{"id":329470,"date":"2026-03-05T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:19:08","slug":"apple-releases-ios-18-7-6-to-address-australia-emergency-call-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/329470\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases iOS 18.7.6 to Address Australia Emergency Call Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple today released iOS 18.7.6 for older devices, addressing an issue that caused some older iPhones in Australia to be unable to connect to emergency services.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/coral-iphone-xr.jpg\"   alt=\"coral iphone xr\" width=\"3200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-906995\"\/><br \/>According to Apple&#8217;s release notes, the update fixes an issue that was preventing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/iphone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a> XS and \u200ciPhone\u200c XR from properly connecting to emergency networks in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>This update addresses a mobile network issue for \u200ciPhone\u200c XS models and \u200ciPhone\u200c XR when establishing a connection to emergency services in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Australian mobile network operators have been improving support for emergency calling on their networks, which has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/12\/15\/iphone-12-australia-users-should-install-ios-26-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a host of problems<\/a> with older iPhones connecting to emergency situations <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-au\/125851\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in some situations<\/a>. Apple has released several updates to address the problem, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/02\/apple-releases-ios-16-7-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 16.7.4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/01\/26\/ios-26-2-1-emergency-call-australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 26.2.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Apple&#8217;s updates exacerbated the issue, and Apple ended up temporarily pulling iOS 18.7.4, iOS 16.7.13, iOS 15.8.6, and iOS 12.5.8 back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/01\/28\/apple-stops-signing-newly-released-ios-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in December<\/a>. 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Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple today released iOS 18.7.6 for older devices, addressing an issue that caused some older iPhones in Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[936,61,6931,7909,4178,60,8609,202,4179,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-329470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ios","11":"tag-ipad","12":"tag-iphone","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-mac","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-rumors","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}