Report: These 10 New AI Features Are Coming in iOS 18

[Tomasulu]

It used to be when Apple was playing catch up we excused it by saying things like Apple won’t release something until they’ve perfected it.

Now we know Apple is really just playing catch up.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Smart recaps of missed notifications

How about my notifications just aren't hidden off the bottom of the lock screen for a week? You know, so I can't actually miss them. Hiding lock screen notifications from the lock screen - Apple 🤦‍♂️

 

[uacd]

Photo retouching.

Do they realize that true retouching should be done by human? AI still cannot see many details that I would rather call “artistic vision”.

I judge by the photo quality on iPhone – there are many situations when image noise reduction is not just useless but looks bad, such as during bright day. While many like the shots, I can see these errors and because of full automation in camera app for many years, really can’t do anything except shooting RAW.

I doubt they will have adequate retouching either

 

[hans1972]

>>Voice memo transcription.

I didn't know speech to text is an AI feature.

If it uses machine learning, it's definitely AI.

 

[uacd]

Google is unusable with constant wrong answers due to AI now.

At least they make for a decent comedy

 

[amaze1499]

RIP Siri.

 

[hans1972]

But we learned in the other forum you’d rather Apple fangirl to spite yourself rather than actually improve your texting experience. Sad, actually.

Some of us don't send photos to Android users via SMS or even care about the quality they receive such photos in.

The downside of RCS is some people in the US will then move to Android or cancel their plan to move to iPhone, thus weakening the ecosystem.

 

[SRemington]

I think the success of the new OS will stand and fall with fixing Siri. All the other items on this list seem rather incremental.

 

[hans1972]

Then you’ll never run into it. It is just a way that iMessage can send a message to people with Android. If you never send messages to Android, then you aren’t using it. You won’t see any change.

But more people will use Android if RCS allows for good interaction with iMessage. That's not good for him.

 

[johnnytravels]

It used to be when Apple was playing catch up we excused it by saying things like Apple won’t release something until they’ve perfected it.

Now we know Apple is really just playing catch up.

These were my exact thoughts too. It’s become such a lame company. I use and buy some of their products and will continue to do so. But they have become something more akin to household appliances, albeit very good ones. There’s no imagination and no spark anymore. And I doubt there ever will be. Tim Cook has bled Apple dry of their creativeness and integrity and now it’s too big and too much in the hands of shareholders to ever turn around. It’s all downhill from here.
Siri should have become what OpenAI is, but we all know how that went. From a historical point of view it was great though for me to witness the entire arc of the development of a mega corp in one lifetime. The markets are so strange…

 

[haemolysis]

“On the go Siri” very much reads to me as “mundane features that used to work in 2010 but no longer do” only it will be marketed as brand new and powered by AI and the H1 chip (or whatever they call it now.)

 

[hans1972]

Speech to text has existed since the 90s (see dragon naturally speaking), and no one called it AI software.

Natural language processing has been part of AI since its exception.

 

[hans1972]

Looks like "android" is living rent free in your head. How does it affect you if someone else uses android or talks to android users?

It weakens the ecosystem. The more iPhone users there are, the probability of more resources being poured into the ecosystem by others increases.

 

[aknabi]

Because i have no use for it nor do I need it to talk to android users. SMS works just fine and I have iMessage.

And that's the metric that all companies should decide what products, services and features to have? Yeah, that's a winner

 

[DannyGGG]

If these are supposed to be the AI innovations, then the result is rather disappointing. I would expect at least one solution that would allow me to discuss or talk to Siri in the same way as the interactive audio mode of ChatGPT.

"More natural interactions with Siri." was in the list.

 

[Shauntipson]

iOS 18 and macOS 15 will offer an array of new AI features such as auto-generated emojis, suggested replies to emails and messages, and more, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.

A significant portion of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is expected to focus on AI features. Writing his latest "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that Apple's AI strategy emphasizes providing practical tools for ordinary users, with new features for core apps like Safari, Photos, and Notes. Apple will apparently use AI to deliver the following new features:

• Photo retouching.
  
• Voice memo transcription.
  
• Suggested replies to emails and messages.
  
• Auto-generated emojis based on the content of a user's messages, providing all-new emoji for any occasion beyond the existing catalog.
  
• Improved Safari web search.
  
• Faster and more reliable searches in Spotlight.
  
• More natural interactions with Siri.
  
• More advanced version of Siri designed for the Apple Watch, optimized for "on-the-go tasks."
  
• Smart recaps of missed notifications and individual messages, web-pages, news articles, documents, notes, and more.
  
• Developer tools for Xcode.

AI features that require less processing power will run entirely on-device, but more demanding tools will operate via the cloud. Apple will apparently tout the privacy advantages of this plan.

Apple is purportedly considering marketing many of its new AI tools as a "preview," at least in beta versions of iOS 18 before its official launch in September, to make it clear that the technology is unfinished.

Article Link: Report: These 10 New AI Features Are Coming in iOS 18

What about changing the widget size on the screen small medium large. It’s a pain having to delete going into the widget screen picking the widget placing it on the Home Screen. Something like windows mobile

 

[DannyGGG]

I bet all these new features will be in beta and available with later versions of iOS 18. I don't think in such a short time Apple can integrate them right away.

Well they'll be beta features in beta versions of the os until launch in September. Hopefully that's enough time. And we don't know how long they've already been working on this stuff.

 

[SBlue1]

That’s a very low bar, given how bad Siri is now😅

Yeah. But after I was using ChatGPT for a while, and after understanding how to use it to get the best out of it I hope that Siri will one day have some things in common. Like just telling it what to do in a natural and human way, without the need to memorize the prompts and learning how to ask it.

I truly believe that AI is the next revolution of computing, not a useless quick hype like 3D TV. Just like when computers switched from being used by DOS commands that had to be learned to using the mouse and intuitively clicking on icons.

 

[chfilm]

Conversational Siri being the number one priority hopefully!!!

 

[ThomasJL]

Hey, Clueless Cook, do you know what would make things a lot more user-friendly than AI? Completely eliminating flat design while bringing back the skeuomorphic design of iOS 6. Instead of hoarding cash, use a tiny fraction of that to rehire Scott Forstall and give him back his old job position.

 

[wanha]

In Power On it said that AI features on device "will be supported by iPhone, iPad and Mac chips released in the last year or so" Does that mean that only iPhone 14 and 15 will get AI features and every other iPhone left behind?

That's the thing with rumors; we don't know what exactly something means or if it's even true.

 

[Tevosn]

Can't innovate, my *peach emoji*

But also auto correct be like 🍆

 

[cableguy84]

You forget to mention 90% of these features will be 16 pro only

 

[spazzcat]

I’m not because I don’t currently have anyone I associate with who uses android

That is fine, the rest of us live in the real world where we know a lot of people and simply having group messaging improvement will make having RCS worth it.

 

[SmugMaverick]

I mean, these are literally years old Android/Pixel basics.

Basics.

Not even great features, just basic stuff that should have been added years ago.

Where’s the improved keyboard? Still trash

Why do I still have a volume bug? Lazy.