Yeah, I’m just a little sensitive to some of these things because of debates in other threads. 👍🏻 I know you just shared it for fun. 👍🏻🙂There are some good barbs, somethings are obviously erroneous of course, but its just get your mind off RC2 means a couple more days likely before Public and 18.3 beta being a few days away.
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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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One of the worst predictions in the history of this thread.
Its humor, if 18.2 was delayed to Jan 27th, everyone would just crawl into a cave and hibernate all winter.
Its humor, if 18.2 was delayed to Jan 27th, everyone would just crawl into a cave and hibernate all winter.
To be fair, 99% of people outside of the geek world would not even notice. 😉
Good morning fellas, I’m not expecting public release of 18.2 today but man would that be a shocker. (I’m expecting it tomorrow)
Besides, I already have RC2 installed so not much to look forward to as far as the iPhone goes but I am definitely excited for macOS 15.2 (I haven’t upgraded my Mac to a beta build and am still on 15.1.1)
Besides, I already have RC2 installed so not much to look forward to as far as the iPhone goes but I am definitely excited for macOS 15.2 (I haven’t upgraded my Mac to a beta build and am still on 15.1.1)
I don’t know, there could be a chance of a release today. More likely tomorrow, but I wouldn’t say there’s zero chance of a release today. 👍🏻
I’d love for it to come out today. But in my opinion the chance of the public release of 18.2 coming out today is 10% Yes / 90% No
I don’t think RC2 should take a whole week to test. And if they did just make some changes for security purposes, I don’t know that we even need that long to test it. Apple releases security updates all the time with no betas. So I think Public Release moves forward either today or tomorrow, unless more issues are discovered and require additional fixing.
I’d say it’s more like 60/40. They want that out there. As long as RC2 fixed whatever the issue was they’ll go as fast as they can.
Let’s see what @gwhizkids says here.
lol. I have no better info than any of you!
Let’s hope you’re right so we can move onto iOS 18.3 beta 1. 😁
It wouldn't be the first time that an RC2 was released and there was an official release the next day. In iOS 16 or 17, I don't remember which intermediate version, they released an RC2 on a Monday and there was an official release on Tuesday.
As per ChatGPT:
“Yes, there have been instances where the Release Candidate (RC) or Golden Master (GM) version of iOS software was followed by the public release just one day later. Apple sometimes does this for specific updates, especially minor ones or those tied to hardware releases. Here are some examples:
Examples of iOS RC → Public Release in One Day:
1. iOS 14.2
• RC Release Date: November 4, 2020
• Public Release Date: November 5, 2020
2. iOS 16.0
• RC Release Date: September 7, 2022
• Public Release Date: September 8, 2022
• Reason: Coincided with the announcement and imminent launch of the iPhone 14 lineup.
3. iOS 17.0.3
• RC Release Date: October 3, 2023
• Public Release Date: October 4, 2023
• Reason: Urgent update to address overheating issues on the iPhone 15 Pro models.
Typical Timing
However, the standard gap between RC and public release is 3–7 days. For major updates, Apple releases the RC shortly after its September event, and the public version follows the week after. For example:
• iOS 15.0 RC: September 14, 2021 → Public Release: September 20, 2021 (6 days).
• iOS 16.0 RC: September 7, 2022 → Public Release: September 12, 2022 (5 days).
“
I would just bear in mind that AI often gets things like this wrong. Meta, Gemini, and Copilot often gets confused about what the current version of iOS is. Sometimes it’s told me that the current version is iOS 13. It just can wildly fluctuate in its level of accuracy.
That said, I believe it’s pretty much right in this instance. I seem to remember at least one time when Apple released a public version of iOS a day after introducing an RC2. I think it’s reasonable to think iOS 18.2 could drop either today or tomorrow. 👍🏻
I was just coming to say the same thing. Even just in the first example the RC for 14.2 was released October 30th, not November 4th. (And no, there was no second RC) https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/30/apple-ios-14-2-golden-master/
Edit: Just noticed it contradicted itself using 16.0 as an example in both sections. And 17.0.3 didn't have an RC.
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I was looking for instances of a next day release as well as I seem to remember this happening in the past, but could not find any information to support my memory
Have a look here, guys, it has been a minimum of 3 days between RC2 and public releases so far:
