1. Custom Lock and Home Screens

Android users will make fun of me for expressing this, but I think iOS 18’s customizable Home Screen and Lock Screen are great. Having widgets, easily changeable backgrounds, and various colors allows me to customize my smartphone, which is wonderful. You would need to jailbreak your device to do these things back then.

However, as you can see, there aren’t many customizing options. More actionable shortcuts and widgets in the Lock and Home Screens could be added to iOS 19’s customization options. Naturally, you shouldn’t anticipate the same degree of adaptability that Android provides. Security is Apple’s top priority, and having too many shortcuts or accessible widgets can jeopardize your privacy.

2. Apple Intelligence Expansion

One of the most significant innovations Apple has made since Siri is Apple Intelligence. The introduction of tools like LLMs, contextual analysis, and image production signifies the company’s formal entry into the AI race. Even if these features aren’t novel, Apple excels in ecosystem integration. Making its devices more intelligent and unified is the obvious objective.

However, the majority of functions are still lacking, and the distribution has been sluggish. The later iOS 18-point releases are probably when we’ll see Apple Intelligence reach its full potential. Additionally, iOS 19 may offer a wider range of useful and actionable tasks through integration with third-party and native system tools.

3. Health App Updates

Apple is the global leader in smartphones, but its share in smartwatches is smaller. Fitbit, Garmin, and Coros are a few of the formidable rivals. It’s true that the early-generation Apple Watch models’ features weren’t enough to support their high price. In essence, they served only as iPhone notification centers.

Apple has been working toward a more comprehensive and integrated watchOS ecosystem since it is aware of this limitation. The Health app is one area in which it has continuously improved. You can actually use your associated devices to track your athletic performance, notify emergencies, and monitor a number of health parameters on iOS 18 and watchOS 11. The days of an unreliable heart rate monitor are long gone.

It is reasonable to assume that watchOS 11 will bring even more enhancements. In order to compete with other leading wearables, Apple is probably going to expand the Health app’s functionality.

4. Multilingual Keyboards

Although the iPhone has always had multilingual keyboard capabilities, iOS 18 introduced bilingual keyboards. The primary distinction is that it recognizes on-screen language automatically. For example, a spell-checker won’t identify “Gracias” as “grace” if you use Spanish as your alternative keyboard.

We might expect an expanded version in iOS 19, given its recognition on iOS 18. More than three languages may be supported by the new keyboard at most. This may sound wishful thinking, but given Apple Intelligence’s recent developments, it’s conceivable that the iPhone will soon be able to translate more languages more quickly.

5. Better RCS Integration

RCS (Rich Communication Services) came in iOS 18, but the implementation feels half-baked. Conversations between iPhone and Android users lack end-to-end encryption and seamless media handling, which detracts from the messaging experience.

iOS 19 might address these shortcomings. Fully encrypted RCS could finally rival iMessage’s security while supporting cross-platform communication. For users, this would finally bridge the gap between Apple and Android ecosystems. Imagine higher-quality media sharing, real-time typing indicators, and reading receipts across platforms without switching apps.

6. Native Language Translation in Safari

Are you aware of what constitutes a good translation? cultural and linguistic background. Knowing these elements enables you to translate texts appropriately and accurately while expressing the author’s meaning. In all honesty, the majority of translators—including the one that comes with Safari—have fallen short in these areas. They are the cause of more complex regional expressions being mistranslated.

Fortunately, Apple Intelligence may make that difference. Using billions of trained datasets, Apple’s in-house LLM can compare and evaluate sentences. It must to be able to comprehend the cultural background of a language.

Although there is a good chance that these features will be included in iOS 19, no one can make any guarantees until the first developer beta release is released. In the meantime, I advise getting a new iPhone, as iOS 19 is likely to support iPhone 11, and you can only use Apple Intelligence if you have an iPhone 15 Pro or higher. I want to stress once more that all of these points are just rumors.

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