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Apple pushed iOS 18.5 beta 1 to builders inside days of iOS 18.4‘s public launch. Whereas the latter packed a number of notable new options, the primary iOS 18.5 beta sports activities comparatively few adjustments.
Beneath are all of the adjustments we now have found in iOS 18.5 beta 1 to date.
iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 beta 1: What’s new and adjusted
Flip Off Contact Pictures in Mail app
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With iOS 18.2, Apple launched a brand new AI-powered Mail app on the iPhone that categorizes your emails primarily based on their content material. Apple rolled out the brand new Mail app to iPads and Macs with the discharge of iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4.
Now, in iOS 18.5 beta 1, Apple has added the choice to change to Record View and switch off contact pictures on to the three-dot overflow menu on the top-right. In older variations of the OS, you needed to dive deep into the Mail app settings to search out these choices.
Switching to Record view and turning off contact pictures will give the Mail app a glance much like its pre-Apple Intelligence improve.
New modem firmware
iOS 18.5 beta 1 updates the modem on the iPhone 16 Professional and older iPhones. This might assist with higher community reception in areas with spotty protection and/or scale back energy consumption.
We’ve got not but come throughout some other adjustments in iOS 18.5 beta 1. Apple could solely concentrate on minor adjustments and bug fixes with this launch. It might maintain again on greater adjustments for iOS 19, which shall be unveiled at WWDC25 in June.
Apple seemingly deliberate to launch a wiser Siri, first showcased at WWDC24, with iOS 18.5. Nevertheless, in early March, the corporate introduced it might delay the launch of the extra customized Siri till subsequent yr.