iOS 18 Beta 2 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Enygmatic]

Does the method to use the new Siri interface still work on this beta?

What was that, exactly? I think I read earlier that this beta removed that.

 

[iGeneo]

tried updating from Beta 1 to Beta 2 and now its showing my 15 Pro Max is in restore mode.... today isn't a good day 🙁

Good thing it’s your test device 😉

 

[CrisiomiroX]

I really hope this is just a bug, but folders in b2 don’t show the bigger app icons when using the large option in customization. Those big borders are such a waste of space. Again, hopefully just a bug.

Do you mean on the Home Screen or when you open the folder? I’m on DB2 and they’re showing as large icons for me in the latter. I honestly can’t recall if they were any bigger in the Lock Screen view on DB1.

 

[mxidis88]

What are you going to do with it?

I'm curious what the use cases are.

I'm able to leave my phone in my bag, drop my watch on a charger and initiate an update from my Mac[mirrored phone]

 

[Simon89]

Not for EE and O2 on this beta apparently

I’m meaning RCS on Android to Android 🙂

 

[adrianlondon]

I'm able to leave my phone in my bag, drop my watch on a charger and initiate an update from my Mac[mirrored phone]

So you don't need to do anything on the phone - you can just take it over remotely? Cool.

Currently upgrading MacOS. I'll do iOS 18 later. I'm on 17.5.1 at the moment due to an IMAP email issue I had when I tried the first beta. This time I'll stay on 18 and hopefully fix it (or work around it with Outlook if I really must).

 

[iGeneo]

I really hope this is just a bug, but folders in b2 don’t show the bigger app icons when using the large option in customization. Those big borders are such a waste of space. Again, hopefully just a bug.

Not for me. Working fine

 

[MLVC]

App icons don't change back to light mode when switching from dark to light. I'm using large icons by the way. Have to change them to small, and click "light" to have them revert to light. They stay light when making them large again. Worked fine in beta 1.

 

[sbailey4]

Is the digital clock option new in iOS18 standby mode? I don’t remember seeing it 17.

Nah its been on there since Standby was a thing. Analog was the default but could change to digital.

 

[mxidis88]

So you don't need to do anything on the phone - you can just take it over remotely? Cool.

Currently upgrading MacOS. I'll do iOS 18 later. I'm on 17.5.1 at the moment due to an IMAP email issue I had when I tried the first beta. This time I'll stay on 18 and hopefully fix it (or work around it with, spit, Outlook).

yeah...not a lot of dedicated "it's for this", but there's bunches of things that are easier if I can just grab my phone on my 'desktop' and open my work's 2FA app, instead of having to grab it out of a bag or on my desk, upstairs in my office.

 

[jdavid_rp]

New submenu for Siri even if your language doesn’t support just “Siri” trigger

 

[Banglazed]

Do see the RCS Messaging. I’m on T-Mobile if it’s carrier specific

 

[Cchase88754321]

Does the method to use the new Siri interface still work on this beta?

I tried adding it back it didn’t work

 

[mxidis88]

Do see the RCS Messaging. I’m on T-Mobile if it’s carrier specific

I'm on Tmo and do see it.

 

[Hitmanbbq59]

When you pull down Control Center and tap the Power button, nothing happens... In DB 1, it locks the screen then shows the Slide to Power Off...

If you Haptic Press on it, it shows the power off slider. Maybe people were accidentally triggering it!

 

[iGeneo]

I'm on Tmo and do see it.

I am on t-mobile and I do see it as well. Just for kicks I switched my data esim to my Airalo sim, that uses the DREI network and it was there as well.

 

[batting1000]

I wasn’t on beta 1 so not sure if this was there too, but switching between dark and light icons by enabling/disabling dark mode is super buggy. When you disable dark mode, all of the icons are stuck as the blueprints - switching to large then back to small seems to fix it.

 

[MLVC]

I wasn’t on beta 1 so not sure if this was there too, but switching between dark and light icons by enabling/disabling dark mode is super buggy. When you disable dark mode, all of the icons are stuck as the blueprints - switching to large then back to small seems to fix it.

It worked fine on beta 1. It's indeed buggy on beta 2.

 

[TimFL1]

Do see the RCS Messaging. I’m on T-Mobile if it’s carrier specific

Only for the big carriers in the US and provisioning seems to be broken (so enabling it does nothing).

 

[jdavid_rp]

If you Haptic Press on it, it shows the power off slider. Maybe people were accidentally triggering it!

Nice Change for sure

 

[TL24]

Still having issues with keyboard sound being way too low, always makes me think I'm in silent mode!

 

[flexwithmarius]

in that case, maybe you can change your Apple ID region to a different one, so it should work (in theory)

If you have Apple TV + or Apple Music, your country cannot be changed, just a heads up.

 

[contacos]

If you have Apple TV + or Apple Music, your country cannot be changed, just a heads up.

you can use a different Apple ID for those. My iCloud ID is from the US but my TV+ is in Germany (I keep making new AppleIDs to get free 4 months trials)

 

[ps3zocker]

They managed to make the label on the space bar for the bilingual keyboard even more with this condensed font.

 

[Ansath]

See that iPadOS beta 2 in the EU now gets alternate app stores, and all that? That came to iOS in 17.4