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Each one is essentially a deep and specific logic puzzle. Unfortunately, Siri Shortcuts are maddeningly complicated to set up. These are the sorts of small things that can make your phone feel a lot more intuitive - and that will open totally new possibilities on an Apple Watch or HomePod. If I say вЂњSend this to Anna,вЂќ it grabs the URL of whatever webpage I am looking at and texts it to my wife.

When I say вЂњHey Siri, I need coffeeвЂќ or tap the corresponding icon in the Shortcuts app, Siri searches for coffee shops nearby, shows me the closest few, then provides Google Maps navigation to whichever one I tap. Since iOS 12 wasnвЂ™t publicly available during my testing, most apps didnвЂ™t yet support it, but I still set up a few I use frequently. The new app allows you to set up custom routines on your phone, with surprising power and granularity. Siri is at the centre of most of iOS 12вЂ™s most ambitious features. I recommend setting it to end after youвЂ™ve had your coffee and are ready to face the day. A DND feature called Bedtime will hide all your overnight notifications until morning. I can turn on DND for an hour or until I leave my current location, both of which IвЂ™ve found hugely helpful. You can set Do Not Disturb to automatically turn off after an hour, or whenever you leave your current location (for instance, a cinema)ДЄpple has vastly improved its Do Not Disturb feature, which quiets all my phoneвЂ™s notifications and buzzes. They can appear quietly, showing up in my notification list but not buzzing or lighting up my phone, or they can stop completely. Anytime I get a notification, I can swipe left and quickly change settings for that appвЂ™s notifications. Two other features in iOS 12 have been far more useful in that regard. As my colleague Joanna Stern noted, it is too easy to ignore the warnings about exceeding my limit in an app - and besides, I already knew I used my phone too much. So far, I have gotten little benefit from the feature. Want to know how often you look at your phone or set some boundaries for your Instagram usage? ThatвЂ™s what the new Screen Time page is for.ДЄpple has made a big deal about Screen Time, its new feature for tracking how much time you spend in apps and on your phone. And some of iOS 12вЂ™s features improve my relationship with the latest iPhones and iPads, too - in part by helping me use them less. Though not quite as fast as my newer devices, they are close. The best thing about iOS 12 is how well it runs on older gadgets. (If youвЂ™re using a device older than those, itвЂ™s truly time for a new one.) IвЂ™ve been testing it on four devices that span AppleвЂ™s past five years: an iPhone X, an iPad Pro, an iPhone 6s and an iPad Mini 2. That means every iPhone since the 5s and every iPad since the Mini 2.

Starting Monday, iOS 12 is rolling out to all the same devices that could run iOS 11.

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Confusing interfaces and odd bugs have crept their way into the software, and if you had an older device, you practically had to pray to the processor gods that the latest software update wouldnвЂ™t slow your phone to a crawl. IOS 12 brings plenty of new features, but its primary purpose is, to borrow an Apple phrase, to just work. In fact, after testing iOS 12 - the latest version of the software that powers iPhones and iPads - I suspect a lot of people can skip buying a new phone altogether this year.

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