iOS 18 Speculation Thread

[Hans300]

I will not upgrade to Vista 26 and stay with polished 18.X

 

[Kal Madda]

I will not upgrade to Vista 26 and stay with polished 18.X

Ok, I guess you’ll miss out on all the new features and security updates as well… 🤷🏼‍♂️. At some point you’ll have to update. And I used Vista, iOS 26 looks and feels nothing like it.

 

[iSuzan]

Ah ... 18.6 public beta is out as well. So installing and see if I find something new. Probably not, but will see.

 

[gtmead09]

With a quick public and many B / D builds, thinking this will be a short beta cycle. My guess is that will be a correct guess if we get beta 2 next week and they avoid the normal 2 week cycle from beta 1 to 2.

 

[iSuzan]

Found nothing new, everything works for me as expected. So same as 18.5.

 

[UliBaer]

18.6 RC or even release today - since there is nothing new to test anymore?

 

[iSuzan]

18.6 RC or even release today - since there is nothing new to test anymore?

Yeah, I think it all depends if there are major problems with Chinese AI. This is in 18.6 right? I guess, it is the biggest change the most of us won't notice.

 

[yeahtyeaht]

18.6 RC or even release today - since there is nothing new to test anymore?

Release would be great but I think they will release an RC. I also think the release is imminent, that's why we won't see 18.5.1

 

[Hamsterhjulet]

I guess we’ll see the next beta today.

 

[pw5a29]

Is beta 2 coming today?

 

[Stuipdboy1000]

Possibly no new beta til next week. The X.6 updates tend to release in late July based on the last few years so I'm expecting a full beta cycle for this update even if it looks like there's nothing new.

 

[James6s]

18.6 beta 2 today? 🤔

 

[Hamsterhjulet]

18.6 beta 2 today? 🤔

I’m going with RC today.

 

[James6s]

I’m going with RC today.

Very short beta cycle if that happens!

 

[Stuipdboy1000]

I'm expecting beta 2 today or tomorrow.

 

[Hamsterhjulet]

Very short beta cycle if that happens!

It feels well rounded and done. Can’t see them spend more time in beta. It’s already a “d” build. So either one more beta or directly to RC.

 

[James6s]

It feels well rounded and done. Can’t see them spend more time in beta. It’s already a “d” build. So either one more beta or directly to RC.

Agree it’s well rounded and a good beta, I just don’t think battery life is quite as good as 18.5, it’s close though. Performance is top notch.

 

[UliBaer]

iOS 18 seems internally already declared "feature complete" and since the lack of new testable features, I vote for RC or even final release today/this week.

 

[Kal Madda]

iOS 18 seems internally already declared "feature complete" and since the lack of new testable features, I vote for RC or even final release today/this week.

Just because 18 is deemed “feature complete” internally doesn’t mean there aren’t still bug fixes or other improvements that would be shipped with updates. 👍🏻

 

[gtmead09]

With the end of the week being a holiday in the USA, I am anticipating beta 2 coming today or tomorrow at the latest.....

 

[christian.terra]

Every .6 version has had at least 3/4 betas so I'm expecting beta 2 today and beta 3/RC in two weeks.

 

[southnorth]

Beta 2 out

 

[iSuzan]

Beta 2 is here! Downloading...

 

[pw5a29]

ipsw is out as well