{"id":51889,"date":"2026-05-12T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51889"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:25:36","slug":"ios-18-7-9-and-ipados-18-7-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/ios-18-7-9-and-ipados-18-7-9\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/127111\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/127111\">\n<p>This document describes the security content of iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>After a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/ios-18-7-7-and-ipados-18-7-7\/\">reprieve<\/a>, Apple seems to have gone back to the policy of <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/ios-26-2\/\">iOS 18.7.3<\/a>, where you can only get iOS 18.7.9 if your phone is not capable of running iOS 26.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/ios-26-5-and-ipados-26-5\/\">iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/ios-18-7-7-and-ipados-18-7-7\/\">iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/ios-26-2\/\">iOS 26.2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: This document describes the security content of iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9. [&#8230;] Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation After a brief reprieve, Apple seems to have gone back to the policy of iOS 18.7.3, where you can only get iOS 18.7.9 if your phone is not capable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-12T18:25:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"e3c62b38-e11c-4356-9742-e26c3de71097","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-12T18:25:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A48YrOOEcQ1aXQuJsPecQlw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2586,2304,1814,2597,2305,48],"class_list":["post-51889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-ios-release","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-18","tag-ipados-release","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51890,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51889\/revisions\/51890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}