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Your virtual applications are the applications that the iPhone uses automatically in certain situations. So if you click the phone number on a website, for example, the iPhone will open your phone application and make a call to this number. But if you want to use a specific browser app, such as Chrome or Firefox, you can make your iPhone’s virtual browser app.
When Apple was released iOS 18.2 In December, this update made it easy to change iPhone’s Virtual applications. You can change some default applications before this update, such as your browser, but this update added some new virtual application options and the entire center of the process in one list.
Here’s how to change your default apps on your iPhone.
How to change your iPhone’s virtual applications
1. Open Settings
2. handle Applications
3. handle Virtual applications
From this menu, you can choose to change different categories of virtual applications on your iPhone. Here are the categories that you can change and Apple Description From all:
Some options, such as installing the application, are only available in certain areas.
- Install the app*: Choose an alternative application market instead of the application store for use as a default setting.
- The browser application: Choose another application instead of Safari application for use when opening links on web pages.
- Call: Choose another application instead of the phone or FaceTime application to make calls.
- Liquidation of the call: Choose an application to use it to submit the caller identifier and ban unwanted callers.
- An application without contact*: Choose another application to make transactions without connection using the technology integrated for your device.
- Email: Choose another application instead of the mail app to use when opening links to send the email.
- Keyboard: Choose an application to use it in the system of text entry capabilities.
- Correspondence: Choose another application instead of applying messages to use when opening links to send immediate messages.
- navigation*: Choose another application instead of the Apple Maps application for use when opening links for a site.
- Password and symbols: Choose another application instead of applying passwords to use it to fill in the automatic password in Safari and other applications.
- translation: Choose another application instead of the translation application for use when translating the selected text.
*Available only in some countries and regions.
Click on any of these categories and you can change this default app. If you do not have a third -party application downloaded on your iPhone for a specific category, this category will appear to you Apple or nothing.
Can’t I change my default applications before?
In some cases, yes. When Apple was released iOS 14 In 2020, the update allows you to change email applications and virtual applications for your iPhone. You can also change some other categories before iOS 18.2, such as the keyboard, but the options were widespread via settings.
With iOS 18.2, the iPhone collects these categories in one place, and the update adds some other categories, such as correspondence and communication.
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