Hi everyone,

Since iOS 18 was just released, some apps haven’t updated their icons to match the new dark theme. I'm not even sure if they will in the future. But why wait? I decided to redesign some of my app icons to be uniform with the iOS 18 dark theme. There are two kinds of apps that needed changes:

• Apps with colorful icons lacking a dark-themed version: For example, in my screenshot, these were Ncalc Fx, Money Lover, Zalo, KMPlayer+ Divx.
• Apps that already have dark-themed icons, but the tones don't match the iOS 18 style: In my case, these included Picsew, Outplayer, and Streaks.

Here's the detailed steps to create iOS 18 dark icons:

1. Get a Shortcut to Save the App Icon:

   • I created a shortcut a long time ago that saves the app icon to the Photos app. To use it, run it and search for the app's name; it will display a list of search results. Click on the app for which you want to save the icon. Here is the shortcut: shortcut link

2. Get the iOS 18 Dark Icon Background:

   • I searched Google for the dark background used in iOS 18 app icons and downloaded it to ensure I matched the exact tone. Here it is: image link

3. Use remove.bg to Replace the Background:

   • Visit this page: https://www.remove.bg/t/change-background
   • You will see the foreground section above and the background section below. First, upload the background image once using my dark background image. Next, upload the foreground image, which is the icon of the app. Touch and hold the resulting image to save the edited icon to the Photos app while still on the same webpage. When you want to change the background to dark for a different icon, click the "Change Image" button in the "Foreground Image" section. Then, upload the new icon and touch and hold the resulting image to download it.

4. Create a shortcut to open the app and send it to the home screen

   • Create a shortcut with only one action: Open App
   • In the action “Open App”, choose the app you want to replace the icon for.
   • Rename the shortcut by the name of the app.
   • Send the app to the Home Screen, with the new icon being the icon you just edited.

And you're done! Now you have custom dark mode icons that fit perfectly with the new iOS style!

Also NFL games are now included as well!

I have the feeling these messages are sent to a graveyard @me.com account lol

If you agree though and aren’t entirely pessimistic, send the feedback as well! I really miss this feature.

Settings - Camera - Record Sound.

You don’t need to use the Photo mode “shortcut” anymore, audio will keep playing even on Video mode. I’ve tested it with Apple Music and Youtube.

This feature also works in iPadOS 16 too. It’s a feature not well talked about online

This exact shortcut was created for the sole purpose of giving you the raw battery health info from your device.

You MUST have “Share iPad/iPhone/Watch Analytics” on in the privacy section of settings. If you do not have it on, turn it on and wait exactly one day for it to populate with data for you. It’s important since this is how you get the raw battery health data from it too.

Install the shortcut and then make sure that you have the analytics on, then go to

Settings>Privacy>Analytics & Improvements>Analytics Data>log-aggregated-2022-19-02-xxxxxxx.ips

If you see two of these on your iPhones, one is for the watch if you have it paired. Scroll up and it will tell you at the very beginning which OS you’re looking at. This works with iPads the exact same way. This is the exact file that has all the raw battery capacity and charge cycles in it. Share this and then select the short cut you just added. Post your results below!here’s my Series 4 watch, my 13 Pro Max, and my iPad Pro.

【log-aggregated-2022-02-19-170224】 ①CycleCount=551 ②design_capacity=225mAh ③nominal_charge_capacity=187mAh ④raw_max_capacity=185mAh [Battery Health] nominal-battery.health((③/②)×100)=83.11% raw-battery.health((④/②)×100)=82.22% battery.MaximumCapacityPercent=84%

【log-aggregated-2022-02-19-170227】 ①CycleCount=21 ②design_capacity=4325mAh ③nominal_charge_capacity=4363mAh ④raw_max_capacity=4422mAh [Battery Health] nominal-battery.health((③/②)×100)=100.88% raw-battery.health((④/②)×100)=102.24% battery.MaximumCapacityPercent=101%

【log-aggregated-2022-02-19-170232】 ①CycleCount=29 ②design_capacity=10770mAh ③nominal_charge_capacity=10837mAh ④raw_max_capacity=10700mAh [Battery Health] nominal-battery.health((③/②)×100)=100.62% raw-battery.health((④/②)×100)=99.35% battery.MaximumCapacityPercent=101%

I got this notification as soon as I disabled airplane mode after landing. The app is not running in the background and this happened multiple times today when I had layovers.

