My Favorite Lesser-Known iOS 18.5 Features You Should Use Now

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more.

At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the tech giant announced all of the new features for its next iPhone operating system -- iOS 26 (yes, iOS 26, not iOS 19). The next version of iOS will add a gaming app and include a total interface redesign called Liquid Glass. 

If you're feeling brave and are experienced enough to try out iOS 26 now, you can download the developer beta, but most iPhone owners will want to wait for Apple to release the fully baked version of iOS later this year. Until then, there's a whole host of cool features for the current version of iOS -- 18 ...