IOS13 introduces a new look for iPhone with Dark Mode, new ways to view and edit photos, and a new private way to sign in to apps and websites with just one tap. Faster, more responsive iOS13, with system-wide optimizations that improve app launch, reduce app download size, and make FaceID even faster.
This update introduces the following features and enhancements:
Dark mode
- A beautiful new color scheme that offers great viewing, especially in low light
- It can be scheduled to activate automatically at sunset, at a certain time, or to activate in Control Center
- Four new system background images that automatically change appearance with Light and Dark modes
Camera and Photos
- A completely new Photos tab with a revised view of your photo library, making it easy to find, revive, and share your photos and videos.
- Powerful new photo editing tools that make it easy to edit, adjust and review photos quickly
- Video editing with over 30 new tools, including Rotate, Crop, and Enhance
- The ability to increase or decrease Portrait Lighting intensity on iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS, and iPhoneXSMax
- Bright Mono Light, a new Portrait Lighting effect that generates a monochrome portrait with a white background on iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS, and iPhoneXSMax
Sign in with Apple
- A private way to sign in to participating IDApple apps and sites you already own
- Simplified account setup with just your name and email address
- Includes a Hide My Email option to share a unique email address that is automatically forwarded to you.
- Integrated two-factor authentication to protect your account
- Apple does not track or analyze how you use your favorite apps.
App Store with Arcade
- Unlimited access to innovative games with one subscription, no ads or additional purchases
- A new Arcade tab on the AppStore to discover the latest games, custom recommendations, and exclusive editorial content.
- Available to play on iPhone, iPodtouch, iPad, Mac and AppleTV
- Opposite to download large apps using mobile connection
- Ability to view available app updates or delete apps on your Account page
- Arabic and Hebrew Compatibility
Maps
- A new map in the US with expanded street coverage, improved address accuracy, more pedestrian capabilities, and more detailed ground coverage.
- New Look Around feature lets you explore cities in a high-resolution interactive 3D environment
- Paste to lists of your favorite places, easy to share with friends and family
- Favorites to quickly and easily navigate to places you visit daily
- Real-time public transport, real-time flight updates, and more natural voice point-to-point navigation
Sticky notes
- New design with more powerful and smarter ways to create and organize reminders
- Quick toolbar to add dates, locations, flags, attachments and more to reminders
- New Today, Scheduled, Flagged, and All Smart Lists to Easily Organize Reminders
- Subtasks and grouped lists to organize reminders
Crab
- Personalized Siri suggestions in ApplePodcasts, Safari, and Maps apps
- Over 100,000 live radio stations worldwide available with Siri
- Integration with Shortcuts app
Memojis and Messages
- New options for personalizing Memojis including new hair styles, glasses, makeup and piercings
- Memojis stickers packs in Messaging, Mail and third-party apps available on all iPhone models
- Your name and photo, or even Memoji, are now optionally shared with your friends.
- Search enhancements to find messages easily, with clever suggestions and categorization of results
Carplay
- New CarPlay Dashboard with its Siri clever music, curves and hints on one screen
- All-new Calendar App with a view of your day, options to drive or call meetings, and contact meeting organizers
- Redesigned Maps with Favorites, Collections, and Viewing of Intersections in China
- AppleMusic Album Covers to easily find your favorite music
- No Disturb When Driving Now Available on CarPlay
Augmented Reality
- People Occlusion for apps to position virtual objects naturally in front of or behind people using iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS, and iPhoneXSMax
- Motion Capture so apps can understand a person's body position and movement, so you can animate a character or interact with virtual objects using iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS, and iPhoneXSMax
- Tracking multiple faces in Augmented Reality content for up to 3 faces simultaneously so you can have fun with your friends using iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS and iPhoneXSMax
- Augmented Reality Quick View to view and interact with multiple Augmented Reality objects at once
- Block sender to move all email messages from a blocked sender directly to the trash
- Mute a conversation to stop notifications of an overly active email conversation
- Format bar with easy access to various stylish text formatting tools
- Compatibility with all system fonts, plus new fonts you can download from AppStore
Grades
- Gallery view with visual thumbnails of your notes to help you find the note you're looking for
- Shared folders to collaborate with others, giving you access to entire note folders
- Powerful search for visual recognition of images within your notes and text on scanned items
- New checklist options to easily reorder checklist items, indent them or move them to the bottom of the list automatically
Safari
- Homepage updated with bookmarks, frequently visited sites, most recently visited sites, and suggestions from Siri
- Display options in the Smart Search field for quick access to text size controls, Reader preview and site adjustments
- Site adjustments to choose Reader view and enable content blockers, camera, microphone and location access for individual sites
- Download Manager
QuickPath
- Swipe to type on keyboard with one hand when moving
- Toggle between swipe or tap to type right in the middle of a sentence
- Alternative word options in the suggestion bar
Text Editing
- Drag the scroll bar to drag it directly, allowing you to quickly navigate long documents, web pages, and email conversations.
