iOS 18.4 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Isamilis]

Is it okay to update yet? I'm still on iOS 17 and everything is working flawlessly and I don't wanna wreck it.

With the delayed of apple intelligence, there are much less reasons to update to iOS 18. It I were you, I will hold the update for now.

 

[adrianlondon]

Email push is not working for iCloud emails. You have to manually open Mail and refresh.

Weirdly, as I still have a notification sound issue, I don't have any issues receiving iCloud mails via push.

To get around Apple's stupid limitation in not allowing Focus modes to be triggered by calendar events, I set an event alert to send me an email (to my iCloud account) and an automation then gets triggered which sets the focus mode. This works fine without me having to open the Mail app.

 

[LutzRFrank]

RC out. Downloading

 

[roncron]

RC out. Downloading

For public beta testers, too.

 

[nollimac]

> Mail notifications still silent

How can it be this bad, how can a $trillion company ship such obviously faulty software?

I'm quite frustrated. I missed an important email today, seriously almost threw my iPhone across the room.

If there was ANY other reasonable option, if androids and PCs weren't so creepy and awful, I'd sell all my apple gear and never look back.

if you were expecting an important email, why did you check if you realized a problem with notification on a beta software? Things, such as this, happen on beta software.

 

[nollimac]

Downloading RC

 

[Mlrollin91]

if you were expecting an important email, why did you check if you realized a problem with notification on a beta software? Things, such as this, happen on beta software.

This bug was introduced with 18.3.2; which is not beta. The idea was to see if Beta 18.4 fixed a public release bug.

 

[nollimac]

This bug was introduced with 18.3.2; which is not beta. The idea was to see if Beta 18.4 fixed a public release bug.

Okay, thanks for sharing.

 

[dk001]

I use 366 too, as it can show events which are already in progress.

Imagine you have a party from, say, 9pm until 3am, and you weren't planning on attending at 9.

Around 9:15pm you check your phone, and Apple's widget happily tells you that you're a loser with no friends and nothing to do. Go home, go to bed.

Calendar366 will tell you that the party is still happening, go out and have fun (or go home, and go to bed, but knowing you've skipped the party).

@srbNYC

The Outlook widget was showing more like Agenda and the Calendar more like List. That stopped with this beta. My Proton Calendar widget continued to work correctly.

What I did this weekend:
Removed Outlook - app and widget
Removed all accounts linked Calendar and removed the widget. Didn’t remove the app as that just hides it.
Reinstalled iOS via ipsw
Hard reboot
Reinstalled Outlook - reinstalled widget - it worked and showed Agenda view
Reinstalled Calendar widget - it showed List view.

Crossing fingers….

RC out. - 🤣😂🤣

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

With the delayed of apple intelligence, there are much less reasons to update to iOS 18. It I were you, I will hold the update for now.

It’s that bad huh?

 

[eoblaed]

Hm.. I figured most people used Spark or Superhuman by now. They're both so good!

In all my glancing at the updates Apple has introduced to Mail with iOS 18 and macOS 15, I haven't been swayed at all to make much use of it

Superhuman is so FAST, and all the new AI tools inside of it (especially for Mac) - make it by far the best email client I've ever come across. Yep, it's worth every dime

Superhuman is gmail-only (well, outlook too) and doesn't support iCloud Mail, which makes it a non-starter for me. Signed up for a trial with my gmail accounts and it was moderately nifty, but without support for iCloud Mail or other non-gmail services, I can't use it.

 

[eoblaed]

It’s that bad huh?

No. iOS 18 has been solid and performant. While it's true the Apple Intelligence features have been a bit underwhelming so far (though I do get value out of mail/chat summaries, etc, it provides), it's been a pretty clean ride so far. No reason to hold back.

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

No. iOS 18 has been solid and performant. While it's true the Apple Intelligence features have been a bit underwhelming so far (though I do get value out of mail/chat summaries, etc, it provides), it's been a pretty clean ride so far. No reason to hold back.

I'm on 18.4 now. It's not too bad. Seems very smooth. Actually, smoother than 17 in my opinion, but Notification Center animations are really tacky now. Stuff just stutters and snaps into place.