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Apple Plans to Release iOS 18.1 With Apple Intelligence on October 28
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I know this is a rumor site, but I still wish rumors could be appropriately labeled. "Apple to Release iOS 18.1 With Apple Intelligence on October 28" sounds so definitive.
I like the email summaries, but agree that the tech doesn’t really scale to other use cases.
Which leads to a huge concern of mine: That people will assume it has no value to them and won't update, even though it'll likely include a ton of fixes.
"Aren't overly useful" is pretty generous. I've found notification summaries useless except as accidental entertainment. The other day mine combined three different topics: government software projects (we'd discussed how they were funded), herpes (which someone else had used as a joke to describe a ubiquitous software package) and WeChat (which nobody had mentioned at all).
"And so October 28, 2024 became known as the day SkyNet became sentient."
I honestly forgot it even exists like I installed it but it just doesn't go with my work flow or habits and I just forget it's there. I appreciate the pretty new Siri glow up tho.
Also, Push Notifications are usually a short summary already and rather short so I am not sure what's there even to summarize for Siri 😅
Also, Push Notifications are usually a short summary already and rather short so I am not sure what's there even to summarize for Siri 😅
Then I suppose the concern is whether they’ll break more stuff in the OS while adding features incompatible with my phone
One particularly annoying bug of late is having a torn in half keyboard in landscape. I then have to shake the phone a few times to get back to portrait mode.
As someone who’s been paying $20/mo for ChatGPT and the same for Claude and actively using them all day for work and life, and running iOS 18.1 beta on 12 Pro and then 16 Pro (and testing Apple’s AI), I can say Apple Intelligence has been one of their biggest scams, so behind, and an embarrassment.
Let me put it this way: I’m willing to pay another $20/month to Apple just to let me get rid of Siri and use ChatGPT or Claude as my assistant to take care of my calendar, contacts, search, music etc.
Trying to do anything with Siri (and Apple's other stock apps infused with their AI) after you’ve used ChatGPT for months is unbearable.
After shoving privacy and on device processing for years for marketing, they now talk about “secure cloud” for “better” AI processing. This really could be the start of something big (good or bad) happening to them.
Let me put it this way: I’m willing to pay another $20/month to Apple just to let me get rid of Siri and use ChatGPT or Claude as my assistant to take care of my calendar, contacts, search, music etc.
Trying to do anything with Siri (and Apple's other stock apps infused with their AI) after you’ve used ChatGPT for months is unbearable.
After shoving privacy and on device processing for years for marketing, they now talk about “secure cloud” for “better” AI processing. This really could be the start of something big (good or bad) happening to them.
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Incorrect, older phones get control center improvements and call recording with 18.1.
Additionally, the ability to drag and drop with iPhone mirroring.
The grammar need to be checked and update in this sentence. "this month a later than" does not make sense.
Gurman says the release date is arriving this month a later than initially expected
Basically the reason why this whole AI thing sucks. Being tied to something accessible only with Internet. Yeah I know people tend to be optimistic and stuff, but what if future is not gonna look like how everyone tends to imagine it?
After all wars and cybercriminal activity would be on the rise, all with increased electricity usage. Overreliance on “all things internet” (internet of things? Pun not intended lol) is sorta hard pill to take.
On the other hand, drip-feeding features is the best way for more money collection. In 5 years Apple will release even more powerful generation of devices capable of all on-device AI processing without Internet and will sell it again as a killer feature. Well… business as usual I guess🤷♂️
Damn near every other page crashes for me. Even the Macrumors homepage. Forums are fine, but news sites and blogs with ads and the like crash constantly. I’ve tried turning off Private Relay (temporarily, just to see if it worked). I turned off ad-blocking. Same results, so I re-enabled everything and am just hoping for a bug fix at some point.
This year is so boring. I’m not even excited about Apple AI anymore.
During the interview when that woman asked the two apple execs if they were behind on AI they laughed.
They are very, very behind. Completely out of touch with the tech landscape.
There was an article that spoke about Federighi playing with AI and being interested, not even that long ago. Google and OpenAI were already in fierce competition when Apple realized what was happening.
We will wait until the very end of October and then we will get Apple Intelligence in beta, by the way.
And I can’t even imagine the plethora of bugs introduced.
I can’t even snap a photo and share it on my new iPhone, oftentimes it says something like “there was an issue with this photo” and can’t see the Live Photo and can’t share it. It happened to me already twice.
Not to mention my photo library optimization is stuck at 74% for the last 2 weeks. Phone is on charge every night and on wifi.
The basics are falling apart day by day.
They are very, very behind. Completely out of touch with the tech landscape.
There was an article that spoke about Federighi playing with AI and being interested, not even that long ago. Google and OpenAI were already in fierce competition when Apple realized what was happening.
We will wait until the very end of October and then we will get Apple Intelligence in beta, by the way.
And I can’t even imagine the plethora of bugs introduced.
I can’t even snap a photo and share it on my new iPhone, oftentimes it says something like “there was an issue with this photo” and can’t see the Live Photo and can’t share it. It happened to me already twice.
Not to mention my photo library optimization is stuck at 74% for the last 2 weeks. Phone is on charge every night and on wifi.
The basics are falling apart day by day.
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I am confused by this, in Apple's fineprint on their Canadian website, they state:
- * Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on all iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English, as part of an iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia update this October. Canadian English support available this December. Some features and support for additional languages, including French, Japanese and Spanish, will be coming over the course of the next year.
Probably you’re hyping the current or upcoming features a bit too much. Name specific features you would use day for day… if google is so much ahead then feel free to use android. The pixel and Samsung phones are also fantastic ones.
The bugs you are mentioning are specific to you. The vast majority of people won’t have any issues with photo sharing. If 18.0 causes so much trouble on your phone, why don’t you install the 18.1 beta?