Subj : iOS 18 finally brings in a gaming upgrade for iPhones that Androi
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jun 10 2024 19:30:05

iOS 18 finally brings in a gaming upgrade for iPhones that Android phones 
have had for years

Date:
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:23:44 +0000

Description:
iOS 18 is bringing in a Game Mode for iPhones to improve performance, and 
there's an audio upgrade to boot.

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Apples iPhones are finally getting a feature that the best Android phones 
have had for years, all thanks to the newly revealed iOS 18  and that feature 
is Game Mode. 

While the Game Center in iOS provided things like cloud-synced saves and an 
avatar, its pretty limited in terms of specific in-the-moment gaming 
features. Comparatively, dedicated game modes found on the likes of the 
Samsung Galaxy S24 and OnePlus 12 can do things like mute notifications and 
ramp up performance to run mobile games that push on-the-go graphics rather 
hard. 

Revealed at WWDC 2024  make sure to check out our WWDC 2024 live blog for the 
latest announcements  Game Mode in iOS 18 will ape some of the game modes 
found in rival Android phones, by slowing down things like background 
activity to enable more processing power to be piped to games. 

While the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max have access to the already 
powerful A17 pro chip, Game Mode should help your phone extract more power 
from the silicon to run demanding games like the version of Death Stranding 
for iOS. 

Equally, this mode could help to optimize the power of older iPhones that may 
struggle a little when it comes to running games on iOS 17 . 

All this ties in nicely with Apples continued building out of Apple Arcade , 
and its efforts to bring demanding console games to its mobile devices. Add 
in the rather neat controller support that iPhones offer, notably with the 
PS5 DualSense controller , and iOS starts to feel like a platform that could 
be used for pretty serious gaming. Enhanced gaming audio 

Gaming on iOS is getting a boost on the audio font too, with Personalized 
Spatial Audio coming to the AirPods 3 , AirPods Pro and AirPods Max , which 
brings in dynamic head tracking for games, meaning that positional sound is 
maintained despite any potential head-bobbing. 

And when the AirPods Pro and AirPods Max are used in conjunction with Game 
Mode, users get the lowest-latency wireless audio Apple has ever delivered, 
and voice communication in 16-bit, 48kHz audio. 

One thing to bear in mind here is that in order to make the most of these 
gaming audio upgrades, developers need to bake-in advanced sound design into 
their games using an Apple API. You might also like macOS 15 Sequoia 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/ios-18-finally-brings-in-a-gaming-upgr
ade-for-iphones-that-android-phones-have-had-for-years


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