Apple has released iOS 18.2.1 and iPadOS 18.2.1 with “important bug fixes” that are apparently not important enough to describe. Unusually, there are no security-related fixes, so these bug fixes presumably address functional issues introduced in 18.2.
Although various problems have been reported in the Apple Support Community and Reddit, they don’t seem to be common. Nevertheless, we can hope that these updates make life better for those dealing with buggy device behavior.
If iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 are working well for you, I see no reason to update right away. Without release notes or the threat of security vulnerabilities, it’s impossible to generate urgency around these new versions. However, the rapid release after the holiday break suggests that the bugs fixed were significant enough to warrant interrupting the engineers’ holiday vacations.
Mine is backed up and doing the update… weighs in at 8.58GB going from 18.2. to 18.2.1.
One thing that might not be resolved is for the last several IOS upgrades (14->18), my music/iTunes songs have corrupt artwork where the images are from different albums. Its like the dB ID numbers are identical or there is a bug that can’t understand that “image for artist A should be matched to display image A when Artist A songs are playing”. E.G. Muse album shows artwork from a podcast app!
I am not wiping my iPhone, but I suspect its a dB issue but is it on my Mac music library I sync or is it the iPhone? (in the changes since iOS 14, I’ve new phone and new mac so…)
Yes - the update screen indicated around 300Mb download but my iPhone SE demanded around 9Gb of free space to install the update. I had to temporarily offload some apps.
I’m hoping it’ll fix the issues with the Messages implementation of RCS texting with groups shared between Android, IOS and Mac users. Sometimes it generates new groups, so a family chat we’ve had going for years now has multiple iterations, some with only a few messages, some with thousands. We’ve tried many fixes, but so far nothing has completely resolved the problem. I currently have two pinned groups on my iPhone 13 Pro and three on my iPad, all with portions of the posts of the same group of 4 people. and the content of each changes, so you never know which one will have any new post to the group. It’s damned annoying to all concerned. It began with iOS 18 and we’re all on T-Mobile, which supposedly supports the RCS protocol.
