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iPhone 16 Likely to Get Exclusive AI Features in iOS 18
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It's to display battery life cycle and limit battery charging to 80%... things only the iPhone 15 can do. Exclusive AI features will be something only iPhone 16 can do.
How else will Apple get people to upgrade if not by limiting new features to newer iPhones?
What I noticed recently is if you have iCloud+ and (obviously) use more than 5 GB and something goes wrong with your monthly subscription renewal, then you won’t be able to receive iCloud email anymore because “mailbox full”. Too bad if renewing your credit card requires email somehow.
I remain leery about Apple’s ability to bring Siri up to par. It’s just so far behind Google and Alexa. I try things every day. Have Alexa, ask a question, ask the same question to Siri. With Alexa, I get exactly what I was looking for every time. With Siri, I get “here’s what I found on the web.” How how how does the most profitable tech company in the world absolutely suck at a virtual assistant literally 10 years later.
Just ignore everything Apple is doing as long as your current device keeps working.
Dirty confession: I have never bothered using Siri ever since it came out in 2011. I've just left it switched off on all my Apple devices since.
I used to use it to tell me jokes when it was the most amazing thing on iPhone 4S. It’s crazy how they were sort of ahead of anyone else but never did anything with it.
Since Apple literally bought Siri and most if not all of that team has left Apple since, I honestly wonder sometimes if they simply do not have the right people to improve it anymore
C'mon... Gotta get your IQ and appatude tests.
To figure out what your appatude is good at.
"Siri, set an alarm for 7am."
"Here's what I found on the web."
"Here's what I found on the web."
Not sure of any Apple user who doesn’t want significant improvements to Siri, whether it’s under the buzzword AI or Machine Learning as Apple has called it for countless years.
On-device processing is what crippled Siri out of the gate. Sure, I get that Apple cites privacy for this and that's important for people, but like you do with app analytics, make server-side processing optional please!
I'm predicting that there will be another subscription to access all of the GenAI features.
intriguing never the less. I like how some of the rumors of 16 have pushed newer ideas. This always happens with upcoming products from Apple. It is nothing new. just what apple has planned to sell more units.
I just want Siri to respond " hey Siri play David Bowie" and not get a message" you are offline" ( when I have his music downloaded already.....)
Per the article the only exclusive feature would be on-device processing, existing phones would be able to use the AI features via the cloud. ChatGPT takes an enormous amount of processing power so it's entirely possible the existing neural engine designs aren't enough (or that it would be a battery killer).
The list is exhaustive for what the neural engine has been doing for years on Mac and iPhone. Dictation, background noise detection, auto correct, you name it. Just Apple doesn’t market them as AI but rather machine learning so doesn’t get all the same buzz.
Don't worry, the chance of this actually happening is small. Early on we always hear about these features coming out next year, and then in six months we'll be told its delayed.
Always remember rather than attempting to speak for all others, instead say, that ‘you’ did not ask for it or ‘you’ do not want it. And insulting the majority of users for having different desires may not get you far in life.
I think that’s the whole point, many do not use Siri at all because it has worked so poorly compared to competition over the years. The idea here is with LLLM it would take a massive step forward and be worth trying again.
Owning any newer iPhone right now but likely having to spend another $799-$999 to upgrade to a new iPhone just to finally get a usable version of Siri is just sad. Especially since the $799 iPhone 16 will run on the 15 Pro's SoC and therefore be 1/1 on-par with iPhones 15 Pro.
Then again, it's not like the SoC will actually make a meaningful jump in raw performance for iPhones 16 from 15, 14 or 13. So what else can Apple do to keep sales steady?
AI-this and AI-that, of course!
But I'm sure there's some new "AI Co-Processor" chip added to iPhones 16, because without it, there's "no way" to do the processing "on-device".
Heck, they can even spread all the AI improvements over several many generations of iPhones.
And just like that, a huge number of sales are secured despite less and less SoC performance increases every year.
Then again, it's not like the SoC will actually make a meaningful jump in raw performance for iPhones 16 from 15, 14 or 13. So what else can Apple do to keep sales steady?
AI-this and AI-that, of course!
But I'm sure there's some new "AI Co-Processor" chip added to iPhones 16, because without it, there's "no way" to do the processing "on-device".
Heck, they can even spread all the AI improvements over several many generations of iPhones.
And just like that, a huge number of sales are secured despite less and less SoC performance increases every year.
