If you’ve been hankering for the release of Apple’s iOS 18.3 update, it’s here.
The long-awaited update arrived Monday, sporting the following fixes, features, and changes:
- Robot Vacuum support: The Home app gains support for robot vacuums (Roomba et al.). The vacuum has to support HomeKit or Matter, of course.
- Visual Intelligence with Camera Control (All iPhone 16 models)
- Add an event to 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
- Updated style for summarized notifications better distinguishes them from other notifications by using italicized text as well as the glyph
- Notification summaries for News & Entertainment apps are temporarily unavailable, and users who opt-in will see them again when the feature becomes available
- Calculator repeats the last mathematical operation when you tap the equals sign again
- Fixes an issue where the keyboard might disappear when initiating a typed Siri request
- Resolves an issue where audio playback continues until the song ends even after closing Apple Music
The update also includes 26 security updates, which are detailed on Apple’s security website.
As per usual, the update can be located, downloaded, and installed by going to Settings > General > Software Update. If you’ve had a chance to try the iOS 18.3 update, please let us know about your experience in the comments.
Via Macworld and support.apple.com