Interesting to see that the beta without any of the AI updates, feels super minor.
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Apple Intelligence Features Coming to iOS 18 Beta Testers This Summer
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I was expecting it to be limited, but not THAT limited. Guess I should be happy I upgraded to the 15 Pro and M4 iPad Pro recently but neither my partner or parents will be able to use it for years.
This doesn’t make any sense. Why doesn’t Apple Intelligence test this instead of beta testers?
Same here
They've been the same about other features that they've always taken the extra time to develop as they see it first on Android, so it'll be interesting to see how they work (though I sadly won't be able to experience them on the phone or iPad side as I have a non-pro 15 and 6th gen iPad mini)
I will be able to at least on the Mac side of things though as I have an M1 mini and M2 MacBook Air
It also doesn’t sound like they are planning to make it multilingual, in the sense that it would automatically recognize and switch between languages.
Jump ship to where? You can already use any of the AI services that the other system vendors are using on your mac, iPhone, or iPad.
True. I can't remember the last WWDC keynote that didn't have the stock drop 1-5% stock drop. There is usually hype priced-in before the presentation, and this is more of a back to earth correction.
Which frankly as a shareholder I really like to see. I don't want AAPL to turn into a meme stock that rises and falls based on the incoherent ramblings of an eccentric CEO, random pump-and-dump social media frenzies, or bots counting how many times the latest buzzword is used in financial reports.
Tells you how far behind Apple is in AI. Realistically, it'll be v1.0 in 2025.
Not available for immediate testing. Still in beta even when iOS 18 launches. No wonder they had to partner up with Sam Altman.
Not available for immediate testing. Still in beta even when iOS 18 launches. No wonder they had to partner up with Sam Altman.
Heard nothing about Apple Music AI. Sure hope they include it.
I would even add why the heck not pushing the requests to the cloud on less powerful older devices with the respective caveats of data been transferred and processed elsewhere. Trying to push the upgrade of hardware is quite shameful
Yeah I knew this was going to happen..
This happens pretty much every Apple event, it’s nothing.
Cloud processing costs money. Apple can't afford to give free processing time to old devices.
IOS 18 will be useless on all phones 15 and below, AI will only work with 15 pro in itself making the keynote useless for all except 15 pro users
It’s likely to do with the on-device processing. Apple knows that the general public is incredibly skeptical of AI and its data harvesting; having most of it work on the same device is reassuring. Running it all alongside regular system processes requires more RAM, even off-device.
Siri has been dumb since launch, and when she might finally be improved, you need a new phone to experience it.
I understand maybe some of the more advanced stuff requiring newer devices, but if I need a new phone just so she can answer a question instead of just telling me to ask again from my iPhone (so she can Google it for me), that's disappointing.
I understand maybe some of the more advanced stuff requiring newer devices, but if I need a new phone just so she can answer a question instead of just telling me to ask again from my iPhone (so she can Google it for me), that's disappointing.
The fact that the "Apple Intelligence" features are only available on the iPhone 15 Pro/Max is absolutely unnecessary, and pushing towards e-waste. Is has the same number of "neural cores" as the iPhone 14 Pro/Max ffs!
Honestly the training readiness feature coming to Apple Fitness was the highlight of the entire presentation for me.
So just ignore the last half hour of the presentation if you have anything less than an iPhone 15 Pro…which is probably at least 60% of their installed base.
Well you do have:
Improved Safari
New Photos app
Reminders in Calendar
Better Control centre
Custom icons
Moveable icons
Custom lockscreen buttons
Better messaging/RCS support
Passwords app
Topographical maps
App lock on everything
Mail improvements
Game Mode (which may equate to JIT for emulators)
Machine learning notes improvements like recording transcription
Math notes calculator
Eye tracking accessibility
I wouldn’t call that useless.
They've had stuff like Core ML around for ages, with Apple Silicon specifically being designed to take advantage of it. That's why support goes as far back as the M1. All the AI craze did was just give Apple everything they could ever wanted for free.