Apple has just released the free software update iPadOS 18, which takes the iPad to new heights with intelligence features, and experiences have been crafted specially for Apple Pencil. This latest version of the iPad experience the device has made it more versatile and intelligent ever, a smooth means through which to finish the tasks and bring creativity to life.
Revolutionizing Calculations with Math Notes
Another feature seen for the first time in iPadOS 18 is the Calculator app, which includes Math Notes. Such a feature embraces the functionalities of an iPad and Apple Pencil, allowing people to solve mathematical expressions in a completely new way. Whether you’re working with the standard or scientific calculator, the new history feature and the switch between different units makes it very versatile. You can write in math expressions directly into Math Notes and it will be solved instantly in a handwriting that is most like your own. You might even input your variables and add equations to be able to include graphs, all from the Notes app.
Smart Script: Enhancing Handwritten Notes
Smart Script brings handwritten notes to life and flexibility. Introduced specially for Apple Pencil, Smart Script allows you to easily edit handwritten text. You can add space, paste typed text in your handwriting, and even scratch out text to delete it. Smart Script preserves the feel and look of your personal handwriting while refining it in real-time to make it a little smoother and easier to read.
Customization and Redesigned Apps
iPadOS 18 offers you even more choices for customizing your home screen and Control Center so that your iPad can look the way you want. The Photos app has been utterly transformed with its biggest rethink yet to make it even easier to get the memories organized and ready for viewing. New in Messages are new effects and animations to make your self-expression stand out even more.
Introducing Apple Intelligence
iPadOS 18, out next month, brings Apple Intelligence to all iPads with the M1 chip and later, powered by generative models combined with personal context for really useful and relevant insight. Apple Intelligence will make writing, communicating, and other ways of self-expression better on iPad .
Availability
iPadOS 18 is available today as a free software update. For more information visit apple.com/in/ipados/ipados-18. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages.
With these exciting new features, iPadOS 18 will bring about a new era of how you interact with your iPad. A world of solving equations, personalizing your interface, or finding that new self-expression will all be brought closer with ease. Update now and discover the next level of iPad innovation.
iPadOS 18: Elevating the iPad Experience
Apple launches the next iPad experience with iPadOS 18, now available as a free software update. According to the company, this latest iteration brings powerful new features and upgrades to the iPad, making it more versatile and intelligent than ever before. Here are some standout features that can truly transform how you use your iPad.
Calculator on iPad: Math Notes and More
Calculator is coming to iPad for the first time and comes with a twist: it’s not your average calculator. Designed with the unique capabilities of the iPad in mind, Calculator provides Math Notes that enable users to solve mathematical expressions using the Apple Pencil. Whether you’re using the basic calculator or the scientific calculator, history functions and unit conversions make this an incredibly useful tool. Here, using Math Notes, you’re able to write in math equations using either the keyboard or handwriting, see them solved right away, define variables, and even graph them. All your Math Notes are available in the Notes app, fully integrated with all your other notes.
Smart Script: Enhanced Handwriting Tools
The handwriting flows more fluidly and flexibly, thanks to a new feature called Smart Script for the Apple Pencil. Smart Script allows you to edit handwritten text as if it were a typed text, so you can enter space, paste a chunk of typed text in your handwriting, or scratch out text to rub it out. It keeps the look and feel of your personal handwriting and smooths and refines in real time to make it easier to read.
Customizing Your iPad
iPadOS 18 makes personalisation fun and new on the Home Screen. App icons and widgets can be placed anywhere to frame up your wallpaper or create your ideal layout. App icons can also be configured to look light, dark, tinted, or larger and give your Home Screen a streamlined look. The new Control Center makes it much easier to find the controls you use most and add controls from supported third-party apps. Developers can take advantage of the new Controls API to make controls that can enable quick actions such as starting a virtual meeting or livestream.
Photos App: Relive Special Moments
The Photos app is the biggest update ever; it makes finding and organizing your photos a whole lot easier. With a streamlined and fully customizable layout that takes full advantage of the display on the iPad, you are presented with browsing by themes rather than having to organize content manually in albums. On-device machine learning automatically organizes your library by topics: people, pets, recent days, trips, and even documents and receipts.
