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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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Nada for 18.1 today. Let’s hope tomorrow, realistically next week.
Keeps hope alive until 4PMest. Then I'll just chalk it up to being the first .1 release in a min to have a 2 week schedule.
They're only one beta in on a release that's not expected until around October, and it's running in parallel with the 18.0 major release branch, which is almost certainly their top priority right now — 18.1 is probably going to be on a 2-week beta cycle until around b3 or b4.
A 2 week cycle makes no sense and 18 now has more features and bug fixes compared to 18.1. Literally the only difference with 18.1 so far is AI.
Major X.1 betas aren’t usually almost exactly the same as the previous version, I wouldn’t call 18.1 a typical update.
18.1 definitely seems to be having a fair amount of issues. Makes 0 sense to wait 2 weeks when they could match it with 18.0 betas.
That seems awfully light on the betas if they are shooting for a Oct launch. That gives them 4 betas before release to the public. Seems apple is asking for issues going that route.
Agreed, there's really nothing typical about 18.1. Not to mention that October isn't too far off from today, and there's a fair bit of Apple Intelligence features waiting to be implemented. Are 4-5 releases enough?
Annoyed, but I guess next Monday/Tuesday will be 18.1 beta 2. Developer betas are for developers at the end of the day 🙃
Based on my experience, I suspect iOS 18.0 for iPad is going to be an absolute train wreck. ⚡️🚂 After installing 17.6 I’ve noticed some hits of AI already being implemented. Seems like my document gets edited after I hit ‘send’. Shows up on the other end with 1-2 changes I didn’t perform. 🤷♂️
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Maybe, don’t remember which beta came in that late, but it was definitely one of iOS 18 betas in the last weeks !
you keep making this assertion, but unless you have compared the code minutely, you don’t know that to be the case.
Not yet it’s not. It has only been 8 days.
18.1 beta is purely for AI related testing, until 18.0 comes out.
18.0 beta is for all the actual 18.0 features.
It’s 2 strands with different purposes, so it actually makes total sense why 18.1 isn’t in tandem with 18.0.
We don’t know what Apple’s intentions are with the schedule for 18.1 - they might not release a new beta for a couple weeks, and that brings some of the other Apple Intelligence features to test. It doesn’t need to be weekly.
I agree with this. Put simply: we are in completely uncharted waters here wrt to this software package. It is unique in iOS / MacOS history. So we really have no way to assess when it might be updated. There are good arguments in favor of a sooner release, there are good arguments for a release early next week. And, as @Ansath points out, there are even decent arguments for a new beta release multiple weeks from now.
Yes, this is all speculation. But here it is more conjecture than the educated guessing we normally do here.
We just don’t know.
So 18.1 literally having the same bugs as 18 beta 4 e.g the frequent emoji bug isn’t reasoning enough to suggest it was just beta 4 with AI enabled? Also no newer modem firmware or carrier bundle.