iOS 18 to Use AI to Summarize Notifications, Add to Calendar, and More

[GrayFlannel]

This already exists: https://marketplace.zoom.us/apps/I5bpTrA5QlWsmLTbWSTmkA

I need the summary to be clairvoyant and auto decline my invite. It would help if the Summable could get their grammar right too. 😞

“
Overview
Summable can connect to you Zoom account and automatically generate actionable insights from your meetings.
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[Reason077]

Siri doesn’t need a “more conversational” feel. I’m quite happy for it to be terse and robotic in its responses.

What it needs is better understanding and capabilities when it comes to commands more complex than “set a timer”.

 

[H. Flower]

Is this it? Is Siri finally going to become significantly useful?

If so, this may be the first IOs feature Ive been excited about in half a decade!

 

[H_D]

Watching the GPT4o-demos (the singing AIs and so on) and using the Plus-GPT-Account for quite a while, also the new audiochat-Function (which suffers a bit in German, the original English is muuuuuch better, as with Siri), integrating this into iOS would be rather wonderful. It feels a bit bottled-in just using this kind of almost shockingly natural way of talking to a seemingly interactive AI as an App, it would change the whole way we use our devices if it were on system-level. And if Apple doesn't find a way, Gemini will change it (for Android). However, IF Apple integrates this into its own ecosphere and does it smartly, does it differently and holistic, it will bring iOS onto another level. Calendar, Notes, Mail, Dictation, Contacts, audio and visual plus a learning model tailor-made for you? Everything before that will feel like the Middle Ages.

Last week The Daily Show made fun of the Audio-Mode of ChatGPT and it was spot-on. Subjectively I look forward to all this, on a larger scale I think this will be as problematic as Web, Smart Devices and Social Media put together in terms of changing social behavior.

 

[tyranne201]

Most of these features will probably be "only US/English" first. So, I am not that excited.

But I really hope it changes. Siri can't even understand two languages at the same time.

 

[dba415]

Pathetic apple

 

[klasma]

Also from the Gurman newsletter: “The companies are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC, with Sam Altman-led OpenAI now racing to ensure it has the capacity to support the influx of users later this year.”
This implies that Apple isn’t hosting the models themselves (like for example Microsoft does), and thus OpenAI gets access to all the contents.

 

[dannyyankou]

Can we make notifications searchable? Please? Sometimes you're looking for notifications from specific apps and the scrolling can get annoying.

 

[dannyyankou]

I really would like Apple to fix Mail and Calendar first before doing any fancy AI stuff. Searching Mail is a mess and adding invitations (especially changes of repeating meetings) generated by Outlook are not handled correctly.

Searching mail is very easy when you learn how to use filters. You can filter by date, recipient, attachments, and more.

 

[Eminemdrdre00]

He also noted that a ChatGPT-like chatbot will be noticeably absent from Apple's upcoming AI features.

I thought it’s been reported recently that Apple is in talks with OpenAI to add something like this?

 

[iModFrenzy]

Hopefully there’s a way to disable it, I want zero reliance on anything AI

 

[TheNewLou]

Can't wait for the legal wrangling when someone gets fired for not seeing something in an email that SiriAI gave a synopsis of

disclaimers, etc., yeah I know

 

[rosuna]

Too little, too late.

 

[Macropanda]

I just want to be able to play a song that is downloaded to my phone using CarPlay when I have no signal.

 

[Rogifan]

giving a quick synopsis of news articles

How does this work? How does the AI know what’s most important to summarize? Also is this a pain point for users? Is it something people are asking for? I doubt many people will be saying “ooh I never knew I needed my news summarized for me until Apple did it”. It seems more like tech for tech’s sake, more like ‘we have to give Wall Street AI features so someone come up with something’.

 

[Rogifan]

Hardly groundbreaking features. Most notifications are already brief enough. You can already summarize news articles just by reading the headline. This feels like those gimmicky features Samsung would launch.

The folding iPhone in 2026 can't come fast enough.

Wall Street is all AI, AI, AI so Apple has to give them something.

 

[macfacts]

These features deserve a price bump.

 

[iToph]

The news gettin more boring every single year. We’ve reached the point where the richest company in the world can’t innovate anymore

 

[Realityck]

regarding Gurmans article

Even if it’s only the game’s first quarter, staging a comeback is going to be difficult for Apple. Their competitors (OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google) have become AI superstars, and they’re only getting stronger as the contest goes on. Apple’s priority now is not getting smoked on its home floor.

Of course, Apple has some advantages of its own — money, talent and a powerful platform — and should at least be able to make it a closer game. But it will require a meaningful change to its strategy, as well as some help from its AI competitors.

Its not so easy

More OpenAI drama: Exec quits over concerns about focus on profit over safety | CNN Business

A departing OpenAI executive focused on safety is raising concerns about the company on his way out the door.

www.cnn.com

“Sometimes we were struggling for compute and it was getting harder and harder to get this crucial research done,” he said on X, adding that Thursday was his last day at the startup. “Building smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavor … But over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to Leike’s post saying the company is committed to AI safety.

Are they really, seems that while Apple might be later then others marketing AI publicly at least they can see when the crap hits the fan when privacy and safety takes a backseat compared to so many companies are lining up their AI marketing strategy for maximum profits utilizing consumers once again as commodities. 🧐

 

[rosuna]

Apple has spent a mountain of resources in stupid projects (the Apple Car, the Snorkel), and the real revolution has started without them. Apple signed and agreement with OpenAI a few days ago for offering something this fall... really?

 

[MrRom92]

I just want to be able to play a song that is downloaded to my phone using CarPlay when I have no signal.

Unfortunately if you want to do this it will have to be in an Apple approved proprietary format. Apple still does not support the industry standard of FLAC for lossless music files. (Malicious and deliberate anti-consumer behavior on their behalf)

 

[TriBruin]

I hope they release an AI tool that will attend meetings and reduce it to an email…like it should have been in the first place.

Microsoft CoPilot for Teams can do that as well. We have been testing it a little bit at my organization. It is kind of scary how accurate the summary can be. If I was someone, like a PM, that records meetings and then has to listen to them to verifly my notes, this feature is a huge.

Ironically, this could be a valid reason to hold Teams meetings versus in person meetings.

 

[McScooby]

Unfortunately if you want to do this it will have to be in an Apple approved proprietary format. Apple still does not support the industry standard of FLAC for lossless music files. (Malicious and deliberate anti-consumer behavior on their behalf)

What's that got to do with the price of cheese? What I'm guessing MrRom92 is getting at is AppleMusic - although I have an active plan & download music to my iPhone, if there's no internet signal the song won't start playing; this ain't rocket science, all the phone has to do is cross reference my other things like making sure there's a Apple ID that's been signed in (not signed out before the signal dropped) or Apple Pay attached, it basic stuff but hugely infuriating. I have other apps that have offline music & sure they're in another format, but AppleMusic is what's being discussed. IF your beef is AppleMusic not accepting FLAC that's a hell freezing over moment again.

 

[Hails09]

Literally want one feature: a better Siri which can understand words, sentences, context and remember what I said.

This happened just tonight.

Me to Siri: "show me images on the web of a globe allium"

Siri: shows me images of an alien beside a globe

I tried this five times and no matter what way I said "allium" Siri didn't understand it.

My aunt said "say allium flower"

Siri: it searched the web for the term "Alan flower"

Siri is around 14 years.

And recently a new bug with Siri means it wants to add all-day events instead of the time I give it for.

Me: "add an event in two hours... shopping"

Siri: When would you like me to set the event for?

Me: "in two hours"

Siri: When would you like me to set the event for?

GFY

You won’t get a better Siri because of Apple’s privacy policy

 

[egraphixstudios]

Dont want AI on my phone. I would rather control everything myself. i know what meetings I have when and which emails are important etc.