Forget Apple Intelligence – iOS 18.2 will bring a new Sudoku game to your iPhone

• A caller Sudoku crippled is now disposable successful nan iOS 18.2 developer beta
• It joins 3 different puzzles for Apple News Plus subscribers
• iOS 18.1 is rolling retired to users this week

With nan developer beta type of iOS 18.2 now successful testing, we're getting a due look astatine what it'll bring pinch it – and alongside immoderate smart Apple Intelligence tricks (including ChatGPT integration), we're besides getting a (gasp) caller Sudoku puzzle crippled that appears arsenic portion of an Apple News Plus subscription.

As spotted by vlogger Chris Carley (via 9to5Mac), nan caller puzzle crippled adds to nan 3 games that were already disposable to subscribers to nan news app since nan motorboat of iOS 17 past year: Quartiles, Crossword, and Crossword mini.

Apple is intelligibly hoping that puzzle games tin thief pull much users to Apple News Plus. Costing $12.99 / £12.99 / AU$19.99 (and besides disposable arsenic portion of an Apple One bundle), nan subscription gives you entree to complete 400 integer newspapers and magazines.

If you're not acquainted pinch it, Sudoku gives you a 3 x 3 grid of boards, each 1 divided up into different 3 x 3 grid. Players must capable each quadrate pinch a single-digit number, ensuring that each individual 3 x 3 grid, each row, and each file has each nan numbers 1 to 9 successful immoderate order. It's simple, but alternatively addictive.

More worth for money

Apple intelligibly wants to replicate immoderate of nan occurrence nan New York Times has had pinch its ain postulation of games. That postulation includes Wordle of people – you whitethorn callback nan NYT paid an undisclosed sum to bargain Wordle backmost astatine nan commencement of 2022.

As you whitethorn person spotted while browsing nan site, present astatine TechRadar we're fans of nan NYT Connections, NYT Strands, and NYT Wordle games, and they each person a definite stickiness that keeps group coming back. When you're trying to waste integer subscriptions, for illustration Apple is, that's important.

There's plentifulness much coming pinch iOS 18.2 arsenic well, including much options for mounting default apps, and hiding (or removing) banal Apple apps. The Visual Intelligence hunt tool is portion of nan package update, arsenic are new AI-powered filters for your inbox.

It's not clear really agelong beta testing for iOS 18.2 will last, but nan last and nationalist type shouldn't beryllium excessively acold off. This week, Apple is rolling retired iOS 18.1 to users, which brings pinch it nan first Apple Intelligence features for those successful nan US pinch compatible iPhones – including a smarter Siri and generative AI penning tools.

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