Apple Recommends New iPhone Update For All Users

Apple’s next iPhone update is here. Apple iOS 18.1.1 is aimed at sorting some recent issues with the software. Since it’s come just three weeks after the last release—which was the major iOS 18.1 with the debut of Apple Intelligence—this looks like it’s a tidying-up operation to fix smaller issues.

Which iPhones Can Run iOS 18.1.1?

Like other iOS 18 releases, this suits every iPhone from 2018 or later. That means every iPhone is compatible from the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and iPhone Xr onwards. It also includes iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max and all models in the iPhone 12, iPhone 13 iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 series, plus iPhone SE second- and third-generation models.

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How To Get It

It’s straightforward enough: open the Settings app, choose General, then Software Update. Next, click Download and Install, and let the software do its work. On my iPhone 16 Pro Max it was a 411MB download and took less than five minutes to download and install.

What’s In The Release

This is a fixer-upper. There weren’t huge numbers of flaws in iOS 18.1, though some users were surprised by the need for a waitlist to be admitted to Apple Intelligence. Other issues were few and far between as I reported.

But more recently there have been other issues, such as one that is highly annoying: vanishing data in the Apple Notes app. Full details of what was called a “scary bug” can be found here. This was where you’d open the Notes app to find all your iCloud Notes missing, though thankfully the data hadn’t gone for good.

Apple only confirmed that the bug existed a few days ago, and it hasn’t specified that it’s fixed in the notes for this update, so my suspicion is the fix will come later and we’ll have to kick along with the workaround (details here) for now.

Apple specifies that this release is about security though there will be bugs being squished as well. More details as we have them.