Apple iOS 12 now available

Sabrina Ulloa, Editor-in-Chief

Starting yesterday, the official iOS 12 is available to download for iPhone and iPad. It is designed to make your experience a faster and more efficient one.

According to Apple, the camera will launch up to 70 percent faster, the keyboard will be 50 percent faster, and typing will be more responsive. Overall your old iPhone will be faster and apps will launch up to twice as fast.

A new launch called Screen Time will send daily or weekly activity reports to your iPhone which will show time spent in individual apps come with the new update as well.

Another update in is Group FaceTime which will allow up to 32 people to join a video call at the same time and as a contact begins to speak their image will get bigger on your own display.

Last year, Apple launched Animojis at the same time as the iPhone X was revealed and now Apple has added another animated emoji called Memojis.

Memoji lets you create an animated digital version of yourself and can mimic your facial expressions using the front-facing camera.

Siri will be improved as well, with new shortcuts that you can custom create. Users are able to customize their shortcuts by creating a simple voice command or use the new Shortcuts app to create a series of actions.

In order to install it on your iPhone or iPad:

  • Open Settings
  • Tap General
  • Tap “Software Update”