Yeah same. Battery life as been atrocious. So far though it seems not to bad. Still not getting the day and a half to 2 days I was getting on my 15 Pro Max.
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Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Versions of iOS 18.2 and More With Genmoji, Image Playground and ChatGPT Integration
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Eagerly waiting for the final release. Not installing anything before that. Cannot wait to try out all the new Apple Intelligence features later this week.
It’s not entirely clear to me which feature will be available worldwide upon release (on iPhone 16s) and which one will be implemented in the future.
They can cook it as long as they want tp remove bugs, the so called "Apple Intelligence" features have not impressed me from what I have seen so far on so many sites and boring youtube videos but at least they were honest saying its "not that special"
I have the ChatGBT app which does everything from have a conversation to finding news, results info and create amazing artwork which I have online and to my surprise people wanted to buy which is a bit fun, but as an Artist digital is great fun to play with, but the app learns about you and that helps to get the results you want based on your own personality you can even set how you want chatGBT to respond and behave. I really don't think these features are going to sway me from carrying on just using ChatGBT with a monthly sub and probably after trying AI on the iPhone probably just turn off Apples Intelligence, which sounds like an oxymoron considering its not Apples and wasn't available to everyone and at release and still isnt.
I have the ChatGBT app which does everything from have a conversation to finding news, results info and create amazing artwork which I have online and to my surprise people wanted to buy which is a bit fun, but as an Artist digital is great fun to play with, but the app learns about you and that helps to get the results you want based on your own personality you can even set how you want chatGBT to respond and behave. I really don't think these features are going to sway me from carrying on just using ChatGBT with a monthly sub and probably after trying AI on the iPhone probably just turn off Apples Intelligence, which sounds like an oxymoron considering its not Apples and wasn't available to everyone and at release and still isnt.
Dear Diary.
Norway, Europe,
December 10th, 9:55 a.m.
The sun is stretching to prepare to rise, and there is frosty white covering on the green grass. Will this be the day of the 18.2 ? I wonder, as I also stretch out for coffee and chocolate and my trusted iPhone 15 Plus.
An old iPhone is better than a new one, I say to myself. Not knowing if I am right or not.
Maybe this is the day for the eighteen point two.
- Lund
Norway, Europe,
December 10th, 9:55 a.m.
The sun is stretching to prepare to rise, and there is frosty white covering on the green grass. Will this be the day of the 18.2 ? I wonder, as I also stretch out for coffee and chocolate and my trusted iPhone 15 Plus.
An old iPhone is better than a new one, I say to myself. Not knowing if I am right or not.
Maybe this is the day for the eighteen point two.
- Lund
don’t think so. i think they are still on rc 4. don’t mean they won’t make a rc 5 tomorrow.
whilst true they often come out same day as sequoia ones, they don’t always.
Must be hard living with a doomer outlook. I’m assuming you don’t have the new phones, but Siri is actually much better. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either misinformed or lying.
A possible bug I'm noticing is that the icons on the home do not maintain their arrangement when they do not fill the entire page/rows: for example, if in the last row they are arranged in the central part (two icons out of 4 possible per row) occupying the position 2 and 3 (therefore central), you find them moved to position 1 and 2 (therefore left side) when you sometimes unlock the phone. Especially, if it has been in standby for a long time.
Does it happen to you too?
EDIT: I'm seeing a lot of instability on the home screen pages, the icons move in a distribution that resembles iOS before 18. The customization of the layout has gotten worse, in the sense that it is unstable and the assigned positions change (an icon, for example, randomly o after the lock screen moves to the next page or returns to the first place on the left if the row is not completely occupied by 4 icons). In short, it is an indication that the system is not stable for the home configuration, in my opinion.
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Nothing about fixing the IMAP email bug that has broken Mail's ability to download emails from IMAP mail servers and nothing about fixing the problem with Notes that made older notes disappear.
Excuse me but how are versions installed through Finder/iTunes different than normal and much more used OTA updates?
I’ve heard about this many years ago, but I don’t see why and how they are and should be different, or in other words, why you expect your issue to change. I recon the installation process might be different, but I wouldn’t expect system stutter or whatever to disappear.
I believe [someone correct me if i'm wrong] that an install of an iOS update through iTunes is treated as a full fresh install. Rather then an update.
It does drop an entire version of iOS on your device (it is not a delta update), but "functionally" in terms of what you experience on the phone afterwards, there is no difference compared to doing an OTA update. Doing the update through iTunes won't wipe apps, settings, or put you in a factory configuration...
Between Apple Intelligence, GPT, and Claude…the Apple intelligence is really leaving me a lot to be desired. I honestly don’t know what it’s for or what it can/can’t do. It would be nice if Apple was a little more front and center about it. With GPT and Claude, I know exactly what it can do, what its limitations are, the purpose, etc. Apple has completely lost me on this one.