iOS 18.5 beta 1 packs little new options
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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.
Under are all of the adjustments we’ve found in iOS 18.5 beta 1 to this point.
iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 beta 1: What’s new and altered
Flip Off Contact Photographs in Mail app
iOS 18.5 brings a small change to the iPhone’s Mail app
Screenshot: Rajesh Pandey/CultOfMac
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 modify to Checklist View and switch off contact images 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 Checklist view and turning off contact images will give the Mail app a glance just 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 cut back energy consumption.
We have now not but come throughout another adjustments in iOS 18.5 beta 1. Apple could solely concentrate on minor adjustments and bug fixes with this launch. It may maintain again on larger adjustments for iOS 19, which can be unveiled at WWDC25 in June.
Apple seemingly deliberate to launch a better Siri, first showcased at WWDC24, with iOS 18.5. Nonetheless, in early March, the corporate introduced it will delay the launch of the extra customized Siri till subsequent 12 months.
