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When will you be installing iOS 18 on your iPhone?
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LOL. If you have followed me through the years, you know it’s on most of my devices now. 🤣
Not the Watch though. And only in a separate partition on my Mac.
Not the Watch though. And only in a separate partition on my Mac.
I’ve already installed it on my iPad but I’m waiting until several days after the next developer beta is released just to see if there are any new, big show-stoppers that get introduced before I put it on my phone. If the Apple Intelligence features or the Siri ChatGPT integration were out there I would’ve already installed it but without those this release doesn’t have a whole lot outside of timed SMS messages that I’m really excited about yet and if I’ve waited this long for timed SMS messages what’s another week or so? If beta 2 isn’t out by next Friday then I might bite the bullet and install it anyway but releasing the second beta two weeks or so after the first sounds about right to me.
It's already on my one and only iPhone and I didn't even back up beforehand. 👌
Life is short, raw-dogging the future is the only way to live.
Use a secondary Apple ID at least. It's all good until a bug wipes out a bunch of your data stored in the iCloud.
I'm usually pretty excited to install around beta 3 but honestly iOS 18 looks so boring I don't think I'll bother before the official release in the fall. I don't have a pro model so no AI for me... which is fine because none of the AI features interested me in the least. Apples AI just felt like gimmicks to me.
I've been on the iphone since the 3G and as a result I'm pretty locked into the Apple ecosystem with all the devices I have now. If it wasn't for that ecosystem and the expense of replacing it all I'd probably think about trying Andriod for a while as iOS is feeling pretty stale at this point. I don't know what I was expected but I was expecting more. There was a lot of hype going into this WWDC about it being the biggest update ever and I feel it fell very short of that mark.
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I've been on the iphone since the 3G and as a result I'm pretty locked into the Apple ecosystem with all the devices I have now. If it wasn't for that ecosystem and the expense of replacing it all I'd probably think about trying Andriod for a while as iOS is feeling pretty stale at this point. I don't know what I was expected but I was expecting more. There was a lot of hype going into this WWDC about it being the biggest update ever and I feel it fell very short of that mark.
and cue the angry replies in 3...2...1....
On release day. And I´m pretty sure i will regret it because Apple will succeed - like every year - making ALL MY USUAL ways of working at least one click/tap longer. And useless submenus and wasted space.
But I´m not angry anymore. I surrendered a long time ago knowing that beside all of the genius they have there are a lot of totally morons. And I´m not able to change it.
But I´m not angry anymore. I surrendered a long time ago knowing that beside all of the genius they have there are a lot of totally morons. And I´m not able to change it.
Every single year I tell myself to at least wait for x.1 to avoid any major bugs… and every single year I end up installing it on release day. So yeah. I didn’t lie to myself on this poll 😋
I was going to wait, but, after a quite a few beers and a kebab, I decided to instal IOS 18 on my main driver.
Pfft! What's the problem here? No issues so far - also very snappy.
Pfft! What's the problem here? No issues so far - also very snappy.
I’ve installed the first developer beta of each major iOS release since they made it so you didn’t have to download the beta from the developer site, and I’ve done the public betas before that, as well as the iOS 7 developer betas.
Always on my main/only iPhone, and I’ve never had any major issues or any data loss. Some were buggier than others (iOS 7), but at worst, it’s just graphical glitches, minor features not working correctly, or rarely an unimportant app not launching.
This beta is probably the least buggy one. Springboard has only crashed like twice so far, no app issues at all, and just a couple minor glitches (icons on the Home Screen wouldn’t move where I wanted them to, but I eventually got it to work).
Always on my main/only iPhone, and I’ve never had any major issues or any data loss. Some were buggier than others (iOS 7), but at worst, it’s just graphical glitches, minor features not working correctly, or rarely an unimportant app not launching.
This beta is probably the least buggy one. Springboard has only crashed like twice so far, no app issues at all, and just a couple minor glitches (icons on the Home Screen wouldn’t move where I wanted them to, but I eventually got it to work).
I usually install when the RC or GM is released. So likely after the iPhone event in September. Which I presume will be September 10 this year.
I use to be and was for years a hard core beta 1 or 2 on all my daily drivers kind of guy. I miss it. But a mixture of needing my devices, especially phone to work for work, and not wanting to take a battery life hit when traveling I usually install a beta late August when everything’s pretty flushed out.
When AI features are there. Then it might be worth a sacrifice in some beta hassles. As of now, the only real benefit to me for day to day use is better Home Screen customization.
I through caution to the wind and installed day 1.( iphone 15 ) Apart from little niggles here and there,its been super stable. What I am noticing more than anything is massive drop in battery.... worst I've ever experienced. im never far from a charger though so for the minute its not hampering.
I was going to wait until the second developer beta but after I read it’s coming out Monday I decided to go ahead and install ithrbnk after getting a good backup first.
I’m holding off on the watchOS beta. I just started installing developer betas of those last year and since most of the iPhone 15 / iOS 18 battery issues I’ve read about are occurring to users who installed both betas I figured why chance it?
I’m holding off on the watchOS beta. I just started installing developer betas of those last year and since most of the iPhone 15 / iOS 18 battery issues I’ve read about are occurring to users who installed both betas I figured why chance it?
When RCS is enabled! Tired of the poor reception at my place, which prevents me from sending a simple picture in an Android group chat!
It depends on how smoothly the beta process is being perceived to be going and by how tempting the new features are.
I tend to judge it on the volume of screams of agony on here and the comments made by podcasters and tech journalists I like. Last year I installed a public beta in August but in previous years I've waited until a week after the official launch.
So far, with iOS 18 having lots of features I like and not much pain being reported by beta testers, I'm expecting my resistance to fold in early-to-mid August.
I tend to judge it on the volume of screams of agony on here and the comments made by podcasters and tech journalists I like. Last year I installed a public beta in August but in previous years I've waited until a week after the official launch.
So far, with iOS 18 having lots of features I like and not much pain being reported by beta testers, I'm expecting my resistance to fold in early-to-mid August.
I’m already running iPadOS 18 on my iPad but my phone I’m going to wait either for the public beta or the RC to come out, we’ll see how much patience I have I nearly installed it this week but held off
I voted day one, because that’s the likelihood. But I’ll watch how other people go with the betas, and if there are no killer issues, I’ll go ahead.
Part of me wants to get it early but the wife and I are about to head out on an 8-day cruise. So it'll have to happen after we get back cause I'm not about to go on that and have the phone end up having issues.
Hopefully RCS gets enabled soon. My wife's family is half android and half iphone users. Our family text threads suck as photos and videos are all pixilated etc.
Hopefully RCS gets enabled soon. My wife's family is half android and half iphone users. Our family text threads suck as photos and videos are all pixilated etc.
I only installed iOS 18 DB1 on my old XS. I must say, for a nearly 6 year old phone, it runs pretty well. I expected the phone to be struggling.