New Update Apple Releases iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4

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Apple Intelligence (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)
- Priority notifications appear at the top of your notifications, highlighting important notifications that may require your immediate attention
- Sketch is now available as an additional style option in Image Playground, allowing you to create gorgeous sketch drawings
- Apple Intelligence features support 8 additional languages and 2 additional English locales, including English (India, Singapore), French (France, Canada), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Spain, Latin America, US)
Apple Vision Pro App
- The new Apple Vision Pro app, automatically installed for users with Apple Vision Pro, helps you discover new content, spatial experiences, and quickly access information about your device
Apple News+
- Recipes from some of the world's best recipe publishers are now available on Apple News+
- Recipe Catalog allows you to browse or search to find the perfect dish and save it to your Saved Recipes
- Cooking mode lets you easily follow step-by-step directions
- The Food section also includes stories about restaurants, kitchen tips, healthy eating, and more
Photos
- New filters to show or hide items that are not contained in an album, or synced from a Mac or PC, in the Library view in Photos
- Reorder items in the Media Types and Utilities collections in Photos
- Consistent filtering options in all collections, including the ability to sort by oldest or newest first in Photos
- Option to sort albums by Date Modified in Photos
- Ability to disable "Recently Viewed" and "Recently Shared" collections in Photos Settings
- Hidden photos are no longer included for import to Mac or a PC if Use Face ID is enabled in Photos settings
This update also includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
- Safari recent search suggestions help you quickly get back to previous search topics when starting a new query
- Setup Assistant streamlines steps parents need to take to create a Child Account for a kid in their family, and enables child-appropriate default settings if parents prefer to complete setting up a Child Account later
- Screen Time App Limits persist even after a child uninstalls and reinstalls an app
- App Store includes summaries for user reviews so you can get helpful insights from other users at a glance
- Pause and resume of an app download or update on App Store without losing progress
- New widgets for Podcasts including a Followed Shows widget to track your favorite shows and a Library widget to get to your most used sections, such as Latest Episodes, Saved, and Downloaded
- Ambient Music offers the ability to instantly play music from Control Center, giving access to a set of hand-curated playlists that offer soundtracks for daily life
- Apple Fitness+ Collections can now be added to Library
- Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaners can be controlled in the Home app as well as be added to scenes and automations
- Support for 10 new system languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu

Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices.

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Apple Releases iOS 18.4 With Priority Notifications, Ambient Music, New Emoji and More

Apple today released iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the fourth major updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating system updates that came out last year....

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Apple Releases iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4

Apple has just released iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, which enable Apple Intelligence features for EU users with support for several new languages. Apple’s collection of generative AI features is now available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified), as well as localized English for users in Singapore and India.

Following the rollout of Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji in previous updates, today’s release introduces a couple of new Apple Intelligence features. The biggest one is probably Priority Notifications, which will highlight important alerts at the top of the notifications list. Users with eligible iPhones, iPads, and Macs will also notice a new Sketch style in Image Playground that creates academic and highly detailed sketches. There’s also the new ability to create a memory movie on Apple Silicon Macs by simply typing a description.

Other new features on iOS 18.4 include a new Food section in Apple News+, a new Apple Vision Pro app with content recommendations, and the ability to show three rows of app icons instead of two on the CarPlay Home Screen. For EU users, the Default Apps section of the Settings app will now lets users choose a default navigation app.

For Mac users, macOS Sequoia 15.4 introduces a redesigned Mail app with an inbox sorting feature, and these changes are also rolling out to iPad users. The handy Quick Start feature that lets iPhone and iPad users quickly transfer settings from their current device to a new one is also coming to the Mac today.

Apple also released today visionOS 2.4, which brings Apple Intelligence features to the Vision Pro, plus a new Spatial Gallery app with curated spatial content. For Apple Watch users, watchOS 11.4 adds a new option to make alarms break through Silent Mode. Lastly, tvOS 18.4 is also available today with minor design changes to the Apple TV app.

Apple Releases iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4

Apple has just released iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, which enable Apple Intelligence features for EU users with support for several new languages.

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