iOS 18.3 is live and lets you identify your pets

Apple has launched the public version of iOS 18.3 across eligible iPhones, adding more features to Apple Intelligence and a few tweaks along the way.

It’s one of the lighter iPhone software updates in recent months. In fact, the latest iOS both giveth and taketh away. As reported last week, Apple has paused AI-generated notification summaries from news apps. It follows some high-profile mistakes made by the feature, including a misconstrued BBC headline.

For the remaining apps compatible with notification summaries, it’ll be clearer when generative AI is involved. Apple now italicises any notifications summarised by Apple Intelligence and includes a symbol to denote its use.

New to iOS 18.3 is an evolved version of “Visual intelligence” on iPhone 16 devices. After downloading the update, you can use your camera to add calendar events by scanning a poster, similar to Samsung’s upcoming AI features. Visual intelligence will also provide information about plants and animals, so you can look up a species by pointing your phone’s camera at it.

iOS 18.3 also includes a few other tweaks, like calculator shortcuts and bug fixes. If you’ve got a compatible phone (anything from iPhone XR onwards), the update is available to download now.

Full iOS 18.3 release notes

Per the description listed when installing the update, here are the full patch notes:

Visual intelligence with Camera Control (All iPhone 16 models)

• Add an event to Calendar from a poster or flyer
• Easily identify plants and animals

Notification summaries (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)

• Easily manage settings for notification summaries from the Lock Screen
• Updated style for summarised notifications better distinguishes them from other notifications by using italicised text as well as the glyph
• Notification summaries for News & Entertainment apps are temporarily unavailable, and users who opt in will see them again when the feature becomes available

This update includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Calculator repeats the last mathematical operation when you tap the equals sign again
• Fixes an issue where the keyboard might disappear when initiating a typed Siri request
• Resolves an issue where audio playback continues until the song ends even after closing Apple Music

Time to go and find out if Apple can identify my rescue cat, Billie.

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