Yes it’s going to be opened up to more markets as I’m to be believed
I just don’t understand if your iPhone is compatible with it why would you turn it off when parts of the OS is getting improved & will continue to do so.
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When Will Apple Release the iOS 18.4 Beta?
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I just don’t understand if your iPhone is compatible with it why would you turn it off when parts of the OS is getting improved & will continue to do so.
All I really want (at the moment!) is for Siri to be able to run shortcuts with parameters.
As a simple made-up example, let's say you have a shortcut called Test which just speaks out an inputted parameter.
At the moment you have two options:
1) "Siri, Test". Wait for the shortcut to start and prompt for input, then say "hello".
2) "Siri, TestHello", and you have to create a second shortcut called "TestHello" which runs the Test shortcut and passes the parameter "hello" to it.
What I want is to...
3) "Siri, Test hello" and it runs the shortcut "Test" and passes "hello" to it.
As a simple made-up example, let's say you have a shortcut called Test which just speaks out an inputted parameter.
At the moment you have two options:
1) "Siri, Test". Wait for the shortcut to start and prompt for input, then say "hello".
2) "Siri, TestHello", and you have to create a second shortcut called "TestHello" which runs the Test shortcut and passes the parameter "hello" to it.
What I want is to...
3) "Siri, Test hello" and it runs the shortcut "Test" and passes "hello" to it.
My beloved iPhone SE 3 is not compatible. As for other people, well, it is quite personal, some people prefer to just not use it at all. I would leave it on and use it just when I needed to summarize a text or something like that, but I get that more minimalistic users prefer to turn it off.
As for Apple itself, maybe they preferred to leave it out of other languages to focus on English during the first months and polish the experience on it. Just look at some funny/embarrassing mistakes that notification summaries produced. On the main language at Apple. In other, less known languages at Apple it could’ve been way worse, so I understand they are delivering the feature to different languages step by step, and beginning only with English. Hopefully, one of the most spoken languages (along with English and Chinese) such as Spanish will be included on the first AI expansion rounds.
The reason why mistakes are getting made is because I believe that Apple intelligence was implemented at the last minute to iOS 18 roadmap or else it would have started being implemented as part of the original iOS beta 18 & not 18.1
Yeah, I also suspect that they initially started iOS 18 with features such as Home Screen customization in mind, as well as the new customizable Control Center, Mail categorization (which interestingly doesn’t require Apple Intelligence) and other minor additions, and then… the AI hype exploded and at Apple’s headquarters they tried to implement it on top of it.
Maybe we’re wrong, mind you, but this was my first thought as well. They couldn’t afford to be late to the AI hype train. They had to include it on their WWDC ‘24 keynote. And deliver it progressively. Hopefully by iOS 19 everything will be much better integrated, and they will work extra hard on efficiency improvements to solve the battery drain some users are experiencing.
I also hope they improve and polish the iPadOS 19 experience because there are still a good amount of bugs and glitches around the external monitor UI, through keyboard and pointer.
That’s where they reference drivers licence coming from (photos) so I’d assume passport is the same
I’m convinced Apple Intelligence was supposed to be a iOS 19 feature but all the headlines and “analysts” screaming “Apple has no AI story - they’re behind!” was starting to actually impact the share price caused them to move it up to iOS 18.
Totally agree
It makes the most sense and fits the data of how this has gone so far
All feels exceptionally rushed
Exactly other mobile companies where putting AI all throughout their OS & the consistent headlines where Apple are so far behind. The roadmap for iOS is generally planned at least 1 & half in advance.
The big question is "Are they going to get all of the 2024 WWDC Keynote features released before WWDC 2025?"
This has been a more crazy beta cycle. I can't remember Apple ever having two betas going on at the same time for the same major version.
Apple AI is way more than summaries; it is just that is all anyone wants to talk about because it was a bit of a miss on their part.
Good point but if apple wants more test… they can do like with iOS 18.1 or 18.2 (release the beta earlier than expected)
This is widely speculated that this is going to have big release so it will probably go on a 2 week beta release schedule
Yeah and still bugs in 18.1 and 18.2 that apple doesn't care to fix so we'll get 10 new bugs in 18.4 instead of just fixing the known bugs from all the way back in iOS16
Well possibly because if they do six betas on a 2 week schedule I think that takes it to April
Good point. The Wallet app on the iPhone can share data for most payment cards with the Wallet app on the Apple watch, but not most (all?) digital IDs. My guess is this is partly a security measure to prevent more personal, financial, etc. data from leaving a user's most-frequently used on-person device (being the iPhone), but that same logic should seem to apply to passwords too. I wonder if Apple will change that to allow sharing of more data in the iPhone's Wallet app with a user's other Apple devices, but since this current limitation isn't a software issue but rather a policy, etc. decision, it's unlikely Apple would circumvent their own policy, and that of various governments, by placing passport info into the Passwords app to allow it to be shared among the Passwords apps on various Apple devices. As it is now, there's a whole raft of confusing work-in-progress stuff going on right now with Apple getting approval from various states, countries, regions, etc. to allow the iPhone's Wallet app to store digital IDs, so that seems to be the first step before opening it up to sharing that data between a user's iPhone and their other Apple devices.
But as far as iPads go, iPadOS currently doesn't include the Wallet app at all, since the app is intended mainly for use with NFC-equipped terminals, and most iPads don't contain NFC hardware since Apple doesn't think it's likely that people would want to bring their relatively big iPads to stores, airports, etc. to use at NFC terminals for making payments and for boarding, though maybe they should reconsider that, at least for the iPad mini. Existing iPad models that contain NFC hardware don't use it for making payments at NFC-equipped terminals, but instead for the Apple Pencil and "internal processes". Maybe that'll change too.
Yeah your iPhones about 3 years old so fundamentally your probably getting the core os but already starting to miss out on some features & with iOS 19 it’s going to get even less new features
Honestly, I’d rather see them develop their AI stack longer for a first major introduction in iOS 19 in September.
Putting that in iOS 18.4 is aggressive and the results might be disappointing, because expectations are very high with all these solutions out there yet their first intro to Apple Intelligence didn’t convince.
Take your time Apple, I say.
Putting that in iOS 18.4 is aggressive and the results might be disappointing, because expectations are very high with all these solutions out there yet their first intro to Apple Intelligence didn’t convince.
Take your time Apple, I say.
I understand but it looks like they where forced to tack it on to iOS 18 at the end because every other tech company has been pushing this for a couple of years at least