After months of beta testing, Apple has finally started seeding iPadOS 18.1 RC. With a release date scheduled for next week, this new version of iPadOS 18 includes several Apple Intelligence features, as well as other tweaks. Here’s everything you need to know.
iPadOS 18.1 RC adds the following Apple Intelligence features:
- Writing tools: Users can rewrite, proofread, and summarize text almost anywhere they write, including emails, notes, pages, and third-party apps.
- Improved Siri: The new design allows Siri to maintain context between requests. Even if you stumble over your words or change what you’re saying mid-sentence, Siri can understand what you actually want.
- Priority notification: These appear at the top of the stack, so you can see at a glance what you need to pay attention to. Notifications are summarized for quick review.
- Priority message in email: Move time-sensitive messages to the top of your inbox, like invitations due today or check-in reminders for a flight this afternoon.
- Reduce interruptions: In iPadOS 18.1 RC, an all-new Focus mode understands the content of your notifications and shows you notifications that may require your immediate attention, such as a message to pick up your child from daycare later today.
- Email summary: When you tap it, your Mail app will show you a summary of the long email and get down to business.
- Smart reply in email: Quickly draft email responses with all the right details. Apple Intelligence identifies the questions asked in the email and provides relevant choices to include in your answer.
- cleaning: This photo app feature allows you to identify and remove distracting objects in the background of your photos without accidentally changing the subject.
- summary: Apple Intelligence can now summarize more than messages and email notifications.
Another important change in iPadOS 18.1 RC is the Control Center adjustment. Apple currently offers all connection switches as standalone options. This means that users can deprecate the built-in solution for certain buttons.
Alongside iPadOS 18.1 RC, Apple has seeded release candidate versions of iOS 18.1, watchOS 11.1, macOS 15.1, tvOS 18.1, and visionOS 2.1.
