Everything New in iOS 18.2 Beta 2

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Update went much quicker and more smoothly than usually on my iPhone 15 pro.

The last couple of updates have been slow (both to show up, and to "prepare"). This one just breezed through.

 

[Unity451]

Please fix the network issues. I couldn't care less about the new features until they fix the proxy/firewall problems.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Settings App Icons

In Dark Mode, the icons in the Settings app have a new, darker look that shows color on a black background rather than icons that are a solid color with white accents.

My settings icons are the same (light) as always. Not at all like this screen shot.

I even tried toggling over to light mode, and back to dark. No change.

Anyone else see the older, light icons, after updating to the iOS 18.2 beta 2?

Edit: I also have light icons on my Mac after updating to the macOS 15.2 beta 2.

 

[rysmtihaz]

Is the email bug fixed

Was wondering the same thing. It was so bad for me last week I downgraded to 18.1. Will probably hold off until Beta 3 or 4.

 

[OneillSG]

Find My is quite broken for me in beta 2. I can’t locate AirTags properly now. It just says searching forever.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

"In the iOS 18.2 beta 2 release notes, Apple says that it has improved battery life and device temperature."

So they moved a bunch of stuff from performance cores to efficiency cores. Which means they had to reduce performance to keep the phone from overheating and sucking the battery dry. Good to know.

Wow, you must be an Apple engineer, whistleblowing. Thank you for telling us how incompetent Apple engineers must be.
/s

 

[Treble]

Was wondering the same thing. It was so bad for me last week I downgraded to 18.1. Will probably hold off until Beta 3 or 4.

Emails are sorted in This update

 

[jaw04005]

These laws are becoming far more common in many states for obvious reasons and eventually lawmakers will probably be more careful to make it a little more full proof so no reason to go half way. Jobs was very supportive of restrictions on content for children so I think this shouldn't be a tough one. These laws pass because they are overwhelmingly popular - who is in favor of children and teens getting exposed to pornography? Apple is better off to make it hard to get around rather than easy.

While Apple was one of the first computer companies to offer free parental controls, even back in the iTools days.

There's no way hell Steve Jobs would have been supportive of state governments forcing Apple to enable parental controls for the web automatically.

That's the parent's responsibility. Most teenagers are much more tech savvy than their parents anyway. They'll just evade it.

 

[chucker23n1]

who is in favor of children and teens getting exposed to pornography

Children, obviously not (where’s the evidence that children being exposed to porn is a widespread problem?).

Teenagers, though? Are Utah lawmakers pretending they did not carefully inspect the Sears catalog when they were 14?

 

[Allen_Wentz]

These laws are becoming far more common in many states for obvious reasons and eventually lawmakers will probably be more careful to make it a little more full proof so no reason to go half way. Jobs was very supportive of restrictions on content for children so I think this shouldn't be a tough one. These laws pass because they are overwhelmingly popular - who is in favor of children and teens getting exposed to pornography? Apple is better off to make it hard to get around rather than easy.

Curious if such laws just make some folks feel good, or if they actually work. My guess is the former. E.g. I expect your average 17 y-o is far more aware than the UT law that claims to protect them. Silly adults always think that ever more morality laws will protect their children, when competent parenting is what is necessary.

 

[dfwiddoc]

These laws are becoming far more common in many states for obvious reasons and eventually lawmakers will probably be more careful to make it a little more full proof so no reason to go half way. Jobs was very supportive of restrictions on content for children so I think this shouldn't be a tough one. These laws pass because they are overwhelmingly popular - who is in favor of children and teens getting exposed to pornography? Apple is better off to make it hard to get around rather than easy.

What are those obvious reasons exactly? Parents can’t invoke their own web restrictions on their kids’ phones? I work as an infectious diseases specialist and HIV clinician/educator and these laws block access to important information and resources that kids often need to pursue pregnancy and STI testing, and that destroys lives. This is why we don’t have laws requiring parental consent for such things—many kids can’t talk to their parents about such matters. And it’s why Utah doesn’t represent the rest of the US where there’s still some semblance of a separation between church and state. The obvious reasons are about why not to have such laws, if folks are informed. No offense.

 

[antiprotest]

My Mac always loses 10 to 30 GB with every update, some of which would return after a short time, but at least some of the storage would always be lost forever.

This time it lost 50 to 70 GB updating to 18.1, none of which has come back yet. (There is such a range because it goes up and down a little depending on what I am doing on the computer -- RAM swap?)

My next Mac will also have at least 1TB if for no other reason than this. Thanks, Apple.

 

[Vjhjhobud]

There’s now an RCS toggle even on networks that don’t yet support RCS, saying ‘waiting for activation’

 

[Diamondsr4everyone]

It’s a typo.

Figured as much but was never listed any of the iphone 16 devices.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

There’s now an RCS toggle even on networks that don’t yet support RCS, saying ‘waiting for activation’

No dice with Google Fi. One would think that Google of all companies would have this figured out on their own-branded carrier but here we are.

 

[zorinlynx]

The Utah thing is extremely concerning.

While I do believe that underage people shouldn't be watching porn, I don't think it should be Apple's job to enforce this.

 

[zorinlynx]

These laws are becoming far more common in many states for obvious reasons and eventually lawmakers will probably be more careful to make it a little more full proof so no reason to go half way. Jobs was very supportive of restrictions on content for children so I think this shouldn't be a tough one. These laws pass because they are overwhelmingly popular - who is in favor of children and teens getting exposed to pornography? Apple is better off to make it hard to get around rather than easy.

The problem here is that it shouldn't be *Apple* enforcing these laws.

It can lead to a slippery slope. Today it's porn, tomorrow it might be visiting websites the regime doesn't approve of.

 

[Rafagon]

Pay for unlimited ChatGPT-4o?

WTF? I thought we would get unlimited uses of the best ChatGPT offers for being Apple customers!

I thought that's why Apple paid them off with their "partnership."

This is an outrage!

 

[AnonMac50]

iPhone Mirroring with hotspot isn't new in 18.2 Beta 2. It was definitely working on Beta 1; I was using it yesterday, way before Beta 2 released.
Interestingly enough though, when I tried it last week it wouldn't work, telling me I couldn't use it while using the hotspot, so maybe something changed on the backend?

Which means it's not completely offline. Does this by any chance have anything to do with its delayed launch in the EU?

 

[fl010]

Such a fail (resulting from many decision errors and greed) with this whole chatgpt Integration

Yeah pay for your queries and send your images and documents around "OMG this is so innovative"

 

[Kar98]

Is the email bug fixed

Sure why not.

 

[svish]

iPhone mirroring along with hotspot is a small but very significant change.

 

[podycust]

"In the iOS 18.2 beta 2 release notes, Apple says that it has improved battery life and device temperature."

So they moved a bunch of stuff from performance cores to efficiency cores. Which means they had to reduce performance to keep the phone from overheating and sucking the battery dry. Good to know.

How if there is little to no performance reduction is this a issue?

also where is your evidence to back up such a claim?

 

[podycust]

There’s now an RCS toggle even on networks that don’t yet support RCS, saying ‘waiting for activation’

Not for me

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

There’s now an RCS toggle even on networks that don’t yet support RCS, saying ‘waiting for activation’

No dice with Google Fi. One would think that Google of all companies would have this figured out on their own-branded carrier but here we are.

Not for me

Not showing up here in Norway either.

All the main operators in Norway were quite luke warm to the idea when it was announced back in July (Norwegian link), and I've not heard anything about it since...