10 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 18.2

[trajen]

Visual Intelligence is NOT an Apple Intelligence feature, it's an iPhone 16 (series) feature.

The iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max is technically capable of using the new photographic styles yet, it was an iPhone 16 feature and no one is complaining. Same with this, it was marketed as an iPhone 16 feature, therefore it makes sense to be exclusive to those devices.

I don’t know anyone who uses photographic styles. I have never used them. But I see your point.

 

[Fuzzball84]

Can Apple Intelligence do the Sudoku puzzles for me? I don’t have the time so that would be awesome.

 

[Eurisko2]

All I want to know about AI is how to turn it off.
If anyone on here knows how to to it please let me know 👍

It's off by default. Don't turn it on.

 

[Eurisko2]

Has anyone actually got early access granted yet for Image Playground?

I'm still waiting 🙁

Mine JUST turned on, and I applied for it minutes after launch.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Well, there's a big switch in Settings labelled "Apple Intelligence". You leave that turned off.

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(with apologies to all the people who wanted it to be difficult so they could get angry about it)

If you don't own an iPhone 16 it doesn't exist.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

If you don't own an iPhone 16 it doesn't exist.

15 Pro/Pro Max has it, too.

 

[Parowdy]

However it took them THIS long to return Lock Screen volume controls. Hallelujah. So there are still sensible people working at Apple fixing past mistakes, good.

 

[Parowdy]

So my 1 year old $1500 iPhone 15pro max is unable to do

Visual Intelligence??!!!!! I’m getting tired of Apple. It too much man.​

Well you don’t have the fancy button on the side, you only have the less fancy button on the other side, that’s so last year

 

[STC1709]

Hopefully by 18.2 most of the major bugs will be worked out. Will upgrade from ios17 at that point

 

[JosephAW]

And how many of those new “features” don’t work with iPhone 15 and older?

 

[eifelbube]

Is Mail redesign and categorization part of Apple Intelligence? Or will my iPhone 13 get it?

I am afraid on the iPhone 13 you will not be able to convert an email into a poem. You and me with my iPhone XS will have to miss out on the “capabilities that aim to make your iPhone smarter and more intuitive.”

 

[mrr]

I just hope it makes my new iPhone 16 Pro Max battery last longer.

 

[bobdc6]

I'll be happy when Apple stops breaking things with their frequent buggy updates.

 

[Apple_Robert]

All I want to know about AI is how to turn it off.
If anyone on here knows how to to it please let me know 👍

It is off by default.

 

[svish]

Volume control in lock screen is nice. Looking forward to trying out Image playground.

 

[Downhilltenago]

This is going to flesh out the AI for me and the mail update is what I was waiting for. Excited for this!

 

[Amplelink]

Meh, nothing compelling

It sort of feels like how the Apple first party apps feel to most people. Sort of meh, not everyone will use them.

 

[macbookj0e]

I hope there’s an option to make the emojis smaller again on the keyboard. Don’t like the new big layout.

 

[MasterControlProgram]

Nice to finally get the volume control back. It's been so long I'd almost forgotten they took it away for no good reason.

 

[bigheaddoug]

Default apps will be interesting, but the system has been so locked down to third parties for so long, I can't think of many.

Keyboard, for example. Ever since third party keyboards have been available, only a few developers have even seriously tried. There's Gboard (abandoned, of course. It's a Google product.) There's Swiftkey which Microsoft threatened to abandon and then immediately went back on but still failed to substantially improve.

Third party keyboards are awful on iOS and nobody seems to care to change that. Probably the only reason Google and Microsoft did it was for user data to mine.

So, can anyone name an actual third party keyboard that they use, let alone recommend?

All.I.Want.is.a.keyboard.where.this.stops.happening.to.me.b

 

[MobiusStrip]

But will it audibly tell you that YOU MISSED A CALL?

 

[ninetyCent]

But how can it look up information locally? The example they showed was I believe of a concert flyer. It didn't have the information for the venue stored in the phone.

Do you mean that it processed the text in the picture and then sent that to Yelp? I don't see the importance of the distinction. You can bet Apple wants to see that picture too, to further train the system. And your consent to that will be asked at setup as usual.

Google lens needs to first process the image you're pointing your phone at, and through AI, extract relevant subjects and text and decipher what they are. All that preprocessing happens before looking up a concert venue in that example and they don't happen on device. Preprocessing (including looking up info) is done on their servers which is why they were able to do it with way older phones than today.

Apple's approach tries to do most of that pre-processing locally. It still doesn't make a lot of sense that that 15pro can't do it but the comparison to Google Lens isn't a valid one.

 

[Rhhk]

New Siri! Let’s try it.

“Summarise this web page”.
“Here are your last five emails”

Oh well…