Updated Tuesday, Jan. 28 with details of more features that have emerged in iOS 18.3.The latest iPhone update is here (and exactly when it was predicted to land). It includes several minor changes, bug fixes and an important update to those iPhones which run Apple Intelligence. Heres all you need to know. It follows on from iOS 18.2.1, a small update released on Monday, Jan. 6. Yes, thats right, just three weeks ago. And now the release is out, new elements have emerged, minor and major, which are useful additions.Apple iPhone 16 Plus benefits from new features in iOS 18.3. 2024 Bloomberg Finance LPThese include greater versatility for Visual Intelligence, the return of a popular capability in the Calculator app and more. Full details below.Which iPhones Can Run iOS 18.3?The new version of iOS 18 is compatible with any iPhone from 2018 onwards. That means the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and iPhone Xr from 2018 and all iPhones after that, including the iPhone SE in both its second- and third-generation models.How To Get ItSoftware updates are easy! In the iPhones Settings app, click on General, then Software Update. After that, click Download and Install, and let the software work its magic. This is a biggish update, 1.14GB on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, so it might take a little time to download and install.MORE FOR YOUWhats In The ReleaseUnlike iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.2, theres no big Apple Intelligence features being deployed here. The next big Apple Intelligence update will come in iOS 18.4, expected in April.In fact, one feature already live will be paused when you update to the new version. Thats because there have been problems with some specific notification summaries created by Apple Intelligence. These relate to news notifications and caused issues for news organizations. To tackle this, Apple has suspended News & Entertainment category summaries temporarily.This update also adds warnings that summarization can cause issues, and the summaries will now appear in italics. Apple Intelligence is only found on six iPhones: iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.Theres also one crucial change for these phones: from now on, Apple Intelligence is turned on by default. This is important: if you dont want Apple Intelligence, youll now need to toggle it off in Settings under Apple Intelligence & Siri.The new features are increasingly useful, but some parts of them need data, if ChatGPT is invoked, so you may not want to use that. On balance, Id say its worth keeping the toggle turned to on, but the important thing is you make your own choice.Since launch its been clear that there There are smaller changes in the new releasecoming:iPhone 16 series phones have a Camera Control and the AE/AF lock toggle is renamed as Lock Focus and Exposure. If you crop content when editing a PDF, Apple will now warn users that the cropped area is not removed from the PDF (which could save some embarrassment). And Messages will add a Genmoji entry to the + button, so its easier to create your own personalized emojithis is another Apple Intelligence feature.Visual Intelligence (exclusive to iPhone 16 series models) has now expanded so that as well as adding an event to the Calendar when you point the camera at a poster or flyer, you can now identify plants and animals, too.The Calculator app allows you to repeat calculations when you tap the equal sign (so after 2 x 2 you press = and it shows 4, tap = again and the x2 calculation happens again to show, yes, thats right you math wizard, 8).Apple has added Unity Rhythm wallpaper to honor Black History month and that wallpaper is accessible to every iPhone running iOS 18.3.Finally, you can now turn off notification summaries directly from the lock screen, if youre running Apple Intelligence.