15 New Things Your iPhone Can Do in iOS 18.1

[Kay_Ess]

HurdurDURdurdur EU baaaddd Tim for world leaderrrrr

Oh wait, my 14 doesn’t do AI anyway, sorry, bye.

 

[GuilleA]

I mean this is really more about Apple, how else could it be? Just look at their videos, the only reality Apple acknowledges is Californians with the newest devices.

Right? I visited California last week and couldn't believe how different and good Apple Maps was over there.

 

[jz0309]

I am happy with my 13PM not getting these Apple Intelligence features…
running the 18.1 public beta on my iPad, have ”A.I.” enabled but not played with it yet…

 

[Unity451]

Hopefully Qi charging is one of them considering I lost it in iOS 18.0.

 

[MrGimper]

Sleep Apnea monitoring isn't one of them.

 

[Mr.Mozi]

Allow me to summarize this without AI involved:
- Reset the already “messed up by you” control center to “messed up by Apple” control center
- Apple Intelligence

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

The clean up feature works incredibly well.

I hate that in the new control center it now takes two clicks/touches to activate Bluetooth, why?…

They then added an extra standalone Bluetooth toggle, now there are two, one that takes two steps and another that takes one, and you cannot remove the other. It is stupid, you should have only one in a simple touch like before.

Control Center has always been a problem, anyway. You can turn a feature (like Bluetooth or WiFi) on...but clicking it again only temporarily disables it. It doesn't turn off. I wind up having to journey into Settings more than I should have to.

 

[citysnaps]

I'm really looking forward to 18.1 running on my 16PM. I think it's going to be killer.

 

[JosephAW]

From past experience I’ve learned to hold off on updating on underpowered iPhone devices (iPhone 14 Pro) to new iOS versions that require to much performance for features for older devices.
If upgrading to a new iPhone 16 Pro then we’ll run the latest and greatest.
Remember how bad iOS 9 was for those iPhone 4S, Apple allowed us to downgrade to iOS versions.

 

[Rogue AI]

Great, can’t wait to try it out in *checks notes* another month.

 

[Reeneman]

Someone from Germany… 🫠
Got 1 out of 15 new features haha

 

[Paddle1]

You can still record phone calls (apparently, haven't tried it) and get web summaries in Safari (for what they're worth, which in my experience is not much.)

All I really want is better Siri but it's already much faster and more usable (on the iPhone, still laggy and bad on HomePod.)

ChatGPT can already read Apple's documentation (and everyone else's) and do a good job of quickly answering specific questions about it.

How do you get web summaries in Safari on older devices? I tried on my 12 and it's not there.

 

[Paddle1]

Would those 15 things go down to 1, for those who own something lesser than the 15 Pro?

I'd find it useful to know which features require AI that all the other phones are seemingly too useless to handle.

So far of the 15 all of them require AI except resetting the CC. You can also call record and transcribe, but no summaries.

 

[error]

Looking forward getting most of these features in the EU in 2036.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Your iPhone won't be doing much with it unless we're talking about iPhoneOS 18.1.

 

[adrianlondon]

I know what you mean and it’s one of the reasons I don’t use Siri. Not saying it’s a viable solution but have you tried this field to see if it helps?

Unfortunately, that doesn't help. Siri is unable to understand that it could be someone's name - even one in my contacts - when the name just appears in a sentence outside of "facetime <name>" or something very obvious.

I get it - it's an unusual name, but it's the little irritating things that make me realise Siri isn't that smart. I'd love to see if Apple use AI to help with issues like this, but it seems like it's basic ML (Machine Learning) or logic rather than anything clever like deep learning. Plus, it needs a 15 Pro or 16.

Try adding the pronunciation field to the contact card.

Unfortunately, that only works when Siri works out that it's a contact rather than a number.

Calls, text messages etc work ok when reading the "sent from" name, it's elsewhere that it fails when it just occurs in a sentence. I get it - it's tricky - but a bit of intelligence would work it out. Let's see how it goes over the next year or two, although I'll need to upgrade my iPhone 11 to check it

 

[LEStudios]

I love it the iOS 18.1 and its new features. The only question I have where would OpenAI ChatGPT go? Will it be a part of Siri in iOS 18.3? I’m currently using the free version as an Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro Max. It works great in iOS 18.1.

 

[svish]

Looking forward to trying out Apple Intelligence. Good to have an option to reset control center.

 

[BigDO]

Summarize stupid repetitive “articles” like this one.

 

[Hank001]

Would be a real journalistic piece if the author would state:
which languages are supported?
which countries do these features work?
which hardware/softwware versions are required?

Alas, we can only assume the following is required: iPhone 16 / iOS 18.1 / US / English only. Without a roadmap.

 

[Hank001]

These cutting-edge features are borderline worthless. I just want a more capable, less infuriating Siri, just like I have for the past decade.

You don't think Siri has been infuriating for the past decade?

 

[histeachn81]

Can it disable Apple Intelligence entirely?

 

[danpass]

Agreed. Less AI, more Logic needed.

I have a Chinese friend called Xi. It doesn't matter the context, Siri is totally unable to say that name, despite the mixed case and some semantic clues.

Take this calendar event:
"Meet my friend Xi for coffee".

Siri:
"You have one event today. Meet my friend eleven for coffee".

That's pretty damn funny 🤣

Siri can't open my garage door without complaining yet easily divines roman numerals from pronunciation 😂

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[adrianlondon]

That's pretty damn funny 🤣

Siri can't open my garage door without complaining yet easily divines roman numerals from pronunciation 😂

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Agreed - my friend thinks it's hilarious. I often call her "eleven".

 

[MrkJensen]

The bilingual keyboard is a complete disaster, not sure why such function would be added. Of cause no explanation on who to use the function, typical Apple -go figure yourself.

It worked very well, for a very long time, by just adding more keyboards for the languages that was needed.

Now to get things working you will have to add the same language twice, English Bilingual 'Your language" and then add "your language" again. Guess that is something with Apple Intelligence at some point, there understand you want to use a character from a different alphabet...