Ryan Christoffel, also at 9to5Mac:

There are two key features that are part of iOS 18.2, but aren’t yet ready for the Mac:

1. Genmoji
2. Mail app redesign

Genmoji are an especially unfortunate omission, as they’re available on both iPhone and iPad with iOS and iPadOS 18.2. Meanwhile the Mail app redesign is currently iPhone-exclusive, so it’s missing from both the Mac and iPad in these next software updates.

The omission of Genmoji creation in MacOS 15.2, and the omission of the new AI inbox categorization features in Mail on both iPad and Mac, aren’t surprises — they weren’t in any of the betas for these .2 OS updates. But it is a weirdly glaring omission. Apple itself started promoting screenshots of the Apple Intelligence inbox categorization in Mail for Mac back in October, when the .1 OS updates shipped with the initial round of Apple Intelligence features.

I am reliably informed that the new Mail categorization features are coming soon to iPad and Mac, which I suspect means in the .3 updates. But the first .3 betas aren’t out yet.

Chance Miller has a good rundown for 9to5Mac:

The update includes major new Apple Intelligence features, upgrades to the Camera Control on iPhone 16, a redesign for the Mail app, and much more.

The new Apple Intelligence features lead the list, and certainly lead Apple’s marketing, but there’s quite a bit else new in 18.2 too.

Like Viticci, I remain largely skeptical and uncomfortable with AI for purposes of generating original new stuff — writing, imagery, whatever. But as an assistive agent, it’s quite remarkable today and improving at a fast clip.

Apple (downloads): The Command Line Tools package now supports using the swift test command to build and run package tests written with Swift Testing.[…]Sometimes running parallel Tests on macOS run destinations never finishes.[…]macOS projects that use hardened runtime but no sandboxing may run into timeout errors when attempting to preview if the project is complex […]

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features, including the first image generation capabilities. Image Playground is a new app for creating images based on text descriptions, and you can add all kinds of costumes, items, backgrounds and more. You can even make […]