iOS 18 — Apple’s upcoming working system replace for eligible iPhone fashions — will arrive later this yr with options tailor-made to customers in India. These embody new customisation choices, improved language help for the default keyboard, Siri, and Translate app. In the meantime, iOS 18 may even introduce improved controls for customers who’ve two cellphone numbers. Developer betas of iOS 18 and different working system updates from the corporate are already accessible to check, and these are anticipated to roll out to customers within the coming months.
Twin SIM swap, Stay Voicemail Transcription and Stay Caller ID
After updating to iOS 18, customers will have the ability to entry a brand new toggle within the redesigned management centre, that may swap between two SIMs on an iPhone, bringing the expertise on par with most Android smartphones that additionally permit customers to change between their main and secondary SIM playing cards.
Some options launched on iOS 17 are additionally making their technique to customers in India on iOS 18 — Stay Voicemail Transcription and Stay Caller ID. These options permit customers to see a real-time transcription of what a caller is saying, when a name is distributed to voicemail. The replace may even introduce T9 looking and dialling help, together with enhancements to name historical past searches.
Indian numerals on Lock Display screen, Contact Posters
With iOS 18, customers will have the ability to modify their Lock Display screen clock to show the time in numerals utilizing 12 Indian languages. On iOS 17, Apple lets customers decide from English, Arabic (Indic), Devanagiri, Khmer, and Burmese numerals, and the checklist is ready to develop to incorporate extra languages later this yr.
Customers may even have the ability to customise the font weight and color, whereas establishing the Lock Display screen and their Contact Poster. The upcoming replace will embody help for Arabic, Arabic Indic, Bangla, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meitei, Odia, Ol Chiki, and Telugu.
Multi-language help for keyboards and Siri, improved search utilizing Indian languages
Apple will replace Siri with the flexibility to reply in Hindi to queries made in Hindi, when iOS 18 rolls out. The assistant may even have the ability to perceive Indian English instructions when used together with phrases from 9 languages — Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.
The default keyboard on iOS 18 will supply help for typing in two further Indian languages, utilizing Latin characters to sort in English. When tying in English, customers can even enter textual content in Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu, with trilingual predictive typing help.
In the meantime, customers preferring to instantly sort out their messages in Indian languages may have entry to alphabetical layouts in Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
Trying up phrases and phrases in Assamese, Bangla, Devanagari, and Gujarati on iOS 18 may even take different spellings into consideration, making it simpler to search for sure phrases which are spelled in another way however have the identical that means. The Translate app on iOS 18 may even achieve Hindi help, permitting internet pages and different content material throughout the system to be translated to Hindi.
