iOS 18.2 Is Coming Soon With New Apple Intelligence Features. When Is the Release?

Apple has now released the iOS 18.2 RC (Release Candidate) version to developers, which normally heralds the imminent availability of the shipping version of the software that powers the iPhone. Typically a .2 release wouldn’t warrant much attention, because it’s often a set of bug fixes and refinements that didn’t make it into the original release.

However, this time it’s notable because iOS 18.2 is bringing new Apple Intelligence features to the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro that have been teased for months and have become only recently available to people who chose to install the developer or public betas. These include visual intelligence, which is one of the key features of the new Camera Control button, and the ability to experiment with Genmoji and generated images in Apple’s Image Playground.

So what does that tell us about when we can expect the full release of iOS 18.2?

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When will iOS 18.2 be widely released?

Now that developers have the iOS 18.2 RC in hand, that suggests Apple is on a fast track to get the next version out soon. Most likely that will be Tuesday, Dec 10, if we gauge it by the last year’s release of iOS 17.2 that arrived on the second week of December 2023.

Which devices will run Apple Intelligence?

Remember that Apple Intelligence will work only with the following models that are equipped with the A17 Pro or later (iPhone and iPad Mini) and M1 or later (Mac and iPad) processors:

• iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16
• iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPad Mini (Late 2024)
• iPad Air (M1 and later)
• iPad Pro (M1 and later)
• iPad (M1 and later)
• Mac computers with Apple Silicon (M-series)

If your devices are on that list, remember that you need to jump through a couple of hoops to activate Apple Intelligence.

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