 Hey, this is Jake with The Verge. We've been trying out iOS 12. It's supposed to hit your phones this fall, but it's available in beta for developers right now. Things are definitely still subject to change, but there's some cool stuff in here, so let's check it out. The first thing I wanna talk about is probably the most superfluous, but also the most fun, and that is Memoji. This is Apple's new version of Animoji that lets you customize it to be your face. So I have worked on this all morning. This is my best job at making my face. I can't say it's amazing, but it works just like the other ones where you pull it up and it will start mimicking your face, but now you can customize it. There are a ton of different options. It's actually pretty interesting. They don't group things by gender at all. It's just all mixed together and allows you to create whatever you want. You can even make a sort of alien-looking thing if you feel like it. So here's my punk alien. And what's really neat is if you take a photo of yourself inside Messages, you can overlay it on top of your head. So here's my punk alien. I can have fun with that. So that's Memoji. I imagine you're gonna see these everywhere starting this fall. The second thing I wanna talk about isn't really as fun, but it is a really big deal, and that is screen time. This is Apple's answer for iPhone addiction and just us using our phones too much. And so it's this new screen inside of the Settings app that lets you set time limits basically on how much you use different categories of apps. So when you open it up, the first thing you see is this chart of how much you're using your apps. And it'll break it down by individual apps, but also by categories. So you can see if you're playing games too much or social media too much. But the really big thing is downtime and app limits. And basically, you can go into app limits and tell it, you know what? I should only be able to play games for an hour every day. And then once I set that, that's locked in place. And it's gonna tell me once I'm playing games if I've been doing it for too long. And it'll sort of lock you out. So let me show you what that looks like. I'm gonna lock myself out of basically every app. And there we go. So now when I jump into an app, it's until you've reached your time limit on the app. There's a button at the bottom that lets you ignore the limit and just keep using it again. So really, this is all about your willpower. But I think it's still a really neat approach. Google is doing something very similar. But the big difference with Google is that you don't have this button. You have to jump through a lot more hoops to let yourself back into your apps. So I think it's gonna be interesting to see which of those is more useful and if people actually take advantage of them. So the next thing I wanted to show you is how iOS 12 is changing notifications. And we're gonna have another video that's going really in depth on this soon. So I'm not gonna go too deep in it. But it's actually a really big deal because this is a lot easier to read now. I have four Slack notifications in total, but it's only taking up one thing because they're all grouped. And so I can just tap on it to see them all. I can deal with the ones that I wanna deal with or manage my notifications if I want to. This is just much, much neater than that endless list that we've been used to for years and years in iOS right now. One of the other new features in iOS 12 is Siri shortcuts, which lets you create custom commands to trigger actions with Siri. It's a really big feature and I think people are gonna use it in very different ways. But let me show you how I've been using it. So there's this big list that has a bunch of different available commands you might wanna trigger. And these actually change depending on what you've been doing recently in your phone. So I've been using voice memos and so it's suggesting I might wanna make a command to start a new voice recording. So I'm gonna hit that and it's gonna ask me what phrase I wanna use to automatically start a new recording. So I'm gonna show you that. Record this. So now whenever I tell Siri, record this, it's gonna automatically launch into voice memos and immediately start a recording. So I'll show you how that works. Record this. So now it's immediately jumped over to voice memos and it's already recording, which is pretty great because that's actually a really fast way to start recording. So now we're on the iPad because iOS 12 also brings iPhone 10 style gesture control over to the tablet. And it's not a huge change, especially because iOS 11 already had a lot of gestures involved, but there's some key ones. So for one, Control Center is now in the top right corner and notifications are in the center or the left or anywhere else. The other big thing is that if you're inside an app, you can now swipe up to go straight home. And if you wanna go into the multitasking menu, it's more of that bringing it to the middle and hold kind of thing. So if you're switching between iPhone 10 and iPad, basically it's just gonna be a little bit more consistent for you. There are a ton of other new features. Not all of them are available just yet. We're definitely gonna have more on iOS 12 as the summer continues, but these are some of the biggest features you can look forward to starting this fall. If you like this video, be sure to subscribe for more and check out our new channel, youtube.com slash Verge Science. They have a bunch of really fascinating in-depth science videos.
 Hey, this is Jake with The Verge.
 We've been trying out iOS 12.
 It's supposed to hit your phones this fall,
 but it's available in beta for developers right now.
 Things are definitely still subject to change,
 but there's some cool stuff in here,
 so let's check it out.
 The first thing I wanna talk about
 is probably the most superfluous,
 but also the most fun, and that is Memoji.
