iOS 18
Sign in to save18th major release of iOS, a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Key facts
- Developer
- Apple
- Written in
- C , C++ , Objective-C , Swift , assembly language
- Os family
- iOS
- Source model
- Closed with open-source components
- General availability
- September 16, 2024 ; 20 months ago ( 2024-09-16 )
- Latest release
- 18.7.8 (iPhone 11 and later) (April 22, 2026 ; 50 days ago ( 2026-04-22 ) ) [ ± ] , 18.7.9 (iPhone XS and XR models only) (May 11, 2026 ; 31 days ago ( 2026-05-11 ) ) [ ± ]
- Available in
- 42 languages
- Update method
- Software update
- Kernel type
- Hybrid ( XNU )
- License
- Proprietary software with open-source components
- Preceded by
- iOS 17
- Succeeded by
- iOS 26
- Official website
- iOS 18 at the Wayback Machine (archived September 5, 2025)
- Tagline
- Yours. Truly.
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
iOS 18 is the eighteenth major release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone. It was announced on June 10, 2024, at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and made publicly available on September 16, 2024, as a free software update for supported iOS devices. It is the direct successor to iOS 17 and was announced alongside iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and tvOS 18.
iOS 18 is the last version of iOS that features a flat design style, as that design style was replaced with Liquid Glass in its successor, iOS 26, which released on September 15, 2025. It is also the last version that supports the iPhone XS/XS Max and iPhone XR, ending support for iPhones with dedicated 3D Touch hardware, as iOS 26 drops support for those models.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “iOS 18” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.