iPadOS 18.4 release notes: Ambient Music, Priority Notifications, Mail Categorization, Photos tweaks and other changes
Read the full iPadOS 18.4 release notes from Apple to learn about new iPad features and improvements such as Ambient Music, automatic mail categorization and more.
To download an over-the-air iPadOS 18.4 update on your iPad, go to Settings > General > Software Update. Apple Intelligence will be automatically turned on during iPad onboarding, but you can turn it off later in the Settings app.
Check out our roundup of all the Apple Intelligence features and their functions. Apple Intelligence is compatible with iPads powered by the Apple M1 chip or later.
iPadOS 18.4 release notes: What’s new in this iPad update?
You’ll see the iPadOS 18.4 changelog in the Software Update interface. You can also read the full iPadOS 18.4 release notes on Apple’s website and right ahead.
This update introduces a new Sketch Style option on Image Playground, Mail Categorization, recipes in Apple News+ and enhancements to better organize and filter your library in Photos. This release also includes other features, bug fixes and security updates for your iPad.
Apple Intelligence (iPad with M1 and later)
● Priority notifications appear at the top of your notifications, highlighting important notifications that may require your immediate attention
● Sketch is now available as a style option in Image Playground, so you can create gorgeous drawings on stark backgrounds
● Apple Intelligence features support 8 additional languages and 2 additional English locales, including English (India, Singapore), French (France, Canada), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Spain, Latin America, US)
Mail
● Mail Categorization sorts your messages to help you prioritize the most important messages
Apple News+
● Recipes from some of the world’s best recipe publishers are now available on Apple News+
● Recipe Catalog allows you to browse or search to find the perfect dish and save it to your Saved Recipes
● Cooking mode lets you easily follow step-by-step directions
● The Food section also includes stories about restaurants, kitchen tips, healthy eating and more
Photos
● New filters to show or hide items that are not contained in an album, or synced from a Mac or PC, in the Library view in Photos
● Reorder items in the Media Types and Utilities collections in Photos
● Consistent filtering options in all collections, including the ability to sort by oldest or newest first in Photos
● Option to sort albums by Date Modified in Photos
● Ability to disable “Recently Viewed” and “Recently Shared” collections in Photos Settings
● Hidden photos are no longer included for import to Mac or a PC if Use Face ID is enabled in Photos settings
This update also includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
● Safari recent search suggestions help you quickly get back to previous search topics when starting a new query
● Setup Assistant streamlines steps parents need to take to create a Child Account for a kid in their family and enables child-appropriate default settings if parents prefer to complete setting up a Child Account later
● Screen Time App Limits persist even after a child uninstalls and reinstalls an app
● App Store includes summaries for user reviews so you can get helpful insights from other users at a glance
● Pause and resume of an app download or update on App Store without losing progress
● New widgets for Podcasts including a Followed Shows widget to track your favorite shows and a Library widget to get to your most used sections, such as Latest Episodes, Saved and Downloaded
● Ambient Music offers the ability to instantly play music from Control Center, giving access to a set of hand-curated playlists that offer soundtracks for daily life
● Apple Fitness+ Collections can now be added to Library
● Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaners can be controlled in the Home app as well as be added to scenes and automations
● Support for 10 new system languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu
Apple’s security page will provide information about the security content of iPadOS 18.4 after the update is live, including big fixes and patches for critical vulnerabilities.
A major redesign is coming with iPadOS 19 this fall
Apple may release iPadOS 18.5 before restarting the beta cycle at the Worldwide Developers Conference, its annual pilgrimage for developers. The five-day event will run from June 9 through June 13 at the Apple Park headquarters in California.
The Cupertino company will preview iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16 and other updates ahead of their fall launches and release their first developer betas at WWDC25. According to multiple rumors, a significant redesign of user interfaces across the iPhone, iPad and Mac is coming alongside these updates.
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