These new iOS features are coming to your iPhone in 2025
Apple has shipped an astounding number of new iPhone features in the past few months, with major updates coming in iOS 18, iOS 18.1, and the recent iOS 18.2. But theres more on the way soon. Here are all the new iOS features that we know are coming in the first four months of 2025.Major Siri upgradesApple says Siri has entered a new era, and so far its been a little messy. iOS 18.1 brought a new Siri design and some minor enhancements, iOS 18.2 added ChatGPT integration, but some of the biggest changes yet are coming in iOS 18.4 this April.Siri will get three big upgrades, including:New app actions: Apple says Siri will be able to perform hundreds of new actions in Apple apps, without the need to ever open those apps. App Intents will bring the same capability to supported third-party apps, too.Personal context knowledge: Like a real-life assistant, youll be able to reference texts you received, past calendar events, and more personal data to get truly intelligent assistance from Siri.Onscreen awareness: Siri will know whats on your display, so you can easily ask it to take action on whatever youre looking at.With these changes in place, combined with ChatGPT support, Siri with Apple Intelligence should truly offer a powerful new user experience.Priority notificationsApple Intelligence has brought big changes to the way notifications work, and theres more change coming: Priority notifications are coming soon.Apple explains:Priority notifications appear at the top of the stack, letting you know what to pay attention to at a glance. And notifications are summarized, so you can scan them faster.Based on Apples preview image, youll be able to see several of your most important notifications all at once with a priority summary. If this works well, it should be a nice improvement for iPhone notification management.New built-in emojiGenmoji now let you create any missing emoji that youd like. But Apple plans to continue adding new built-in emoji to its iPhone emoji keyboard.The next wave of emoji is expected in iOS 18.3 or 18.4, and will feature:face with bags under eyesfingerprintleafless treeroot vegetableharpshovelsplatterThe exhausted face is sure to be a hit when it arrives.Sketch style in Image PlaygroundApple just added a brand new app to the iPhones Home Screen in iOS 18.2: Image Playground.The AI tool lets you create original images using a text prompt or one of many built-in tools.Currently Image Playground lets you create images in two styles: Animation and Illustration. But theres a third style being added soon: Sketch.The new style, once it arrives, can be applied to existing images in your library in addition to being used for new creations.Robot vacuums in the Home appA new device category is coming to Apples Home app: robot vacuums.Originally intended for iOS 18.2, we recently learned from the iOS 18.3 beta that Apples next software update will introduce the long-awaited robot vacuum support.After iOS 18.3 launches in the next month or two, then with a compatible robot vacuum youll be able to control your device right from the Home app or with Siri commands.New Apple Intelligence languagesFinally, Apple has announced that a variety of new languages will be supported by Apple Intelligence starting in April with iOS 18.4.Apple hasnt said exactly which new languages are coming in April, but it did share a list of ones coming in 2025:ChineseEnglish (India)English (Singapore)FrenchGermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPortugueseSpanishVietnameseand moreNew 2025 iOS features: wrap-upThe features above are only a fraction of whats coming overall in 2025. Apple will undoubtedly have some surprises in store for iOS 18.3 and 18.4 with features it hasnt yet announced. But more than that, WWDC in June will offer big reveals at whats coming later in 2025 with iOS 19 and beyond.Which upcoming iOS features are you most excited for? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel