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What’s New in iOS 18.2

Chance Miller has a good rundown for 9to5Mac:

The update includes major new Apple Intelligence features, upgrades to the Camera Control on iPhone 16, a redesign for the Mail app, and much more.

The new Apple Intelligence features lead the list, and certainly lead Apple’s marketing, but there’s quite a bit else new in 18.2 too.

★ Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool

Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip.

Xcode 16.2

Apple (downloads): The Command Line Tools package now supports using the swift test command to build and run package tests written with Swift Testing.[…]Sometimes running parallel Tests on macOS run destinations never finishes.[…]macOS projects that use hardened runtime but no sandboxing may run into timeout errors when attempting to preview if the project is complex […]

iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features, including the first image generation capabilities. Image Playground is a new app for creating images based on text descriptions, and you can add all kinds of costumes, items, backgrounds and more. You can even make […]

tvOS 18.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): tvOS 18.2 adds a selection of new Snoopy screen savers that are available as an alternative to the aerial, memory, and portrait screen saver options, plus it includes natural language search support for Siri for looking for movies, music, and TV shows.The update also includes an option that lets […]