Apple has launched iOS 18. Here is the way to replace your iPhone

Lastly out of beta, iOS 18 arrived for public availability as of Monday afternoon. You possibly can obtain and set up it in case your system is appropriate, but it surely already comes with all iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16 Professional fashions that can be accessible on September 20. These with eligible units can replace them by going to Settings > Normal > About > Software program Replace and beginning the obtain and set up processes.

To see in case your system is eligible, we have now an inventory of iPhone fashions that may support iOS 18. Test it out and see if yours will work.

A number of the “hidden” features our editor Cherlynn noticed embrace Apple Maps upgrades, Calendar integration with Reminders and expanded Tapback choices in Messages, letting you see who reacted with which emoji. Safari is getting a “Highlights” operate, which generates a abstract of net pages you’re on by way of machine studying. Our UK bureau chief Mat Smith additionally tried out some early iOS 18 features in July, and his foremost takeaway was that Apple Intelligence is the true star. Sadly, Apple Intelligence isn’t out at present, however its first options will change into available in October as a part of a subsequent replace.

Moreover iOS 18, all of Apple’s different main sibling working system updates can be found as nicely. That features iPadOS 18, visionOS 2, macOS Sequoia, tvOS 18 and watchOS 11, all of that are coming to their respective units at present. Make certain to verify in case your units are eligible for the replace and that they’ve sufficient house. You could have to unencumber a couple of gigabytes of storage first.

Replace, September 16, 8:17PM ET: Added extra full record of extra Apple OS updates that are actually accessible, and extra context about Apple Intelligence (some, not all, of the options are arriving starting in October).