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Apple Releases iOS 18.3 With Visual Intelligence and Notification Summary Improvements
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Anyone with a sense of curiosity about the world. Or consumerists. Works great for IDing random products.
My understanding is that we get the full set of features in the EU in April with iOS 18.4. So, a little more waiting is required. However, it does work on M-powered Macs here already. I’ve played with the Image Playground app and with Clean Up in Photos on my M1 MacBook Air. Not too shabby — if a little limited.
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HomePod 22K557 - so not surprisingly the same version as tvOS.
The good news for me is that Apple did NOT re-turn to on Apple Intelligence with the upgrade on my two iPhones and two iPads
That feature came with iOS 15.4 a few years ago. Works for some animals, too. Simply open a photo in Photos and wait for the Visual Lookup symbol at the bottom to appear. Tap that and you’ll get some information about the plant or creature. If the symbol doesn’t appear then the system can’t identify any flora or fauna.
To be honest, I think that Google's "Gemini Live" is a fantastic implementation of "AI" even if it's not quite fully there yet. The "talking back and forth" and "brainstorming" parts are where you can get the real power of it. I need AI to fill in the blanks of my thought process.
If I ask Siri where I should take my wife on a date night, she should have my calendar at her disposal to look at past places and date nights and suggest not only a few I've already gone to, but some new ones that she should have information on that I'd like. Thats what I need this **** to do.
Of course there is data collection happening. Its local.
Your iDevice knows everything about you.
Visual Intelligence only identifies animals and plants, per iOS 18.3 release notes. Google Lens widget on iPhone (older models too) on the other hand identifies all kinds of things and objects – without the physical button nonsense limiting visual intelligence to iPhone 16.
That said, I'm pretty sure the action button of iPhone 15 Pro (and 16) can be assigned to a shortcut that opens Google Lens for better visual intelligence.
Ya... I went ahead and toggled Apple Intelligence OFF... It summarizes notifications that don't need it. And I asked siri to add up a list of 6 numbers and it couldn't even do it. It just kept searching online. I even tried to get it to do it visually by capturing the screen. Failed. I'll try Apple "intelligence" in another 5 years or so.
Have you tried it? Did a great job IDing my mouse and keyboard just now. Listed examples are just that - examples.
I haven't tried Apple's Visual Intelligence, because I'm on an inferior device (iPhone 15 Pro Max) and Apple treats us EU folks as 2nd class customers.
I had Apple Intelligence turned off in Settings -> Apple Intelligence and Siri in iOS 18.2 on my iPhone 14 Pro. Installed the 18.3 update today, and I no longer have an "Apple Intelligence and Siri" in 18.3, only a "Siri" one. Looks like I can't even opt to turn Apple Intelligence on (not that I can imagine doing so). The inverse-Hotel California effect?
So I have this issue now after updating: my keyboard in iMessage shows stickers, even though it's turned off in keyboard settings. And only in iMessage. Anyone else?
my iphone, iPad and MacBook all seem faster and smoother after update which is unusual for first day after install