What to Expect From iOS 18.6 as One of the Final Updates Before iOS 26

[Parowdy]

Also, Can we get ability to freeze apps via long press on home screen ? Thank you

You mean that they will stay in RAM? Or what kind of freeze are you talking about?
I personally agree wholeheartedly. I have a very good public transport app that sometimes stays in RAM for literally 24 hours (one morning to the next) and then suddenly sometimes resets after switching apps. Very frustrating when gauging what connections to take and from where, especially with and for other people.

 

[Kottu]

Will there be new emojis and 50 shades of 🌈 ?

 

[MrAverigeUser]

Normally I switch to the "new" IOS version just before it gets replaced by the next one every year on september...

Because this is the best moment to prevent to be permanently the "test dummy" of the IOS developers...

Unfortunately and accidently one day I did not take attention and gave my ok for "upgrading" to IOS 18 i(which is normally always not allowed to happen "automatically" and so stays instead manually to update my IOS version. from one year ago (= IOS 17 in this case)...

So after nearly being non-volontarily a "Software-crash test-dummy" for the inewest IOS I will be more prudent to prevent that this happens again....

maybe I will "upgrade" to IOS 26 not before August or september 2026.... to get the latest version ...


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[applefan8254]

You mean that they will stay in RAM? Or what kind of freeze are you talking about?
I personally agree wholeheartedly. I have a very good public transport app that sometimes stays in RAM for literally 24 hours (one morning to the next) and then suddenly sometimes resets after switching apps. Very frustrating when gauging what connections to take and from where, especially with and for other people.

Thank you!

With a "freeze app" option, I was thinking this could give the user an easy access method to shut down an individual app completely so it doesn't run the background *at all.*

I was thinking the UI could be that the option could show up when long pressing an app on the home screen, in between some of the current options. Tapping this would shut down the app completely - no background processes at all. The app icon could then be greyed out and if you go to tap it, a pop up could say "App is frozen until the end of the day." with an option to "unfreeze app" manually and "ok" to dismiss. What do you think?

 

[Radeon85]

Jumping to iOS 26 just sounds stupid, what idiot thought of this one.

 

[wanha]

26 is gonna be the worst update of all time, Ventura style.

you know this... how?

 

[wanha]

Jumping to iOS 26 just sounds stupid, what idiot thought of this one.

when you look at in isolation like that, sure, I get that it looks stupid.

but when you look at it from the perspective of having every platform be on the same OS number, it simplifies things an awful lot

in the end, it's just a number that doesn't really mean anything. Having that number be more useful is a good thing.

 

[svish]

Expecting it to be a minor release and should hopefully fix the remaining bugs in the software.

 

[fantasyname_qwertz]

you know this... how?

Its build around the vision os, the least used UI.

 

[iModFrenzy]

Goodbye iOS 18, you will not be missed. iOS 8 was a buggy disaster too, guess Apple doesn’t have much luck with that number.

Fingers crossed, iOS 9 was fantastic.

 

[MrAverigeUser]

Goodbye iOS 18, you will not be missed. iOS 8 was a buggy disaster too, guess Apple doesn’t have much luck with that number.

Fingers crossed, iOS 9 was fantastic.

Over the years i got the impression that there are 2 different IOS/MacOS Developerteams, which are alternating responsible for new OS-Version and each has 2 years to develop one.
Why ?
I have the impression that OS with pair numbers have been nearly always better and more reliable than those with unpair numbers.... same for alternating MacOS...

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[2DeedleD]

Sounds like the perfect time to change brands and find both faith and happiness.

Exactly. Don't talk about it, BE about it.

 

[UpsetTheAppleCart]

It would be nice to get a bunch of random wallpapers. Ones that everyone can enjoy that don’t push various agendas and/or narratives.

 

[Dave-Z]

You really want Apple to break its security model. Reminds me of when law enforcement was sneaking invisible users into whatsapp group chats and sat there spying. Anyways, the Apple security model heavily implies your digital identity is tied directly to a sole device. Apple devices communicate with one another to strengthen this identity, they even calculate a metric for how certain it is actually you. But if you want multiple users on iOS, the brits would love that too. They'll be first in line to ask Apple to add in a special backdoor user on all the phones in UK. Apple usually prevents those conversations from ever happening through the "sorry, not possible". It's probably really annoying for Apple to have to even undergo these types of conversations with every country out there once the capability is even hinted at coming

Break its security model? Under the hood iOS and iPadOS are running a multi-user environment. Unix, Windows, and other operating systems have been doing this for decades. Various services are launched as various users as it creates the isolation of which you speak ("privilege separation"). The actual "user" account you use is just one account amongst many on the device.

You can't directly see this happening on a non-jailbroken iPhone or iPad, but you can easily see it on macOS

 

[Parowdy]

Thank you!

With a "freeze app" option, I was thinking this could give the user an easy access method to shut down an individual app completely so it doesn't run the background *at all.*

I was thinking the UI could be that the option could show up when long pressing an app on the home screen, in between some of the current options. Tapping this would shut down the app completely - no background processes at all. The app icon could then be greyed out and if you go to tap it, a pop up could say "App is frozen until the end of the day." with an option to "unfreeze app" manually and "ok" to dismiss. What do you think?

I don't hink that's gonna happen or really necessary. Quitting an app in the app switcher does basically exactly that, except for if you have background refresh enabled for it or open a Home Screen with widgets for it. The way I understand it, apps are sandboxed and only allowed certain activity or access, especially when not actively in use and on screen.
Any examples of apps you'd want this feature for specifically?

 

[applefan8254]

I don't hink that's gonna happen or really necessary. Quitting an app in the app switcher does basically exactly that, except for if you have background refresh enabled for it or open a Home Screen with widgets for it. The way I understand it, apps are sandboxed and only allowed certain activity or access, especially when not actively in use and on screen.
Any examples of apps you'd want this feature for specifically?

Geico drive easy, progressive snapshot, among other similar apps

 

[AlanBeyond]

Will it be the last big updates of the iOS 18 era?