5 reasons to update your iPhone to iOS 18.0.1 right now

October 4, 2024 TH Author

Less than three weeks after the release of iOS 18, the first update is out in the form of iOS 18.0.1. And while the 0.1 numbering might make you think that this is an insignificant update and you might be better off waiting for iOS 18.1 to roll out, I’m here to tell you that this is a big one.

So big you should drop everything — except your iPhone! — and install the update now.

Also: 6 iOS 18 settings I changed immediately – and why you should too

And here are five reasons why you should install iOS 18.0.1 now:

If you have an iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro, this update contains a fix for that annoying issue where the touch on the display becomes unresponsive.
Another iPhone 16/16 Pro bug that this update squashes is the one where recording macro video in 4K with HDR turned off causes the camera to lock up.
If you’re sharing Apple Watch faces using Messages, and you’ve experienced that annoying lockup, good news, this update addresses that.
Feeling that your iPhone is running slow since iOS 18? This update fixes a memory allocation issue that’s been impacting performance.
Finally, iOS 18.0.1 fixes a couple of security issues. Nothing catastrophically serious, but one is an issue where audio messages in Messages may capture a few seconds of audio before the microphone indicator is activated, and the other is that user’s saved passwords could be read aloud by VoiceOver.

The update is about 500MB in size, and you should have it downloaded and installed in about 5 minutes. To install it, head over to Settings > General > Software Update to kick off the process.

iOS 18.1, the update that will being all that Apple Intelligence goodness to iPhones, should be released sometime this month.