Apple launched iOS 18.2 as a developer beta customers earlier this week. Whereas there was a bunch of AI goodie shipped with this model — together with Gemmoji, Picture Playground, and ChatGPT integration — the corporate additionally shipped a brand new default menu to alter your default apps. And it’s not simply restricted to the online browser as you’ll be able to change the default apps for messages and calls.
The corporate solely allowed modifications to the default electronic mail app and browser app till now. These settings have been positioned within the Safari and Mail menus. With iOS 18.2, there might be a devoted menu to alter all default apps.
“Manage your default apps for iPhone, including choosing the apps you prefer to use for opening links on the web, sending emails, making contactless payments, and more,” the default app menu description reads.
Right here is how one can entry that:
- Acquired to the brand new Apps sections in Settings on iOS 18.
- Faucet on the Default Apps possibility beneath that.
- Now you’ll be able to choose new default apps for electronic mail, messaging, calling, name filtering, and net browser.
The default app menu additionally lists the variety of apps associated to passwords & codes in addition to keyboard apps that you’ve got put in. Should you faucet on that menu, you’ll be able to see an inventory of all these apps beneath these classes. You may as well choose those that you simply need to entry whereas filling in passwords or typing in textual content.
Word that this feature is at the moment accessible in iOS 18.2 developer beta customers. Apple simply launched the primary beta of iOS 18.2 this week. It’s going to take a couple of weeks earlier than it’s accessible to obtain to everybody. We’ll replace the story after it rolls out to a wider consumer base.
