{"id":166435,"date":"2025-08-22T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166435\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:16:15","slug":"apple-stops-signing-ios-18-6-blocking-downgrade-from-both-ios-18-6-x-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166435\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple stops signing iOS 18.6, blocking downgrade from both iOS 18.6.X updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ios-18.6-AI.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple has released two software updates to iOS 18.6. Since the iPhone software update has shipped without issue, and one contained a major security patch, Apple has stopped signing the older iOS 18.6 software version.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple stops signing versions of iOS due to security issues being disclosed in older software versions and patched in newer software versions.<\/p>\n<p>Apple released<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/29\/ios-18-6-now-available-for-iphone-heres-whats-new\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0iOS 18.6 on July 29<\/a>. The update included bug fixes, security improvements, and a fix for a performance issue with the Photos app\u2019s Memories feature. The update also included a change to how third-party app marketplaces are handled in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Apple separately detailed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/29\/ios-18-6-has-important-security-fixes-here-are-the-full-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full list of security improvements\u00a0<\/a>that were made in iOS 18.6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Apple released<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/14\/ios-18-6-1-now-available-heres-whats-new\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> iOS 18.6.1,<\/a> re-enabling blood oxygen readings from Apple Watch in the US, and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/20\/apple-releases-ios-18-6-2-for-iphone-heres-whats-new\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 18.6.2<\/a>, a major security update.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, Apple is expected to release iOS 26 after beta testing versions with developers and public beta testers since June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/bmx\/solidsafe-safer-solid-state-battery-for-iphone-wireless-usb?ref=gka71h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1012938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755287113_345_BMX-Mac-925-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has released two software updates to iOS 18.6. Since the iPhone software update has shipped without issue,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-166435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115072374145307583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}