While the iOS 18.3 beta was revealed to the developer community on December 16, Apple is apparently working on an iOS 18.2.1 update that has appeared online since mid-December. The update, which MacRumors spotted in its site scans, is believed to be a bug-fixing update for iOS 18.2.
Additionally, an anonymous X account with verifiable history provided a potential build number for this operating system update: 22C161. The account suggests that iPadOS 18.2.1 will also be released with the same build number, although no outside confirmation of these claims has been made so far.
Internally, Apple operating system build numbers can change within hours – so this may not be the final version number for iOS 18.2.1. An iOS 18.2.1 update is currently believed to be released in late December 2024 or early January 2025 and will fix various security vulnerabilities and bugs.
The iOS 18.2.1 update would obviously follow iOS 18.2 – a major operating system update that introduced support for various Apple Intelligence features as well as an improvement for FindMy. This includes Image Playground and Genmoji, which use Apple’s generative AI software for image generation. Genmoji also made its way to Mac with macOS Sequoia 15.3, following its debut on iOS.
Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider And MacRumors
