iOS 18.2 Beta 2 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Tsepz]

Beta 2 still settling into my 15 Pro Max, noticing less heating up that was there in Beta 1 in the beginning.

 

[TL24]

Still worth giving your router a reboot as it may let others devices still connect

Just rebooted everything, let's see if it helps!

 

[MCKLMT]

Upgrade to beta 2 was hotter than usually but once it’s installed, the temperature came back to normal.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

Apple Beta program is like the Mafia... Once you get in, you can never get out...... alive

And every time you think you're out - they pull you back in!

 

[herzozo]

For many years now, Apple’s iPhone processors have been considerably over-specced. Virtually no one could put a load on it that could tax it.

Now, we have with Apple Intelligence what I believe is the first commercialized on-mobile-device implementation of a large language model-based artificial intelligence system.

Server based LLMs are notorious for their power consumption, so much so that major data centers running them are considering building or re-commissioning nuclear power plants to process them with consistent electrical power.

Here, we are talking about the same thing but in miniature, running trillions of computations per second, on a 3/4” thick form factor that fits in the palm of your hand.

Of course it’s going to get warm. Of course it’s going to use a lot of battery.

It’s just a miracle that it’s even able to happen.

Thing is, my experience started before Apple Intelligence which I still have no access to (in the EU). Hence my concern is generic, my phone heats up considerably when scrolling the web (text based sites with heavy ad-blocking) or my RSS feed or just watching a YouTube video or scrolling Instagram. I don’t think any of those activities should be taxing enough to heat it up noticeably, yet they do, consistently. My phone has also been reset multiple times, the problem remained.

 

[mainnine]

Thank you for your reply, I tried to restart and unfortunately, I still get the prompt to update
But I'm glad it worked for you!

I wonder though if something changed this year, because I don't recall having this issue on iOS 17 beta cycle...
At least I hope that it will stop when iOS 19 betas start being released, if I don't enter the iOS 19 beta cycle!

It’s always had this behaviour for as long as I can remember in previous years. I’ve turned it off before and it always continued to prompt me until the final public release came out and I could properly “leave” the beta cycle

 

[strkt1192]

Battery and heating is way better on this. Idle Drain i was having on my 16 pro seems to be fixed.

 

[vince085]

any issues with the screen glitching?

Yup, had 2 today, 16PM

 

[john991]

Can’t get into health apps or devices. Get the spinning wheel. Anyone else notice this?

Just installed polar flow app. It sure if that’s the cause.

 

[kirbysmartsdawg]

Battery and heating is way better on this. Idle Drain i was having on my 16 pro seems to be fixed.

It’s fantastic to hear this! I was eagerly waiting for someone to discuss this. It was mentioned in the release notes, but I wasn’t sure if it was actually functional.

 

[zemaker]

The Mail app has been using a lot of my battery, anyone else seeing that in this beta?

 

[soniasim]

It’s always had this behaviour for as long as I can remember in previous years. I’ve turned it off before and it always continued to prompt me until the final public release came out and I could properly “leave” the beta cycle

Oh really? I cannot remember this behaviour at all, but I trust what you say and I am kinda relieved that this is the case, because I thought that this specific device is permanently locked in a beta state forever! Especially after logging out from my Apple ID and figuring out that it stills prompts me to download the latest beta!

 

[christian.terra]

Can’t get into health apps or devices. Get the spinning wheel. Anyone else notice this?

Just installed polar flow app. It sure if that’s the cause.

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Happened to me but force closed the app and reopened it and it worked.

 

[dk001]

Both iPhone and iPad on B2. When I try to print a page in Safari as a pdf it fails 100%.
Had no issue with this on B1.

 

[papbot]

Oh really? I cannot remember this behaviour at all, but I trust what you say and I am kinda relieved that this is the case, because I thought that this specific device is permanently locked in a beta state forever! Especially after logging out from my Apple ID and figuring out that it stills prompts me to download the latest beta!

I think it’s been somewhat different with the final release of 18.1, and then the immediate release of 18.2. But in the past I was always able to toggle off the beta options once I was on a release I wanted to stay on and was never shown any other beta offerings. When the 18.1 RC version was released I did turn betas off to see if the general release would be a version ahead of the RC which it was, so I installed that, and left the beta options off. I turned them back on recently, prior to this 2nd 18.2 version. At that time software update showed me up to date with 18.1 on both phone and ipad, and also showed 18.2 as available, but there was no install notification. I left things as they were - devices on 18.1 and beta updates enabled - just in case there were a further 18.1 beta coming. Only after this release of the 2nd 18.2 version did I see that install notification with a red number badge on the Settings icon on my phone because it had downloaded 18.2 overnight, while my ipad had not. Turning beta updates off got rid of all that on both devices.

The 18/18.1/18.2 releases are behaving quite differently than past releases. For now I’m keeping the betas off and will wait for either an 18.2 RC or the general release to install.

 

[john991]

Happened to me but force closed the app and reopened it and it worked.

Not for me. Forced close numerous times same problem

 

[gwhizkids]

Has anyone else lost the ability to manually recategorize mail?

 

[christian.terra]

Not for me. Forced close numerous times same problem

it shows up for me after 15/20 seconds. its not immediate like it used to be.

 

[john991]

it shows up for me after 15/20 seconds. its not immediate like it used to be.

Took slightly over 2 minutes and finally got in. 😬

 

[UpsideDownEclair]

Has anyone else lost the ability to manually recategorize mail?

Just checked. No it’s fully working on my end as of right now. Showing all 4 categories as well

 

[gwhizkids]

Just checked. No it’s fully working on my end as of right now. Showing all 4 categories as well

I found it in the Transactions, Promotions and Updates categories. But I can’t locate it due email in the Primary category. And that’s where in want it. Lots of mail in there that I’d rather were elsewhere.

 

[Gix1k]

Still waiting on playground since day 1 of beta 1

 

[Dwood1970]

Has anyone else lost the ability to manually recategorize mail?

I can but not in the primary box. Also my mail won’t fetch. It just keeps saying “Checking for mail”

 

[soniasim]

I think it’s been somewhat different with the final release of 18.1, and then the immediate release of 18.2. But in the past I was always able to toggle off the beta options once I was on a release I wanted to stay on and was never shown any other beta offerings. When the 18.1 RC version was released I did turn betas off to see if the general release would be a version ahead of the RC which it was, so I installed that, and left the beta options off. I turned them back on recently, prior to this 2nd 18.2 version. At that time software update showed me up to date with 18.1 on both phone and ipad, and also showed 18.2 as available, but there was no install notification. I left things as they were - devices on 18.1 and beta updates enabled - just in case there were a further 18.1 beta coming. Only after this release of the 2nd 18.2 version did I see that install notification with a red number badge on the Settings icon on my phone because it had downloaded 18.2 overnight, while my ipad had not. Turning beta updates off got rid of all that on both devices.

The 18/18.1/18.2 releases are behaving quite differently than past releases. For now I’m keeping the betas off and will wait for either an 18.2 RC or the general release to install.

I think that it did not show you a notification for the first beta of 18.2 because it was not available for all devices, it was only available for iPhone 16 series, if I recall well!

I know that, because soon after installing 18.1 final release, I read that 18.2 beta 1 came out, I immediately checked if my device showed it, but for the first time, it was up to date and not showing it!
I was happy and thought that the issue got resolved, then I read that it was not a release for everyone so I started waiting for the 2nd beta to check. In the end, as soon as the beta 2 got released, it appeared immediately

 

[jbuk72]

I found it in the Transactions, Promotions and Updates categories. But I can’t locate it due email in the Primary category. And that’s where in want it. Lots of mail in there that I’d rather were elsewhere.

It’s still an option for me with emails in the primary category.

You open an email and hit the reply button to get all the options.

If you sipe to the left and select the more option the categories menu item is indeed missing.

Think it’s a bug and I’ll raise it in feedback.