Apple iOS 18.7.2: iPhone Update For Users Who Don’t Want iOS 26: Which Should You Choose?

ByDavid Phelan,

Senior Contributor.

Updated Nov. 9 with more analysis of the new software releases for iPhone and iPad and which update to choose.

Apple has just released iOS 18.7.2, a full two days after iOS 26.1 landed. Is this the last call for iOS 26 resisters? Here’s what’s in it and how to get it. Alongside iOS 18.7.2, Apple also released iPadOS 18.7.2, for iPad users who haven’t updated to iPadOS 26.

Some analysts had thought that iOS 18.7.2 might not appear, it was so late. That seemed unlikely to me, given that the release candidate had been spotted already. Quite why it was so much later isn’t known, but here it is anyway.