{"id":47245,"date":"2025-03-31T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47245"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:18:54","slug":"ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/03\/31\/apple-releases-ios-18-4\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/121161\">iOS<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/121162\">iPadOS<\/a> release notes, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122371\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/121158\">enterprise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/ios-ipados-release-notes\/ios-ipados-18_4-release-notes\">developer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/03\/31\/apple-releases-ios-18-4\/\"><p>iOS 18.4 adds Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence-capable devices, showing you your most notification first. There&rsquo;s a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app for Vision Pro owners, and a new Apple News Food feature for  Apple News+ subscribers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>There&rsquo;s lots more quoted in her article, though they do not yet appear on Apple&rsquo;s site.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/apple-updates-its-oses-with-mail-parity-across-platforms-recipes-in-news-apple-intelligence-on-visionos-and-more\/\">John Voorhees<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.emojipedia.org\/apple-ios-18-4-emoji-changelog\/\">Keith Broni<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.emojipedia.org\/apple-ios-18-4-emoji-changelog\/\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/11\/ios-18-3-2-and-ipados-18-3-2\/\">iOS 18.3.2 and iPadOS 18.3.2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4-update-2025-04-01\">Update (2025-04-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/02\/26\/ios-18-4-safari-search-history\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/02\/26\/ios-18-4-safari-search-history\/\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1906864653134688359\">Ryan Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1906864653134688359\">\n<p>iOS 18.4 headlines: new style in image playground, recipes in News+, and organization in Photos&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Priority notifications must not work well. Photos redesign must be on hotseat. Apple must still think image playgrounds isn&rsquo;t terrible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4-update-2025-04-02\">Update (2025-04-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-18-4-features-2\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-18-4-features-2\/\">\n<p>This guide covers everything new in iOS 18.4.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/46531\/more-apple-update-follies\/#more-46531\">Ric Ford<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/46531\/more-apple-update-follies\/#more-46531\"><p>And, <em>two days<\/em> later, Apple still hadn&rsquo;t updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/121161#a18.4\">web pages<\/a> to acknowledge and document the iOS\/iPadOS 18.4 updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/02\/ios-18-4-update-deleted-apps-returning\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/02\/ios-18-4-update-deleted-apps-returning\/\"><p>Several Reddit threads (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ios\/s\/MwYoHRvTUy\">1<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ios\/s\/7BCTZDM56x\">2<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ios\/s\/4J2gl2nDUg\">3<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ios\/s\/LhDkeudJnn\">4<\/a>) and posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/256029403?sortBy=rank\">Apple&rsquo;s Community Support<\/a> 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. <\/p><p>Going on the reports, the iOS 18.4 update has manifested a bug that is causing apps to reappear &#x2013; since in most cases it appears that the apps had been deleted by the users months or even years ago and long forgotten. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/ios-17-5-resurfacing-deleted-photos\/\">iOS 17.5 Resurfacing Deleted Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4-update-2025-04-07\">Update (2025-04-07): <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/thread\/775660\">neohoangokg<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1907308329682018800\">Marcin Krzyzanowski<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/thread\/775660\">\n<p>UITextView crash when setting attributed text that contains substring <code>ffi<\/code> and attributedText contains NSFontAttributeName, NSForegroundColorAttributeName<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/46614\/ios-18-4-causes-carplay-problems\/\">Ric Ford<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/46614\/ios-18-4-causes-carplay-problems\/\"><p>Along with its other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/46531\/more-apple-update-follies\/\">quality problems<\/a>, iOS 18.4 (with its critical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/46427\/apple-security-patches-mar-31-2025\/\">security patches<\/a>) is breaking CarPlay, according to a number of reports, with no easy solution and no acknowledgement or promise of a fix for Apple&rsquo;s bug, apparently confirmed by at least one car company.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (iOS\/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): iOS 18.4 adds Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence-capable devices, showing you your most notification first. There&rsquo;s a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app for Vision Pro owners, and a new Apple News Food feature for Apple News+ subscribers. 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