iOS 19 Rumored to Include These New Features for Your iPhone

[sagarpachorkar]

Controversial take: I understand users need new features and wants to be on the bleeding edge of new hardware / software releases and generative AI, I feel it’s time for Apple to audit the entire operating system, internal apps, low level frameworks that handle the overall responsiveness of the devices. These improvements won’t just benefit the native apps but also extend to third party apps in terms of performance without additional work on developer’s part. Given that the A series chips have been improved dramatically over the past few years, there’s been persistent drop in the quality of software with random bugs, jank and stutter. I remember Apple focusing on software performance improvements during Snow Leopard / iOS 12 release, I’m sure it’d turn out to be more exciting, maybe I’m just in the minority!

 

[CarAnalogy]

My uninformed belief is that it’s the complexity and difficulty of the project more than anything else, and that marketing has created unrealistic expectations around it. 🤷‍♂️

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Both of these things. A combination of a company that has gotten too large to be agile, and a company that puts accounting and marketing above all else.

It's not the programmers that are the problem. In companies this size, it is always the management. Or, more accurately, the layers and layers of bureaucracy and middle management and ass-covering. Nobody wants to rock the boat, nobody is allowed to execute on any vision that doesn't meet the leadership team's current quarterly profit projections.

CFed and Dye and Schiller care more about the Vision Pro and rent-seeking and the stock price than they do the actual user experience.

 

[sloheim]

So... for IOS19, we can expect *2* new features?

And one of them was debunked by an article posted less than 1 day later? https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/02/ios-19-delayed-feature/

Terrible article.

 

[danpass]

As someone familiar with the control and speed of dSLR cameras, the Apple Camera app mostly sucks for on-the-fly adjustments.

I'd welcome an improvement there.

for those tyros who don't even know what dSLR stands for, yeah ... the app is perfect for them 🤣

 

[FlyingDutch]

Yes and no. Like my 14 Pro, these phones have essentially been excluded from any (power hungry) major new features. This just leaves minor features and security updates. I’m sure even the XS/XR could go for a while.

There is a huge computational difference between iPhone 14 and XR… so iOS 19 on the 14 will be much more enjoyable than on the old XR

 

[Atog]

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, but...

It really doesn't take much to develop a ChatGPT-like service. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of infrastructure to build out and it's not a trivial undertaking, but it's not like as if the research hasn't already been done and published.

This is why it's always been funny when people complain about how far behind Apple is compared to ChatGPT, Copilot, etc... They're comparing Siri which is pretty much a 13 year old technology to current LLMs as if it's going to take Apple 13 years to get there, when in reality all they need to build out and implement from current research on hardware that on the client-side is top-notch. Again, not to understate the effort involved, but it's far from 13 years of catch up.

Ofc I was joking but on serious note Siri in iOS 18 behaves even worse then before which is unacceptable. Fact that they can’t make it at least in second half of iOS 18 lifetime similar to ChatGPT (context, languages) is very sad. Given how big Apple is.

 

[Tagbert]

So... for IOS19, we can expect *2* new features?

And one of them was debunked by an article posted less than 1 day later? https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/02/ios-19-delayed-feature/

Terrible article.

Whenever we get rumors of some possible new features for an OS, why do people keep assuming that that is a comprehensive list of changes?

First, these are rumors. Second, they suggest some of the things that might be in the new OS.

 

[It’s always something]

First, these are rumors.

Rumors? On a rumor website?! Inconceivable!

 

[Apple$]

By the time the REAL Siri comes out (around iOS 20), I would've moved on to a OnePlus or Google Pixel. Apple has really fallen behind it's competitors. And it shows by the bean counters in Cupertino. They SHOULD"VE given the iPhone 14 Pro and subsequently the iPhone 15 8GB RAM to make it compatible with Apple Intelligence.
Signed by a pissed off iPhone 15 owner.

 

[Paddle1]

Why don't they start dropping models that don't support the tentpole features?

That would literally be last year's iPhone that they're still currently selling.

 

[hans1972]

So chat GPT-like Siri available ALREADY in iOS 19? Ain’t that too early? They should take some time to polish it, do not rush it!

It's not going to be like ChatGPT. It will be a small LLM focused on supporting things you might to on the phone. So it will support

"When is my next flight to New York?" and not

"What is Aristotle's view on friendship?"

