iOS 18, what did you think?

[harshness]

iOS 18.1 was dropped today.

It came with a rather long rap sheet of security patches so it is probably best to install it (if your iPhone supports it).

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

My wife installed it last night, none of the AI is available to her though on her iPhone 16 Pro max. She is on the waiting list.

There shouldn't be waiting lists for a released product. I can see waiting lists for beta stuff, but when its public you shouldn't have to wait to use the features.

 

[comfortably_numb]

There shouldn't be waiting lists for a released product. I can see waiting lists for beta stuff, but when its public you shouldn't have to wait to use the features.

I think the same should apply to features like RCS compatibility. It wasn't ready for primetime when iOS 18 launched last month. It's still buggy.

 

[harshness]

There shouldn't be waiting lists for a released product. I can see waiting lists for beta stuff, but when its public you shouldn't have to wait to use the features.

I think the same should apply to features like RCS. It wasn't ready for primetime when iOS 18 launched last month. It's still buggy.

There's been quite a bit of Internet chatter about Apple's relative sloth in enabling their much-ballyhooed new features. Staging the releases didn't help this perception.

 

[comfortably_numb]

There's been quite a bit of Internet chatter about Apple's relative sloth in enabling their much-ballyhooed new features

As well there should be. They're clearly not the innovator they used to be.

 

[harshness]

They're clearly not the innovator they used to be.

That may have passed with the end of the second Steve Jobs era and the introduction of the iPhone.

 

[comfortably_numb]

That may have passed with the end of the second Steve Jobs era and the introduction of the iPhone.

I believe you're right. Now it's just a profit machine, turning out a new phone every year with minimal change. How many megapixels can they add to a camera every year?

 

[harshness]

How many megapixels can they add to a camera every year?

I think that the bigger question is who gets great value from using their phone to "enhance" photos? Some things are better left to devices with much larger screens (and I'm not talking 8-13").

If they want to work on something, they need to make sure everything integrates without conversion or adaptors. That was the hew and cry of having an "ecosystem".

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I don't get this "Built for Apple Intelligence" stuff...

The iPhone 15 can do all the same AI stuff... and wasn't built for Apple Intelligence.
My M1 iPod Air can do Apple Intelligence... and wasn't built for Apple Intelligence.

Apple Intelligence isnt even that good. Hey siri who won the baseball game last night? Siri - Here are three articles I found on baseball games last night....

It has a long way to go.

I am still on the waiting list for the Genmoji AI stuff.

 

[harshness]

Apple Intelligence isnt even that good.

Apple Intelligence is far (really, really far) from done. It will get better and it will benefit from the processing that is part of later chips.

Whether or not any of that ends up being useful isn't clear.

 

[Foxbat]

The Apple Silicon has been incorporating the Neural Engine for a few generations now, but Apple Intelligence requires at least an M1 or A17 Pro processor to run it. I’m not sure what else Apple uses the Neural Engine for in older products, but I guess the device requires a certain number of cores or speed to produce an acceptable Apple Intelligence experience.

 

[klang]

Didn't realize you had to sign up for AI, that explains why I haven't seen anything. On the waitlist now.

 

[klang]

Didn't realize you had to sign up for AI, that explains why I haven't seen anything. On the waitlist now.

Turned on now.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Didn’t do the beta as I’m enjoying 18.1 even though it doesn’t do a lot. I also just got an m4 iPad Pro 11” which is running it. Getting lots of chuckles out the ways it summarizes message threads.