Insta upgrades!

Apple updates its operating systems across the board.

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Leander Kahney
March 31, 2025

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Happy Monday — here’s something to brighten your day.

Apple just released across-the-board updates — some of the biggest since these operating systems debuted in September 2024.

Most recent updates focused on adding Apple Intelligence features. But iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4 and visionOS 2.4 are different. As well as some Apple Intelligence updates, they all contain several other key features not related to AI. They’re all instant upgrades.

All the new goodies in iOS 18.4.

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One more thing ...

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Remember The Whole Earth Catalog? The last edition had a photo on the back cover of a remote country road you might find yourself on while hitchhiking up to Oregon. It was a beautiful shot, and it had a caption that really grabbed me. It said: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” It wasn't an ad for anything — just one of Stewart Brand's profound statements. It's wisdom. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs, 2008.

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