Yesterday my and my wife’s iPhone 16 Pro called for a second iOS 18 update. No change of version number. I haven’t seen anything about this online. Anybody know about this?
I thought it was weird too, but based on how it’s reflected in Settings, it seems to a rapid response security update. Perhaps those don’t bump the version number.
Rapid Security Responses should add (a) to the version number, as I remember. It’s probably just a tiny difference between the release candidate installed at the factory and what Apple ended up shipping.
I didn’t see this because my iPhone 15 Pro was running iOS 18.1b4, so the iPhone 16 Pro installed that during setup.
It did update the build number to the release version.
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