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Developer | Apple |
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Written in | C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, assembly language |
OS family | iOS |
Source model | Closed with open-source components |
General availability | September 16, 2024 |
Latest release | 18.3.2[1] (March 11, 2025 ) [±] |
Latest preview | 18.4 beta 3[2] (March 10, 2025 ) [±] |
Marketing target | iPhones |
Available in | 42 languages[3] |
List of languages English (Australia, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional – Hong Kong), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Latin America, Spain), Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | |
Update method | Software Update |
Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
License | Proprietary software with open-source components |
Preceded by | iOS 17 |
Official website | apple |
Tagline | Yours. Truly. |
Support status | |
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iPadOS 18 (derivative for iPad) |
iOS 18 is the eighteenth and current major release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone.[4][5][6][7] It was announced on June 10, 2024, at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). It was made publicly available on September 16, 2024, as a free software update for supported iOS devices.[8] It is the direct successor to iOS 17 and was announced alongside iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and tvOS 18.