After months of beta testing, Apple is finally releasing iPadOS 18.1. This new version of iPadOS 18 includes several Apple Intelligence features in addition to some other tweaks. Here’s everything you need to know. iPadOS 18.1 adds the following Apple Intelligence features: Writing Tools: Users can rewrite, proofread, and summarize text nearly everywhere they write, including Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps Improved Siri: With a new design, Siri can maintain context between requests. Even if you stumble over words or shift what you’re saying mid-sentence, Siri can understand what you actually want. Priority notifications: They appear at the top of the stack, letting you know what to pay attention to at a glance. Notifications are summarized, so you can scan them faster. Priority messages in Mail: Elevate time-sensitive messages to the top of your inbox, like an invitation that has a deadline today or a check-in reminder for your flight this afternoon. Reduce interruptions: With iPadOS 18.1, an all-new Focus Mode understands the content of your notifications and shows you the ones that might need immediate attention, like a text about picking up your child from daycare later today. Email summarization: Tap to reveal a summary of a long email in the Mail app and cut to the chase. Smart Reply in Mail: Quickly draft an email response with all the right details. Apple Intelligence can identify the question you were asked in an email and offer relevant selections to include in your response. Clean Up: This Photos app feature can identify and remove distracting objects in the background of a photo without accidentally altering the subject. Summarization: Apple Intelligence can now summarize more than just Messages and Mail notifications. It's important to note that these iPadOS 18.1 Apple Intelligence features are available for iPad models with an M1 or A17 Pro chips or newer. This software update also tweaks the iPad's Control Center. Apple now offers all Connectivity toggles as standalone options, which means users can ditch the built-in solution for the specific buttons. Alongside iPadOS 18.1, Apple has released iOS 18.1, watchOS 11.1, macOS 15.1, tvOS 18.1, and visionOS 2.1 updates. Don't Miss: iPadOS 18: Features, beta, download, Apple Intelligence, release date, and more The post iPadOS 18.1 now available with these Apple Intelligence features appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: 10% off toys, 35% off Crest 3D Whitestrips, $50 foldable camera drone, more Today’s deals: $119 off iPad mini, $120 heated jackets, Energizer batteries, $30 Crock-Pot, more Today’s deals: $18 portable power bank, $120 electric standing desk, $220 TP-Link WiFi 7 router, more Today’s deals: Free LED smart bulbs, $64 off Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2, $60 Keurig coffee maker, more

After a few weeks of beta testing, Apple has just released visionOS 2.1 to Apple Vision Pro users. While we waited for some delayed features to be available with this update, Apple focused on fixing bugs. According to the company, visionOS 2.1 fixe these issues: Apple Music songs and music videos may fail to play Any project that utilizes Swift Charts fails to build when targeting iOS, macOS, or visionOS  In StoreKit Testing in Xcode, the offer identifier in the subscription renewal info might be reported incorrectly for offer codes. Users are unable to rename a voice memo while recording. We still expect visionOS 2 to add this delayed feature: Mac Virtual Display: It will feature a higher resolution and larger size, creating an ultra-wide display equivalent to two 4K monitors side by side.  In addition, a rumor expects Apple to add Apple Intelligence to Apple Vision Pro in 2025. With that, Apple’s spatial computer would be part of this AI platform, along with the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cupertino could potentially be waiting for Apple Intelligence to launch and get its best features before expanding to another software. With visionOS 2, Apple added these functions: Spatial photos: With visionOS 2, users can revisit past memories by creating spatial photos directly from their library in the Photos app.  Home View:  Users can now personalize their Home View by rearranging apps and placing them wherever they want, including their compatible iPhone and iPad apps. Guest user: For those moments when a user wants to share their Vision Pro, a family member or colleague can be added as a Guest User and have their eye and hand data saved for 30 days. The Apple TV app brings support for multiview to Apple Vision Pro for the ultimate sports-viewing experience. Later this year, fans can watch up to five simultaneous streams to keep track of all their favorite sports and teams. To help users achieve calm and focus, the Mindfulness app includes a new capability called Follow Your Breathing that presents dynamic visual animations and sounds that respond to the user’s breathing patterns. BGR will let you know if we find anything new with visionOS 2.1. Don't Miss: visionOS: Features, 2.0 beta, release date, Apple Vision Pro, more The post visionOS 2.1 now available with several bug fixes appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $18 portable power bank, $120 electric standing desk, $220 TP-Link WiFi 7 router, more Today’s deals: Free LED smart bulbs, $64 off Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2, $60 Keurig coffee maker, more Today’s deals: Govee AI Sync Box 2, $55 Vizio soundbar, $499 M2 Mac mini, Acer Aspire Go 15 Slim laptop, more Today’s deals: Apple Watch Series 10, Ninja Blender, Dreo space heaters, portable tire inflator, more

