iOS 18 Beta 5: New Distraction Control Feature is AMAZING!

With the fifth betas of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, Apple is introducing a previously unannounced feature for Safari, Distraction Control.

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As the name suggests, Distraction Control is designed to cut down on distracting elements from articles and webpages, such as sign in windows, cookie preference popups, newsletter signup banners, autoplay videos, and more.

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00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Distraction Control in Safari
01:11 - Photos App changes

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[diegovr]

Straight to the point video. I wish all YouTube content was like this.

[JasmineMcKinley-tr]

This new Distraction Control feature looks great. I recently started using the Astirna New Tab extension and it really helps keep my browsing organized too.

[ikegold]

I think what’s more important is that Apple actually listened to developers and changed the photos app. They could have just kept it and said we’ll get use to it. Good job Apple

[VKTR_Tech]

Distraction control is cool, it's basically like going into developer options and deleting stuff from the elements section (which I do often on my Mac and PC), but for non-nerds

[jkb]

IMO the carousel was one of the worst UX choices I’ve ever seen on an iPhone.

[sivaramkjs]

I hope Apple would also change the new tangled video player interface in the Photos app that’s not at all intuitive with additional tap to view in full screen mode 😞

[KurzweilTV]

You guys are all sitting here yaking about the irrelevant carousel when this distraction control will finally unshitify browsing the web.

[techguy]

Distraction control will help me read IGN articles TV Guide articles just to name examples

[bikrrr]

Can you finally sort "All" photos with newest at top? This is my biggest gripe about the Photos app; you can sort albums "Newest to Oldest" but not "All" photos. 🤦

[Elimporta]

One of the biggest update nobody talks about on Watch OS is the time it takes to unlock the Apple Watch when is on sleep mode. That was a huge improvement I use a lot every night.

[fonsie]

Did they already fix the video playback in iOS18 beta?

[JSmith-nubl]

Every time i open my webpage i have to hide these ads? BS feature…

[JonDaiello]

Distraction control! I can't wait to use this. Sticky banners pile up on mobile and make it difficult to engage with the content. I can't wait to use it. Thanks for the overview.

[ALottaMan]

The 1Blocker app already does this. But I look forward to trying Apple’s version. As for Photos, nearly all the changes they’ve made sound like crap.

[zaku]

I can't do things like looking for news stories on my iPhone. There are so many ads it is just impossible. Some won't even disappear when I tap the x. The seem to have been designed that way to make you look for a while when you are trying to shut it off. If I can get rid of all of the popups I will use my phone 10 times more.

[mikeserago]

The current photo app is fine, no need to change it any more. I would see  spend their time on other apps that need updating for the ipad.

[cf]

Does iPhone do Face ID in landscape mode yet

[pineapple]

You can customize how high every category is??? so Im so confused why people are complaining

[BunderChowed]

Can Apple do a distraction control for real life people

[RealBenAnderson]

Wait until the AI is trained on usage data and it just happens automatically.