iOS 18 introduced with it loads of new options and modifications, but in addition bugs and glitches. With one bug particularly, your saved messages are put in danger, just by replying to the incorrect message in a thread. Simply over two weeks after launching iOS 18, Apple launched iOS 18.0.1, an replace that patches 4 of those glitches, in addition to two comparatively severe safety vulnerabilities.
iOS 18.0.1 fixes 4 bugs
In line with Apple’s launch notes for iOS 18.0.1, this replace provides 4 key patches to your iPhone. First, Apple has patched a difficulty on the brand new iPhone 16 collection, the place contact screens would turn out to be unresponsive. This bug affected all 4 new iPhone 16s, together with the bottom fashions and the Professionals, so in case you have one, you need to replace to keep away from any contact display screen points going ahead.
You could have additionally seen that your iPhone 16’s digicam would freeze when recording video in macro mode utilizing the Extremely Vast digicam: This occurred solely in 4K recording with HDR turned off, which is a particular configuration to have set: Video is 1080p by default, and HDR is robotically enabled as effectively, so that you would want to regulate each choices with a purpose to set off this bug. Nonetheless, this bug has been fastened with this newest replace.
Transferring to points that have an effect on different iPhones operating iOS 18, Apple fastened a bug that impacted efficiency because of a reminiscence allocation challenge. Apple says this bug affected “some iPhone fashions,” however didn’t specify which. Hopefully, in case you seen efficiency hiccups on iOS 18, 18.0.1 makes issues smoother.
Importantly, Apple additionally patched a severe bug in Messages, that would lead to message historical past loss. As I beforehand lined, in case you replied to a shared Apple Watch face in a Messages thread, it might trigger the app to repeatedly crash. The one repair could be to delete your complete thread, which might lead to dropping years of messages. Whereas the scenario required to set off the bug was fairly particular, it is good to know the bug is now fastened.
Safety patches in iOS 18.0.1
That is it so far as Apple’s notes are involved, however there’s nonetheless extra to this replace. Apple would not embody the safety notes with its launch notes for updates, and heading to this web page, we will see two safety patches included as a part of iOS 18.0.1. These are fairly severe safety flaws, too: The primary issues audio messages on iPhone 16 units, the place an audio message could seize just a few seconds of audio earlier than the precise microphone indicator lights up. That orange gentle is meant to return on anytime the microphone is activated, so the truth that a operate—Apple’s personal, in actual fact—can entry the microphone for any size on time with out set off the indicator, is regarding. I would hope this can be a very remoted incident, and never a bigger vulnerability that third events might exploit. We do not want spyware and adware silently accessing your iPhone’s microphone within the background, in spite of everything.
The second safety flaw issues Apple’s new Passwords app, the place saved passwords could also be learn out loud through VoiceOver. Clearly, not ideally suited, however Apple did not share how straightforward or troublesome this flaw was to activate. This one impacts a number of units operating iOS 18, together with iPhone XS and later, iPad Professional 13-inch, iPad Professional 12.9-inch third technology and later, iPad Professional 11-inch 1st technology and later, iPad Air third technology and later, iPad seventh technology and later, and iPad mini fifth technology and later.
