You can sign up for Apple beta and keep doing iOS 18 updates.

Foivos · 2026-01-12T08:18:11 1768205891

There are many reports that since around Christmas day, you can not do this any more on phones that support iOS 26. Updating to iOS 26 is the only option now.

aziaziazi · 2026-01-12T12:10:16 1768219816

I may suggest the other option is to buy an iPhone not supporting iOS 26.

- an happy iOS 15 user

oreilles · 2026-01-12T08:06:46 1768205206

Nope, they don't sign iOS 18 updates anymore.

andrei_says_ · 2026-01-12T16:41:08 1768236068

Not anymore. Tried this but the pulled 18.7.3 for beta upgrades too.