Apple Releases iOS 18.7.6 to Address Australia Emergency Call Issue

Wednesday March 4, 2026 12:13 pm PST by Juli Clover

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.

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According to Apple's release notes, the update fixes an issue that was preventing the iPhone XS and iPhone XR from properly connecting to emergency networks in Australia.

This update addresses a mobile network issue for iPhone XS models and iPhone XR when establishing a connection to emergency services in Australia.

Australian mobile network operators have been improving support for emergency calling on their networks, which has led to a host of problems with older iPhones connecting to emergency situations in some situations. Apple has released several updates to address the problem, including iOS 16.7.4 and iOS 26.2.1.

Some of Apple'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 in December. Since then, additional updates have been released to further fix the emergency calling bugs, including the new iOS 18.7.6. update.

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Top Rated Comments

DBZmusicboy01

8 months ago

I wish Apple were to let us run iOS 18 on iPhone 17 🥺
iOS 26 is a nightmare.

Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

vanishing

8 months ago

if Apple weren’t so arrogant they would release this for anybody running ios18, instead they want to save face from their poor Liquid Glass design by forcing ios26 onto users.

it’s virtually no effort to make subsequent updates available for all instead of just some.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Skyuser

8 months ago

Again? Didn't they fixed this?

It’s not exactly Apple’s; something is going on in Australia’s cellular networks that require virtually every mobile phone to be software updated to be able to make emergency calls. Some Android phones that no longer receive software updates just lost this ability forever. There’s already at least one death that is at least indirectly caused by this.

https://www.lightreading.com/wireless/another-suspected-death-from-australia-emergency-call-failure

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)