According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning on releasing iOS 18.4 in April. Apple hasn’t started the beta cycle for iOS 18.4 quite yet, but there are a handful of things we can likely expect with iOS 18.4 so far.
Major Siri upgrades
Apple is likely to debut three major Siri upgrades with iOS 18.4 this spring, bringing the assistant into the era of Apple Intelligence. Those three upgrades include:
Personal context
On-screen awareness
Ability to tap into apps
With these abilities, Siri will understand more about you, your context, and take actions for you.
Additional languages with Apple Intelligence
Back when iOS 18.2 was released, Apple announced that Apple Intelligence would support some additional languages in April 2025 and beyond. While the company wasn’t clear about which languages would be launching when, they did name the languages they intended to support throughout 2025:
in April, a software update will deliver expanded language support, with more coming throughout the year. Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages will be supported.
New emoji
Over the past couple years, Apple has added support for new emoji in its spring iOS releases, and this trend is highly likely to continue. The Unicode Consortium has already unveiled the new emoji, and it’s just a matter of Apple implementing them. New emoji this year include:
fingerprint
face with bags under eyes
harp
root vegetable
leafless tree
splatter
shovel
Here’s a look at mockups for the 7 upcoming emoji:
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