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iOS 18: What to Expect From 'Biggest' Update in iPhone's History
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I will be happy with functional autocorrect in my language a getting type prediction finally. And powerfull, easy to use and fast to use scripting environment. Plus million little things
Other is cherry on cake.This does not sound good. Seriously. Apple have proven over the past decade that they don’t do big changes well. In fact I foresee them doing an Apple Car turnaround on this release weeks later and scrapping it. As an ardent practitioner of not upgrading my OS this could be an interesting watch from the sidelines.
Perhaps not the best example. I don’t want to lick that one.
Every time they announce "X has gotten better thanks to our neural engine" I find feature "X" has usually gotten worse. I'm to the point now where I wish I had iOS 4 or 5's spellcheck because the current one is a hot mess. Can't wait to see how bad things get with this new "Generative AI". 🙄
Amen brother. This is now a home for dumb predictions and ”huge” discount links. Real news has taken a place at the back of the queue. Meanwhile it took 5 corrections to the autocorrect to make this paragraph readable. Apple really is going backwards. So this biggest update ever is something I will be avoiding.
Doubt it. Apple said that iMessage will support RCS messages but nothing about the full RCS functionality. Minus the E2EE.
But one can hope.
That was what I was thinking. It's pretty disappointing when that's the big thing in an update.
I wonder will iOS 18.0 essentially be a later iOS 17.x version but with better integration of:
1. Third-party app stores.
2. Sideloading of apps.
3. GSMA-compliant RCS messaging support.
4. Third-party access to the NFC chip functionality.
5. Possibly a true dedicated Headphones app with far better support for non-Apple/Beats branded headphones.
Due to legal issues, this may have to be done before the other rumored changes originally planned for iOS 18 are done.
1. Third-party app stores.
2. Sideloading of apps.
3. GSMA-compliant RCS messaging support.
4. Third-party access to the NFC chip functionality.
5. Possibly a true dedicated Headphones app with far better support for non-Apple/Beats branded headphones.
Due to legal issues, this may have to be done before the other rumored changes originally planned for iOS 18 are done.
Two things I would like to see in Messages.
I used to use an Android texting app called Textra it had two features I liked.
1. delayed send of a message I could select up to a 6-second delay (or so) after I hit send to change my mind about what I texted and cancel the message. It is very helpful when you are in a text spat with the spouse.
2. Scheduled send of a text. So if I think of something at 5:15 pm af that I need a team member to do the next morning. I could schedule a send time for example 9:05 am the next morning after they have clocked back in but probably have not gotten too deep into anything.. That way it respects their private time. But, I don't have to worry about forgetting to ask them to take care of it.
Now I know there is a shortcut for #2 but I find it to be a bit clunky and would like the features baked into messages.
I used to use an Android texting app called Textra it had two features I liked.
1. delayed send of a message I could select up to a 6-second delay (or so) after I hit send to change my mind about what I texted and cancel the message. It is very helpful when you are in a text spat with the spouse.
2. Scheduled send of a text. So if I think of something at 5:15 pm af that I need a team member to do the next morning. I could schedule a send time for example 9:05 am the next morning after they have clocked back in but probably have not gotten too deep into anything.. That way it respects their private time. But, I don't have to worry about forgetting to ask them to take care of it.
Now I know there is a shortcut for #2 but I find it to be a bit clunky and would like the features baked into messages.
As long as iOS 18 isn’t the buggy Cluster f*ck that was iOS7, bring it.
I sure do hope so - I’m tired of having multiple apps to message people:
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Gosh, and sometimes I still have moments where I do that swipe up from the bottom
That gesture is just so engrained into my muscle memory, and when they changed it to a single press of the side button it drove me batty (and it still sometimes does!)
Exactly and there is still the other thing … a bug that occasionally does not register my swipe down to open missed notifications unless I completely restart the watch 🫠
Yeah, and that's probably what it'll be
The design will probably by and large be the same; the only thing I hope they don't do is pull the whole thing on us like they did in early releases of 17 where they changed the position of the end call button
Two things. First, I think adding the texting features with Android will be great, and FINALLY being able to move icons around is LONG overdue.
Secondly, I wonder if the iMessage changes coming have anything to do with Apple being sued by the US Government.
Secondly, I wonder if the iMessage changes coming have anything to do with Apple being sued by the US Government.
With more capable inference we might experience feeling of having GPT4 in your pocket vs 3.5 on the last years phone. Relatively speaking.
(I do not impose GPT4-side model could fit in phone yet, but that we might have that quality delta for years between latest and last year).
This might get the same people who pay for GPT4/Claude to upgrade.
how about a shortcuts app that allows true automations that include system level changes ala Tasker and macrodroid?