Stickers. The new Stickers experience provides you with a single home for all your stickers including Live Stickers, Memoji, Animoji, emoji stickers, and any third-party sticker packs you've downloaded with the ability to react to a message with any sticker through the plus button or directly through the Tapback menu.2
Location-sharing improvements. Share your location or request someone else's location directly from the plus button in Messages with the new Location app. Location continues to show inline as a bubble in the transcript until the location-sharing session is over.
Contact Posters. Create a customized poster to represent yourself when you give people a FaceTime Audio call. Choose from various treatments for photos, Memoji, and your name.
Name and photo sharing. You can choose to share your poster automatically with your Contacts or always be asked before you share with anyone. When someone who isn't in your Contacts gives you a call and chooses to share their name and photo with you, you will only see their name. You can then choose to add them to your Contacts and their poster will appear automatically.
Interactive widgets. Take action right on a widget on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Complete to-dos, play or pause your media, access your home controls, and much mor
Photos album widget. Select a specific album from the Photos app so photos from your favorite album appear in your Photos widget.
NameDrop. Exchange contact information with someone new by simply bringing your iPhone near their iPhone or Apple Watch.4 Your name and Contact Poster are automatically included whenever you share, and you can easily select the phone number or email address you want to include along with it.
New way to initiate AirDrop. Share content or start a SharePlay session over AirDrop by bringing your iPhone close to another.
Continue over the internet. AirDrop transfers will continue over the internet when you step out of range.
Inline predictive text. Get single and multi-word predictions directly in the text field based on what the keyboard predicts you're going to type, so you can complete what you're typing even faster by just tapping Space bar
Offline Maps. Download maps for use when your iPhone doesn't have a Wi-Fi or cellular signal. Get routes when driving, cycling, walking, or taking public transit. Even get an estimated time of arrival based on historical traffic.
App Shortcuts in Top Hit. When you search for an app, Spotlight intelligently offers you App Shortcuts to your next action within the Top Hit, so if you search “Photos,” you can jump right to your Favorites album.
Video search. Search through the videos on your devices by scene, people, and activities. When you tap into a video result, a new scrubber interface will indicate where in the video your search appears.
Enhanced visual results. Find what you are looking for faster with search results that pop with familiar colors and iconography.
Data Detector quick actions. Phone numbers, email, dates, and times typed into the Spotlight search bar will now offer quick actions such as call number, create contacts, send email, and create calendar event.
Settings in Top Hits. When you search for settings such as “Airplane Mode,” “Wi-Fi,” “Dark Mode,” and more, Spotlight will offer you a toggle for the setting in the Top Hit
Lift multiple subjects from background. Lift multiple subjects from the background of photos and videos and place them in apps like Messages
Visual Look Up in Video. Look up information about objects that appear in paused video frames.
Visual Look Up from subject lift. Look up information about objects you lift from photos directly from the callout bar.
Photos privacy prompt improvements. An embedded photo picker for apps lets you pick photos to share within the app's experience, without sharing your entire library. When an app does ask to access your entire library, you'll see details of how many and which photos will be
Link tracking protection. Some websites add extra information to their URLs in order to track users across other websites. Now, this information will be removed from the links users share in Messages and Mail, and the links will still work as expected. This information will also be removed for links in Safari Private Browsing.
Open in Pages. Create a Pages document from your note with a quick selection from the Share menu.
Intelligent form detection. Fillable documents and forms can now be automatically identified across the system, like in Files, Mail, or scanned documents
Item Sharing. Up to five other people can share an AirTag or Find My network accessory. Everyone in the sharing group will be able to see the item's location, get directions to the item, and use Precision Finding and Play Sound to help pinpoint a shared AirTag's location when nearby
Pets in the People album. Individual pets are now surfaced in the People album just like friends or family members
Drag to reorder in a memory. Reorder photos and videos within a memory by dragging and dropping them into a new position in the timeline.
Add content to a memory. Add any photo or video from your library to a memory
Smart copy and paste edits. Copied and pasted edits now intelligently match exposure and white balance between images.
Quick access to crop. Zoom in on a photo and instantly crop with a tap, or touch and hold to crop to a specific aspect ratio.
Convert file type when sharing. Choose to convert and share any photo as a JPG, or video as a MOV file.
Improvements to iCloud Photos syncing. iCloud Photos syncing will be paused less frequently, and when syncing is paused, a Sync Now control will appear.
Improved drawing. Freeform - Make eye-catching boards with new drawing tools like Variable Width Pen, Fountain Pen, Highlighter, Watercolor, Slicing Eraser, and Ruler; plus support for hover, tilt, and snap to shape.
Horizon level. Camera - A virtual horizon level provides haptic feedback when iPhone is level with the ground.
Lock White Balance. A new setting lets you keep white balance consistent while recording a video, so the color temperature stays constant even if the lighting changes.
Labeled timers. Name timers so you know what each is counting down for.
Contact Posters. Create a customized poster to represent yourself when you connect with others in places like Phone, FaceTime, and Messages. Choose from various treatments for photos, Memoji, and your name.
Name and photo sharing. Choose to share your Contact Poster with your Contacts automatically, or always be asked before you share it when you place a phone call, start a FaceTime call, or use iMessage.
Save screenshot as image. Choose whether to save a full-page screenshot in Safari, Pages, or Notes as an image or a PDF.
Sticker drawer. Easily access all your stickers systemwide from the emoji keyboard in a consolidated sticker drawer that includes Live Stickers, Memoji, emoji stickers, and all your third-party sticker packs.
Live Stickers. Tap and hold on any person, animal, or object in photos to lift it away from the background and create a Live Sticker. Create animated Live Stickers from Live Photos, which are automatically added to your sticker drawer.
Sticker integration in Markup. Add stickers to photos, documents, screenshots, and more with Markup.
