There’s another iPhone software update coming, as soon as this month. Here’s everything you need to know about the next release, called iOS 18.3, when it’s coming and what will be in it.
Since the arrival of Apple Intelligence prior to iOS 18 has generated a lot of interest, the next big update will have more AI benefits, right? Not really. Apple iOS 18. 3 will have many new features, but the next edition is about other things. We can expect more intelligence innovations from Apple in iOS 18. 4 later in the spring, but for now, Apple has other priorities.
To be exact, there’s an Apple Intelligence update, it’s more of a cancellation than an innovation.
As we reported a few days ago, Apple has encountered issues with some notification summaries generated through Apple Intelligence. Read all the main points here. Essentially, some summaries were wrong, and news organizations whose announcements were poorly summarized were unhappy.
As a result, in iOS 18. 3, Apple will postpone two express types of summaries: “Notification summaries for the News & Entertainment category will be temporarily unavailable. We are working on innovations and will make them available in a long-term software update.
Additionally, in the Settings app, the Notification Summaries segment will now imply that this is a beta feature (meaning it’s more likely to be buggy).
And during setup, Apple will add a warning which reads “Summarization may change the meaning of the original headlines. Double check important information.” The summaries will appear in italics. Users will also be able to disable summaries in each app directly from the lock screen.
This new slider/button combo on iPhone 16 series will rename the AE/AF lock toggle to Lock Focus and Exposure (which is much clearer).
If you crop content while editing a PDF, Apple will now notify users that the cropped domain is not removed from the PDF.
Messages will upload a Genmoji access to the + button, so it will be for creating your own traditional emoji.
Apple likes to release its software updates on a Monday or Tuesday if it can. So, if this month remains the most likely for the release of the software—and I think it does—that leaves only two options: Monday, Jan. 27 or Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Tuesday, January 28 will be the premiere date.
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