Messages in iCloud allows you to store all of your messages in Apple’s cloud storage service to release space on your phone or tablet and permit for better syncing across devices.Apple on Wed released iOS 11.4 with support for the long-awaited Messages in iCloud feature, AirPlay 2 multi-room audio, and more.
The most notable new feature arriving with this update is Messages in iCloud, which allows you to store all of your messages, together with photos and alternative attachments, in Apple’s cloud storage service to release area on your phone or tablet and permit for higher syncing across devices. Apple first tipped this feature at long last year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, and currently it’s finally rolling out.
With Messages in iCloud enabled, “all your messages seem once you sign into a brand new device with the same iMessage account,” Apple explained in its release notes. “When you delete messages and conversations they’re instantly far from all of your devices.”
To enable this feature, download iOS 11.4 then head over to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.
Meanwhile, you may even be able to simply stream music or podcasts on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in your house at an equivalent time, also as move music from one space to a different.
You can do this on your iOS device from the control center, Lock screen, or via AirPlay controls within apps. Or, even easier, you’ll be able to use your voice to regulate AirPlay 2-enabled speakers with the assistance of Siri on your iPhone, iPad, HomePod, or Apple TV.
“While listening to music, it’s as simple as choosing or unselecting wherever the music is enjoying in control Center, or users will raise Siri to play music in any room, a group of rooms, or everywhere within the home,” Apple explained in a news release, calling it “the most advanced, easy to use, wireless multi-room audio system.”
Also on the audio front, iOS 11.4 allows you to set up two HomePod speakers as a stereo try using your iPhone or iPad.
“When a second HomePod is ready up within the same space, the user is prompted whether or not they would love to make a stereo try, and in exactly a matter of minutes, the area is stuffed with wonderful audio,” Apple wrote. “Even although these 2 speakers act mutually, every HomePod communicates with one another in order that only 1 speaker responds to Siri requests.”
Besides that, the update additionally fixes variety of problems, together with one that caused text messages to look out of order.
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