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Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4

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Apple today seeded the first public betas of upcoming iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4, watchOS 11.4, and tvOS 15.4 updates, allowing public beta testers to try out the new features in the software ahead of its public launch. The public betas come a few days after Apple provided the beta updates to developers.

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Public beta testers can download the updates from the Settings app on each device after opting into the beta through Apple's public beta testing website.

The new software for iPhone, iPad, and Mac includes Priority Notifications, an Apple Intelligence feature designed to show you your most important notifications first, plus it adds a new Sketch style for Image Playground.

There is a new Apple News+ Food section for Apple News+ subscribers that aggregates recipes, food stories, and tips for healthy eating, plus an Ambient Music feature for playing chill music from Control Center.

iOS 18.4 will include a Vision Pro app that will allow Vision Pro owners to manage the headset. It will support content discovery and acquisition, letting new apps, games, and TV content to be downloaded on the Vision Pro with the iPhone. The iPhone and iPad will also support managing Vision Pro Guest Mode, making it easier for people to try out someone's headset.

On the iPad and Mac, the new updates introduce Mail Categorization, a feature that was previously limited to the iPhone.

More on the new features in the updates can be found in our iOS 18.4 beta post.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4
 
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With iOS 18.4 Apple Intelligence works here in the EU, but does iPhone Mirroring work in combination with MacOS 15.4 in the EU?
 
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full installers for the sonoma and ventura rc1s are up now but still waiting on the sequoia beta full installer

but the sequoia 15.4 beta 1 ota update was just as big as a full installer this time so it is possible they won't do a full installer this time which would be a shame because then you can't easily make the usb installer

i hope this isn't the beginning of an idea of depreciating such functionality because i and others would consider that a retrograde step.

the ipsw for the sequoia is already up though and has been so for a few days now

so here are the builds for the new macos's

15.4 beta 1 build 24E5206s

14.7.5 rc 1 build 23H510

13.7.5 rc 1 build 22H510
 
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an iPhone 14 pro over here and cant try AI, a big joke and piece of s*** HAHAHA

only in :apple: :cool:
 
iOS 18.4 will be a pretty great release for non-English speakers.

Some things to note :
- Siri is still as stupid, as I thought. As long as its foundation continues to rely on non-LLM tech, it'll remain bad.
- Email: I reverted to the old version. I don't like the new categories - I ended up missing emails for the first time in my life.
- Image Playground : I've had some fun with it, it'll last a few days. I had never seen Image Playground before, so it's hard for me to say, and obviously I know it's a beta, but it still has quite a lot of performance hiccups. I also feel like it's pretty limited in terms of what you can generate with it.
- Genmoji : Sometimes the emoji feels like it's been erased at a few places.
- Photos Cleanup tool: Still takes some time to download, still takes a few seconds to cleanup something. Results are still pretty bad.
- Recipes : I feel like this is US-only, despite Apple's article not implying that.
 
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Was looking forward to this (being in the EU) and figured by the time 18.4 hits it would be pretty mature/usable. Unbelievable how a company with these kind of resources is totally missing the AI train. Siri is still as usable as it was when it launched with the iPhone 4S. Sad.
 
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tywebb13 said:
still waiting on the sequoia beta full installer
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there may be a reason for withholding the full installer - it may contain info about the m4 mba

so maybe they release the m4 mba - and then release the full installer
 
tarunc said:
I have heard others have success on older processors....the posts I have read referred to m1's and m2's....so unfortunately I cannot confirm if it will work on m3 or not. Apologies.
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Just tested on my M3 Max running 15.4 B1 and Parallels 20.2.0 and can confirm it’s running my ARM Windows 11 VM fine.
 
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an iPhone 14 pro over here and cant try AI, a big joke and piece of s*** HAHAHA

only in :apple: :cool:
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Yeah you can. Download ChatGPT. Or use Gemini.

If you’re deeply pissed at missing out on the stunning success that Apple Intelligence obviously is, sell your iPhone. Buy a 16. A 16e. Or a 16 Pro. Hell, punish Timmy and get a Pixel.

I’m running an iPhone 11, Watch SE2 and an iPad Air 5. I’ve tried Apple Intelligence. Enjoy your iPhone, it’s excellent. The Kool-AId isn’t that great.
 
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If you have an M4 machine and use virtualization... DO NOT INSTALL THESE! Virtualization causes a hard crash when you attempt to start Docker, Parallels, etc.
 
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Don’t install 15.4 if you use Adobe acrobat to send documents to people for signing. Causes an error and tested on Mac Studio, m3 MacBook Pro and on Mac mini m2.
 
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