Complete guide to update your device to iOS 18

The new update is finally here, iOS 18 is finally out and making its way to your devices! This eagerly awaited update promises an exceptional experience that will change the way you see the entire world of Apple. Imagine with me a world of amazing new features that will refresh your device and give it a new life – all for free. Welcome to a new era of creativity and innovation.

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In the following lines, we will provide you with a complete guide to updating to this version, as you are accustomed to from us previously, and every year, so that it serves as a basic reference for you and helps in making the steps of the update process successful to its end.

Contents of the guide:

• Devices that this update applies to
• What's new in iOS 18
• Basic notes before updating
• Basic steps before updating
• Automatic update steps
• Manual update steps
• Questions and answers

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Devices that the update applies to:

iOS 18 will work on the following devices:

Apple also provided the iOS 17.7 update with the iOS 17 update for people who are not ready for the update currently and for devices that do not support the iOS 18 update.

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What's new in iOS 18, according to Apple

main screen

• Flexibility to place app icons and widgets in any open position on the Home screen, such as along the bottom or on the side, to create the perfect layout for each page
• Dark icons give your Home screen a darker aesthetic, and can be set automatically when your iPhone enters Dark Mode or always appear dark.
• Colorization lets you apply any color to app icons and widgets or have iOS suggest a color that matches the background.
• Larger icons allow you to show all the app icons and widgets on the screen in a larger size, with the name underneath removed.

Pictures

• A new design for the Photos app delivers the biggest update ever with a simple layout that puts everything in one view.
• Collections automatically organize the library by useful topics that you can browse in a collage, grid, memory, or on a map.
• Customization options allow you to reorder, add and remove group rows, and add only the items you want to pinned groups to keep them accessible.
• Groups in People & Pets include photos of favorite people or pets who are often seen together.
• Trips automatically organizes your trips into collections so you can relive memories of each trip.
  Recent Days lets you view recent photos organized by day, without the messy clutter of screenshots.
• A filter button in the grid helps you reduce clutter by filtering to specific media types, favorite media, or by hiding screenshots from view.
  Video Speed ​​Control allows you to slow down high frame rate video content using start and end points.
• Widgets include more useful collections like documents, receipts, QR codes, and more, and items you've recently edited, viewed, and shared.
• The Recovered album in Tools displays photos that are on your device but were not showing before due to database corruption in the Locked album.

Messages

• Text Effects Liven up your conversations by visually zooming in on any character, word, phrase, or emoji in iMessage with dynamic animated effects, like explosion, ripple, and gesture.
• Text formatting lets you type any character, word, or phrase in iMessage in bold, underlined, italic, or strikethrough format.
• Emoji or sticker reactions let you react to a message using any emoji or sticker, giving you access to your and your friends' most-sent reactions with just a swipe.
• The Send Later feature allows you to write the message now and schedule it to be sent later.
• RCS messaging support includes delivery and read receipts, higher resolution photos and videos for messaging people who don't have an iPhone, and carrier support required.

Control Center

• A new Control Center design featuring convenient grouping of controls, the ability to arrange controls exactly the way you want them, and support for third-party controls.
• Groups of controls can be accessed by swiping down from the left edge, including most-used controls, home, media playback, and communication controls, with the option to create entirely new groups too.
• The Controls Gallery displays the full set of available controls—including third-party app controls—that you can add directly into the group of your choice.
• Resizable controls allow you to swipe from the bottom left of a control from within Control Center.

Lock screen

• Custom controls on the lock screen let you choose controls from a gallery of controls from your favorite apps.
• The 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 10 new text formats for numbers in Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Maithai, Odia, Ole Chikki, Telugu and Urdu.

