I think it’s annoying. It would be nice to have the ability, through a setting, to turn it off.
@Slickster @Pupsino In Sonoma and I assume Sequoia, you can toggle off “show inline predictive text” under the Spelling and Prediction menu in Settings. (Keyboard > Input Sources > Edit)
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Thanks for the tip. Do you know if that type of option is available in iOS?
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How have I only just learnt about this?! Thank you!
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I have installed macOS Sequoia 15.0 on day one, but since 3 days ago SSH connections fail (a few minutes after connecting), a lot, with errors like this one:
ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 192.168.1.121 port 22: Connection corrupted
Apparently this is a well-known problem?
Thanks for clarifying. Weird I had never noticed on macOS
@Synchronicity - Many thanks for this tip.
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I’m still running Ventura and iOS and watchOS are on the latest general release versions (no betas). I don’t use iCloud Drive or notes a ton, but all seems normal for me, using a shared list, syncing images between iOS and Mac on my other lists.
I found the problem. Carrot Weather now only comes through the speaker if the phone is not muted. I guess they figured that you can mute the phone to prevent embarrassing announcements from Carrot! I keep my iPhone muted because vibrate is sufficient to let me know I’ve got a call.
I still don’t know if this is a change to Carrot or a change in iOS. The mute switch doesn’t mute Waze, for instance.
I often mute my phone and rely on my Watch to let me know when a call comes in.
That makes sense. You can mute your phone while driving and still get turn by turn directions.
Not good is that iOS 18’s Health app is no longer showing me up-to-date summaries. For many categories only yesterday is showing although the data itself is fine. Restarting my iPhone cause Health to sow the correct summary but once the clock ticks over 00:00 UTC it is back to yesterday.
Could be that I have a significant amount of data (more than two years worth) but still I would expect to see current summaries.
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x.0.1 updates are out:
Did anyone install 18.0.1 on the M4 iPad Pro? I’m not particularly eager to do an 800 km roundtrip by bus to the nearest Apple Store if the bricking issue has not been resolved. 
Apple has not been having the greatest of months software-wise, three OS updates in a month that were being reported as bricking devices.
I’m waiting until 18.1 which I read will be out in the not too distant future. I’m not in that big of hurry. I’ll let them iron out some more of the quirks. Same thought process on iOS for phone and Sequoia.
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I installed 18.0 and updated to 18.0.1 with no issues, but YMMV.
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Did Apple ever explain what caused the “bricking” of those iPads? If I recall, you didn’t have the issue when you upgraded.
No, they did not. They never disclose such information but were quick to pull the update (the same day it was released). In the past couple of weeks, they have also released two faulty public betas, one of which bricked some HomePods and the other some Watches.
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Aside from wiping or corrupting user data, bricking devices is the worst thing an OS update can do.
It would be bad enough if, say, Microsoft released a Windows update that bricked some random third-party laptop. But Apple controls both the devices and the operating systems, and one of the advantages is supposed to be that they’re developed hand-in-glove to work together better and more seamlessly than is possible with more open OSs that run on devices from multiple hardware companies.
It can be argued that betas, even public ones, exist to test for issues like that, and that anyone who installs them is choosing to take that risk. But the public release of iOS 18 bricking M4 iPad Pros is absolutely unacceptable.
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It’s bad, but there are some points in Apple’s favor…
- they’re replacing the bricked iPads
- they’re bricked because of the hardware security model (same reason a criminal can’t flash your OS to get in) - PCs are easy to break into/reset
- it doesn’t make the news when Windows breaks
Glad they finally got 18.0.1 out, though. It took longer than I’d expected.
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