Apple Intelligence to Evolve in Two Ways Across iOS 18.6 and iOS 19

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Not offering other options than those from highly problematic ClosedAI = DOA feature for many long time Apple customers who know better when it comes to quality products.

What do we mean by problematic? Here's one of a thousand issues with ClosedAI: not listening to your testers.

OpenAI overrode concerns of expert testers to release sycophantic GPT-4o

Once again, it shows the importance of incorporating more domains beyond the traditional math and computer science into AI development.

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This is who Apple wants to be in bed with? Steve Jobs is having mad ROFLs fits in his ethereal plane.

 

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While the more personalized version of Siri is infamously delayed, Apple Intelligence will continue to evolve in other ways in the meantime.

In a later-than-usual Monday edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman outlined two additional Apple Intelligence enhancements that are likely planned for the upcoming iOS 18.6 and iOS 19 software updates.

First, he expects iOS 18.6 to enable Apple Intelligence in China, with Alibaba and Baidu set to power some of the features in that country.

Second, he said that iOS 19 will include new Apple Intelligence capabilities, although he did not provide any specific details. In court, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently suggested that iOS 19 may include Google Gemini integration.

iPhone models with Apple Intelligence have already offered ChatGPT integration since iOS 18.2. With user permission, Siri can show ChatGPT answers directly in response to questions and other prompts. ChatGPT is also an option for Apple's system-wide Writing Tools feature, allowing users to generate text and images. Google Gemini would likely have similar integration across Siri and Writing Tools, becoming a second option alongside ChatGPT.

Google Gemini is already available as an iPhone app.

Apple Intelligence is available on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and all iPhone 16 models, plus select iPads and Macs.

iOS 18.6 beta testing should begin later this month. After that, Apple is expected to announce iOS 19 during its annual developers conference WWDC, which kicks off Monday, June 9. The first iOS 19 beta should be seeded to developers shortly after the keynote, and the software update should be released to the general public in September.

Article Link: Apple Intelligence to Evolve in Two Ways Across iOS 18.6 and iOS 19

Siri with Chat GPT is a lot more capable, just needs to be quicker, I use Siri a lot with my watch and it's very good, car play 90% good, then again I'm not looking for a life companion, just a hands free assistant, when I need it.
I some times use Gemini on my iPhone and it's quick, although not always right and there lies the problem with these chat bots!
Just make the phone assistant better and lets move away from these life companion type chat bots!

 

[That70sGAdawg]

Just FIX SIRI ! Android understood my standard American English accent years ago, yet Siri ALWAYS makes dictation mistakes..

 

[Corefile]

I asked Google Gemini about Apple Intelligence but it said that it just plain sucks. I asked Apple Intelligence about Google Gemini but it didn't know what Gemini was.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Seeing is believing. Done with the blah blah blah ....

 

[etichi]

to bad Apple goes with ‘believing is seeing’. Kooks.

 

[baconcat_8964]

Craig on WWDC25: In iOS 19, we are thrill to introduce, Apple Intelligence 2.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Apple should partner with DeepSeek, at least if they use my data to target ads the stuff on AliXpress is cheaper than the stuff Google points me at😁

 

[ds2000]

Wow, what a bold prediction 🙄

I mean, how about the features that were originally promised?

 

[Moleyman69]

Wow - Apple are still flogging this dead horse?

 

[bluecoast]

If Apple outsource a lot of Siri to Claude ‘powered by Claude’ this would be a good thing, as the current state of affairs is abysmal.

 

[Sophytaylor6@]

I wonder what we can expect from the upcoming updates. Although Apple is working to make AI better but with the new advancements in technology, I expect it to be completed when iOS 19 launches.

 

[AlanBeyond]

Apple Intelligence has to be the biggest blunder since they put that crappy U2 album on everyone’s iPod. 🫠

U2 is great, how dare you!