iOS 18

iOS 18
iOS 18
Version of the iOS operating system
	iOS 18 home screen on an iPhone 16
Developer	Apple
Written in	C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, assembly language
OS family	iOS
Source model	Closed with open-source components
General; availability	September 16, 2024
Latest release	18.7.8 (iPhone 11 and later) (April 22, 2026) [±]; 18.7.10 (iPhone XS and XR models only) (August 17, 2026) [±]
Available in	42 languages
	List of languages English (Australia, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional – Hong Kong), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Spanish (Latin America, Spain), Arabic, Bangla, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kannada, Kazakh, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Odia, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
Update method	Software update
Kernel type	Hybrid (XNU)
License	Proprietary software with open-source components
Preceded by	iOS 17
Succeeded by	iOS 26
Official website	iOS 18 at the Wayback Machine (archived September 5, 2025)
Tagline	Yours. Truly.
Support status
	Receiving security updates for iPhones that do not support versions beyond iOS 18. Widespread third-party app support.
Articles in the series
	iPadOS 18 (derivative for iPad)

iOS 18 is the eighteenth major release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone. It was announced on June 10, 2024, at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and made publicly available on September 16, 2024, as a free software update for supported iOS devices. It is the direct successor to iOS 17 and was announced alongside iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and tvOS 18.

iOS 18 is the last version of iOS that features a flat design style, as that design style was replaced with Liquid Glass in its successor, iOS 26, which was released on September 15, 2025.