an operator almost confirms the release date

iOS 18.1 marked the arrival of the first Apple Intelligence features, but it is iOS 18.2 that should transcend the user experience. The update will allow them to discover the image generator called Image Playground as well as the integration of ChatGPT with Siri. It remains to be seen when they will be able to take advantage of all this. The release date of iOS 18.2, expected next December, is becoming a little more precise thanks to to a revelation from a British telephone operator.

The telephone operator Three half-heartedly confirms the release of iOS 18.2 on December 9

The British telephone operator Three, by simply announcing the upcoming support for RCS on iOS 18, just gave a big clue about the release date of iOS 18.2. « Please be advised that as part of Apple’s iOS 18 updates scheduled for the week beginning December 9, text messaging for Three customers using iOS 18 compatible iPhones will be moving from SMS to a new type of messaging service called Rich Communication Services (RCS) », Writes Three in its press release.

Three mentions the week of December 9 and not precisely this day. However, we know that Apple likes to release updates to its operating systems at the very beginning of the weekthen a launch of iOS 18.2 on December 8 seems more and more credible. Remember that Mark Gurman rather mentioned a release of iOS 18.2 during the first week of the last month of the year.

On the other hand, another British operator, EE, recently revealed an upcoming change to Wi-Fi calling on iPad and MacBook on December 9. There are only a few more days to wait to get the end of the story. Remember that French users will not be able to discover Image Playground, Genmoji and the ChatGPT integration with Siri right away. Apple Intelligence will only be available in French in April 2025, probably via iOS 18.4.