Apple Seeds Fourth iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 Betas With Priority Notifications, Ambient Music and More

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the fourth betas of upcoming iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the third betas.

iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 can be downloaded from the Settings app on a compatible device by going to General > Software Update.

With iOS 18.4, Apple is adding the Priority Notifications Apple Intelligence feature, which is designed to determine which of your notifications are the most important, highlighting them in an easy-to-see dedicated section on the Lock Screen.

The update includes a new Apple News+ Food section for Apple News+ subscribers, plus it adds the Sketch style to Image Playground so you can generate images that look hand drawn. Apple Intelligence is also available in more languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified), along with localized English for Singapore and India.

There are new emoji characters, and a dedicated Vision Pro app that allows Vision Pro owners to find and download content, manage the headset, control guest experiences, and more, right from the iPhone.

Mail Categorization has expanded to the iPad, and there's a new Ambient Music feature for playing relaxing music from Control Center. There are a number of other smaller features too, with details available in our iOS 18.4 features guide.

Apple plans to release iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 in early April.

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[bperrella]

Man I hope they fixed the bug where iCloud email isn’t pushing in the Mail app

 

[tywebb13]

build number for both is 22E5232a

builds of other betas released today are

macOS Sequoia 15.4 beta 4 (24E5238a)
macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 RC 4 (23H525)
macOS Ventura 13.7.5 RC 4 (22H525) (1 day later)
tvOS 18.4 beta 4 (22L5250a)
audioOS 18.4 beta 4 (22L5250a)
visionOS 2.4 beta 4 (22O5231a)
watchOS 11.4 beta 4 (22T5244a)

 

[Stuartglossop]

build number for both is 22E5232a

builds of other betas released today are

macOS 15.4 beta 4 (24E5238a)
tvOS 18.4 beta 4 (22L5250a)
visionOS 2.4 beta 4 (22O5231a)
watchOS 11.4 beta 4 (22T5244a)

Looks like it’s pretty much ready for release. Anything new?

 

[bluespider]

Wow, wasn’t expecting an a release today.

 

[Jay Bly]

Wow, wasn’t expecting an a release today.

I had a weird feeling, I just didn’t know what they would be tweaking or adding

 

[terryvision]

Man I hope they fixed the bug where iCloud email isn’t pushing in the Mail app

Anyone DL'd this beta yet and tried this? Mail push not working is annoying me.

 

[newtestleper]

I had a weird feeling, I just didn’t know what they would be tweaking or adding

As opposed to…?

 

[bperrella]

Anyone DL'd this beta yet and tried this? Mail push not working is annoying me.

Seems to be working for me on DB4!

 

[cocky jeremy]

Does Apple list what has changed anywhere?

 

[SteveLV702]

Well besides the Mail Push still not working.

Dropbox, Files App and any app that uses storage dont work they claim still that you have no device storage. Yet phone/ipad is pretty much empty and has plenty of storage. TikTok says I have 0 Mb of storage remaining. Dropbox says my device is full and refuses to even open.

 

[whelmedjedi]

Why are you writing same features again and again in every update? Those features were already launched with previous 18.4 beta updates. So nothing new on this update rather than bug fixes.

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

build number for both is 22E5232a

builds of other betas released today are

macOS Sequoia 15.4 beta 4 (24E5238a)
macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 RC 4 (23H525)
tvOS 18.4 beta 4 (22L5250a)
audioOS 18.4 beta 4 (22L5250a)
visionOS 2.4 beta 4 (22O5231a)
watchOS 11.4 beta 4 (22T5244a)

Cheers

Was looking for this one to estimate when the public will be

Deffo another two betas so a minimum of two weeks

Conclusion

Public realese will be in April 10th at the latest.

Have a lovely evening!

 

[lenard]

mail bug, unable to set favorite mail boxes in the side window

 

[PJWilkin]

Public Beta now available

 

[Eurisko2]

They descoped most of the major Siri changes from this version, so there wasn't nearly as much to tackle. I suspect that's the reason for the accelerated releases.

 

[Rafagon]

Does this unbreak the thing that iOS 18.3.2 broke?

 

[jhoffy]

Maps apps (google, maps, Waze) doesn’t work in CarPlay when phone goes to sleep.

 

[waldo647]

Did the Camera Control Button just improve? Or was that prior to beta 4? Works across more than selected Camera App, too.

 

[Jay Bly]

For some reason the camera app seems more responsive

 

[Moukee]

For some reason the camera app seems more responsive

I sure hope so, the front camera on my 16 Pro had a lot of shutter lag in recent betas and sometimes wouldn't work at all for 10 seconds or longer.

 

[Egregius]

Still not able to set Google Maps as default navigation app.

 

[EvelatorOperator]

For some reason the PB4 does not want to download for my Apple Watch S10... Either the update shows for one second and then just disappears in the Watch app, or it gives and error "Could not download". Has it been pulled ?

 

[Moukee]

Still not able to set Google Maps as default navigation app.

Google Maps probably needs an update that marks it as a maps app.

 

[mickobizzle]

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