I didn’t take it that way. I also knew from the Keynote that the things were not activated, so I wasn’t expecting them on the install. Same comment though, usually, a majority of the features are activated with just a handful to come later. In this iteration, it feels like very little has been activated
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Apple Announces iOS 18 With New Customization Features, Redesigned Photos App, and More
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And you STILL won't be able to be returned to the inbox after reading and deleting an email.
I am not liking this new photos redesigned either either. I like the separate tab sections. I don’t want Apple to automatically curate my photos for me. And I don’t want to suddenly be shown random photo memories from a year ago when I was dating a different person. 🙄
It does sound super annoying! They just totally screwed up something that’s fundamental about using an iPhone
Agreed, the photos redesign is HORRIBLE. My #1 complaint with iOS is photo management, how it is just one long page of photos from since the dawn of time, and they doubled down on that!
This! We need better control over the curation of our own photos presented to us. Not random “hey on this day…”
Can the iOS Photos app finally filter by non-favorite photos? This would make deleting unwanted photos much easier.
Oh same lol I don't really have any idea what it was meant to be, looks like there's a person with green eyes creeping in the background of the 8
... a higher resolution version makes it look like it was various balls, like marbles or steel balls or pool balls:
Kinda not excited to have Photo app interface redesigned and made more complex so I can be sure to not find anything. I’m thinking the mail app will be the same way. Categories I didn’t setup, mail being sorted automatically, and messages missed. Since I’ll keep it in All Messages mode all the time, why add buttons that waste valuable space. Maybe let that be something we can turn off?
Contact posters is still sloppy as hell. It would have been nice to see iOS 18 clean that crap up a little bit. That’ll be a forgotten feature that stays half baked, buggy, and in a state where it can’t be turned off. Really was hoping we’d get an update to turn it off or simplify it.
It should be a travesty that phones made in the past 2 years can’t get this so called update. It’s deliberate obsolescence. I’m sure as hell not running out to drop $1k+ to get AI.iOS 18 itself will be supported all the way down to the 2nd gen SE, but to use those new Apple Intelligence features, you will need an iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max (so us non-Pro 15 folk and even 14 Pro folk are in the dark for them)
Update… no notifications coming on the lock screen. The screen lights up but that’s it. All notifications are toggles on. Any advice?
You're not alone. Notifications seem broken across the board. I wonder if it has anything to do with the summarization and prioritization features not being in the current build.
Honestly the best update in many years. They’re truly outdoing themselves at this point. Didn’t think they would have this much to show off! iOS has felt fairly feature complete lately. I’ve addition of innovative new features, refinements, and some smaller “finally’s” sprinkled in. Solid update all around.
Maybe just wishful thinking but maybe they’re waiting to discuss the more groundbreaking features of iOS 18 until the next iPhone keynote.
I don’t remember any previous mid-iPhone-cycle iOS updates being revolutionary but maybe I just don’t remember.
I don’t remember any previous mid-iPhone-cycle iOS updates being revolutionary but maybe I just don’t remember.
Virtually every Android manufacturer who sells you a phone at that price point will give you at least 3 major updates if not more. Samsung and Google will give you double that. It’s not so bleak on the other side nowadays 😂
Good to see "App lock" feature, but only FACE ID should be the authenticate mechanism but looking at key note, looks like we can open the app even if they know the passcode of the Iphone. I guess we should have a option to set a different passcode which is different from the iphone passcode