diff --git a/lib/authn/util/poll.ts b/lib/authn/util/poll.ts
index c79d3a327..6377472cb 100644
--- a/lib/authn/util/poll.ts
+++ b/lib/authn/util/poll.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import AuthSdkError from '../../errors/AuthSdkError';
 import AuthPollStopError from '../../errors/AuthPollStopError';
 import { AuthnTransactionState } from '../types';
 import { getStateToken } from './stateToken';
+import { isIOS } from '../../features';
 
 interface PollOptions {
   delay?: number;
@@ -82,6 +83,48 @@ export function getPollFn(sdk, res: AuthnTransactionState, ref) {
       });
     }
 
+    const delayNextPoll = (ms) => {
+      // no need for extra logic in non-iOS environments, just continue polling
+      if (!isIOS()) {
+        return delayFn(ms);
+      }
+
+      let timeoutId: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;
+      const cancelableDelay = () => {
+        return new Promise((resolve) => {
+          timeoutId = setTimeout(resolve, ms);
+        });
+      };
+
+      const delayForFocus = () => {
+        let pageVisibilityHandler;
+        return new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+          let pageDidHide = false;
+          pageVisibilityHandler = () => {
+            if (document.hidden) {
+              clearTimeout(timeoutId);
+              pageDidHide = true;
+            }
+            else if (pageDidHide) {
+              resolve();
+            }
+          };
+
+          document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', pageVisibilityHandler);
+        })
+        .then(() => {
+          document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', pageVisibilityHandler);
+        });
+      };
+
+      return Promise.race([
+        // this function will never resolve if the page changes to hidden because the timeout gets cleared
+        cancelableDelay(),
+        // this function won't resolve until the page becomes visible after being hidden
+        delayForFocus(),
+      ]);
+    };
+
     ref.isPolling = true;
 
     var retryCount = 0;
@@ -90,6 +133,24 @@ export function getPollFn(sdk, res: AuthnTransactionState, ref) {
       if (!ref.isPolling) {
         return Promise.reject(new AuthPollStopError());
       }
+
+      // don't trigger polling request if page is hidden wait until window is visible again
+      if (isIOS() && document.hidden) {
+        let handler;
+        return new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+          handler = () => {
+            if (!document.hidden) {
+              resolve();
+            }
+          };
+          document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', handler);
+        })
+        .then(() => {
+          document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', handler);
+          return recursivePoll();
+        });
+      }
+
       return pollFn()
         .then(function (pollRes) {
           // Reset our retry counter on success
@@ -108,7 +169,7 @@ export function getPollFn(sdk, res: AuthnTransactionState, ref) {
             }
 
             // Continue poll
-            return delayFn(delay).then(recursivePoll);
+            return delayNextPoll(delay).then(recursivePoll);
 
           } else {
             // Any non-waiting result, even if polling was stopped
@@ -124,7 +185,7 @@ export function getPollFn(sdk, res: AuthnTransactionState, ref) {
               retryCount <= 4) {
             var delayLength = Math.pow(2, retryCount) * 1000;
             retryCount++;
-            return delayFn(delayLength)
+            return delayNextPoll(delayLength)
               .then(recursivePoll);
           }
           throw err;
diff --git a/lib/base/types.ts b/lib/base/types.ts
index e4db88c0b..c5a665f7e 100644
--- a/lib/base/types.ts
+++ b/lib/base/types.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ export interface FeaturesAPI {
   isPKCESupported(): boolean;
   isIE11OrLess(): boolean;
   isDPoPSupported(): boolean;
+  isIOS(): boolean;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/lib/features.ts b/lib/features.ts
index c9280a1c9..d57f0181a 100644
--- a/lib/features.ts
+++ b/lib/features.ts
@@ -88,3 +88,10 @@ export function isDPoPSupported () {
     hasTextEncoder() &&
     isWebCryptoSubtleSupported();
 }
+
+export function isIOS () {
+  // iOS detection from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9039885/177710
+  return isBrowser() && typeof navigator !== 'undefined' && typeof navigator.userAgent !== 'undefined' &&
+    // @ts-expect-error - MSStream is not in `window` type, unsurprisingly
+    (/iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(navigator.userAgent) && !window.MSStream);
+}
diff --git a/test/spec/authn/mfa-challenge.js b/test/spec/authn/mfa-challenge.js
index 626d1f3f3..dbae91f59 100644
--- a/test/spec/authn/mfa-challenge.js
+++ b/test/spec/authn/mfa-challenge.js
@@ -10,13 +10,40 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
  */
 
