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iPadOS 18.4 Public

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The public iPadOS 18.4 release expanded Apple Intelligence and added Mail categories, News+, Photos, emoji, family, App Store, media, and smart-home capabilities.

Date
Mar 31, 2025
Availability
available
Revision
No

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  1. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4 — additional enhancements and bug fixes

  2. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4 — Apple Intelligence

  3. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4 — Apple News+

  4. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4 — Mail

  5. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4 — Photos

  6. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4 — Priority notifications

  7. About iPadOS 18 Updates

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 18.4

  8. About the Security Content of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · Released March 31, 2025

Release changes

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Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

enhancement · changed

System, family, store, and Home additions

documentedconfirmed

Eight emoji, Safari recent searches, safer child setup, persistent app limits, App Store review summaries and resumable downloads, Podcast widgets, Ambient Music, new system languages, and Matter robot-vacuum support arrived together.

  1. [1] About iPadOS 18 Updates · iPadOS 18.4 — additional enhancements and bug fixes

enhancement · changed

Image Playground Sketch and wider language support

documentedconfirmed

The release added Sketch as an Image Playground style and expanded Apple Intelligence support across eight more languages and two additional English locales.

  1. [1] About iPadOS 18 Updates · iPadOS 18.4 — Apple Intelligence

feature · introduced

Priority Notifications

documentedconfirmed

Priority Notifications highlighted time-sensitive or important notifications at the top of the list on supported Apple Intelligence-capable iPads.

  1. [1] About iPadOS 18 Updates · iPadOS 18.4 — Priority notifications

feature · introduced

Apple News+ Food and cooking mode

documentedconfirmed

News+ subscribers gained recipes from participating publishers, searchable and saved recipe collections, and a cooking mode for following individual steps.

  1. [1] About iPadOS 18 Updates · iPadOS 18.4 — Apple News+

enhancement · changed

Photos library organization controls

documentedconfirmed

The release added library filters, collection reordering, oldest-or-newest sorting, album sorting by modified date, controls for recent-history collections, and hidden-photo import protection.

  1. [1] About iPadOS 18 Updates · iPadOS 18.4 — Photos

feature · introduced

Mail categorization

documentedconfirmed

The iPad Mail app gained category tabs that grouped messages by broad purpose while preserving access to an all-mail view.

  1. [1] About iPadOS 18 Updates · iPadOS 18.4 — Mail