You can also join the iOS 18 public beta to get the update.

1over137 · 2025-12-14T22:40:31 1765752031

How do you do that? And do you need an AppleID to do so?

jagged-chisel · 2025-12-14T16:50:06 1765731006

If you have the tolerance for betas, indeed

loloquwowndueo · 2025-12-14T19:03:13 1765738993

Someone above said that the 18.7.3 you can install as beta is in fact the production build. Disable beta access after that update.

tech234a · 2025-12-14T19:20:45 1765740045

Correct, both are the same build (22H217). BetaWiki has this build labeled as both the RC and the actual release: https://betawiki.net/wiki/IOS_18