Delayed!

iOS 18 features that WON'T arrive this fall.

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Leander Kahney
June 24, 2024

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Come the fall, Apple will launch new versions of its operating systems to us users — iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia.

But a surprising number of new features that Apple heralded at WWDC24 won’t be available at launch.

There’s a raft of nifty stuff that won’t arrive until late 2024 — or even early 2025.

Here’s what we’ll likely be missing.

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