+/* global document */
 
-jest.mock('../../../lib/util/misc', () => {
+jest.mock('lib/util', () => {
+  const actual = jest.requireActual('../../../lib/util');
   return {
+    ...actual,
     delay: () => { return Promise.resolve(); }
   };
 });
+
+jest.mock('lib/http', () => {
+  const actual = jest.requireActual('../../../lib/http');
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    post: actual.post
+  };
+});
+
+jest.mock('lib/features', () => {
+  const actual = jest.requireActual('../../../lib/features');
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    isIOS: () => false
+  };
+});
+import OktaAuth from '@okta/okta-auth-js';
 import util from '@okta/test.support/util';
+import { setImmediate } from 'timers';
+
+const mocked = {
+  http: require('../../../lib/http'),
+  util: require('../../../lib/util'),
+  features: require('../../../lib/features')
+};
 
 describe('MFA_CHALLENGE', function () {
 
@@ -1522,6 +1549,201 @@ describe('MFA_CHALLENGE', function () {
         expect(err.errorCauses).toBeUndefined();
       }
     });
+
+    // OKTA-823470: iOS18 polling issue
+    // NOTE: only run these tests in browser environments
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-extra-boolean-cast
+    (!!global.document ? describe : describe.skip)('iOS18 polling', () => {
+      const togglePageVisibility = () => {
+        document.hidden = !document.hidden;
+        document.dispatchEvent(new Event('visibilitychange'));
+      };
+
+      // see https://stackoverflow.com/a/52196951 for more info about jest/promises/timers
+      const advanceTestTimers = async () => {
+        jest.runOnlyPendingTimers();
+        // flushes promise queue
+        return new Promise(resolve => setImmediate(resolve));
+      };
+
+      const context = {};
+
+      beforeEach(async () => {
+        jest.useFakeTimers();
+        document.hidden = false;
+
+        // delay must be mocked (essentially to original implementation) because other tests
+        // mock this function to remove any timer delays
+        jest.spyOn(mocked.util, 'delay').mockImplementation((ms) => {
+          return new Promise((resolve) => {
+            setTimeout(resolve, ms);
+          });
+        });
+
+        // mocks iOS environment
+        jest.spyOn(mocked.features, 'isIOS').mockReturnValue(true);
+
+        const { response: mfaPush } = await util.generateXHRPair({
+          uri: 'https://auth-js-test.okta.com'
+        }, 'mfa-challenge-push', 'https://auth-js-test.okta.com');
+
+        const { response: success } = await util.generateXHRPair({
+          uri: 'https://auth-js-test.okta.com'
+        }, 'success', 'https://auth-js-test.okta.com');
+
+        // mocks flow of wait, wait, wait, success
+        context.httpSpy = jest.spyOn(mocked.http, 'post')
+          .mockResolvedValueOnce(mfaPush.response)
+          .mockResolvedValueOnce(mfaPush.response)
+          .mockResolvedValueOnce(mfaPush.response)
+          .mockResolvedValueOnce(success.response);
+
+
+        const oktaAuth = new OktaAuth({
+          issuer: 'https://auth-js-test.okta.com'
+        });
+        
+        context.transaction = oktaAuth.tx.createTransaction(mfaPush.response);
+      });
+
+      afterEach(() => {
+        jest.runOnlyPendingTimers();
+        jest.useRealTimers();
+      });
+
+      it('should proceed with flow as normal if document is never hidden', async () => {
+        const { httpSpy, transaction } = context;
+        expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+
+        let count = 0;
+        const pollPromise = transaction.poll({
+          delay: 2000,
+          transactionCallBack: () => {
+            count += 1;
+          }
+        });
+
+        for (let i=0; i<4; i++) {
+          await advanceTestTimers();
+        }
+
+        const result = await pollPromise;
+
+        expect(count).toEqual(3);
+        expect(httpSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+        expect(result.status).toEqual('SUCCESS');
+      });
+
+      it('should not proceed with flow if document is hidden', async () => {
+        const { httpSpy, transaction } = context;
+        expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+
+        togglePageVisibility();
+
+        let count = 0;
+        const pollPromise = transaction.poll({
+          delay: 2000,
+          transactionCallBack: () => {
+            count += 1;
+          }
+        });
+
+        // advance the timers so the flow would have succeed in normal circumstances
+        for (let i=0; i<4; i++) {
+          await advanceTestTimers();
+        }
+
+        // ensure flow did not advance, awaits document focus to return 
+        expect(count).toEqual(0);
+
+        togglePageVisibility();
+        for (let i=0; i<4; i++) {
+          await advanceTestTimers();
+        }
+
+        const result = await pollPromise;
+
+        expect(count).toEqual(3);
+        expect(httpSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+        expect(result.status).toEqual('SUCCESS');
+      });
+
+      it('should pause flow is document is hidden amidst polling', async () => {
+        const { httpSpy, transaction } = context;
+        expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+
+        let count = 0;
+        const pollPromise = transaction.poll({
+          delay: 2000,
+          transactionCallBack: () => {
+            count += 1;
+          }
+        });
+
+        // advance the timers so the flow would have succeed in normal circumstances
+        for (let i=0; i<4; i++) {
+          await advanceTestTimers();
+          if (i == 1) {
+            // hide document in middle of flow
+            togglePageVisibility();
+          }
+        }
+
+        // ensure flow pauses, awaits document focus to return 
+        expect(count).toEqual(2);
+
+        togglePageVisibility();
+        for (let i=0; i<2; i++) {
+          await advanceTestTimers();
+        }
+
+        const result = await pollPromise;
+
+        expect(count).toEqual(3);
+        expect(httpSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+        expect(result.status).toEqual('SUCCESS');
+      });
+
+      it('should handle document visibility being toggled consistently', async () => {
+        const { httpSpy, transaction } = context;
+        expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+
+        let count = 0;
+        const pollPromise = transaction.poll({
+          delay: 2000,
+          transactionCallBack: () => {
+            count += 1;
+          }
+        });
+
+        for (let i=0; i<8; i++) {
+          if (i % 2 === 0) {
+            expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+          }
+          else {
+            expect(document.hidden).toBe(true);
+          }
+
+          await advanceTestTimers();
+          togglePageVisibility();
+
+          if (i % 2 === 0) {
+            expect(document.hidden).toBe(true);
+          }
+          else {
+            expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+          }
+        }
+
+        expect(document.hidden).toBe(false);
+
+        const result = await pollPromise;
+
+        expect(count).toEqual(3);
+        expect(httpSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
+        expect(result.status).toEqual('SUCCESS');
+      });
+    });
   });
 
