Lastly out of beta, iOS 18 arrived for public availability as of Monday afternoon. You may obtain and set up it in case your machine is appropriate, nevertheless it already comes with all iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16 Professional fashions that can be obtainable on September 20. These with eligible gadgets can replace them by going to Settings > Common > About > Software program Replace and beginning the obtain and set up processes.
To see in case your machine is eligible, we now have a listing of iPhone fashions that may support iOS 18. Test it out and see if yours will work.
Among the “hidden” features our editor Cherlynn noticed embrace Apple Maps upgrades, Calendar integration with Reminders and expanded Tapback choices in Messages, letting you see who reacted with which emoji. Safari is getting a “Highlights” perform, which generates a abstract of internet pages you’re on by way of machine studying. Our UK bureau chief Mat Smith additionally tried out some early iOS 18 features in July, and his essential takeaway was that Apple Intelligence is the true star. Sadly, Apple Intelligence isn’t out at the moment, however its first options will turn out to be available in October as a part of a subsequent replace.
In addition to iOS 18, all of Apple’s different main sibling working system updates can be found as properly. That features iPadOS 18, visionOS 2, macOS Sequoia, tvOS 18 and watchOS 11, all of that are coming to their respective gadgets at the moment. Be sure that to examine in case your gadgets are eligible for the replace and that they’ve sufficient area. You will have to liberate a couple of gigabytes of storage first.
Replace, September 16, 8:17PM ET: Added extra full checklist of extra Apple OS updates that at the moment are obtainable, and extra context about Apple Intelligence (some, not all, of the options are arriving starting in October).
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