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Recent months have seen iPhone software updates alternate between big number releases (iOS 18.2, iOS 18.3) and smaller releases in between, such as iOS 18.3.1, the current version until a few minutes ago. But Apple released iOS 18.3.2 on Tuesday, March 11, and caught most people on the hop.
Apple iPhone 16 – compatible with iOS 18.3.2.
While there had been rumors that an in-betweener was on its way, those who had predicted it thought it would arrive in a week’s time or later. And the content was a mystery, until now.
Which iPhones Can Run iOS 18.3.2?
The entire iOS 18 release works with any iPhone from the iPhone Xs from 2018 onwards. That means the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and iPhone Xr and all iPhones after that, including the iPhone SE in both its second- and third-generation models right up to the brand-new iOS 16e.
How To Get It
We’re some way through the iOS 18 cycle, so this will be familiar to you now. In the iPhone’s Settings app, choose General, then choose Software Update. After that, click Download and Install, and let the software download. This is a medium-sized update, 704.6MB on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, which downloaded and installed in a matter of minutes.
What’s In The Release
Apple’s notes are always key when it comes to one of the smaller releases, which this is. They are concise, reading, “This update provides important bug fixes, security updates, and addresses an issue that may prevent playback of some streaming content.”
Security details always follow later, so the streaming issue is the thing to cling onto. Apple doesn’t say whether the issue is restricted to particular services or programming—though presumably if it had been happening with something seismic like Severance on Apple TV+ we’d have heard about it.
But it’s obviously meaningful enough for Apple to mention it specifically.
This update was unexpected. If it goes according to plan, it looks like the next release will be iOS 18.4, due in April.
