iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 have been with us since June, the month in which the WWDC24 where Apple presented all the new operating systems for this coming year. On September 9, at the keynote presentation of the iPhone 16, the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 release date: September 16, Apple is still working on iOS 16 and its iPadOS counterpart, which will be released on September 20th. Apple Intelligence. However, looking a little further ahead, December could be the date when Apple presents iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2: what can we expect from this update?
iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2: More Apple Intelligence and Health News
You already know that iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 in its initial version includes almost all the new features presented at WWDC24 and that we have been seeing these last few months with the developer betas and the public betas. But many people are eagerly awaiting iOS 18.1 since it will be in this update that the new features will be released. will release some of the first features of Apple Intelligence, the set of artificial intelligence functions from the Big Apple. We know this because we've been using this beta version for a couple of months now. However, iPadOS 18.2 and iOS 18.2 have also begun to be thought of within the headquarters of Apple Park as there is evidence that some devices have browsed the Internet with these versions.
It's very probable that iOS 18.2 to appear in December This is the month in which Apple's AI features will be expanded to other countries, including the United Kingdom, South Africa and Canada. This would not only imply availability at the software level but also an expansion at the level of functions and language. In addition, we also have the fact that the second versions of the major software published for the first time in September (iOS 16, iOS 17...) were launched in December.
Therefore, one of the new features of iOS 18.2 will be the Apple Intelligence expansion to other countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom. In addition, Bloomberg has already announced that iOS 18.2 will incorporate two more Apple Intelligence features:
- Genmoji: These emojis will allow users to increase the personalization in which they express themselves. The user will be able to write a description in the form of prompt and your Genmoji will appear with several options to choose from. Additionally, you can choose photos from which iOS will generate these Genmojis, as if they were serving as templates. This feature has not yet appeared in iOS 18.1 and it seems that it will be introduced with iOS 18.2 in December.
- Image Playground: and this is certainly one of the most anticipated features of Apple Intelligence. With Image Playground we can choose between a series of concepts grouped into categories, we will write a prompt And that's it! We'll have images generated from scratch. They can also be based on someone's image, a person, or a certain style.
The event is also eagerly awaited OpenAI ChatGPT integration in iOS 18.2 as Apple assured that the integration would arrive by the end of the year. Thanks to this integration, users will be able to get answers from Siri provided by ChatGPT using the GPT-4o model, the latest presented by OpenAI. Finally, iOS 18.2 also expects Include all the hearing protection features for AirPods 2 which Apple unveiled at its keynote on Monday. These features included hearing tests and a certified hearing aid feature available in more than 100 countries.