In arecent video recording as part of its iOS Decoded series , 9to5Mac lead a look at some rather interesting code found within the latest iOS 18.5 Beta .
This codification mention and enables features that are n’t expected to be a part of iOS 18.5 when it goes into wide release , however . Instead , it looks like experiments for what might be a part of iOS 19 , or maybe even future products .
Some of these features may ship , some may not , but they at least give us a look at what Apple is considering . Here are the major change in legal brief :
More flexible Stage Manager : Stage Manager is very limited with how you’re able to set and resize window . In the test version establish in 9to5Mac ’s video , there are far few restrictions — you’re able to more freely resize windows , size of it windows so they obscure other window , and even more them almost only off - screen .
Stage Manager on iPhone : Jeff Benjamin says he ’s seen Stage Manager act on iPhone , complete with external display support . While that would be cool , he say he does n’t bear Apple to ship such a feature .
SuperDomino for thingamajig : There ’s a flagstone for SpringBoard ( the home base screen door and lock blind manager for iOS ) called “ SuperDomino ” that show full screen clock gubbins to be displayed on only half the display in StandBy mode . This create those widgets reasonably square , which fits in nicely with the rumored“HomePad ” machine .
Photographic Styles for video : The code found by 9to5Mac suggests that the non - destructive Photographic Styles currently available when pick out photos can be used for television . Perhaps they ’ll be call Smart Styles in the future , as they apply to more than photo .
Photographic Styles for third - political party apps : Those “ Smart Styles ” may be accessible to third - party apps as well with new framework .
The quietus of the video concerns some relatively minor update , like some novel icons in the SF Symbols font and attend saved bank account statement numbers in the Wallet & Apple Pay setting gore , and the ability for developers to see which Macs have been paired to their machine .
Some of these things found by enabling hidden flag and features with iOS beta are simply data-based — it ’s Apple working on features or capableness that may not ever see the sparkle of day . But lots of genuine feature start off this way as well , so there ’s a comely fortune that , when WWDC rolls around in June , we may have a better understanding at what this obliterate code is for .
