Apple is adding 3 more useful upgrades to your iPhone with iOS 18.2

• iOS 18.2 is presently being tested by developers
• Numerous caller features are being spotted
• Upgrades are coming to Find My and Camera Control

With iOS 18.1 now disposable to everyone, iOS 18.2 is astatine nan developer beta shape – and arsenic that testing continues we're discovering much caller features that are connected nan way, connected apical of nan ones already spotted successful nan adjacent release.

First up, there's an absorbing upgrade coming to nan Find My service: nan action to stock nan location of mislaid items pinch anyone you for illustration (via 9to5Mac). At nan moment, you tin only stock an AirTag location pinch trusted friends aliases family.

The illustration Apple gives is being capable to stock your mislaid luggage location pinch an airline, but location are a assortment of different ways this could travel successful handy. There's nan action to extremity sharing astatine immoderate time, and astatine astir nan sharing nexus will only beryllium unrecorded for respective hours.

Another characteristic is simply a small much behind-the-scenes, pinch Apple giving app developers nan opportunity to stock what's connected surface pinch Siri (via MacRumors). That intends you'll beryllium capable to springiness Siri (and perchance ChatGPT) commands related to what you're looking astatine wrong an app, whether it's documents aliases photos, if nan developer adds this benignant of support.

More camera control

The 3rd upgrade is to nan caller Camera Control fastener connected nan iPhone 16 series. As spotted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, a caller auto-exposure and auto-focus fastener action is connected nan measurement for nan fastener – truthful nan existent vulnerability and attraction settings would beryllium fixed erstwhile nan fastener is pushed.

On apical of that, we've sewage a caller double-click velocity setting for Camera Control, truthful you'll beryllium capable to alteration really quickly your iPhone expects a double click. The caller options listed successful nan iOS 18.2 developer beta are Default, Slow, and Slower.

All this adds to nan existent functionality of nan Camera Control, including zoom and vulnerability settings. As this is simply a beta merchandise though, we can't beryllium afloat judge that immoderate of these features are going to beryllium kept erstwhile nan package is pushed retired for everyone.

The latest reports propose that iOS 18.2 is going to rotation retired to nan masses in nan first week of December. We're besides going to get ChatGPT integration (including a Plus upgrade function) and image procreation in this release, by nan looks of it.

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