and a table of contents for longer articles
Passwords
- Passwords app lets you see all your credentials for websites and apps in one place, making it even easier to access your passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and verification codes
- Verification codes for two factor authentication can be set up right in Passwords so you can easily copy them or autofill them into Safari without opening an authenticator app
- Secure syncing ensures your accounts saved in Passwords sync seamlessly with iCloud with end-to-end encryption so you can access them on your other devices
- Windows support through the iCloud Passwords app so you can access your passwords on Windows devices
SharePlay
- Ask to share lets someone share their screen with you from Messages or while in a FaceTime call
- Draw to highlight lets you tap and draw directly on the screen being shared with you, helping your friends and family take the right actions on their own screen
- Remote control lets you assist more directly, you can ask for permission to remotely control their device and take the actions yourself. Only known contacts can request control and the device owner’s actions will always take preference over remote ones
Freeform
- Scenes allow you to organize your content into sections, then save, label and order them as you like
- Send a Copy of your board with a link that anyone can use on their iPhone, iPad or Mac
- Handwriting Recognition allows you to select, search, translate, and copy the handwriting in your board as text
- Improved Diagramming lets you join objects together with magnetic connection lines that can be anchored anywhere
- Snap to Grid makes it easier to precisely align content of your board
- Math Results lets you write out a basic or scientific expression with an equals sign and you’ll see results inserted or suggested inline on your board
Designed for iPad
- Redesigned tab bar floats above your app’s content so you can focus on what matters and your favorite tabs stay within easy reach
- Updated sidebar gives you access to more within your apps, you can easily switch from the tab bar to an updated Sidebar that lets you dive deeper into your apps functionality like your list of playlists in Music, or all your favorite channels in the Apple TV app
- Updated Document Browser gives apps a distinct new look while also helping you jump back to your most recent documents more quickly in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Swift Playgrounds
- Refined Animations and fluid gestures in your apps make them feel even more delightful, responsive and fun
Privacy
- Locked apps let you protect your sensitive apps and the information inside them by requiring Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode to open them and hiding the content from search, notifications, and other places across the system
- Hidden apps have the same protections as locked apps, plus they are placed in a new hidden apps folder that is locked, and you won't receive notifications or calls from the app
- Improved Contacts permission empower you to choose which contacts to share with an app
- Improved Bluetooth pairing lets you pair accessories seamlessly while keeping them private
Maps
- Topographic maps display features like trails, contour lines, elevation, and points of interest
- Hikes are available across all U.S. national parks and can be saved to your device to access while offline
- Custom walking and hiking routes can be created with just a few taps for hikes in the park, regular exercise routines in your neighborhood, walking tours while on vacation, and more
- Places Library combines all your saved places, guides, and hiking routes into one location for easy access
Apple TV app
- InSight delivers real-time information for every live-action Apple TV+ movies and shows that complements what you’re watching onscreen
- Enhance Dialogue enables you to hear what’s being said onscreen more clearly, especially when loud effects or music is playing
- Subtitles automatically appear at just the right times, like when the content language doesn’t match your device language, when you mute the audio, or when you skip back while watching a program
This release also includes other features and improvements:
- Calendar lets you create, view, edit and complete reminders alongside with your events
- Recently Deleted list in Reminders lets you view and retrieve deleted reminders
- Guest access in Home app lets you provide visitors with date and time- based access to locks, garage doors, and alarm systems
- Electricity usage and rate plan information in Home app are displayed for eligible customers when connecting their utility account, starting with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California
- Repair Assistant prompts you to configure the genuine Apple parts replaced on your device after a repair (iPad Air models with M2 and iPad Pro models with M4)
This release includes even more features and improvements. For more information, please visit this website:
www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-18
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
macOS Sequoia
macOS Sequoia introduces new features to help you be more productive and creative on Mac. With the latest Continuity feature, iPhone Mirroring, you can access your entire iPhone on Mac. It’s easy to tile windows to quickly create your ideal workspace, and you can even see what you’re about to share while presenting with Presenter Overlay. A big update to Safari features Distraction Control, Highlights, and a redesigned Reader, making it easy to get things done while you browse the web. macOS Sequoia also brings text effects and emoji Tapbacks to Messages, Math Notes to Calculator, the ability to plan a hike in Maps, and so much more.
iPhone Mirroring
- iPhone Mirroring lets you access and control your iPhone on Mac, giving you a convenient way to browse your Home Screen, launch iPhone apps, and interact with them on Mac
- Keyboard and trackpad support enables you to type and use Multi-Touch gestures to swipe through apps on your Home Screen, pinch to zoom, and scroll in apps
- iPhone Notifications on Mac allow you to view and take action on notifications from iPhone right on your Mac
Easier window tiling
- Tiled window enhancements make it easier to arrange windows by dragging them to the screen’s edge to place them side-by-side or in corners on your desktop
- Keyboard and menu shortcuts can be used to arrange windows into tiled positions even faster
Safari
- Distraction Control helps you hide items on a webpage that you find disruptive to your browsing
- Highlights surface key information from the webpage you’re visiting with summaries, locations, and more
- Redesigned Reader offers even more ways to enjoy articles with a streamlined view of the article you’re reading, a summary, and a table of contents for longer articles
- Viewer lets you watch videos without distractions, and automatically moves videos into Picture-in-Picture when you click away from the page
Passwords
- Passwords app lets you see all your credentials for websites and apps in one place, making it even easier to access your passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and verification codes
- Verification codes can be set up right in Passwords so you can easily copy them or autofill them into Safari without even having to open the app
- Secure syncing ensures your accounts saved in Passwords sync seamlessly with iCloud with end-to-end encryption so you can access them on your other devices
- Windows support through the iCloud Passwords app so you can access your passwords on Windows devices
Video Conferencing
- Presenter Overlay lets you preview your screen before sharing it in video calls
- Play preview gives you a preview of where your content and presenter notes will be when you click Play in Keynote
- Background replacement allows you to upload your own photo or choose from several built-in options to use as your video call background
Messages
- Text effects bring your conversations to life by visually amplifying any letter, word, phrase, or emoji in iMessage with dynamic, animated effects like explode, ripple, and nod
- Text formatting lets you add bold, underline, italics, and strikethrough to any letter, word, or phrase in iMessage
- Emoji and sticker Tapbacks let you react to a message using any emoji or sticker, giving you access to the Tapbacks you and your friends send the most with just a swipe
- Send Later lets you compose a message now and schedule it to send later
Maps
- Topographic maps display features like trails, contour lines, elevation, and points of interest
- Hikes are available across all U.S. national parks and can be saved to your device to access while offline
- Custom walking and hiking routes can be created for hikes in the park, regular exercise routines in your neighborhood, walking tours while on vacation, and more
- Places Library combines all your saved places, guides, and hiking routes into one location for easy access
Notes
- Audio recordings can be started right from inside a note, and kept with related comments, checklists, and documents
- Live transcriptions show as you record audio, and transcripts are fully searchable so you can always find what you need
- Math in Notes let you enter expressions in your note to have them solve instantly
- Collapsible sections help you simplify and hide text in long notes; just click next to a section header to lighten up your most text-heavy notes
- Highlight text in your note with a choice of five colors allows you to make your text standout
Photos
- Collections automatically organize your library by helpful topics in the sidebar, like Days, Trips, People & Pets, and Featured Photos
- Groups in People & Pets include photos of your favorite people or pets who frequently appear together
- Video speed control lets you slow down high frame rate video content with in and out points
- Utilities includes additional helpful collections like Documents, Receipts, and more, and items you’ve recently edited, viewed, and shared
- Recovered album in Utilities surfaces images that are on your device but were not previously visible due to database corruption in a locked album
Apple TV app
- Subtitles automatically appear at just the right times, like when the content language doesn’t match your device language, when you mute the audio, or when you skip back while watching a program
AirPods
- Hands-free Siri Interactions let you respond to Siri announcements with AirPods by simply nodding your head ‘yes’ or shaking your head ‘no’
- Voice Isolation on AirPods Pro provides clearer call quality for those you are speaking with, even in windy conditions or places with loud background noise
- Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming with AirPods puts you in the middle of the action with sound that surrounds you combined with a new API for developers that makes it easier than ever to enable
This release also includes other features and improvements:
- Updated basic and scientific calculators in Calculator app can now solve expressions, convert units, and access a history of past calculations
- Reminders in Calendar lets you create, view, edit and complete reminders alongside your meetings and appointments
- Recently Deleted list in Reminders lets you view and retrieve deleted reminders
- Scenes in Freeform allow you to organize your content into sections, then save, label and order them as you like
- Feels Like temperature in Weather app is displayed prominently near the actual temperature when they differ significantly
- Guest access in Home app lets you provide visitors with date and time- based access to locks, garage doors, and alarm systems
- Electricity usage and rate plan information in Home app are displayed for eligible customers when connecting their utility account, starting with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California
- Accessibility Vocal Shortcuts help people with severe atypical speech record custom utterances that trigger specific actions on Mac
Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices.
For more information, please visit this website: www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: support.apple.com/100100
watchOS 11, visionOS 2 i tvOS 18
Podejrzenie listy zmian w watchOS 11 wymaga w pierwszej kolejności zainstalowania iOS 18 na iPhone'ie, dlatego w międzyczasie wszystkie nowości można podejrzeć na oficjalnej stronie tej aktualizacji – www.apple.com/watchos/watchos-11/.
watchOS 11 brings powerful health and fitness insights, along with even more personalization, intelligence, and ways to stay connected, to the world’s most popular watch. It has new experiences that provide deeper insights into your daily health status and help you understand the impact of your workouts over time. watchOS 11 uses the power of machine learning to help you easily create the perfect Photos watch face and the Smart Stack becomes even more intelligent and capable with suggested widgets, interactive widgets, and Live Activities. To further support your fitness journey, you can now adjust your Activity ring goals by day of the week or even pause them for a rest day. watchOS 11 also includes Check In, the Translate app, new ways to support you during pregnancy, sleep apnea notifications, and more.
