Apple’s shipment of iPadOS 18.6 to the public updates the current-gen iPad operating system, with the maintenance release fixing bugs while iPadOS 26 gets tested.
The release of iPadOS 18.6 arrives after three developer betas and one release candidate build.
In terms of content, it is an update with few actual material changes. During the betas, there were no observable alterations, indicating it to be an update that was more for maintenance than features.
Indeed, the release notes for the release candidate basically warned to developers that Health data became inaccessible when you reach the ”slide to power off” page without a passcode.
Källa: AppleInsider.com