   describe('trans.prev', function () {
diff --git a/test/spec/features/browser.ts b/test/spec/features/browser.ts
index cadaa3fb8..ba246d601 100644
--- a/test/spec/features/browser.ts
+++ b/test/spec/features/browser.ts
@@ -63,4 +63,30 @@ describe('features (browser)', function() {
       expect(OktaAuth.features.isIE11OrLess()).toBe(true);
     });
   });
+
+  describe('isIOS', () => {
+    it('can succeed', () => {
+      const iOSAgents = [
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/92.0.4515.90 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1',
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1',
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/92.0.4515.90 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1',
+        'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1'
+      ];
+
+      for (let userAgent of iOSAgents) {
+        jest.spyOn(global.navigator, 'userAgent', 'get').mockReturnValue(userAgent);
+        expect(OktaAuth.features.isIOS()).toBe(true);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('returns false if navigator is unavailable', () => {
+      jest.spyOn(global, 'navigator', 'get').mockReturnValue(undefined as never);
+      expect(OktaAuth.features.isIOS()).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('returns false if userAgent is unavailable', () => {
+      jest.spyOn(global.navigator, 'userAgent', 'get').mockReturnValue(undefined as never);
+      expect(OktaAuth.features.isIOS()).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/test/support/jest/jest.setup.js b/test/support/jest/jest.setup.js
index 50373db98..58738dba5 100644
--- a/test/support/jest/jest.setup.js
+++ b/test/support/jest/jest.setup.js
@@ -33,3 +33,12 @@ global.console.warn = function() {};
 // broadcast-channel should not detect node environment
 // https://github.com/pubkey/broadcast-channel/blob/master/src/util.js#L61
 process[Symbol.toStringTag] = 'Process';
+
+if (global.document) {
+  let docHidden = false;
+  Object.defineProperty(global.document, 'hidden', {
+    configurable: true,
+    get () { return docHidden; },
+    set (bool) { docHidden = Boolean(bool); }
+  });
+}
diff --git a/test/support/util.js b/test/support/util.js
index 9d0c7cc49..3512cba38 100644
--- a/test/support/util.js
+++ b/test/support/util.js
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ function generateXHRPair(request, response, uri, responseVars) {
     });
   });
 }
+util.generateXHRPair = generateXHRPair;
 
 function mockAjax(pairs) {