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Today's the Day! iOS 12 will be released for everyone.

Annie_M

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From the schedules I've seen on Twitter, it looks like iOS 12 will be released to the Eastern Daylight Time Zone at 13:00 hours.... less than two hours from now!
 

Al Paca

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Currently 18 minutes late (said in a sarcastic tone). But you have to be on iOS 12 before you can update to WatchOS 5.
 

wolfee48

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watchOS 5 is released now. iOS 12 should be as well. Can anyone confirm? I am already on GM released last week.
 

MasterDarque

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Updating my iPhone X right now (coming from 11.4.1), if I remember right, it’s at around 1.9 gb’s in size and I’m doing this over WiFi atm.
 

Annie_M

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Yes, I can update my iPhone anytime. It came through around 1 PM, but I was out to lunch!
 

ThePinkChameleon

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Apple never officially gives a time but is typically 10am Pacific - 1pm Eastern.

Thx ! Just shortly after posting, I tried again on the Mac and the update for my X went quickly and smoothly. I started about 1:20 and finished by 1:35/1:40ish.

So far so good !
 

MasterDarque

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I recently completed the update as well...
Ive got to say that since I never was on any of the beta’s for 12, that having an iPhone X I love being able to close out apps with a simple swipe up from being in the app switcher, versus the swipe up to app switcher/pause/swipe up steps that it used to be on 11.x.x.
 

Annie_M

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All done. Looks good so far. Now I get to explore and learn what is awesome about iOS 12!

I downloaded OTA. This has been the fastest download and installation that I can remember.

Download started at 2:15
Download complete 2:37
Install began 2:50
Install completed 2:58
 

ThePinkChameleon

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I recently completed the update as well...
Ive got to say that since I never was on any of the beta’s for 12, that having an iPhone X I love being able to close out apps with a simple swipe up from being in the app switcher, versus the swipe up to app switcher/pause/swipe up steps that it used to be on 11.x.x.

I agree, the whole app close out thing is soooooooo much smoother now.....it’s like buttah lol