Apple Releases iOS 18.4 With Priority Notifications, Ambient Music, New Emoji and More

Apple today released iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the 4th large updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating strategy updates that came retired past year. iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 travel 2 months aft Apple released iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3.


The caller bundle tin beryllium downloaded connected eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Apple has besides released iOS and iPadOS 16.7.11 and iOS and iPadOS 15.8.4 for devices that aren't capable to tally ‌iOS 18‌.

iOS 18.4 adds Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence-capable devices, showing you your astir notification first. There's a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app for Vision Pro owners, and a caller Apple News Food diagnostic for ‌Apple News‌+ subscribers.
Apple Intelligence (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)
- Priority notifications look astatine the apical of your notifications, highlighting important notifications that whitethorn necessitate your contiguous attention
- Sketch is present disposable arsenic an further benignant enactment successful Image Playground, allowing you to make gorgeous sketch drawings
- Apple Intelligence features enactment 8 further languages and 2 further English locales, including English (India, Singapore), French (France, Canada), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Spain, Latin America, US)

Apple Vision Pro App
- The caller Apple Vision Pro app, automatically installed for users with Apple Vision Pro, helps you observe caller content, spatial experiences, and rapidly entree accusation astir your device

Apple News+
- Recipes from immoderate of the world's champion look publishers are present disposable connected Apple News+
- Recipe Catalog allows you to browse oregon hunt to find the cleanable crockery and prevention it to your Saved Recipes
- Cooking mode lets you easy travel step-by-step directions
- The Food conception besides includes stories astir restaurants, room tips, steadfast eating, and more

Photos
- New filters to amusement oregon fell items that are not contained successful an album, oregon synced from a Mac oregon PC, successful the Library presumption successful Photos
- Reorder items successful the Media Types and Utilities collections successful Photos
- Consistent filtering options successful each collections, including the quality to benignant by oldest oregon newest archetypal successful Photos
- Option to benignant albums by Date Modified successful Photos
- Ability to disable "Recently Viewed" and "Recently Shared" collections successful Photos Settings
- Hidden photos are nary longer included for import to Mac oregon a PC if Use Face ID is enabled successful Photos settings

This update besides includes the pursuing enhancements and bug fixes:
- Safari caller hunt suggestions assistance you rapidly get backmost to erstwhile hunt topics erstwhile starting a caller query
- Setup Assistant streamlines steps parents request to instrumentality to make a Child Account for a kid successful their family, and enables child-appropriate default settings if parents similar to implicit mounting up a Child Account later
- Screen Time App Limits persist adjacent aft a kid uninstalls and reinstalls an app
- App Store includes summaries for idiosyncratic reviews truthful you tin get adjuvant insights from different users astatine a glance
- Pause and resume of an app download oregon update connected App Store without losing progress
- New widgets for Podcasts including a Followed Shows widget to way your favourite shows and a Library widget to get to your astir utilized sections, specified arsenic Latest Episodes, Saved, and Downloaded
- Ambient Music offers the quality to instantly play euphony from Control Center, giving entree to a acceptable of hand-curated playlists that connection soundtracks for regular life
- Apple Fitness+ Collections tin present beryllium added to Library
- Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaners tin beryllium controlled successful the Home app arsenic good arsenic beryllium added to scenes and automations
- Support for 10 caller strategy languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu

Some features whitethorn not beryllium disposable for each regions oregon connected each Apple devices. For accusation connected the information contented of Apple bundle updates, delight visit:
https://support.apple.com/100100
Apple volition soon statesman enactment connected iOS 19, with the update acceptable to beryllium introduced astatine WWDC successful June. Before that time, we whitethorn besides get an iOS 18.5 update with further features and show improvements.
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