After a packed tvOS 18 release, Apple is being modest with this cycle's major software update, tvOS 18.1. So far, the only change spotted in this version is improvements to the TV app Watchlist. As spotted by Apple TV aficionado Sigmund Judge, Apple is adding a Watchlist to tvOS 18.1. According to him, "The new Watchlist replicates content from Continue Watching, but only the content you have yet to watch. Continue Watching features both TV shows and movies you have yet to begin, and those you have." Besides that, tvOS 18.1 was expected to add the following features: Robot vacuum cleaners are now compatible with the Home app, so they can participate in automation and scenes and can be activated by a user’s voice using Siri. Screen savers: Movies and TV screen savers are yet to be added; 21:9 support: When connecting your Apple TV to a projector, Apple will give you the option to watch content in this frame. Unfortunately, it seems Apple is delaying them for tvOS 18.2, which is expected to start its beta testing soon. With tvOS 18, Apple added these three features to the TV app: InSight: An Amazon Prime Video-like feature that displays timely information about actors, characters, and music from Apple TV+ movies and shows onscreen in real-time. Users can select an actor to view their background and filmography page or quickly view the song that is playing in a scene and add it to an Apple Music playlist. Enhance Dialogue: This feature is getting smarter, leveraging machine learning and computation audio to deliver greater vocal clarity over music, action, and background noise on Apple TV 4K. In addition to HomePod speakers, users can now enjoy Enhance Dialogue when listening through built-in TV or HDMI-connected speakers, AirPods, and other Bluetooth-connected devices, and when playing supported content on iPhone and iPad; Automatic subtitles: Subtitles now automatically appear at just the right moments with tvOS 18, including when the language in a show or film does not match the device language when users mute, or when they skip back while watching something. Alongside tvOS 18.1, Apple has also released the HomePod Software 18.1 update. It's unclear if there are new features for HomePod owners at this moment. Don't Miss: tvOS 18: Release date, features, download, Apple TV compatibility, more The post tvOS 18.1 now available with Watchlist improvements while delaying awaited features appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $56 for 2024’s easiest Halloween costume, $699 M2 MacBook Air, 20% off Dyson, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $367 Apple Watch Series 10, $66 14-piece cookware set, $99 230-piece Craftsman tool set, more Today’s deals: Free LED smart bulbs, $64 off Black Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2, $60 Keurig coffee maker, more

After a month of beta testing, Apple is finally releasing watchOS 11.1 to Apple Watch users. This marks the first major update of the watchOS 11 cycle. It was unclear what Apple was adding to the system during most of the beta period. However, late in the development, the company added sleep apnea detection for the newest Apple Watch models. This feature has been announced during the iPhone 16 event. Apple explained during the keynote that sleep apnea is a potentially serious condition where breathing stops repeatedly during sleep. “The condition, which is estimated to impact more than 1 billion people worldwide, goes undiagnosed in most cases. If left untreated, sleep apnea can have important consequences on health, including an increased risk of hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, and cardiac issues.” To detect sleep apnea, Apple Watch uses the accelerometer to monitor small movements at the wrist that are associated with interruptions in normal respiratory patterns, tracked by a new Apple Watch metric called Breathing Disturbances. While some of these disturbances are normal, they are important to track as they can be used to help understand restfulness of sleep and, when occurring frequently over multiple nights, may be associated with sleep apnea. Users can view their nightly Breathing Disturbances in the Health app, where they are classified as elevated or not elevated and can be viewed over a one-month, six-month, or one-year period. Besides that, Apple Watch users can also take advantage of Apple Intelligence features when they have their iPhones nearby. These are the two AI features watchOS 11.1 can take advantage of: Reduce interruptions: An all-new Focus Mode understands the content of your notifications and shows you the ones that might need immediate attention, like a text about picking up your child from daycare later today. Summarization: Apple Intelligence can summarize all your notifications. Last but not least, watchOS 11.1 brings some bug fixes, including one for an issue with breathing disturbance data being written to HealthKit for some users. Don't Miss: watchOS 11: Features, download, release date, beta, Apple Watch compatibility, and more The post watchOS 11.1 now available with sleep apnea alerts and these Apple Intelligence features appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $56 for 2024’s easiest Halloween costume, $699 M2 MacBook Air, 20% off Dyson, more Today’s deals: 10% off toys, 35% off Crest 3D Whitestrips, $50 foldable camera drone, more Today’s deals: $367 Apple Watch Series 10, $66 14-piece cookware set, $99 230-piece Craftsman tool set, more Today’s deals: $119 off iPad mini, $120 heated jackets, Energizer batteries, $30 Crock-Pot, more

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