Apple Releases iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 With Home Screen Customization, App Locking, Passwords App, Messages Updates and More

[jeme]

I just got 17.7, not 18. WTH? I backed up my 14P to iTunes on my laptop and it said the phone was up to date. 17.7 says it's security fixes. Confused.

Ok had this issue on three devices and then went to do my ipad mini and under the "forced update to 17.7 was a little tiny window saying update to iOS 18. Bummer

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Option for iOS 17.7 or 18 on my iPad Pro

• 17.7 Polished, perfected (in Apple's eyes anyway) version of prior iOS software
• 18.0 Alpha or Beta wide test to the masses.

Same with macOS 14.7 vs. 15 available today too. I'm updating to 14.7 right now but going to wait on 15.

I used to wait for .2 or .3 but now I wait for .4 or .5, so I look forward to trying the new versions around WWDC time. But thanks to all who adopt earlier and find the bugs that will hopefully be fixed- or at least less buggy (or some have user-discovered workarounds)- by then.

Of course, I'll hope that something magical happened so that THIS time it's practically perfect in every way in the .0 versions. I just won't bet on that.

 

[chamkila]

same here, I got 17.7 pushed to my iPhone 12 mini

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Breaking my rule of waiting for x.1 because RCS, RCS, RCS!

Finally!

 

[chriscl]

My understanding is moving my phone to iOS 18 will render my Watch Series 5 into just a watch. Since it can't be upgraded past WatchOS 10. Is that accurate?

Is it not normally the other way round, that WatchOS requires minimum version of iOS?

The Watch should work OK, it will just stuck on WatchOS 10.

 

[jeme]

I wonder what the new phones out of the box will come with 17.7 or 18? OK completed update on my ipad pro to 17.7 and the option for 18 was there. Ugh.

 

[MiamiBeach]

My iPadOS download just slowed to about 2 hours remaining! Anyone else's download times going up?

 

[fel10]

Today is like Christmas morning

 

[Vespi]

Been using 18.0 on my ip 11 since RC released last week, much better both performance and battery than 17.6.1 for me

 

[cpnotebook80]

I found this article on it on the 17.7 ios update - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateof...7-important-new-iphone-update-is-coming-soon/

 

[timmywa]

Is it not normally the other way round, that WatchOS requires minimum version of iOS?

The Watch should work OK, it will just stuck on WatchOS 10.

Thanks! Can it still communicate and interact with iOS 18 from WatchOS 10?

 

[Entilzha]

My understanding is moving my phone to iOS 18 will render my Watch Series 5 into just a watch. Since it can't be upgraded past WatchOS 10. Is that accurate?

That is not accurate. Your AW will function just like it did before. It just won’t get new abilities.

 

[LV426]

My iPadOS download just slowed to about 2 hours remaining! Anyone else's download times going up?

Yup. To be expected when everyone downloads at the same time.

 

[Adora]

 

[kshitijshah]

Breaking my rule of waiting for x.1 because RCS, RCS, RCS!

Finally!

How do you enable RCS messaging?

 

[deeddawg]

My understanding is moving my phone to iOS 18 will render my Watch Series 5 into just a watch. Since it can't be upgraded past WatchOS 10. Is that accurate?

What's led you to think this?

Your phone on iOS 18 will handle your watch just fine, only you won't be able to go past watchOS 9.

Other way around doesn't work though - to setup or update a watch to watchOS 10, the phone must be on iOS 18.

 

[Zest28]

I only got iOS 17.7 and iPadOS 17.7? iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 was not offered.

 

[now i see it]

The reason iOS 18 is at the bottom of the update screen, below the iOS 17 update is because — even A-Inc is signaling that it’s not quite ready yet. They’ve been doing this for several years

 

[kingsrule5]

Not yet showing on https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/ and https://developer.apple.com/download/

EDIT: seems some out of topic posts are deleted... It was already 2 pages but now back to 1

iPadOS 17.7 (21H16)
iOS 18 (22A3354)
iPadOS 18 (22A3354)
macOS 15 (24A335)
tvOS 18 (22J357)
watchOS 11 (22R349)
visionOS 2 (22N320)

Source

iOSbuild matches the RC.

 

[StrangeNoises]

hit the upgrade for 17.7 by mistake. 🤦‍♀️

 

[edjusted]

I only got iOS 17.7 and iPadOS 17.7? iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 was not offered.

Look *below* the 17.7 section. You should see "Upgrade to iOS 18"

 

[Rylynn47]

Updating here on my iPhone 15 Pro. 🇦🇷

 

[Entilzha]

How do you enable RCS messaging?

It just happens. It’s invisible to you, as long as the android user has it enabled on their own phone. You’ll just see “Text Message - RCS” in the text entry field to an individual once it kicks in.

 

[decypher44]

Weird. iPhone 14 Pro updates to 17.7. After the update, it then offered 18. What happened?

 

[Goodeye]

I've had 18 on my 15Pro Max since last week with the RC. Updating my kid's iPhone 14 Pro Max now (he inherited my old 14Pro Max) and its saying its going to be 2 hours. Apple's servers are getting slammed.