Messages: Stay Connected and Expressive
iPadOS 18 gives you new ways to stay in touch with others in Messages. You get animated text effects, redesigned Tapbacks with any emoji or sticker, and new text formatting options: bold, underline, and italics. There are also features such as the ability to schedule messages to send later, so you are completely in control of your communications.
Enhanced Privacy Controls
New privacy controls in iPadOS 18 give you more control over who sees your apps, how you are sharing contacts and how your iPad connects to accessories. You can lock and hide apps which moves them to a locked folder that can’t be accessed by others. When an app is locked or hidden, its content is not viewable by search, notifications, and other system areas.
Redesigned Tab Bar
The new tab bar floats above content in an app, making it easier to navigate and edge-to-edge content. When you want to explore an app’s full functionality, it morphs into the sidebar: perfect examples are applications like Apple TV, News, Books, and Fitness. Refined animations and an updated document browser help smooth out and make responsive apps like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Swift Playgrounds.
Apple Intelligence: A New Level of Usefulness
Apple Intelligence begins to arrive on iPads equipped with M1 or later from next month. It is the first personal intelligence system that fuses generative models with personal context, providing remarkably useful and relevant insights, as well as improving writing, communication, and self-expression while still being respectful of your privacy and security.
With these outstanding new features, iPadOS 18 brings the next horizon of experience to your iPad for work, creativity, and communication. Update today and see the future of iPad.
Apple Intelligence: Privacy at Its Core
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is designed with each user’s privacy in mind at every turn. This system has a core feature called on-device processing-meaning that most models running Apple Intelligence execute directly on your device. But where a little extra processing muscle is required by some requests, Apple adds in Private Cloud Compute. This is the way Apple extends the privacy and security of an Apple device all the way out into the cloud to serve up even greater intelligence without having to compromise on the user’s data.
Private Cloud Compute: A Breakthrough in Privacy
Private Cloud Compute is one move forward with server-based intelligence. While you are using this feature, your data is never stored nor shared with Apple but used only for fulfilling the particular request. The claim of privacy is further safeguarded through independent experts who continually test the existence of this promise for securing and keeping your data private.
Beta Launch and Language Support
Apple Intelligence features will begin to arrive for iPad users next month in beta form for iPadOS 18.1, with additional capabilities to roll out later this year and well into next year. Initially available in U.S. English, localised English for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the U.K. will roll out during December. Next year, the company will add Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish languages to the list of supported languages.
privacy and security measures. Apple Intelligence will change the iPad experience for it will be both smarter and more secure than ever thanks to these robust privacy measures and the functionalities that are about to be added.
New Hearing Health Features in iPadOS 18 and iOS 18
This fall, Apple will release a game-changing feature for AirPods Pro 2: a clinical-grade, over-the-counter Hearing Aid capability. This feature developed for users who perceive their hearing to be mildly to moderately impaired is the result of an intuitive, clinically validated Hearing Test. Users can take this test from home using AirPods Pro 2 with a compatible iPhone or iPad. The new capability transforms AirPods Pro into a personalized Hearing Aid, and making hearing assistance more accessible than ever will come as a free software update.
Availability
- iPadOS 18: Available today for iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation and later), iPad Air (M2), and iPad Air (3rd generation and later).
- Apple Intelligence: This free software update will be available in beta next month as part of iOS 18.1, with more features rolling out in the following months. Initially available on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max, with device and Siri language set to U.S. English. It will expand to localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K. by December, and to additional languages like Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish next year.
Hearing Test and Hearing Aid Features
These features will be available across more than 100 countries and regions in the U.S., Germany, and Japan for which marketing authorization has been received. The feature is intended for use by users 18 years or older and is suitable for patients who perceive their hearing loss as mild to moderate. Supported on AirPods Pro 2 with the latest firmware, paired with a compatible iPhone or iPad running iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 and later, this feature represents a giant leap forward in accessible hearing health technology.
Via such updates, Apple continues to deepen the user experience by pushing to make devices not merely more powerful but also more supportive of all types of needs and more inclusive.
