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Apple released the iOS 18.3 release the candidate to developers and public beta testers on Tuesday. The release comes about two weeks after the release of the company iOS 18.2.1. While Apple squashed some of the bugs in that update, the latest beta introduced some improvements to the iPhones of developers and beta testers, including some updates to Apple Intelligence notification summaries.
Read more: An Expert’s Guide to iOS 18
Since this is a beta, I recommend downloading it on something other than your primary device. Since this is not the final version of iOS 18.3, the update can be buggy and the battery life can be short, so it is best to hide the problems on a second device.
Note that the RC is not the final version of iOS 18.3, so there will be many improvements that will reach your iPhone when iOS 18.3 is released. There is no word on when Apple will release iOS 18.3 to the public.
Here’s what iOS 18.3 will bring to your iPhone soon. And just a reminder that only developers and beta testers have it iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max or the The iPhone 16 line can access any Apple Intelligence features currently. If you have another iPhone, you won’t have access to the features.
AI announcement summary updates
iOS 18.3 RC makes some changes to Apple Intelligence notification summaries. With this feature, some of your apps can provide you with summaries of notifications on your Lock Screen, and the feature is available by default in most cases. But according to BBCone of the publication’s titles is not accurately summarized.
With RC, this feature is no longer available for the News app, and there is a disclaimer in the Summarize Notifications menu in Settings that reads, “Summaries may contain errors.” Notification summaries are temporarily disabled for apps in the News & Entertainment category, but you can opt-in to these notifications to see them again.
RC also italicizes AI notification summaries on your Lock Screen to distinguish them from other notifications. You can turn off AI notification summaries for some apps from your Lock Screen, too, by slightly swiping to the left of the notification, tapping Options then tap Turn off Summary.
Repeating Calculator operations
Another thing that developers and beta testers can do in iOS 18.3 RC is to change the operations of the Calculator app without entering the equation again. This isn’t new, but Apple removed this ability from Calculator when the company released it iOS 18 in September.
Now, developers and beta testers can continue to duplicate something, for example, by simply pressing the equal sign multiple times instead of repeatedly entering an equation.
Here are the full release notes for iOS 18.3 RC.
Visual intelligence with Camera Control (All iPhone 16 models)
- Add an event to the Calendar from a poster or flyer.
- Easily identify plants and animals.
Notification summaries (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)
- Easily manage settings for notification summaries from the Lock Screen.
- The updated style for summarized notices better differentiates them from other notices by using italicized text as well as the glyph.
- Notification summaries for the News and Entertainment apps are temporarily unavailable, and users who opted-in will see them again when the feature becomes available.
This update includes the following improvements and bug fixes:
- The calculator repeats the last math operation when you tap the equals sign again.
- Fixed an issue where the keyboard could disappear when starting a typed Siri request.
- Fixed an issue where audio playback continued until the song ended even when Apple Music was closed.
Some features may not be available in all regions or on all Apple devices. For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit:
While this is iOS 18.3 RC, Apple may release additional RC versions of the iOS update to squash more bugs and improve features. Currently, there is no word on when Apple will release iOS 18.3 to the public.
For more on iOS, here’s what to know iOS 18.2.1 and iOS 18.2. You can also check out our iOS 18 cheat sheet.
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