Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Versions of iOS 18.2 and More With Genmoji, Image Playground and ChatGPT Integration

[PhoenixAnhart]

Meh. So far I’m very happy with the stability and battery life of the first RC on my 13 Pro, I think I’ll miss this one and just wait for the public release.

You don't understand software development. You should install the second RC immediately.

 

[Kar98]

> second release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2

But no 2nd RC for watchOS 18.2. Odd.

Also, I upgraded to a newer phone last week, and now the [Apple Watch is fully charged] banner went away. Apparently that's been a bug for ages LOL

 

[Drogba11]

I have a coworker whose favorite animals are unicorns and sharks, so I wonder what the Genmoji would look like with a prompt of "Unicorn with sharks for arms"?

I tried it and it doesn’t come up with anything close.

 

[yeah]

I’m expecting RC 3 on Wednesday and RC 4 on Friday before a final iOS 18.2 release right after Christmas.

/s

 

[Kissmo1980]

Does this imply another week for 18.2 to drop? Normally, the RC wait is about 5-7 days, isn't it?

Not really.
It has the same change to see the light of the day tomorrow or at some point this week.

Or at least I am hoping, even though I am in Europe so no Apple Intelligence for me. Just hoping it fixes a couple of small annoyances for me on WatchOS and iOS

 

[havaloc]

Even as recent as the RC1 it isn't ready. For me, email summaries don't always generate and App Store updating has been jittery and making my phone hot.

 

[hirshnoc]

wasnt the real one supposed to come out today?

Shh!

 

[rb24]

You don't understand software development. You should install the second RC immediately.

I don't know what that means, but it sounds ominous so I did!!

 

[skit911]

Even as recent as the RC1 it isn't ready. For me, email summaries don't always generate and App Store updating has been jittery and making my phone hot.

Email summaries depend on the content of the email.

 

[guzhogi]

I tried it and it doesn’t come up with anything close.

Darn! A while ago, I found this picture, and hoped that Genmoji could do something like it.

 

[Realityck]

Comparison of MacOS 15.2 RC2 to previous MacOS 15.2 RC

macOS 15.2 RC (24C100)

• Safari Version 18.2 (20620.1.16.11.8)
• System Firmware Version: 11881.61.3 (AS based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0: Thu Dec 5 18:32:37 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.4~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

macOS 15.2 RC (24C98)

• Safari Version 18.2 (20620.1.16.11.8)
• System Firmware Version: 11881.61.3 (AS based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 24.2.0: Fri Nov 15 19:28:45 PST 2024; root:xnu-11215.61.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

Apple Music/TV is still 1.5.2.56

The kernel was replaced/updated

 

[Johnny907]

Reading this from my iPhone 14, realizing I’m no longer part of the dance.

 

[heit0r]

a week after releasing the first RCs

"A week" has 7 days, not 3. RC1 was released on Thursday, so final version was unlikely to be released today. Maybe late this week, at least.

 

[heit0r]

Yeah, a second RC seems to suggest another week before the actual release, unless there’s a precedent for an RC and a final release in the same week that I can’t recall.

Not necessarily, it can be released by the end of this week. I doesn't always takes a week of await since RC1 was released just 3 days ago.

 

[Jerry Fritschle]

Does this imply another week for 18.2 to drop? Normally, the RC wait is about 5-7 days, isn't

Maybe, but part of the delay between RC and release is to give devs time to to build and test on the new Xcode, which goes to RC at the same time. They would have been testing with the updated SDK on beta Xcodes, but such builds are not accepted by the App Store. In that sense at least, the timing from RC1 might be sufficient.

 

[Crickster]

I had issues with my 16pm, screen touch was sporadically non-responsive and sometimes when the screen turned on it would briefly show a few vertical lines. These issues started happening right after installing RC1.

I figured RC2 was around the corner.

 

[Jay Bly]

All right about an hour and 20 minutes with it, it seems to be a bit snappy. And my Siri is no longer crashing on CarPlay so that’s good.

 

[Starbright107]

This beta and other betas of IOS 18.2 didn’t let me add stickers at all. It’s still a bug on my iPhone 16 pro. The sticker would be added for 2 seconds and it disappeared.

 

[Dormammu]

hopeful this resolves the garbage battery life on my 16 pro max. RC1 didn’t do it.

 

[antiprotest]

Is siri any better in this? Ever since 18.1 siri has been noticeably worse for me and more prone to misunderstanding or giving weird results to simple commands. Switching apple intelligence on or off hasn’t helped in either case.

Siri cannot be saved, or at least Apple can't save it. It will get worse and worse. Now it will add confusion to the user and the process by handing off some requests to ChatGPT. It's pathetic.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Any ideas when it will be released to the general public? I don't want to install betas/RC.

 

[Starbright107]

This beta and other betas of IOS 18.2 didn’t let me add stickers at all. It’s still a bug on my iPhone 16 pro. The sticker would be added for 2 seconds and it disappeared.

The beta has a bug of stickers not being added

 

[abcmax]

Will iOS 18.2 be reliable enough to upgrade from iOS 17.7.2?

 

[Zaydax333]

Oh nice, my share sheet functionality was broken in RC1 for certain apps, but seems to be fixed here in this new one.

 

[JippaLippa]

macOS still has some trouble with some VPNs.
I hope 15.2 will fix that.

Other than this, I noticed Sequoia was quite stabler for me than previous releases.