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Thats so not very exciting! But the best enhancement for 27 IMHO would be to fix all the damn bugs.
Look, we all want that. And we probably will get much of it. But priorities.
We know that Apple (like all the other serious SW companies) is using the top level models like Mythos for coding. But there are likely constraints, both in terms of token access and in terms of training people how to code in this new AI-assisted/augmented style.

Meaning the highest priority for everyone right now is racing to fix security issues. This is obviously working; in every domain we're seeing a massive acceleration in security bugs being fixed, though (for obvious reasons) mostly withut details. A few open source projects (like Firefox) have given some numbers, though even there, and again for obvious reasons, no details except to say that the security vulnerability detection capabilities are astonishingly impressive, that almost everything detected is a real problem, and frequently so complex no human likely would ever have seen the chain of flaws/bugs leading to the end result.

So we ARE seeing many bugs being fixed; just so far mostly bugs that you "probably don't care about" in the sense that the impact your life (unless you're some unlucky person targeted by eg malware).

There is probably something similar going on in HW, using things like Mythos or Gemini 3.5 first to look for security flaws or weird conditions that could lead to the HW locking up/rebooting/delivering an incorrect result.

Now obviously we'd like this to transition to more user-visible bugs. And on the HW side we'd like AI used to make the HW faster.
And I think we will be seeing this soon (like over the next year); it's just a question as I say of priorities and limited resources, both on the AI side and the human experience/learning how to use the tools side.
 
Remember Apple is in the UI business not in the AI business.
Much of what they are doing right now is figuring out how to bring functionality that (in theory) they already have available into a UI that works for people who want to use a feature casually. _ This means things like "how do we toggle it on and off without it being a hassle" which is somewhat different from putting it into Accessibility and having it always turned on for people like you._
Apple can copy Android, and show a toggle button for live captions under the volume meter
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Here is the feature I want for Apple TV regarding captions. Make them so the word doesn’t show up until it’s said or very shortly after. When it show up before and I can read a punchline or something where the delivery timing matters, then it is ruined.
 
Great to see this. Hopefully all the devices released in the past 2 to 3 years will be able to get this feature.
If the devices can run iOS 27, they should get it. But I am afraid, the feature will not be available on hardware still running on a pre-glass version of iOS.
 
This isn’t notable innovation… It’s basic feature creep being dressed up as “Apple Intelligence.”

If adding captions to personal videos is now headline-worthy for Apple, it says a lot about where their development focus has drifted. The entire AI narrative across big tech is becoming exhausting — rebranding long-established machine learning and automation techniques as if they’re some revolutionary leap in computing.

There’s very little here that resembles actual intelligence. It’s still pattern recognition, prediction models and layered automation — concepts that have existed in various forms since mainstream x86 computing began evolving decades ago.

Apple used to lead with genuinely transformative products and experiences. Now we get marketing departments trying to convince people that automated captions are the future of humanity.
My TV did auto-captioning in 2005. It was almost certainly less accurate, but it worked.
 
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