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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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Yes, weird, but it might still come within the next hour, this has happened before.
Makes me wonder if they're not very confident in the current build that was released for Devs yesterday.
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Since iOS/IPadOS 18.0 beta cycle likely will only have 4 more betas and a RC, seems like the odds against this happening are increasing.
Two sources (MR and 9to5 Mac) have both reported this morning that it’s still coming to the iOS 18 beta cycle. Both were quite likely tipped by Apple itself on this.
I don’t think the odds against this are increasing.
Well it makes 0 sense then to release all of the other betas and just not IOS unless there is an issue they found with it...
What’s the build of the public beta from today? One family member is on the public beta but shows 225307i)
Doing software update and shows phone is up to date.
Doing software update and shows phone is up to date.
It may make zero sense to you and me, outside of Apple. However it probably makes perfect sense to Apple. There can be a myriad of reasons besides there being an issue. Also arguing against your theory is that no one is reporting showstoppers.
Here’s some pure speculation: the second public beta of iOS 18 was not released because Apple is about to turn on some of the Apple Intelligence feature, server side. Code for it all over the place in the developer preview build apparently. So why not?
So, there is a delay with iOS 18 PB2. I'm hoping whatever the delay was; they release it as soon as possible so they could get feedback from users as opposed to just waiting for the next cycle. So even today, tomorrow or another random day. It wouldn't make sense for Apple to wait until the next Tuesday just to stick to a day, the purpose is to test and gather feedback.
Imagine they start Apple Intelligence in the next days server side, just out of nowhere ☺️
if we include the sub versions the Beta cycle of iOS18.x.x continue until July or August 2025
The builds are the same, PB and dev… my guess is they found an issue and want a fix like in the previous beta. There is hope for AI though 😁
How do you know it’s a delay? Just because it didn’t come out when we expected it to be released doesn’t mean that it’s not exactly on the schedule Apple has for it. And they don’t really need our feedback. It’s nice to have but they don’t make release decisions based on getting more feedback or not.
As a wise little green alien once said, “you must unlearn what you have learned!”. There has never been anything been anything like Apple Intelligence before so we cannot apply past paradigms to this bets cycle.
It may turn out that you are correct but there is more potential for it not to be than in past years.
The 18.0 beta cycle.if we include the sub versions the Beta cycle of iOS18.x.x continue until July or August 2025