Fitness
- Track the impact that the intensity, based on effort ratings, and the duration of your workouts have on your body over time with training load
- Review estimated effort ratings automatically provided after completing popular cardio workouts, including running, cycling, swimming, hiking and more
- See how your effort is categorized into one of four Effort labels: Easy, Moderate, Hard, and All Out and modify to match your perception of the effort required to complete the workout
- Include distance as an in-session metric for a wider variety of sports in the Workout app including Soccer and American Football, and route maps have been added to additional outdoor workouts like Outdoor Rowing and Cross Country Skiing
- Create Custom Workouts for Pool Swim workouts with support for sets of work and recovery
- View the time left in your current interval and prepare for your next interval with a Up Next workout view in Custom Workouts
- Customize your Activity rings goals by the day of the week in the Activity app
- Pause your Activity rings for a rest day, week, month, or more without affecting your award streak
- Personalize the Summary tab in the Fitness app on iPhone with metrics that are most important to you like step distance, step count, running power, and more
Translate
- Dictate phrases and have them automatically translated and played out loud with support for 20 languages
- Easily access the Translate app with the widget in the Smart Stack which will intelligently be added when traveling to a location where the language is different than your Apple Watch
- See the pronunciation of languages using the Latin alphabet, to help make your interactions more conversational for Mandarin (CN simplified), Japanese, and Korean
- Download languages to access offline translation without a cellular or Wi-Fi connection (Available on Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
Tides
- Review tide data for over 115,000 beaches and 5,000 surf spots worldwide including high and low tides, rising and falling tides, tide height and direction in new Tides app
- Discover beaches near your location with detailed map views or search for a beach by name
- Customize your watch face with tide complications to show the current tide information for your favorite surf spot or the closest beach
Smart Stack
- View timely information in the Smart Stack with suggested widgets that will automatically appear intelligently using signals like time and date, location, wake-up and bedtime, and more to determine priority
- View up-to-date information from apps to see the progress of an activity, event, or task at a glance with Live Activities
- Interact with an app right from a widget in the Smart Stack
Watch Faces
- Create a dynamic Photos watch face using image categories like People, Pets, Cities, or Nature to intelligently curate the best photos from your iPhone based on aesthetics, composition, and facial expressions
- Visualize the passing of time with the Flux watch face which uses dynamic typography and color to fill the face from the bottom to the top as seconds count up
- See how the Reflections watch face reflects light with a metallic sunburst dial that changes in response to the movement of your wrist)
- Customize how time is displayed on Apple Watch with one of nine major Indian scripts (Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meitei, Odia, Ol Chiki, Telugu) and three new languages (Burmese, Khmer, Urdu) available on select watch faces (Astronomy, California, Memoji, Modular, Modular Duo, Modular Compact, Utility, World Time, and X-Large)
Sleep Apnea Notifications
- Receive possible sleep apnea notification when breathing disturbance data shows consistent signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea over a 30 day period (Available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
- Estimate interruptions in respiratory pattern during sleep with Breathing Disturbances metric which is classified as Elevated or Not Elevated
- Review sharable report for richer conversations with healthcare providers after receiving a sleep apnea notification
- Support for users 18 years or older without a previous diagnosis of sleep apnea
Other features:
- Start a Check In from Messages, Workout controls, or the Smart Stack to automatically alert friend or family member when you reach your destination, after a pre-determined time, or when your workout ends
- Use Maps on Apple Watch to view custom walking and hiking routes downloaded to your iPhone and access turn-by-turn directions for your route even when offline
- View relevant information about your tickets, like directions to parking, or show start times, with updates to tickets in Wallet
- Scroll through any app like Messages, Mail, or Weather, using the double tap gesture (Available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
- Use Tap to Cash to send money to someone by simply bringing your Apple Watch near their iPhone or Apple Watch (US only) (Available on Apple Watch Series 7 and later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), and all Apple Watch Ultra models)
- Unlock your door on approach with UWB home keys without having to move Apple Watch close to the lock. Available on Apple Watch models with UWB
- Browse personalized recommendations and discover new workouts and meditations with a simple navigation system that includes; For You, Explore, Library and Search
- Review current gestational age and log symptoms experienced during pregnancy in Cycle Tracking when you log a pregnancy in the Health app on iPhone
- Access additional controls with Remote including volume, power, Siri hold-to-talk, and more
Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas, for more information visit:
www.apple.com/watchos/feature-availability/
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
Również w przypadku systemu dla Apple Vision Pro – visionOS 2 – o zmianach przeczytamy na specjalnej stronie – www.apple.com/visionos/visionos-2/.
Jeśli zaś chodzi o tvOS 18 – tu nie mamy nawet takiej strony.