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Apple Seeds First Public Betas of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4

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Apple today seeded the first public betas of upcoming iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4, watchOS 11.4, and tvOS 15.4 updates, allowing public beta testers to try out the new features in the software ahead of its public launch. The public betas come a few days after Apple provided the beta updates to developers.

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Public beta testers can download the updates from the Settings app on each device after opting into the beta through Apple's public beta testing website.

The new software for iPhone, iPad, and Mac includes Priority Notifications, an Apple Intelligence feature designed to show you your most important notifications first, plus it adds a new Sketch style for Image Playground.

There is a new Apple News+ Food section for ‌Apple News‌+ subscribers that aggregates recipes, food stories, and tips for healthy eating, plus an Ambient Music feature for playing chill music from Control Center.

iOS 18.4 will include a Vision Pro app that will allow Vision Pro owners to manage the headset. It will support content discovery and acquisition, letting new apps, games, and TV content to be downloaded on the Vision Pro with the iPhone. The iPhone and ‌iPad‌ will also support managing Vision Pro Guest Mode, making it easier for people to try out someone's headset.

On the ‌iPad‌ and Mac, the new updates introduce Mail Categorization, a feature that was previously limited to the iPhone.

More on the new features in the updates can be found in our iOS 18.4 beta post.

Related Forums: iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia

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tarunc Avatar
tarunc
16 months ago

macOS has a virtualization bug that's causing kernel panics with Parallels and other VM's. Be careful if you update to this (assuming its the same build as the developer beta from last week).
Beware! VMware Fusion, Parallels, and others all stop working on M4 processor based machines.
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DaveOP
16 months ago
macOS has a virtualization bug that's causing kernel panics with Parallels and other VM's. Be careful if you update to this (assuming its the same build as the developer beta from last week).
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
PsykX Avatar
PsykX
16 months ago
iOS 18.4 will be a pretty great release for non-English speakers.

Some things to note :
- Siri is still as stupid, as I thought. As long as its foundation continues to rely on non-LLM tech, it'll remain bad.
- Email: I reverted to the old version. I don't like the new categories - I ended up missing emails for the first time in my life.
- Image Playground : I've had some fun with it, it'll last a few days. I had never seen Image Playground before, so it's hard for me to say, and obviously I know it's a beta, but it still has quite a lot of performance hiccups. I also feel like it's pretty limited in terms of what you can generate with it.
- Genmoji : Sometimes the emoji feels like it's been erased at a few places.
- Photos Cleanup tool: Still takes some time to download, still takes a few seconds to cleanup something. Results are still pretty bad.
- Recipes : I feel like this is US-only, despite Apple's article not implying that.
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tywebb13
16 months ago
full installers for the sonoma and ventura rc1s are up now but still waiting on the sequoia beta full installer

but the sequoia 15.4 beta 1 ota update was just as big as a full installer this time so it is possible they won't do a full installer this time which would be a shame because then you can't easily make the usb installer

i hope this isn't the beginning of an idea of depreciating such functionality because i and others would consider that a retrograde step.

the ipsw for the sequoia is already up though and has been so for a few days now

so here are the builds for the new macos's

15.4 beta 1 build 24E5206s

14.7.5 rc 1 build 23H510

13.7.5 rc 1 build 22H510
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er2429
16 months ago
If you have an M4 machine and use virtualization... DO NOT INSTALL THESE! Virtualization causes a hard crash when you attempt to start Docker, Parallels, etc.
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mandopicker101
16 months ago

an iPhone 14 pro over here and cant try AI, a big joke and piece of s*** HAHAHA

only in :apple: :cool:
Yeah you can. Download ChatGPT. Or use Gemini.

If you’re deeply pissed at missing out on the stunning success that Apple Intelligence obviously is, sell your iPhone. Buy a 16. A 16e. Or a 16 Pro. Hell, punish Timmy and get a Pixel.

I’m running an iPhone 11, Watch SE2 and an iPad Air 5. I’ve tried Apple Intelligence. Enjoy your iPhone, it’s excellent. The Kool-AId isn’t that great.
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