iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4
Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer):
iOS 18.4 adds Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence-capable devices, showing you your most notification first. There’s a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app for Vision Pro owners, and a new Apple News Food feature for Apple News+ subscribers.
There’s lots more quoted in her article, though they do not yet appear on Apple’s site.
See also: John Voorhees.
Today Apple has officially debuted 8 new emoji designs within iOS 18.4, bringing the likes of a paint splatter, a harp, and a face with bags under its eyes to iPhones, iPads, and all other Apple devices across the world. Plus, Genmoji in the EU and a redesigned Syrian flag emoji.
Previously:
Update (2025-04-01): Juli Clover:
With iOS 18.4, Apple made a small tweak to Safari that could be polarizing because it puts your search history front and center. When you open up a new Safari tab and then tap into the search field, Safari shows your recent search history.
iOS 18.4 headlines: new style in image playground, recipes in News+, and organization in Photos….
Priority notifications must not work well. Photos redesign must be on hotseat. Apple must still think image playgrounds isn’t terrible.
Update (2025-04-02): Juli Clover:
This guide covers everything new in iOS 18.4.
And, two days later, Apple still hadn’t updated its web pages to acknowledge and document the iOS/iPadOS 18.4 updates.
Several Reddit threads (1,2,3,4) and posts on Apple’s Community Support pages over the last 24 hours are filled with reports from users who, after having updated to iOS 18.4, immediately discovered third-party apps and/or games installed on their device that were not there before.
Going on the reports, the iOS 18.4 update has manifested a bug that is causing apps to reappear – since in most cases it appears that the apps had been deleted by the users months or even years ago and long forgotten.
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Related….: “iOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 Sneakily Enable Automatic Updates on Your iPhone and Mac” :
https://lifehacker.com/tech/ios-184-macos-154-sneakily-enable-automatic-updates-on-your-iphone-mac
iPhone 13 mini: Upon reboot, prompted to have Siri enabled and activated by the side button (as it was set up pre-update). No prompt about Automatic Updates or Only Download Updates (as set up before updating and in place after updating).
iPhone 12 mini (used as iPod): The reverse. No Siri-related prompts, asked to select automatically installing updates or downloading only (as configured before updating to 18.4).