Safari

• The Distraction Control feature helps you hide web page elements that you find distracting while browsing.

passwords

• Passwords app lets you view all your website and app credentials in one place, making it easier to access your passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords and verification codes.
• You can set up 2-step verification codes right in the Passwords app so you can easily copy them or autofill them in Safari without having to open an authenticator app.
• Secure sync ensures that your saved accounts in the Passwords app sync seamlessly to iCloud using end-to-end encryption so you can access them on your other devices.
• Windows support with iCloud Passwords app so you can access your passwords on Windows devices

Maps

• Custom routes for regular walks and hikes can be created with just a few taps for long walks in the park, regular exercise routines in the neighborhood, holiday walks and more.
• The Places Library brings together all your saved places, guides and hiking trails in one location for easy access.

the games

• Game Mode reduces background activity to maintain the highest frame rate and dramatically improves responsiveness for wireless accessories, like game controllers and AirPods.

Portfolio

• New pass designs with a beautiful new look and great new features, including a new event guide with helpful venue information and smart recommendations from your favorite Apple apps
• New ways to pay in installments and rewards on supported credit and debit cards when you pay with Apple Pay online and in apps

Diary

• Moods can be recorded directly from within the Diary app, and feelings or moods recorded in the Health app are displayed within Diary suggestions.
• The “Ideas” view shows continuous writing times, a calendar, and other fun stats to help you track your journaling goals.
• Search allows you to easily find previous entries, and sorting helps you display your entries in your preferred order.
• Home and Lock Screen widgets that display the current running time or typing prompts that change throughout the day, so you can think about what's happening in the moment.

Phone

• Recent Call Search helps you find past calls, voicemails, and contacts using phone numbers and names.
• Numeric keypad search helps you quickly find and call existing contacts by typing the number or name on the alphanumeric keypad.
• Auto Mic Mode chooses the right microphone mode for you, switching between noise isolation, wideband and standard mode, depending on your environment

Privacy

• Locked Apps lets you protect your sensitive apps and the information inside them by requiring Face ID, Fingerprint, or Passcode to unlock them, as well as hiding content from search, notifications, and other places throughout the system.
• Hidden apps have the same levels of protection as locked apps, plus they're placed in a new locked folder for hidden apps, and you won't receive notifications or calls from the app.
  Improved contact permissions let you choose which contacts to share with an app.
• Improved Bluetooth pairing allows developers to provide a seamless pairing experience, while protecting privacy.ة

AirPods

• Hands-free Siri interactions let you respond to Siri announcements using your AirPods by simply nodding your head to say “yes” or shaking your head to say “no.”
• AirPods Pro's noise isolation provides clearer call quality for those you're talking to, even in windy conditions or noisy environments.
• Personalized spatial audio when gaming while wearing AirPods puts you at the center of the action with sound that surrounds you, with a developer API that makes enabling it easier than ever

Apple TV app

• At a Glance provides real-time information about all of Apple TV+ live movies and shows, aligned with what you're watching on screen.
• Dialogue enhancement allows you to hear what is being said on the screen more clearly, especially when playing loud effects or music.
• Subtitles appear automatically at just the right times. For example, when the content language doesn't match your device language, when you mute the audio, or when you skip back while watching a show.

Notes

• Audio recordings can be started directly from within a note, and kept with related comments, checklists, and documents.
• Calculations in Notes allow you to enter expressions and equations into a note to solve them instantly.
• Collapsible sections help you simplify and hide text in long notes. Simply tap next to a section title to lighten text-heavy notes.
  Highlighting text in a note with a color of your choice from five colors allows you to make the text stand out from the rest.

Facilitation of use

• Eye tracking feature lets people control iPhone using just their eyes (iPhone 12 and later and iPhone SE (XNUMXrd generation))
• Haptics in Music syncs iPhone's haptic engine to the beat of songs so deaf or hard-of-hearing people can enjoy the Apple Music catalog (on iPhone 14 and later)
• Voice shortcuts help people with severe atypical speech record custom speech phrases to trigger specific actions.
• Vehicle motion cues can help reduce motion sickness for passengers in moving cars by placing dots on the screen that move with the car without interfering with the content.

