Apple's iOS 18.6 is Apple’s next big iPhone software update and possibly the last before it issues iOS 26 this fall. Here’s what to expect.

It was announced at WWDC, but Apple rolled it out ahead of iOS 26’s fall release date. When iOS 26 is released this fall, it will introduce two new default apps to your iPhone’s Home Screen. First, there will be a new Preview app that works very similarly to Mac’s Preview app,

Apple announced iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 and released iOS 17.6 more than a month later in July. That update was filled with more than 30 important bug fixes and security patches but no new features. Apple recommended that everyone download the update at the time and it was the last major iOS 17 update before the release of iOS 18 .