Installed it and my phone seems exactly the same as before.
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Apple Releases iOS 18.5 With New Wallpaper, Screen Time Changes, Carrier Satellite Support for iPhone 13 and More
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Yeah, usually the battery drain dissappears after a few days after an update. But the battery drain is lingering on 18.4. I no longer get a day like stamina. Suddenly I get huge drains from just listening to my regular radio app sucks the life out of my 15 Pro. This is just regular gripe...move along, move along. Let's see in a few days what the risk takers complain about come weekend 😎🖖
Got to a point now where I don't upgrade by default. Release notes show zero benefits of note, whilst always potential to break stuff that wasn't broken. Risk-benefit isn't favourable. I'll even wait out intro of iOS 19 until I see what - inevitably - bugs appear first.
Put simply, I don't trust Apple software anymore.
Put simply, I don't trust Apple software anymore.
iOS phone app with call logs can take up gigabytes
I’m not that brave. There is still a lot of complaints: `I hope Apple will fix battery drain/broken Mail notifications/unstable Photos app/CarPlay connection/etc.`.
Maybe I will install one of the last iOS 18 releases, just before iOS 19 release, but I’m not sure. It’s fine to skip iOS 18 at all.
Battery drain with every single release. Doesn’t exist.
Release notes show zero benefits…
Bugfixes and overall polish. I understand your complains but even more is a version without noticeable new features an interesting one because apple could focus on an overall polish.
Complaining about the lack of features and bugs at the same time about an update doesn’t make so much sense.
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New wallpaper is not pride enough. We need more xD
Different than the RC, they must have added some last minute bugs
Yes my main phone is an iPhone 16 Pro Max - but it's not just the iPhone 16. I've had iPhone 8, iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 16E all have the same issue on older Mercedes E-Class'.
There are also plenty of people with other devices complain all over the internet.
It must be something to do with a security update that was rolled out as it happened even on an iPhone 8.
Yes like the messages bug I have. I had a group text and when I went to delete them. It said the incorrect number of texts I deleted. Under recently deleted it said 1 text when it shouldve said 4 texts. So I went back to my inbox and all the texts were deleted. So Im thinking its a glitch or something
There is a chance it might get worse. That said, no point to not update to this if your phone is already on 18.x
It is asking 1.28G for my ip13.
Why such a minuit update requiring that huge amount of space?
I hate the pride wallpaper!
What world we live in, software update to get a new pride wallpaper...
Trying to understand what is wrong in with this screenshot. If your battery was at 100% and that's what it is now, then yeah, I'd said there's a problem. But I don't know what you're referring to.
Personal Policy:
iPhone upgrades mandated on min. 1yr delay cycle.
Sorry, Apple, I won’t be beta testing iOS anymore. 6mo to fix the most annoying bugs in iOS 18? Then I won’t own a device in 2026 that can only run iOS 19.
Otherwise love my iPhone 16 Pro; thanks Apple software leadership for saving my wallet and the environment after a decade+ of oft convincing annual enticements. If I’d have wanted betas on my primary device I’d have enrolled it.