Apple Releases iOS 18.3 With Visual Intelligence and Notification Summary Improvements

[Realityck]

OMG!!!
Samsung, where is your nearest shop? 🏬

If one is traveling in regions where performing an update of iOS not reliable should you? But yeah fair warning to the brave ones that take that gamble with that found example.

 

[thefrost]

So basically apple scammed us out of not getting it because of some button that could be programmed on the shortcut button they gave us lol

Tim needs more money!

 

[miq]

Don’t forget, if Apple Intelligence concerns you, “Enhanced Visual Search” in Photos sends some information about your photos to the cloud. It is enabled by default. You can turn it off here:

Settings > Apps > Photos > At the bottom
Enhanced Visual Search

Memoji avatars will overlook this kind of behaviour from Apple yet scream MUH PRIVACY any time Google is even mentioned.

 

[JosephAW]

Released today
iOS 18.3 (22D63)- January 27, 2025
iPadOS 18.3 (22D63) - January 27, 2025
iPadOS 17.7.4 (21H414) - January 27, 2025
macOS 15.3 (24D60) -January 27, 2025
tvOS 18.3 (22K557) - January 27, 2025
visionOS 2.3 (22N896) - January 27, 2025
watchOS 11.3 (22S555) - January 27, 2025

Still no iOS 16 updates

 

[JosephAW]

Waiting for iOS 18.3.1 update, always feel better about dot one updates

 

[ectospheno]

Waiting for iOS 18.3.1 update, always feel better about dot one updates

About the security content of iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 - Apple Support

This document describes the security content of iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3.

support.apple.com

Waiting is always a bad idea. Always has been.

 

[hagjohn]

Is this for europe and AI too? Bit fed up with all this staggered europe bs. Do we have AI or not? Farce

Why would Apple open themselves to a new lawsuit. You probably won't see AI until Apple adds the ability to use more than 1 AI company.

 

[Nekomichi]

Just a heads-up for anyone with a device and account eligible for Apple Intelligence but currently visiting a region where it is not available: do not update to iOS 18.3. iOS 18.3 contains two bugs that will mess with the feature and kill your battery life.

1. iOS 18.3 will enable Apple Intelligence by default even if you manually disabled it beforehand, and then force a redownload of the updated AI models. However if you're physically visiting a region where this feature is not supposed to be available, this download will constantly fail and restart in the background. A VPN does not circumvent this problem.

2. Even though the model download process is only supposed to happen when the device is connected to power, a bug causes it to continue even if you're running on battery. This means it will be forced into a perpetual "Downloading..." state and continually drain your battery after you unplug from a charger. Apple also decided to make it so that the option to manually disable Apple Intelligence won't appear until the models have finished downloading so if the download process is stuck then you're out of luck and cannot prevent it from entering this battery-draining error loop.

Just an update with the Apple Intelligence downloading bug, it's been stuck on "Downloading..." for over 24 hours and all the while it was draining battery like crazy. There's no official toggle to disable Apple Intelligence to prevent this, but I found a workaround - setting the Siri language to intentionally mismatch with the device's system language will cause it to become ineligible for Apple intelligence, which will interrupt the broken download process. Unfortunately, switching the Siri language back will not fix the broken download bug and will cause the battery drain to resume.

 

[ectospheno]

Just an update with the Apple Intelligence downloading bug, it's been stuck on "Downloading..." for over 24 hours and all the while it was draining battery like crazy. There's no official toggle to disable Apple Intelligence to prevent this, but I found a workaround - setting the Siri language to intentionally mismatch with the device's system language will cause it to become ineligible for Apple intelligence, which will interrupt the broken download process. Unfortunately, switching the Siri language back will not fix the broken download bug and will cause the battery drain to resume.

Does disabling it in Screen Time not work either?

 

[Nekomichi]

Does disabling it in Screen Time not work either?

In Screen Time, it lets me disable image generation, writing tools, and the ChatGPT extension individually but it doesn't let me blanket-disable Apple Intelligence as a whole.

 

[jovada]

So when I install it, how do I switch off every last vestige of AI I’ve been involuntarily opted into?

Move to the EU

 

[UltimaKilo]

About the security content of iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 - Apple Support

This document describes the security content of iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3.

support.apple.com

Waiting is always a bad idea. Always has been.

Not “always”, as I usually wait two weeks as well to ensure stability.

 

[ectospheno]

Not “always”, as I usually wait two weeks as well to ensure stability.

I want to feel sorry for you but you can obviously read which means you just don’t care about the ridiculously long page of security bugs fixed including the in the wild zero day. So I feel nothing.

 

[cbsnbiker]

I want to feel sorry for you but you can obviously read which means you just don’t care about the ridiculously long page of security bugs fixed including the in the wild zero day. So I feel nothing.

To be fair, updates sometimes brick iPhones, and often they run worse than before.

 

[MacAttack2024]

Def slowed the iPhone down. Makes Messages app freeze and force reload doesn’t fix it

 

[cbsnbiker]

Sure enough, my iPhone 14 Pro is now slower than before and buggy, after updating from 17.7.x to 18.3.1.

Sad.

If it weren't for security updates, I wouldn't have updated now.

 

[bogdanw]

CVE-2025-24091 fixed in iOS 18.3
EvilNotify & VeryEvilNotify “How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone”
https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone