iOS 18.2 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Adora]

double post, please delete

 

[nutmac]

I’m pissed off.

Is your Cellular Data Mode setting set to Allow More Data on 5G?

 

[gwhizkids]

Still not rendering dog images properly in Playgrounds. Brown cockapoo still comes out looking like a brown and white JRT.

I’ll spare you the evidence.

 

[mathiasinthe314]

Still not rendering dog images properly in Playgrounds. Brown cockapoo still comes out looking like a brown and white JRT.

I’ll spare you the evidence.

Similar results here. Black and tan beagle comes out tan and white. Black and gray cat is orange and white and not nearly as obese as she really is.

 

[iLuddite]

First update since 2012 (when I got my first iPhone) that didn't turn on Bluetooth, same for macOS.

Yeah I think this began with the first iOS 18.2 beta, I noticed it then at least

 

[chrisdazzo]

Seems Mail is finally populating some contact icons for external domains - I'm seeing only eBay and Home Depot so far. Anyone else?

 

[Adora]

Yeah I think this began with the first iOS 18.2 beta, I noticed it then at least

Could be and I didn't realize it before and I also started only with beta 3, because the first ones were only for Apple Intelligence compatible devices.

 

[Adora]

Im am just updating my SE3 and the update is over 8GB, on the SE2 it only was about 450MB.

 

[RSmith2023]

This has been going on since beta 2…

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Silly question, but I have to ask: did you reset networking? Turn off and back on Messaging?

 

[ibookemo]

First time on the 18.2 betas. Feels really good initially - a good level of polish and a few nice new features. I’ll take it ✅

 

[Adora]

Silly question, but I have to ask: did you reset networking? Turn off and back on Messaging?

For most people this is sadly no silly question. Where I worked years ago, I was always called loud from the next room or by phone from above when someone had a problem and they never tried rebooting their PC or even just the Application before calling me, what helped in almost every case. And they also never learned to do it in the 5 years I had been there.

 

[CadeNSW]

Silly question, but I have to ask: did you reset networking? Turn off and back on Messaging?

I have reset networking and I have done the iMessages on/off multiple times. Soft Resets too. nothing. It did randomly start working correctly with one person so i do not know if it's the beta that is triggering this or something I can fix.

 

[Banglazed]

Public beta is out

 

[ShaneSparkyYYZ]

Type to Siri icon in controls doesn’t match when in Control Center. Reported this issue in beta 3. Anyone else have this issue?

I prefer the Siri icon over the keyboard with the little Siri icon.

 

[UpsideDownEclair]

Type to Siri icon in controls doesn’t match when in Control Center. Reported this issue in beta 3. Anyone else have this issue?

I prefer the Siri icon over the keyboard with the little Siri icon.

Seeing it on my end as well 🫤

 

[Sal09]

No Playground waiting list?

Applied and got accepted straight away.

 

[coffeeplease]

No Playground waiting list?

Applied and got accepted straight away.

Same here. Waitlist is gone it seems.

 

[adrianlondon]

First update since 2012 (when I got my first iPhone) that didn't turn on Bluetooth, same for macOS.

Was just going to post that. I'm shocked.

 

[ryanmcv]

I updated to this beta from 18.1 and was surprised to see the prompt asking me to choose/connect to a Wi-Fi network once the update had completed. Is that normal for 18.2? I'm away from home and was not connected to Wi-Fi when the update finished. So I'm guessing it prompts you connect to Wi-Fi so the Image Playground data can start downloading.

I also did not have to join a waiting list for Image Playground. It downloaded and started working immediately.

 

[Benito]

I'm going to install iOS 18.2 Beta 4 finally. I've been waiting as I only have my iPhone 16 Pro Max as my main driver. I hope it isn't too buggy.

 

[UpsideDownEclair]

Hopefully the bug with sRGB color on screenshots getting remapped to P3 gets picked up on… Half my screenshots look oversaturated. Assigning the sRGB profile back to them doesn’t fully get rid of that

Just confirmed this bug is in fact still there.

Update: Feedback # is FB15904995.

Mentioned it in the report, but there’s something else distorting the colors other than sRGB simply getting stretched to Display P3 as blues also look way oversaturated

 

[Reeneman]

Type to Siri icon in controls doesn’t match when in Control Center. Reported this issue in beta 3. Anyone else have this issue?

I prefer the Siri icon over the keyboard with the little Siri icon.

Don’t have this issue. For me the icons are the same.
I’m in the EU, probably it’s AI related? Not sure.

 

[Reeneman]

I'm going to install iOS 18.2 Beta 4 finally. I've been waiting as I only have my iPhone 16 Pro Max as my main driver. I hope it isn't too buggy.

Will be fine. Works very and fluid.

 

[Jumpie]

Still not rendering dog images properly in Playgrounds. Brown cockapoo still comes out looking like a brown and white JRT.

I’ll spare you the evidence.

Don't worry. It can't combine two animals: body of a pony with head of a lab. Just creates two animals.

 

[XboxMySocks]

New option to choose default messaging app in settings -> messages (located in EU, India account)
Also some settings from here weren’t before.

Can confirm present on 'Canada' region too. Not just EU