I upgraded and immediately started customizing Control Center. I knew it was going to be a feature of iOS 18, but I didn’t realize there would be four different ‘pages’ of settings I could edit. I’ve set one as a default for things I expect to find in Control Center (brightness/volume settings, dark mode, etc.), and for the ‘Now Playing’ page, I added shortcuts to music and podcast apps, making it a ‘listening’ page. I also created a page for actions I often use, like quickly grabbing notes in Drafts or recording voice memos. I used to keep these actions on my home screen, but now, freeing up screen real estate while still having quick access is really convenient.
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I don’t know if this helps, but I have Pinned Collections at the top of the customized section.
Where ever you have Pinned Collections, you can click on Modify, then at the bottom click on Any Collection or Album. Favorites should be in there to put in the Pinned Collections area.
Mine was already set this way, so I likely did something like this in an older version of Photos and it just carried over. I hope this helps you get those back.
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I installed it on my phone and find it quite nice. Like the Safari updates and I used a few more things already:
- Send later in Messages to remind my wife of something
- Passwords app
- Hide an app
All nice updates. Sad to miss out on AI for now. However, it would be of limited use for me until it supports German (generating English content mostly happens on my work Windows PC). Hope they sort things out with the EU at some point soon.
I installed on my phone and my laptop and no real issues. The photos app on my phone seems to be the biggest change I need to get used to. I’m going to try out the Passwords app but I don’t think it will be enough to move me off 1Password.
The only issues that may be related to the updates:
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Safari seems to struggle with some video playback. YouTube plays fine, but the MacSparky field guide I tried won’t playback at all. It runs fine in Firefox though. I haven’t found an obvious culprit yet.
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Surfshark VPN seems a bit spotty with internet traffic. I just tested it on my home network and sometimes it’s fine and other times it seems to have issues. Not sure if any of that is related to the OS or Surfshark. Could simply be my rural ISP.
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Not a big deal, but…swiping down to search on my phone, there’s a brief moment where text and images come through overlaying the keyboard before the screen resolves and I can type into the search box. It’s not 100% of the time, but close to 80-90% of the time. It’s just a second, but it is irritating to me and definitely wasn’t there before I upgraded (search if how I bring up most apps, so I do this multiple times per day).
Seems to be very little difference initially on both my laptop and phone. So no real issues, but no major compelling “FINALLY” items.
Brave man. Observe the danger of when, not if, she learns to so it as well.
Fortunelately, it remains relatively hidden 
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Has anyone upgraded just iOS and iPadOS without upgrading to Sequoia on Mac? I am curious about backwards compatibility for iCloud Drive syncing, Reminders and Notes. These are critical to my workflow.
As a creative professional I usually wait for the X.1 release to come out before upgrading my main work Mac. I have to make sure that all of my apps have had time to make updates and fix any bugs.
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Same here. I was thrilled to learn that Apple dropped support for the Apple Watch SE only two years after they stopped selling it.
My MacBook Air can’t update to macOS 15 but updated to macOS 14.7 (released on 16 September). I didn’t see any issues so far.
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I’ve done the opposite – ran the Sequoia beta on a Mac since first release but hadn’t installed iOS18 until Monday. At least in that direction Reminders and Notes synced fine, with the new features in Notes simply not being visible on the older OS.
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This, itself, is the sole reason I upgraded to Sequoia.
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I’ve done it, I’ve not noticed any issues so far. I was marking up images on my iPad yesterday and then picking them up from the Mac to load into a Google Doc, and if anything the changes between my iPad photo roll and Mac photo roll were syncing faster than they used to do.
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I had a bit of a scare last night updating the 14 Pro Max from 17.7 to 18.
At some point the screen was completely black and the phone did not respond to any buttons (neither the power button nor the soft reset button combo) for a couple of minutes (it looked completely dead, and there was no progress bar whatsoever, nor the Apple logo), only to wake up suddenly, without anything indicating the boot process, on the home screen.
I thought the install had failed because the phone had rebooted less than five minutes before and there was no logo and no progress bar, but it did install iOS 18. It felt strange as this was the quickest iOS install ever, but showing no signs of progress was scary (having read the reports of bricked iPads).
Keep Downloaded is the single most meaningful improvement in this entire cycle of upgrades imo, though it’s ridiculous that it wasn’t an option all along.
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Well, I am sneaky enough about it 
. Sent it at 19:03 instead of 19:00 sharp. So it looks organic.
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So, following the experience with updating the 14 Pro Max, my 15 Pro Max has also just pulled a similar stunt. The iOS 18 update was downloaded but it was selected to ‘update tonight’, not right away.
But about an hour later, it decided to update itself anyway, not connected to power, and I wouldn’t have noticed except that I wanted to make a call and it wouldn’t power on or react to any buttons (similar to the 14PM yesterday). It looked dead for a while. When it came back on, it had an entirely white screen saying ‘Swipe up to upgrade’, and then it went into a reboot loop a couple of times. No Apple logo, no progress bars. All of this did not look normal at all.
RCS has been the game changer for me. My one Group Chat I had to use Facebook messenger for has now switched. Other than that love the control center. Settings is getting out of hand so fronting them in control center is fabulous.
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Now that Apple has finally adopted RCS I hope banks, etc start using it for 2FA (as soon as they add E2EE)
I think that’s the most abbreviations I’ve ever used in one sentence. 
File preview for my affinity suite doesn’t work anymore which is… annoying…
Is Safari going to prompt me that 1Password wants to access the content on every website I go to?
Was sort of looking forward to reminders in the calendar app, but hasn’t worked out like I had expected/hoped.
Often I have a lot of reminders for “the morning” and I had hoped I could drag them to specific times of the day. However, it seems when two or more reminders are for the same time you cannot drag them to new times.
This makes the feature almost useless to me.