Apple has brought new AI capabilities and other new features with the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS Sequoia 15.2 and other software updates.
To install an over-the-air update on your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > General > Software Update. On your Mac, go to System Settings > General > Software Update. To update your Apple Watch, select the My Watch tab in the companion Watch app on your iPhone and navigate to General > Software Update.
To download and install tvOS 18.2, click Settings > System > Software Updates and select Update Software. To update your HomePod, open the Home app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, hit the … (ellipsis) menu in the top-right corner, and choose Home Settings > Software Update.
New features in iOS 18.2 and other Apple updates
There’s plenty to get excited about in these mid-cycle updates. iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2 bring six new Apple Intelligence features, including AI image creation from prompts, along with a bunch of quality-of-life improvements.
watchOS 11.2 lets you pause video recording on iPhone via the Camera Remote app, and there’s also a new All Rings Closed award in the Activity app. tvOS 18.2 brings the Snoopy screen safer and support for 21:9 projectors and a bunch of other video aspect ratios, like 16:9, 21:9, 2.37:1, 2.39:1, 2.40:1, DCI 4K and 32:9.
As for HomePod, Siri now supports natural language search for Apple Music queries, while the Enhance Dialogue feature has a new setting to hear speech more clearly over background sounds.
Siri on HomePod is now integrated with Apple Music’s natural language search, so you can describe what you want to hear using any combination of categories like genre, mood, decade or activity. And if you use the second-generation HomePod as the default speaker for your Apple TV 4K, the Enhance Dialogue feature provides the option to hear speech more clearly over background sounds using real-time audio processing and machine learning.