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Agreed, I went straight from 18.4.1 and never heated during or after update. Running cool as a cucumber, battery is already awesome so far today, and everything is faster and more fluid. Nice update so far.

Unusual to see improvements in battery life so soon after an update, I had just over 8hrs of screen time and went to bed with 43% left. Be interesting to see if it improves further.
 
I’ve installed 18.5 RC and now my iMessages are being sent from my email address rather than my phone number. If I try and switch it to my phone number it just says that an error occurred during activation. Same with FaceTime.

Anybody else seen this?
Usually a restart for my iPhone resolves this issue for me.
 
Hello ,
Overheating on iPhone 16 pro or max?
Did you do a full reinstall or just an OTA update?

Yes, updated through iTunes and I’m experiencing overheating on my 16PM but I think it’s still indexing so I’ll give it 2-3 days to settle.
 
Unusual to see improvements in battery life so soon after an update, I had just over 8hrs of screen time and went to bed with 43% left. Be interesting to see if it improves further.
Yep and the "optimizing...." message didn't appear like the last few updates did.
 
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This update screwed up a bunch of HomeKit AirPlay glyphs for me… rather than the appropriate HomePod mini (single or paired) glyphs… I get glyphs for large HomePods and generic speaker icons in the AirPlay menu.

Everything still works fine, but the icons are all wrong.

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Also lost the AirPods glyph in the warranty section…

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I’ve had responses in days, some in weeks and some feedback reports zero responses.

I will note, I’ve submitted several feedback reports where I got zero response (recent similar reports was None too) but my suggestion was implemented in the next beta.
I got reports that my submitted bug has been fixed…but it hasn’t. I submit the awful color oversaturation in app switcher since 18.1 but nothing ever happens 🙃
 
Issues for me on iPadOS 18.5 RC only (fine on mac and iPhone)…

1) Messages do not sync reliably- both iMessage and SMS
2) Stock mail app badge showing unread emails count still takes ages to show none…existed since 18 was released.

All reported! I expect no fix.
 
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This update screwed up a bunch of HomeKit AirPlay glyphs for me… rather than the appropriate HomePod mini (single or paired) glyphs… I get glyphs for large HomePods and generic speaker icons in the AirPlay menu.

Everything still works fine, but the icons are all wrong.

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Also lost the AirPods glyph in the warranty section…

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All mine are good except my AirPods (like yours).
 
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Hello ,
Overheating on iPhone 16 pro or max?
Did you do a full reinstall or just an OTA update?
Only overheating I’ve encountered is with FaceTime (granted was also my first time using it so I’m not sure if that’s always the case)

16 pro here and other than that I haven’t had any issues with the RC. OTA from 18.4.1
 
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Anyone else’s iMessage and SMS not syncing across devices? My iPad is only getting the odd one.
Noticed this too. My iPad gets only random ones. And some photos not appearing that I send from iPhone to just some contacts (not all) not showing in iMessage photo gallery.
 
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Issues for me on iPadOS 18.5 RC only (fine on mac and iPhone)…

1) Messages do not sync reliably- both iMessage and SMS
2) Stock mail app badge showing unread emails count still takes ages to show none…existed since 18 was released.

All reported! I expect no fix.
I expect no fix 😂. Sad but true
 
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This update screwed up a bunch of HomeKit AirPlay glyphs for me… rather than the appropriate HomePod mini (single or paired) glyphs… I get glyphs for large HomePods and generic speaker icons in the AirPlay menu.

Everything still works fine, but the icons are all wrong.

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Also lost the AirPods glyph in the warranty section…

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My AirPods glyph has returned!

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Unlisted update: more vacuums compatible with HomeKit. Tapo RV30 Max Plus is now compatible. Was not 3 weeks ago.
 
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I’ve noticed two new things, if these aren’t new please disregard one I randomly got a notification on my screen to reset my apple account password. See the screenshot.

Also I clicked the side button to light up my screen and I got something on my screen that said look down to unlock I didn’t screenshot it in time, but unless it’s a feature that is turned on by default in this release I haven’t turned anything else on and no other version of iOS 18 have I ever seen this.
 

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18.5 is running well on my 15 pro.
Only think that bothers me is that the wallpaper in safari often seems to reload with a visible delay.
Turned out the wallpaper now.
 
Other than the usual bugs, I have run into a new one for RC.
15PM and iPad Pro11
AirPods Pro2

1. Watching video (Prime, YouTube) the sound will fluctuate up and down in volume. Hard reset doesn't help.
2. Listening to music with APP2 on NC, it allows much more background noise in than B4 and previous betas.

Yes, spell and grammar check still massively sucks. SOSDD 🙄
 
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