 This is Apple's new version of Animoji
 that lets you customize it to be your face.
 So I have worked on this all morning.
 This is my best job at making my face.
 I can't say it's amazing,
 but it works just like the other ones
 where you pull it up and it will start mimicking your face,
 but now you can customize it.
 There are a ton of different options.
 It's actually pretty interesting.
 They don't group things by gender at all.
 It's just all mixed together
 and allows you to create whatever you want.
 You can even make a sort of alien-looking thing
 if you feel like it.
 So here's my punk alien.
 And what's really neat is if you take a photo
 of yourself inside Messages,
 you can overlay it on top of your head.
 So here's my punk alien.
 I can have fun with that.
 So that's Memoji.
 I imagine you're gonna see these everywhere
 starting this fall.
 The second thing I wanna talk about isn't really as fun,
 but it is a really big deal, and that is screen time.
 This is Apple's answer for iPhone addiction
 and just us using our phones too much.
 And so it's this new screen inside of the Settings app
 that lets you set time limits basically
 on how much you use different categories of apps.
 So when you open it up, the first thing you see
 is this chart of how much you're using your apps.
 And it'll break it down by individual apps,
 but also by categories.
 So you can see if you're playing games too much
 or social media too much.
 But the really big thing is downtime and app limits.
 And basically, you can go into app limits
 and tell it, you know what?
 I should only be able to play games for an hour every day.
 And then once I set that, that's locked in place.
 And it's gonna tell me once I'm playing games
 if I've been doing it for too long.
 And it'll sort of lock you out.
 So let me show you what that looks like.
 I'm gonna lock myself out of basically every app.
 And there we go.
 So now when I jump into an app,
 it's until you've reached your time limit on the app.
 There's a button at the bottom
 that lets you ignore the limit and just keep using it again.
 So really, this is all about your willpower.
 But I think it's still a really neat approach.
 Google is doing something very similar.
 But the big difference with Google
 is that you don't have this button.
 You have to jump through a lot more hoops
 to let yourself back into your apps.
 So I think it's gonna be interesting to see
 which of those is more useful
 and if people actually take advantage of them.
 So the next thing I wanted to show you
 is how iOS 12 is changing notifications.
 And we're gonna have another video
 that's going really in depth on this soon.
 So I'm not gonna go too deep in it.
 But it's actually a really big deal
 because this is a lot easier to read now.
 I have four Slack notifications in total,
 but it's only taking up one thing
 because they're all grouped.
 And so I can just tap on it to see them all.
 I can deal with the ones that I wanna deal with
 or manage my notifications if I want to.
 This is just much, much neater than that endless list
 that we've been used to for years and years in iOS right now.
 One of the other new features in iOS 12
 is Siri shortcuts, which lets you create custom commands
 to trigger actions with Siri.
 It's a really big feature
 and I think people are gonna use it in very different ways.
 But let me show you how I've been using it.
 So there's this big list
 that has a bunch of different available commands
 you might wanna trigger.
 And these actually change
 depending on what you've been doing recently in your phone.
 So I've been using voice memos
 and so it's suggesting I might wanna make a command
 to start a new voice recording.
 So I'm gonna hit that
 and it's gonna ask me what phrase I wanna use
 to automatically start a new recording.
 So I'm gonna show you that.
 Record this.
 So now whenever I tell Siri, record this,
 it's gonna automatically launch into voice memos
 and immediately start a recording.
 So I'll show you how that works.
 Record this.
 So now it's immediately jumped over to voice memos
 and it's already recording, which is pretty great
 because that's actually a really fast way to start recording.
 So now we're on the iPad because iOS 12
 also brings iPhone 10 style gesture control
 over to the tablet.
 And it's not a huge change,
 especially because iOS 11
 already had a lot of gestures involved,
 but there's some key ones.
 So for one, Control Center is now in the top right corner
 and notifications are in the center
 or the left or anywhere else.
 The other big thing is that if you're inside an app,
 you can now swipe up to go straight home.
 And if you wanna go into the multitasking menu,
 it's more of that bringing it to the middle
 and hold kind of thing.
 So if you're switching between iPhone 10 and iPad,
 basically it's just gonna be
 a little bit more consistent for you.
 There are a ton of other new features.
 Not all of them are available just yet.
 We're definitely gonna have more on iOS 12
 as the summer continues,
 but these are some of the biggest features
 you can look forward to starting this fall.
 If you like this video, be sure to subscribe for more
 and check out our new channel, youtube.com slash Verge Science.
 They have a bunch of really fascinating
 in-depth science videos.