Apple Seeds Release Candidate Versions of watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3 and visionOS 2.3

[MacRumors]

Apple today provided developers with the release candidate versions of upcoming watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, and visionOS 2.3 updates for testing purposes. The RCs come a week after the third betas.

The betas are available to registered developers, and can be downloaded from the Settings app on each device.

There were no notable new features found in the updates, but code suggests that Apple will add support for robot vacuums to HomeKit, which means it will be a supported category in the Home app in visionOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

Apple also plans to add a new notice about digital movie and TV show sales in tvOS 18.3.

We are expecting tvOS 18.3, watchOS 11.3, and visionOS 2.3 to be released sometime in late January alongside iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Release Candidate Versions of watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3 and visionOS 2.3

 

[LlamaLarry]

22D5055b -> 22D60

 

[Amazing Iceman]

On VisionOS, I seems the virtual keyboard is a lot more responsive when finger typing.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Still missing and long overdue:
• WiFi Calling

 

[Rychiar]

woohoo an update of nothing

 

[besler3035]

Well, went to update my AppleTV 4K 3rd gen, and now all I get is a black screen. First problem with a tvOS beta in a very long time.

 

[Realityck]

Well, went to update my AppleTV 4K 3rd gen, and now all I get is a black screen. First problem with a tvOS beta in a very long time.

Possible it never started installing, pull power, wait to discharge a min or two, then repower and see if it boots.

 

[lelisa13p]

Bring back the feature that fell out of watchOS 11.2, the automatic forwarding of Watch screenshots to iPhone. The only way to get them now is to turn OFF Apple Watch 9. Turning Watch back ON will then send the pix to iPhone as one big dump rather than in a timely fashion as has always been the case. If you don't use this feature, you probably don't care. If you use it a lot, as I do, it's very annoying.

 

[svish]

Hopefully the new watchOS update (along with the new iOS update) will eliminate the bug where screenshots taken on the watch are not transferred successfully to the phone. Have been facing this issue since I upgraded my new series 10 to 11.2. Did not have issue before updating.

 

[jwzimm]

My hope is that this update gives us the ability to control when the Smart Stack is summoned. It has bugged the heck out of me since they made it some much more up front. I do not like it and would like the ability to either fully disable it or at least control how it is activated.

 

[Russell67]

Well, went to update my AppleTV 4K 3rd gen, and now all I get is a black screen. First problem with a tvOS beta in a very long time.

I installed the RC 18.3 on my brand new 4K Apple TV and the Apple TV app won’t work. Other streaming app do. Had lots of trouble logging into the store and some menus flicker. Apple support couldn’t fix it over the phone. I hope when the final vs is released it will fix it.