iOS 18 Beta Available Next Week With These 25 New Features Expected

[azentropy]

I won’t be shocked if many of the prominent new features aren’t in the first beta(s).

 

[dk001]

Isn’t that a google caused limitation?

No. Google switched to a new protocol years back and Apple won’t allow it in Mail. Pretty much every other email app uses it. This isn’t specifically a Google fault.

 

[Manatee]

Any info about additional updates to iPad OS? I upgraded to a new M4 iPad and I’m hoping this powerful machine will be able to run things like Photoshop plug-ins. I get that people don’t want them to mess with the touch interface, but they could still make it support a lot more software.

 

[dk001]

Weird that google purposely broke this functionality for the iPhone mail app and you’re mad at Apple.

Google didn’t break it. Do some research.

 

[markgpearse]

No new emojis??

 

[dk001]

It works on every app outside of apple's mail app. The person I was replying to claimed its a google issue since it doesn't work on apples mail app. This is 100% an apple issue since it works on other email apps (that aren't google's app while also working on Google's Gmail app).

This has been discussed in depth before. The predominate issue lies with Apple however the two do not play well together.

Apple Mail-push notifications for Gmail?

It's not, actually. Mail.app on iOS and iPadOS does not support IMAP IDLE which would allow for push-style notification of incoming mail, at some cost of battery life (this is how Mail.app on MacOS is able to offer immediate notifications of incoming mail from any IMAP account). The alternative...

forums.macrumors.com

Adding @brijazz @KurtWilde @Dble07 @bigjnyc and anyone else I missed.

 

[August West]

Looking at that list makes me realize how few apps I actually use. Looking forward to the free form icon placement of the home screen though.

 

[Premium1]

I won’t be shocked if many of the prominent new features aren’t in the first beta(s).

Yep. I am sure they will be "coming later" so they can wait to unleash all of the bugs they will bring rather than getting them worked out during the betas.

 

[Premium1]

No new emojis??

or more stickers lol

 

[Premium1]

Any info about additional updates to iPad OS? I upgraded to a new M4 iPad and I’m hoping this powerful machine will be able to run things like Photoshop plug-ins. I get that people don’t want them to mess with the touch interface, but they could still make it support a lot more software.

Apple- Best we can do is a calculator app.

 

[KurtWilde]

Google didn’t break it. Do some research.

Google has blacklisted iPhones for push since 2013. It’s ‘broken’ in that it was targeted action and purposely done to move users to the Gmail app.

 

[uacd]

Topographic maps gonna be useful.
I was waiting for them for ages

 

[jeremz1ne]

Half of those AI features don’t sound like they would require a „Pro“ exclusive iPhone, especially since 3rd party apps do it just fine already

thought the same thing

 

[davidg4781]

Looks like I’m signing back up for the beta so Apple can get some data on iPhone 11 Pros.

 

[Kottu]

I do hope that Siri will be smarter. Today I wanted to call my employee.
“Hey Siri, call …………”
“I found two numbers, Mobile 1 and Mobile 2. Which one do you want to call?”
“Mobile 2”
“There is no contact named Mobile 2 in your contacts, whom do you want to call?”

When I picked the phone, on the display, it does show Mobile 1 and 2!
I use Siri only for making phone calls. It can’t even get that right.
Siri with AI backbone may get smarter but I do guess for a lot of bugs for the next 2-3 years. Google lost billions in a day ’cause of Bard. Now it’s time for Apple.

 

[mazz0]

Or simply use a messenger like Signal, like the rest of the world does - for years already? :?

I have one contact who uses Signal.

 

[mazz0]

What’s this about AI news summaries? I’d like to know how that’s going to impact the revenue of the actual news providers.

 

[jeremz1ne]

im very interested in how they are going to do the photos/music only two apps i really care about... and i wonder what they'll do with macOS

 

[Geoffb9]

I guess the Apple bar is set so low that most of those features are highlighted as breakthroughs.

Have you tried the current Apple “Speak” function? It sounds like Windows 95 era.

 

[Realityck]

I guess the Apple bar is set so low that most of those features are highlighted as breakthroughs.

Look at

Apple researchers reveal AI breakthrough that could make Siri much smarter

The on-device AI wars heat up

www.techradar.com

In a new paper named 'ReALM: Reference Resolution As Language Modeling', Apple researchers explain how the company’s AI system will aim to consider both the content that is on your device’s screen and the tasks that you are currently performing (both in the foreground and the background), then use those to respond to your queries.

The purpose of this is to help the AI assistant understand the context of your requests by knowing what image is on screen, what music is playing in the background, or which iPhone alarm just sounded, for instance. And when it can understand context, Apple says, its own AI can offer some impressive performance.

In fact, Apple researchers claim that their AI is able to “substantially” outperform GPT-4, the large language model (LLM) that drives the paid-for ChatGPT Plus, for this particular "reference resolution" task. With that kind of power at its disposal, it suggests that Siri could finally shake its reputation as a sub-par digital assistant.

We shall see if that is the case, but this does sound innovative.

 

[svish]

Won't be installing the beta but eagerly waiting to see the new features of iOS

 

[Azzin]

I’m turning that off immediately and I already told my iPhone friends to do the same.

Why?

 

[Hails09]

You won't have the option to turn it off unless you turn it off?

He meant probably the only way to turn it off would be to turn iMessage off as the person thinks it will be baked into it.

 

[dobby]

hope it’s gonna be standby 2.0 with ai that shows you different timelines like utc -7 and utc +4 at once

 

[ypl]

That's independent of iOS18 though, which is what this article is about.

Sure, there's no proof that it is in any way depentend on iOS18. Still, I hope it is. RCS + possible AppleID improvements (like functional split of account/e-mail/iMessage subsystems, merging accounts, etc.) are the only features I'm looking forward to.

Seems like they assume some correlation in the article as well.

The rebrand from ‌Apple ID‌ to Apple Account is expected to occur later in 2024, likely alongside the release of iOS 18 (Codename Crystal) and macOS 15 (Codename Glow).