"Apple's Jaw-Dropping Plan to Revolutionize Hiking Forever - AllTrails Beware!"

 Apple isn't always the first to deliver popular mobile features, but you can depend on the company to add them to your iPhone eventually.

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Consider AllTrails, a hiking app created by a San Francisco-based company that Apple named iPhone App of the Year in 2023. Now, later this year with iOS 18, the Cupertino tech giant plans to integrate some of AllTrails' best features into the app. Its own Apple Maps for free.

The announcement came Monday on the first day of Apple's weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference, held at the company's headquarters in Cupertino. At the Apple Park “spaceship.

” hundreds of employees gathered with developers and a gaggle of journalists to watch a keynote session of smoothly cut videos touting Apple's upcoming software upgrades for iPhones, iPads, Macs and the Vision Pro headset.

These climbing improvements were buried in what Apple software chief Craig Federighi described as a “rapid conveyor belt” of iOS 18 news, but they were a boost for many hikers who use iPhones and Apple Watches to plan and navigate trails in the United States. park.

“Maps features new topographic maps with detailed trail networks and hiking routes, including 63 US national parks, that can be saved to your phone and accessed offline,” Federighi said. 

The popular location app will also have voice guidance for path directions and a function where users can create their own paths, he added.While Federighi didn't reveal a full list of features, it appears the updated Maps app will show elevation gain and loss as well as maintain a “library” of saved and downloaded climbs.

At least for national park coverage, the library feature alone would give Apple Maps a notable advantage over AllTrails, which offers downloadable offline maps only in its paid version ($35.99 per year).

Messaging will also be better for off-the-grid hikers once Apple's new software launches this fall. The company, on Monday, announced “satellite messaging” – technology currently used for emergency calls will allow iPhone owners to send texts without Wi-Fi or cellular data.

Deep in the iPhone's history, changes to Apple's flagship device have felt more like tweaks than full upgrades. There's nothing in iOS 18 that's likely to drastically change the way you use your iPhone, but Apple is releasing a long list of new features.

Among them is that Siri gets access to more information from apps across devices, and can finally read content on the screen. Message tapback on iPhone will soon include every emoji, users will be able to schedule sending texts, and in chat they'll get the ability to bold, italicize, and strikethrough text in messages. 

Apple is also redesigning its Photos app, and the iPhone's home screen and lock screen will be more customizable. You'll be able to send money via Apple Pay by tapping two iPhones together, and a new password app will let you manage and save passwords across your Apple devices.

Apple devoted about 40 minutes of its WWDC keynote to “Apple Intelligence,” a long-awaited update in the much-hyped field of artificial intelligence. The company's new devices will soon have ChatGPT installed automatically and offer generative drawing and text tools, the company said.

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