iOS 18.4 Beta: Expected Release Timeline and Features

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Happy New Year, everyone! :tada:
As we kick off 2025, Apple is preparing to release the official version of iOS 18.3 (currently in beta). Right after that, we can expect the much-anticipated iOS 18.4 Beta. Let’s take a closer look at when these updates might arrive.

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When will iOS 18.3 be released?

As mentioned earlier, iOS 18.3 is a “minor update” scheduled for release shortly after the holiday season. According to Mark Gurman, Apple might release it around late January or early February.

Here’s a quick look at past .3 releases:

  • iOS 17.3: Monday, January 22, 2024
  • iOS 16.3: Monday, January 23, 2023
  • iOS 15.3: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Based on this pattern, iOS 18.3 could launch as early as Monday, January 20, 2025, or, if Apple needs more time, January 27, 2025.

Updated on January 23, 2024: Apple released iOS 18.3 RC on January 21, so it’s likely that iOS 18.3 will be officially released next week, between January 27 and January 31.

→ What’s New in iOS 18.3 Beta?

What’s next? Of course, iOS 18.4 Beta

iOS 18.4 is expected to be the first major iOS update of 2025. While we’re looking forward to some exciting features, let’s first consider when Apple might release the beta version.

Here’s a look at previous .4 Beta releases:

  • iOS 17.4 Beta 1: Thursday, January 25, 2024
  • iOS 16.4 Beta 1: Thursday, February 16, 2023
  • iOS 15.4 Beta 1: Thursday, January 27, 2022

Given that iOS 18.4 will continue to roll out new Apple Intelligence features, I expect iOS 18.4 Beta 1 to arrive by late January 2025, shortly after iOS 18.3. Initially, the beta might only be available for devices supporting Apple Intelligence, similar to how Apple handled the iOS 18.1 and 18.2 betas. Support for other devices could follow in Beta 2 or Beta 3.

What to expect in iOS 18.4

Reports suggest iOS 18.4 will focus on Siri and Apple Intelligence updates. While details are still sparse, here’s what’s rumored so far:

  • Apple Intelligence expands to the EU :eu:.
  • Support for changing default apps like Maps and Translate [EU only :eu:].
  • Apple Intelligence adds new languages, including Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.
  • Siri gets smarter, recognizing on-screen content and performing relevant actions.
  • More personalized Siri responses using data from your photos, calendar, Messages, and other apps.
  • Smarter app-specific requests for Siri, like deleting specific emails, moving notes between folders, sharing links via email, opening documents, or summarizing articles.
  • Apple Intelligence builds an on-device semantic index to process and store information from your emails, photos, websites, and apps.

https://x.com/BetaProfiles/status/1836417266105356768

When iOS 18.4 Beta is out, I’ll provide a complete rundown of all the new features and changes, for both Apple Intelligence-supported and non-supported devices. Stay tuned! :pray:

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025, we will see how many news Apple will bring us in the devices, let’s also hope that AI arrives in Europe to be able to test the strength of all IOS with the intelligence of Siri!! Big hug from Spain to all Betaprofile!!!

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I’m excited that my friends in Europe will have Apple Intelligence on their iPhones this year :star_struck:

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Could January 23rd / January 30th be possible dates for the release of iOS 18.4 Beta 1? I literally cannot wait to try out Apple Intelligence =]]]

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That will most likely happen. I believe Apple will release iOS 18.4 Beta 1 first for Apple Intelligence devices.

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Now that iOS 18.3 Beta 3 is out:

  1. Next week would be the RC as the Beta 3 of iOS 18.3 has a “b” at the end of its build number
  2. The week after that would be the public release of iOS 18.3
  3. January 30th would be iOS 18.4 Beta 1
    Right?
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I think so too :pray:
If we get the RC next week, iOS 18.4 Beta 1 will definitely be coming soon.

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I hope so too to test Apple’s AI, although I have tried it in English, I want to try it in my native language, to know how far it can go, since some people I have to “advise” only speak Spanish. I would really like to have some time in advance to be able to have a broader opinion of the AI and its apps, as well as the operation and integration with the rest of the apps. :+1:t2: :+1:t2: :sunglasses:

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With iOS 18.3 RC out, 18.4 Beta 1 is on track for next week at the earliest.

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Ya, I expect iOS 18.3 to be released next week, with iOS 18.4 Beta 1 following soon after.

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I hope so, although that “b” at the end of the compilation will have to run several more letters, the IOS 18.3 RC has to polish some “fringes”. I already want to try IOS 18.4 to see the integration in my language, I think that here Apple has confused in not releasing the IOS in all languages, since what it has obtained is a partial view of all IOS being closed to English (US) and then to the rest of English, well I understand that the vision it has had is totally objective even if it has been made in a single language. :sunglasses: