iOS 18 Rumor Recap: Smarter Siri, Design Changes, and More

[Realityck]

Yeah.. All of a sudden all Apple chips until A17 Pro will become incapable of running Siri Version 2. They will give som new name for a tiny area in the chip and make it necessary to run Siri. Like Google spoke about AI for 140 times, Siri will get a 1 hour exclusive presentation.

I doubt that. The neural engine has been part of ARM since the A11 Bionic. (9/12/2017). When you consider longer text processing taking advantage of this processing across multiple OS's, it's not just a newer iPhone that would basis for its usage. It's used for Face ID, Animoji and other machine learning tasks.
reference this older article

The iPhone 15 Opts for Intuitive AI, Not Generative AI

Apple ignored the tech industry's obsession with generative AI at the new iPhone launch, offering subtler AI features that make everyday tasks like photography and phone calls better.

www.wired.com

A new voice-isolation feature for the iPhone 15, for example, uses machine learning to recognize and home in on the sound of your voice, quieting background noise on phone calls. As usual for iPhone launches, yesterday’s event spent ample time on the power of the new phone’s camera and image-enhancing software. Those features lean on AI too, including automatic detection of people, dogs, or cats in a photo frame to collect depth information to help turn any photo into a portrait after the fact.

Additional AI-powered services are also coming to newer iPhone models via the new iOS 17 operating system, due out next week. They include automated transcription of voicemails, so a person can see who’s calling before picking up a phone call, and more extensive predictive text recommendations from the iPhone keyboard. Neither is as flashy as a know-it-all chatbot. But by making life easier, they just might convince people to spend more time with their phones, pushing up usage of Apple’s services.

IOS 18 will just take this further than iOS 17 with more intuitive AI which can be directed towards virtual assistants like tasks, such as how SIRI works in iOS 18.

 

[GroovyCatticus]

Yowza! The amount of vitriol and hate on this thread is bonkers 🙀

Y’all need to detach from that hated iPhone and seek some counseling.

It’s like Apple harmed your kid on here 😳

 

[zoozx]

Smarter Siri ???
Siri can't get any Dumber, or Worthless.

 

[bmark]

Can’t wait for Siri 2.0 to be dumber than a third grader!

 

[cocky jeremy]

I’m really hyped about iOS 18, very curious about their approach to AI, but also about the so called “redesign”.

The redesign is the only thing I may be looking forward to. Depending on what they do with it. I may hate it and never want iOS 18. Who knows. lol.

 

[psac]

One of my contacts: Sunset Pizza, by my house in Staten Island, NY.
Me: Driving on the way home from work, and use Siri, from the phone contact screen -- Call Sunset Pizzeria.
Siri: Calls Sunset Pizzeria in North Carolina

Yes, Sunset Pizzeria is not the same as Sunset Pizza... but close enough? So yes, be smarter.

 

[Populus]

The redesign is the only thing I may be looking forward to. Depending on what they do with it. I may hate it and never want iOS 18. Who knows. lol.

Yep, that can happen as well. I personally hadn’t considered that, but it is an option lol

I guess they won’t be too adventurous or risky when it comes to the redesign -if it happens-, because if a vast majority starts complaining they risk losing future sales. And then, they should backtrack, but honestly Apple isn’t the kind of company that would backtrack when it comes to UI design so… I don’t think the alleged redesign will be too radical.

 

[TapDatApp]

I hope Gurman is wrong regarding the design not mirroring visionOS. After having used AVP (temporarily, I did end up returning it), I’ve become really infatuated with the aesthetic of “glassmorphism”.

 

[Populus]

I hope Gurman is wrong regarding the design not mirroring visionOS. After having used AVP (temporarily, I did end up returning it), I’ve become really infatuated with the aesthetic of “glassmorphism”.

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Well, it’s actually nice, at least on visionOS, but I prefer solid colors for the interface. I definitely don’t see it feasible for macOS, and I’m not sure about iOS.

 

[Tru3B1u3]

Nice. So we get “changes” that were either forced by the EU or how Apple sees how they are behind in AI. Where’s the originality? I despise how Android has become more innovative that iOS, but that is now a sad truth. Folding phones, full screen phones without a notch and under display cameras and fingerprint readers, etc. Yet, the next iPhone ADDS A BUTTON?? A button to take pictures?? Does anyone remember how Apple made the fingerprint sensor popular?

To be fair, Apple doesn’t usually implement these features first

Others usually implement features with prototypes levels of success and adoption.

In the case of Touch ID and then later Face ID, Apple waited quite some time to implement a much more refined version.

Imo, folding phones still give off their air of “still needs refinement”… Apple has yet to adapt it, hopefully to iron out kinks.

 

[return2sendai]

Yeah of course it disconnects when it moves out of range. But mine automatically connects to my hotspot, I don't have to do anything. Sounds like an operator issue and not an issue with the device. There is auto join options in the settings, so you don't have to do all that.

I have tried multiple variations in Settings on both my iPhone and iPad to get the latter to auto-connect to the former. But regardless, my iPhone just sits there in my iPad Settings waiting for me to tap on it. Sometimes, it connects without me tapping on it in Settings on my iPad, but never until I open Settings on my iPad. So, if this is user error, please walk me through the Settings on both devices to get my iPad to auto-connect to my iPhone. I’ve Goggled and YouTubed. I’ve even Reddited. I am clearly not alone in my user-error world. So what is the fix, O Jedi Master?