Apple iOS 18 Update: India-focused keyboard, language features and customisation

Apple iOS 18 Update: Apple's forthcoming operating system update the iOS 18 suitable for iPhone handsets is expected to arrive later this year with features personalized to Indian users. These personalized features will consist of new customization selections, enhanced language assistance for the translate application, default keyboard, and Siri.  In the meantime, iOS 18 will also unveil enhanced controls for users who use two phone numbers. Developer betas of iOS 18 and other operating system patches of the tech giant are currently available for testing and these are predicted to be available for regular users later this year. 

Dual SIM adjustment, Live Caller ID, and Live Voicemail Transcription

Users will be able to use a new toggle in the restyled control centre after updating to iOS 18, which can be adjusted between two SIMs on an iPhone handset. It will make the iPhone experience on par with the majority of Android handsets that also let users shift between their main and secondary SIM cards.

Some features that were launched on iOS 17 will also be available on the iOS 18 operating system for Indian users such as Line Caller ID and Live Voicemail Transcription. These features will help users receive a real-time transcription of what a caller is conveying when a voice call is directed to voicemail. The iOS operating system will also have features like dialing support and T9 searching along with certain enhancements to call history searches.

Indian numerals located on the Lock Screen, Contact Posters

Users will have the option to change their lock screen clock to show the time in numerals using 12 Indian languages after updating to iOS 18.  Users with the iOS 17 operating system can easily choose from languages available such as English, Devanagari, Arabic (Indic), Khmer, and Burmese numerals, and with iOS 18 the list of languages will expand and there will be more languages added to it in coming months.

After updating to Apple’s iOS 18, users will also have an option to personalize the font weight and colour, while putting up the Lock Screen and their Contact Poster. The forthcoming update will contain assistance for languages like Bangla, Gujarati, Arabic, Arabic Indic, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Kannada, Meitei, Odia, Telugu, and Ol Chiki.

Multi-language assistance for Siri and keyboards, enhanced search using Indian languages

Apple is expected to update Siri with the aptitude to reply in Hindi to inquiries made in Hindi when iOS  18 is unveiled. The support will have the ability to comprehend Indian English instructions when used with expressions from nine languages like Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu.

The default keyboard available on the iOS 18 operating system will assist in typing in two further Indian languages, utilizing Latin characters to write in English. Users can also type text in Gujarati, Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi, and Telugu, with trilingual predictive typing assistance while typing in English.  

In the meantime, iPhone users who like to directly type their messages in Indian languages will be able to use alphabetical layouts in Odia, Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, and Telugu. The new update will also make looking up words and phrases in Bangla, Assamese, Gujarati, and Devanagari easier by taking alternative spellings into consideration. As per the report, the Translate application on the new iOS 18 operating system will also have Hindi assistance, letting web pages and other content across the system be translated to Hindi.