iOS 18.5: Apple fans, mark your calendars – iOS 18.5 should arrive on Monday May 12 or Tuesday May 13. Although this is not the most flashyle update that Apple has ever published, this brings useful improvements and subtle upgrades to complete the IOS 18 experience before the IOS 19 trips to WWDC on June 9.
What’s new in iOS 18.5?
If you hope for major new features, you may want to manage expectations. Until now, the beta versions of iOS 18.5 suggest that this is more of an update of polishing and refine. Think of smoother performance, faster loading of applications and better battery life – particularly useful if you hang on an older iPhone.
A small but welcome adjustment is at Press gesture. A banner now appears when triggered, helping you to avoid these accidental activations. You will also see minor updates in the Mail applicationLike a new Grabber bar for easier access to menu and the option to hide contact photos for a cleaner look.
Wallpapers, bugs and satellite expansion
On the visual side, expect two fresh wallpapers with artistic names and rich and abstract conceptions. The descriptions of the beta testers suggest “crystalline bubbles” and “pockets profiled in graphite” – real Apple mode, even the backgrounds become poetic.
Apple also seems to extend Satellite messaging For Users of the United Kingdom, an intelligent decision to improve safety in areas with poor cellular service. In the meantime, boring bugs Carplay And Apple music microstatters would have been crushed, according to technological analyst Aaron Zollo.
Liberation timing seems solid
All signs suggest that the update is only a few days old. The last beta iOS 18.5 has a construction number ending with “A” – Apple generally records this for candidates for final liberation. In addition, they expelled public beta versions and developer on the same day, which generally only occurs just before a complete deployment.
There have been chatting on a small iOS 18.4.2 update possibly, but unless Apple drops this in the coming days, iOS 18.5 is almost certainly the next one.
IOS 18.5 may not reinvent the iPhone, but it brings significant improvements – in particular around performance, conviviality and reliability. This is the kind of update that quietly makes your phone better, without forcing you to change the way you use it.
With a probable outing at the start of next week, it’s a good time to save your device and prepare. Sometimes, the most useful updates are those that simply make things more fluid – and that’s exactly what iOS 18.5 aims to do.