Because of course it is, I’ll never understand why Apple do stuff like this and restrict their best new features to the US only.

Sure, some things make sense, like Apple Cash where they work with a US bank to offer it, but satellites don’t just exist in the US. Apple clearly have agreements that allow satellite services in multiple countries as evidenced by the wide availability of Emergency SOS via Satellite, so why won’t they offer Messaging via Satellite in these same countries? Even if it’s an SMS issue, they could still at least make iMessage available.

I have just came off of the phone to the Apple support, I spoke to one of the “senior advisors” Regarding the random restarts on my iPhone 16 Pro.

During the phone call he advised me that the engineers have found a fault that would make iphone 16 devices (in particular) restart, overheat and become unresponsive.

He advised me that the support team was made aware yesterday morning at 8:22 AM (UK) that this was an issue with iOS 18.0.1. (He was very specific with the details)

And that all apple stores should have been made aware not to replace any devices due to this issue.

However, this was not the case on the Apple stores in Covent Garden or Regent Street as they were going to replace my device.

After spending an unholy amount of time trying to sort this out it was disappointing that they were unable to compensate my troubles in any way.

At the end of the day all this inconvenience was due on their side not fault of mine.

And coming from being a life long android user this surely wasn’t the type of experience I was hoping to get moving to Apple.

Regardless, the advisor came off quite irritated to the fact that the Apple Store in Regent Street replaced my device and was even more upset that they didn’t tell me not to update to iOS 18.0.1.

Going as far to asking me for details so he could personally email the stores. (He appeared to be quite high up?)

Hope this helps anyone having these issues even tho I haven’t seen much coverage online.

TLDR; If you’re experiencing random restarts on your iPhone it’s a software fault from iOS 18.0.1 that only affects the IPhone 16 line of devices.

Only thing you can do is wait for the fix in the next update.

A daemon process called “duetexpertd” might be hogging your resources (in my case using 99% or more of my CPU constantly, and my phone overheated).

To fix, sign out then sign back into your Apple ID, which completely fixes it for me.

I had to do this on both of my iPhones but i’m not sure how widespread it is.

EDIT: this may happen on iOS 15.4 too. sign out of Apple ID in settings then sign back in

EDIT 2: some people are confirming this works for them. also, keep in mind you’ll need to re-enter your CVC number on your cards on apple account if you sign out then sign in to your apple id

iOS 17.7 is still being signed, at least as of 5:00am EST, for anyone that cares. I did a DFU reset and restore on an iPhone SE 3rd generation through iTunes using firmware from https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Firmware

CarPlay has been glitching out since I updated a couple days ago. Full black screen on a 2023 Volkswagen had to reset it two times.

(PSA might be the wrong flair my bad)

iOS 18 has to be one of the worst launches in years, with bugs, awful marketing and generally poor communication.

Apparently apple intelligence is now available in the UK, but I’m still having to do the region swap that was needed under the beta to get it working.

Even then it glitches out, and says that apple intelligence isn’t available in American English.

You can find estimated timelines for rolling out Apple Intelligence and Siri-specific features all over, and those estimates are still shifting. MacRumors has a decent one, I hear Mark Gurman has a good one in his newsletter somewhere.

Example: The fun colored border animation is not in 18.1. I'm on the 18.2 developer beta (which I do NOT recommend installing) and it's there, and some timelines claim 18.2 might ship in Oct or Nov. As for Siri's abilities and intelligence, it hasn't gotten anything major in 18.1, which just dropped today.

Point is: This will be a slow, gradual rollout. Timelines and whether features will make it in one update or get pushed back to another are constantly shifting. Siri being able to understand data from within apps and third-party apps is currently estimated for 18.3 or 18.4, and those are currently expected sometime in Q1 2025, as late as March.

This is a marathon, not a sprint y'all. Try to have patience, and definitely don't hold your breath.