At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last month, Apple announced iOS 18, the next major update to iOS devices. Since then, Apple has released several betas of iOS 18 with new features and improvements. Today, Apple announced that iOS 18 will get several new India-specific features when it becomes available to everyone this fall. You can read about these features in detail below.

• Apple will allow users to customize their lock screen time and contact posters with different numbers from 12 Indian languages: Arabic, Hindi Arabic, Bengali, Devangri, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Mithai, Odia, All Chikki and Telugu .
• Apple Translate adds support for Hindi, one of the most spoken languages ​​in India. This Hindi translation support can be used wherever translation is supported on iOS.
• Live voicemail transcription adds support for English with an Indian accent.
• iOS will add support for alphabetic layouts for 11 Indian languages ​​(Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu) so users can type Indian scripts directly.
• Siri adds support for nine Indian languages, including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Siri will also work better with Indian English accents and will now be able to reply in Hindi.
• Text search on iOS now supports Indian languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Devangari, and Gujarati. It can also find content using different spellings of the same word.

Apart from the above India-specific features, Apple also revealed that the Move to iOS app will be faster and more reliable. This will allow users to easily transfer their data from Android devices to iOS devices wirelessly or with a cable.

Apart from regular improvements to the operating system, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will receive Apple Intelligence, a brand new AI feature designed to help users with various daily tasks. Apple Intelligence will be free to use and initially available in US English this fall.

Via: Ishan Aggarwal (X)