Oooof
Curious! Didja use iOS 18 for the first six months?
Been super thankful: iOS 26 is more stable than about month five of iOS 18. Unreasonably angry about iOS 18 instability. Probably helps my impression of the new iOS when I do notice a bug to remind myself of how bad it was for so damn long on the last version.
Good news though Apple is planning to reopen their signing wind——NOPE trollin’ they’d never help ya out like that (for REASONS)
Edit: okay iOS 17 isn’t getting security updates so I wouldn’t advocate for reopening that signing window but for iOS 18, of course. Someone on MacRumors just bought a replacement iP15 Pro they made sure would have iOS 18 installed.
Re-edit b/c Apple would likely still patch bad exploits in 17