 

[LlamaLarry]

That would literally be last year's iPhone that they're still currently selling.

If this is coming out for the iPhone 17, then the 16 and 15 would support Apple Intelligence. Seems weird to have the focus for 18 and 19 to be AI but meanwhile the phones below can't do any of it:

• 
  iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 13
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)

Other than FOMO what do those models get? More emojis?

 

[bmark]

Controversial take: I understand users need new features and wants to be on the bleeding edge of new hardware / software releases and generative AI, I feel it’s time for Apple to audit the entire operating system, internal apps, low level frameworks that handle the overall responsiveness of the devices. These improvements won’t just benefit the native apps but also extend to third party apps in terms of performance without additional work on developer’s part. Given that the A series chips have been improved dramatically over the past few years, there’s been persistent drop in the quality of software with random bugs, jank and stutter. I remember Apple focusing on software performance improvements during Snow Leopard / iOS 12 release, I’m sure it’d turn out to be more exciting, maybe I’m just in the minority!

Apple gave up overhauling their operating system years ago. It’s all about camera app redesign and security fixes now. Also more emojis’s!

 

[sloheim]

Whenever we get rumors of some possible new features for an OS, why do people keep assuming that that is a comprehensive list of changes?

First, these are rumors. Second, they suggest some of the things that might be in the new OS.

Right. It was an article about things that are rumored to be in IOS19. They had a "list" of 2 things. Is that even worth an article?

And half the list was debunked within 24 hours.

 

[ennisw]

X🅂 and X🅁 having another major OS update is wild.

 

[Paddle1]

If this is coming out for the iPhone 17, then the 16 and 15 would support Apple Intelligence. Seems weird to have the focus for 18 and 19 to be AI but meanwhile the phones below can't do any of it:

• 
  iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 13
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)

Other than FOMO what do those models get? More emojis?

The 15 doesn't have Apple Intelligence, only the 15 Pro does. Honestly in iOS 18 the majority of the features are supported, just not the flashiest AI ones. I currently have AI off on my 16 Pro right now and don't feel like I'm missing much.

 

[MobiusStrip]

Apple has already gone 15+ years without fixing the iPhone's most pathetic and embarrassing defect: its lack of audible notifications of missed calls. A standard feature of cell phones going back to the '90s, and hell... even answering machines and phones from the '80s.

Are they gonna go for 20 years of insulting users?

 

[x-evil-x]

can they fix the god awful photos app? The new design is one of the worst things they've ever put out.

 

[ab2c4]

Once again… won’t happen. Same rumors about a redesign but there won’t happen anything substantial.

Agreed. I have seen several articles/rumors stating the 17 series would get a major redesign and yet all the renders show the same design just with a different camera module. That isn't a redesign to me at all.

 

[ab2c4]

can they fix the god awful photos app? The new design is one of the worst things they've ever put out.

To me the new camera app will be just as bad as the photos app.

 

[carrrrrlos]

Please Voicemail and Phone app revamp.

 

[Princejb134]

It's funny how people complain about everything. Either it's "Apple should upgrade individual apps throughout the year instead of one big annual upgrade" and then when Apple holds a WWDC which shows what the upgrade roadmap will be for the year with various things being upgraded throughout, people complain that they have to wait for those individual things.

The generation of complainers. Nothing is ever good enough. Im just happy to have a phone that i can use daily with little issues for the small task i need it for.

 

[Paddle1]

Agreed. I have seen several articles/rumors stating the 17 series would get a major redesign and yet all the renders show the same design just with a different camera module. That isn't a redesign to me at all.

It's the most obvious change from a distance since they changed the camera layout on the iPhone 11. That alone is enough to get people to upgrade for a phone that looks "different", which is what Apple wants.

 

[Atog]

It's not going to be like ChatGPT. It will be a small LLM focused on supporting things you might to on the phone. So it will support

"When is my next flight to New York?" and not

"What is Aristotle's view on friendship?"

Yep and already in late iOS 19. Fine by me 😆

 

[frozencarbonite]

Am I one of the only ones who doesn't want a Camera app redesign? I just can't imagine how they could redesign it and make it better. Maybe I'm just worried that they will change it too much and it will take some time to learn how to use again.