New App Store Features in iOS 18.4
The iOS 18.4 replace brings two new App Store options to the iPhone — Review Summaries and the power to pause downloads. According to Apple, the previous leverages giant language fashions (LLMs) to compile data similar to highlights and key factors from critiques left on app pages by customers which seems with the Automatically summarised from critiques textual content.
It generates a complete abstract within the type of a brief paragraph, enabling them to rapidly get an thought concerning the app with out having to scroll by way of particular person critiques. The firm says Review Summaries are refreshed “a minimum of” as soon as every week for apps and video games with sufficient critiques. Users can faucet and maintain the abstract in the event that they uncover an issue with a abstract.
This characteristic has been launched as a part of a phased rollout and is at the moment out there in English for a restricted variety of apps and video games on the App Store within the US. There is not any phrase on its availability in different languages and areas.
In addition to Review Summaries, one other notable addition to the App Store is the power to pause app downloads. It is a comfort characteristic which permits iPhone customers pause app downloads when going through poor connectivity, community congestion, or different issues. Prior to the replace, the one choice to pause an app from downloading was to cease the obtain solely.
This triggered an issue particularly when downloading large-sized apps because the progress reset each time a obtain was stopped. However, the iPhone maker’s newest iOS 18.4 replace permits customers to pause them as a substitute.
Other options of the replace embrace ambient mode, Visual Intelligence on the iPhone 15 Pro fashions, an Apple Vision Pro app, new toggles within the Control Centre, and new emojis.