- Fastest and most accurate cursor navigation just capture it and move it to the desired position
- Improvements to make text selection easier by simply tapping and sliding over text
Sources
- Custom fonts are available on the AppStore for use in your favorite apps.
- Font management in Settings
Files
- In-app external drive compatibility Files for accessing and managing files on a USB drive, SD card, or hard drive
- SMB support for connecting to a work server or home PC
- Local storage to create folders on local drive and add your favorite files
- Compression and decompression compatibility for creating and expanding Zip archives
Health
- Summary view of your custom data, including alerts, favorites, and relevant highlights from frequently used apps and devices
- Highlights of frequently used app and device health data, showing trends over time and informative graphics
- The Cycle Tracking feature allows you to record information about your menstrual cycle, including flow level, symptoms and fertility metrics.
- Hearing health data for levels of environmental noise in the Rudo app for AppleWatch, headphones audio levels and audio testing audiograms
AppleMusic
- Synchronized lyrics with music make the experience more fun
- Over 100,000 live radio stations from around the world
Use Time
- Usage data over 30 days to compare with Usage Time numbers over previous weeks
- Thresholds combined to include multiple app, specific app, or site categories within a threshold
- Oppo One more minute to quickly save your work or log out of a game when the Usage Time limit is reached
Privacy and Security
- Location permission with the option to share your locations with apps only once
- Background tracking alerts now send notification when an app is using your background location
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enhancements help prevent apps from accessing your location without your consent
- Location sharing controls give you the option to easily omit location data when sharing photos
System Experience
- Selection of Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth accessories in Control Center
- A discrete redesigned volume control in the upper left corner
- Full page screenshots on web pages, Mail messages, iWork documents, and Maps
- Redesigned share sheet with clever suggestions for sharing content with just a few taps
- Dolby Atmos Playback offers an exciting surround sound experience on Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus compatible soundtracks on iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS and iPhoneXSMax
Language Compatibility
- Compatibility with 38 new keyboard languages
- Keyboard typing suggestions Cantons, Hindi (Devangari), Hindi (Latin) and Arabic Najdi, Swedish and Vietnamese
- Separate emoji and globe keys make it easy to quickly switch between languages ​​and emoji selection on iPhoneX and later models
- Automatic dictation language detection
- Compatibility with bilingual dictionaries in Thai and English, Vietnamese and English
China
- A dedicated in-camera QR code mode accessible from the Control Center, offering enhanced performance for QR codes, a flashlight option and privacy enhancements.
- Maps Intersections View, allowing drivers in China to navigate complex roads with ease
- Adjustable handwriting area on Chinese keyboard
- Cangjie, Sucheng, Trao, and Manuscript Keyboard Cantons Suggestions
India
- New Male and Female Voices for Siri in Indian English
- Compatible with all 22 official Indian languages, plus 15 new keyboard languages
- Bilingual Hindi (Latin) and English keyboard, including typing suggestions
- Hindi (Devangari) keyboard typing suggestions
- New Indian-language system fonts for Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Canar and Odia, providing more clarity and readability in apps
- 30 New Document Sources for Assams, Bengals, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannar, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepals, Odia, Panjabi, Unscript, Tmil, Telugu and Urdu
- Contacts with hundreds of new relationship tags to help you identify your contacts more accurately
Performance
- Launch apps up to 2x faster *
- FaceID unlock at 30% faster on iPhoneX, iPhoneXR, iPhoneXS and iPhoneXSMax **
- 60% smaller app updates on average *
- Apps at 50% smaller on AppStore *
Other features and enhancements
- Silence unknown callers to receive calls from known numbers in Contacts, Mail and Messages by sending all other calls to voicemail
- Battery charging optimized to extend battery life by reducing the time iPhone is fully charged
- Data Saver Mode to reduce data usage over the cellular network or specific Wi-Fi networks you select
- Compatibility with PlayStation 4 and Xbox Wireless Controls
- Search iPhone and Search Friends combined into a single app that lets you find a lost device even if you can't connect to a Wi-Fi or mobile network
- Reading Goals for AppleBooks Help Create a Daily Reading Habit
- Calendar lets you add attachments to events
- Family sharing access so your family's devices automatically connect to personal access from an nearby iPhone
- Home app controls redesigned for HomeKit accessories, with a combined view for multiservice accessories
* Testing conducted by Apple in May 2019 using full-performance iPhoneXS and iPadPro (11 inch) with iOS 12.3 and a pre-release version of iPadOS and iOS 13 using repackaged third-party apps in a desktop server environment. AppStore preproduction; It is the smallest average downloadable app size from a collection of the most frequently updated apps. Performance varies based on specific configuration, content, battery health, usage, software versions, and other factors.
** Testing conducted by Apple in May 2019 using full-performance iPhoneX and iPhoneXSMax with normal performance and iPadPro (11 inches) with iOS 12.3 and a prerelease version of iPadOS and iOS 13 using the side or top wake-up button the device. Performance varies based on specific configuration, content, battery health, usage, and other factors.