iOS 18.4 Introduces Curated ‘Food’ Section in Apple News+ Featuring Recipes in a Clean Layout

Today, Apple unveiled the initial beta of iOS 18.4, featuring a significant enhancement to the Apple News app. A new section, Apple News+ Food, offers a vast collection of curated recipes from renowned food publishers.

The introduction of recipes within Apple News+ aims to alleviate the typical frustrations associated with recipe websites. The app eliminates unnecessary clutter and distractions that commonly accompany online cooking instructions, delivering everything you require in a straightforward and user-friendly interface.

The newly added “Food” section boasts tens of thousands of recipes, each organized into a clean and easy-to-follow format. Users can access clear step-by-step cooking instructions, ingredient lists, and other vital information.

Moreover, the Recipe Catalog features extensive filtering options, allowing users to narrow down recipes based on cooking time, dish type, and more. Multiple filters can be combined during your search, and there is functionality for saving recipes for later use.

A standout feature of the recipe integration in Apple News allows users to tap on any mentioned cooking time to instantly launch a timer on their iPhone. Furthermore, tapping an ingredient mentioned in a recipe reveals the exact quantity needed for that particular step.

In a post on Apple Newsroom today, the company stated:

With the arrival of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 in April, Apple News+ subscribers will gain access to Apple News+ Food, a new section featuring tens of thousands of recipes and stories related to restaurants, nutrition, kitchen essentials, and more from leading food publishers such as Allrecipes, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Good Food, and Serious Eats.

This new Food section allows users to discover articles curated by Apple News editors and browse, search, and filter through tens of thousands of recipes in the Recipe Catalog, with fresh recipes added daily. The elegantly designed recipe format simplifies ingredient review and instructions, while a new cooking mode presents step-by-step guidelines in full screen. Users can also save their preferred recipes for offline access.

Apple News+ Food is set to launch in April alongside iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4. Most content will be exclusive to Apple News+ subscribers, though Apple will also provide “select stories and recipes” for general access.

DMN’s Perspective

The era of sifting through unsatisfactory Google results and SEO-driven clutter to find recipes is over. This feature from the Apple News+ team is exceptionally well-executed.

I appreciate Apple’s ongoing investment in Apple News and Apple News+. It has become one of my go-to applications on the iPhone for news, puzzles, and now, recipes.

To explore the new Apple News+ Food section, simply scroll down on the main “Today” tab of the app or navigate to the “Following” tab and select “Food.”