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iOS 18.4 Expected Next Week - Here Are the Release Notes

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With the second release candidate of iOS 18.4 that Apple seeded out today, the company finally provided us with release notes that give a full rundown on what to expect.

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There's an Apple Vision Pro app, new Apple Intelligence features for notifications and additional language support, plus an Apple News Food feature for Apple News+ subscribers, and several updates that should improve the functionality of the Photos app. Apple's release notes are below.
Apple Intelligence (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)
- Priority notifications appear at the top of your notifications, highlighting important notifications that may require your immediate attention
- Sketch is now available as an additional style option in Image Playground, allowing you to create gorgeous sketch drawings
- Apple Intelligence features support 8 additional languages and 2 additional English locales, including English (India, Singapore), French (France, Canada), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Spain, Latin America, US)

Apple Vision Pro App
- The new Apple Vision Pro app, automatically installed for users with Apple Vision Pro, helps you discover new content, spatial experiences, and quickly access information about your device

Apple News+
- Recipes from some of the world's best recipe publishers are now available on Apple News+
- Recipe Catalog allows you to browse or search to find the perfect dish and save it to your Saved Recipes
- Cooking mode lets you easily follow step-by-step directions
- The Food section also includes stories about restaurants, kitchen tips, healthy eating, and more

Photos
- New filters to show or hide items that are not contained in an album, or synced from a Mac or PC, in the Library view in Photos
- Reorder items in the Media Types and Utilities collections in Photos
- Consistent filtering options in all collections, including the ability to sort by oldest or newest first in Photos
- Option to sort albums by Date Modified in Photos
- Ability to disable "Recently Viewed" and "Recently Shared" collections in Photos Settings
- Hidden photos are no longer included for import to Mac or a PC if Use Face ID is enabled in Photos settings

This update also includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
- Safari recent search suggestions help you quickly get back to previous search topics when starting a new query
- Setup Assistant streamlines steps parents need to take to create a Child Account for a kid in their family, and enables child-appropriate default settings if parents prefer to complete setting up a Child Account later
- Screen Time App Limits persist even after a child uninstalls and reinstalls an app
- App Store includes summaries for user reviews so you can get helpful insights from other users at a glance
- Pause and resume of an app download or update on App Store without losing progress
- New widgets for Podcasts including a Followed Shows widget to track your favorite shows and a Library widget to get to your most used sections, such as Latest Episodes, Saved, and Downloaded
- Ambient Music offers the ability to instantly play music from Control Center, giving access to a set of hand-curated playlists that offer soundtracks for daily life
- Apple Fitness+ Collections can now be added to Library
- Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaners can be controlled in the Home app as well as be added to scenes and automations
- Support for 10 new system languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu

Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit:

Apple security releases - Apple Support

This document lists security updates and Rapid Security Responses for Apple software.
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Apple's release notes don't actually include all of the new features that were found in the update during the beta testing period, including some new Control Center options and a handful of new emoji characters.

iOS 18.4 is expected in early April, which is actually next week. It's looking like Apple could release the update on Tuesday, April 1, given that we got two release candidates this week.

Article Link: iOS 18.4 Expected Next Week - Here Are the Release Notes
 
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This update also includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

- Safari recent search suggestions help you quickly get back to previous search topics when starting a new query
- Setup Assistant streamlines steps parents need to take to create a Child Account for a kid in their family, and enables child-appropriate default settings if parents prefer to complete setting up a Child Account later
- Screen Time App Limits persist even after a child uninstalls and reinstalls an app
- App Store includes summaries for user reviews so you can get helpful insights from other users at a glance
- Pause and resume of an app download or update on App Store without losing progress
- New widgets for Podcasts including a Followed Shows widget to track your favorite shows and a Library widget to get to your most used sections, such as Latest Episodes, Saved, and Downloaded
- Ambient Music offers the ability to instantly play music from Control Center, giving access to a set of hand-curated playlists that offer soundtracks for daily life
- Apple Fitness+ Collections can now be added to Library
- Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaners can be controlled in the Home app as well as be added to scenes and automations
- Support for 10 new system languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu
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Does not including a bug fix for when an iOS 18 update re-enables Apple Intelligence when it's turned off mean it's not a bug?
 
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Okay. Having just recently set up Child devices on my Family account, the improvements to that and screen time are welcome. It’s been working great so far.
 
maerz001 said:
Is this now finally the release for at least some AI in Europe?
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That’s the plan. I’m really looking forward to having this on my iPhone (I’m in the EU). It’s just too much hassle to crank up my M1 MacBook Air to use it. (I know, 1st world problems, right?)
Unlike many others I’m happy with Image Playground and I’m also looking forward to the improved search within Photos.
 
jz0309 said:
on April Fool's Day? better not ...
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Maybe it's just me but it seems after Covid (for some reason, maybe coincidental, maybe even beore that) April Fools Day kind of stopped being a thing people paid attention to. Especially big corporations.
 
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Shin-Ra said:
Safari iOS and iPadOS can finally display SSL Certificate details.

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I was looking for this very thing on mobile Safari not long ago and thought I was crazy and had to be missing something, that it can't show the exact same information it does on desktop, despite indicating HTTPS. Doesn't do much good to show the lock if you can't actually examine it.
 
CarAnalogy said:
Maybe it's just me but it seems after Covid (for some reason, maybe coincidental, maybe even beore that) April Fools Day kind of stopped being a thing people paid attention to. Especially big corporations.
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time to restart a tradition then I suppose ...
 
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I’ve been using the RC’s all week and seen precisely 1 “priority notification”. It’s missed some things that should have been easily identifiable as priority.
 
jblank said:
I’ve been using the RC’s all week and seen precisely 1 “priority notification”. It’s missed some things that should have been easily identifiable as priority.
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I totally misread this and that you meant rcs lol. I was like I turned that off ages ago.
 
jz0309 said:
not sure whom you are quoting, but the article lists this:
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All of those (except arguably screen time limits persisting after uninstall and reinstall of an app) are new features and not bug fixes.

I missed the screen time one buried in the long list of new features, I didn't notice the one bug fix. It still says "fixes" plural so still inaccurate.
 
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