Four new features coming to your iPad with iPadOS 18.4
Apple’s upcoming iPadOS 18.4 update is set to bring a fresh wave of enhancements to your iPad, making it more versatile and user-friendly than ever. Scheduled to roll out soon, this update introduces four exciting new features that promise to elevate your daily experience, from smarter productivity tools to enriched content options. Whether you’re a casual user or rely on your iPad for work and creativity, these additions—built on Apple’s commitment to innovation—aim to streamline tasks and personalize your device further. As the release candidate versions have already been seeded to developers, anticipation is building for how these updates will improve the daily use of iPad for millions of users worldwide.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
#1: Cooking mode: The Apple News app is getting a brand new Food section for News+ subscribers, where you’ll find restaurant reviews, food lifestyle articles, and perhaps most important: recipes. Tens of thousands of recipes are included at launch, all equipped with a special cooking mode that’s perfect for iPad. When viewing a recipe, you can hit the Cook button to enter a step-by-step guide that walks you through the cooking process.
#2: Sketch in Image Playground: This joins the existing Animation and Illustration options, and lets you make new images with a hand-drawn look.
#3: Apple Mail redesign: iOS and iPadOS share much of the same core code, but it’s not uncommon for the iPhone to get new features ahead of the iPad. That’s what happened with last year’s Apple Mail redesign. In iPadOS 18.4, Apple’s Mail app has now gotten upgraded on the iPad too…
#4: Ambient Music: Each one is tied to a specific Apple Music playlist that fits the described mood. But you can also customize them to your liking, choosing from a curated set of Apple playlists or selecting any other playlist you’d like.
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