This release also includes other features and improvements:

• Calculator notes let you evaluate expressions, assign variables, and even create graphs on iPhone.
• Calendar lets you create, view, edit, and complete reminders, along with events.
  The Recently Deleted list in the Reminders app lets you view and recover deleted reminders.
• Screen Sharing in Playback Share lets you tap and draw on someone's screen or ask permission to remotely control their iPhone and take actions yourself.
• Scenes in the Free Space app allow you to organize content into sections and then save, name, and arrange them as you wish.
• A new design for Fitness+ makes it easier to find personalized recommendations or search for something specific.
• Guest Access in the Home app allows you to provide visitors with access to locks, garage doors, and alarm systems at specific dates and times.
• Repair Assistant encourages you to install genuine Apple replacement parts on your device after any repair (iPhone 12 and later)

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Highlights of iOS 18

Apps can now place buttons on the control screen, for example the next update of the To My Prayers app will include a button that will allow you to know the prayer time directly, and activate the activity status immediately from the control screen. So, stay tuned for this update and download the To My Prayers app, as it is free for a limited time.

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Update directly from the device

Open Settings, then General, then Software Update. It will appear to you that there is a new update, like the following image. Just click on Update Now (requires space, which may reach 6 GB in some devices).

If you want the update to be done while you are asleep because the update may take half an hour or more, choose Update Tonight.

Note: If your device is not yet upgraded to the latest version, you can immediately upgrade to iOS 18 and ignore existing upgrades.

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Update via iTunes:

The difference between Restore and Update:

Before we start the update, it is necessary to give an overview of the difference between the Restore and Update processes and their actual impact on the iPhone.

Update: It is the process of automatically updating the device without your intervention, as iTunes downloads the update file from the Apple website and updates your device and does not result in any data loss (it is assumed that, but a backup copy must be taken as we mentioned above to ensure that no accidental problems occur).

Restore: It is downloading a completely new version as if you bought the phone again, and some people prefer it when updating, and it is mandatory if you have a jailbreak and want to update.

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Update steps:

1

 Connect your device to the computer, open iTunes, press the mobile button, then the Check For Update button - sometimes iTunes will notify you that there is an Update.

2

A message will appear telling you that there is an update for your device, which is iOS 17, so press Download And Update (maybe an error message appears and the reason will be the pressure on Apple servers)

3

A message will appear informing you of the new features that have been added in iOS 17, and you can read it, then click Next

4

A User Agreement message will appear, Agree accept it

5

Now you will start the process of downloading the file and updating your device, but you should note that the download and update process will take some time.

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Manual update:

You can do a manual update by downloading the update file through the following links, depending on the type of your device, as shown:

You can download the system file from here

After that, after the download is complete, connect your device to the computer and then go to iTunes and press the Restore button with the Options button on the Mac or the Restore button with the Shift Shift for Windows and Windows keyboard. (Make sure that the file extension is IPSW and if not, just change the extension manually to IPSW) A window will appear for you to choose the downloaded file and then start the update process for the iPhone.

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FAQs:

After updating my device battery is dying quickly

• This is normal after any update, the system does several tasks in the background and makes some updates, this will last for a day or two, just make sure that your device is charged frequently because this process requires that the device be in the charger.

Will it wipe all my software and device contents if i update

• No, you have to review the explanation again, there is a difference between Update and Restore, and in the end if you have a backup you can restore everything.

Some features in iOS 18 are not available to me, such as artificial intelligence features and phone call recording.

• These features will be released in October with the iOS 18.1 update. Also, please note that your device must be compatible.

I had a beta version of iOS 18?

• You can stop beta updates from phone settings, then general, then beta updates, but if you have the latest beta version, which is called RC, it is the version available to everyone today.

I can't upgrade I tried everything and the update still doesn't show up, or I'm waiting for an update

• Just wait a few hours, try shutting down and reopening the device, and make sure you have an internet connection.

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If you encounter any problem, you can wait for a few hours and then try again

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