🆕 In new third version iOS 18 beta there are additional tweaks like Dark Mode icons, the Photos app, emoji in Messages, and more, with Apple appearing to be preparing for the launch of AI.
・Now there are Dark Mode icons for many third-party apps like Facebook, Telegram, Slack, Notion, YouTube, and more. Apple appears to be adding the Dark Mode icons automatically to apps that have icons with a handful colors.
・Select button is added for choosing multiple images to the main Photos interface, so there is no longer a need to swipe down to get to the Select button. With this change, the Search button is now just a magnifying glass, but it is highlighted blue to make it stand out more.
・In Messages, emoji, Memoji, and stickers have all been combined into one interface, which can be navigated using the tiny icons at the bottom of the display. Both stickers and Memoji can be created from this interface, and you can use stickers right in your messages like you can use emoji (this works with non-moving stickers only). Emoji themselves are displayed larger than before, so you see more detail but fewer characters and there are more emoji and stickers displayed at once in the Recent section.
・There also appeared a dynamic version of the iOS 18 wallpaper that transitions through different colors based on the time of day.
・The Flashlight has a larger and more intuitive interface for changing the brightness and the spread of the LED Flash used for the Flashlight feature.
・The interface for RCS in the Messages section of the Settings app has changed. Rather than just showing up as an on/off toggle, it is now a tap-in menu that provides some additional context. Apple explains that sending and receiving messages with RCS uses wireless data, and cellular network identifiers may be shared with carriers and their partners. Though it is unclear if RCS is working outside of the United States.
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