Last Monday, Apple presented itsnew iPhonesduring a highly anticipated Keynote. A few minutes after the presentation, we finally learned the release date of iOS 18, a new system for iPhone unveiled at WWDC before the summer:September 16, 2024. A glance at your calendar: today is the 16th. And yes! iOS 18 is indeed arriving this evening, with a good batch of new features, but only for compatible machines as usual. Let's take stock of these three pieces of information: the time the OS was made available, the compatible iPhones and the changes made.
What time will you be able to download iOS 18?
Normally, new Apple OSes arrivearound 7:00 p.m. French time. You must therefore be ready this evening at 7:00 p.m. or even a little before to be among the first to start downloading iOS 18. In any case, the servers often risk being saturated, which can cause problems with the availability of the update for some and/or an exceptionally slow download. Better to stay patient. If you're not in too much of a hurry, start the download later in the evening or night, so you can leave tomorrow with a freshly updated iPhone running iOS 18, stress-free.
At what time according to their time zone?
If the crucial hour is 7:00 p.m. in mainland France, in places in other time zones the situation is different. We advise youthis site makes conversion easiertime zone to know when iOS 18 will arrive at your home, if you are on the other side of the globe for example.
Which iPhones can install iOS 18?
Here isthe list of all iPhones that can install iOS 18:
- iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max and later models
- iPhone 16 and 16 Plus and later models
- iPhone 15 Pro et 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 15 and 15 Plus
- iPhone 14 Pro et 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 14 and 14 Plus
- iPhone SE (2022)
- iPhone 13 Pro et 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 13 and 13 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro et 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 12 and 12 mini
- iPhone SE (2020)
- iPhone 11 Pro et iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
iPadOS 18
For tablets, let's also specifythe list of iPads that can install iPadOS 18:
- All iPad Pro 11″
- iPad Pro 12.9″3rd generation and newer models
- iPad Air 3rd generation (2019)
- iPad Air 4th generation (2020)
- iPad Air 5th generation (2022)
- iPad 7th generation (2019)
- iPad 8th generation (2020)
- iPad 9th generation (2021)
- iPad 10th generation (2022)
- iPad mini 5th generation (2019)
- iPad mini 6th generation (2021)
watchOS 11
Installing watchOS 11 is only possible onthese watches:
- Apple Watch SE 2022
- Apple Watch Series 6
- Apple Watch Series 7
- Apple Watch Series 8
- Apple Watch Series 9
- Apple Watch Ultra 1 et 2
macOS Sequoia
Finally, forthe new version of macOS:
- iMac from 2019 and newer
- iMac Pro
- Mac Pro 2019 and newer
- Mac mini from 2018 and newer
- MacBook Air from 2020 and newer
- MacBook Pro from 2018 and newer
- Mac Studio 2022 and newer
- All new machines introduced after 2023
Expect big changes with iOS 18, both in terms of new customization options and new features.As seen here, there are many new features, there are also some for the Home Screen (monochrome icons, free positions,without app name, etc.), only for Apple applications (page summary in Safari,colored text in Notes, reminders visible in the Calendar app, etc.) and security (app access permissions for contacts, new Passwords app, etc.), among others. Without forgetting of course,Apple Intelligence, knowing that this new in-house AI should not be available immediately (but with iOS 18.1).
See you this evening to find out all about it!
Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.
