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Genmoji in iOS 18.2: Everything You Need to Know
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Out of curiosity can someone that has access to this tell me if it can make Cthulhu or ancient Egyptian gods 
Didn't know Seth or Osiris, and refused to make me as a pharao.Out of curiosity can someone that has access to this tell me if it can make Cthulhu or ancient Egyptian gods
Didn't know Cthulhu, either.
I finally got access across both my accounts yesterday (personal and work). It’s pretty fun.
You’ll be paying for this as well as the new photo editing tools by subscription sooner than you think.
I found once I stopped checking it turned up. That’s not a scientific reasoning and in shape or form. But kind of forgot I requested access then it turned up.
Yeah, I agree with you. I've been using Apple products since the crustaceous period and never really cared for the basic animations or games they've had over the years. 🤷♂️
It doesn’t look hideous to me, but it does look useless. This is not the world changing application of AI I had in mind.
Why? Have gen-whatever-letter-it-is-now kids finally lost the ability to communicate like humans?
I spend a lot of my workdays in Slack, where you can upload any image to act as an emoji for reactions. I was very much looking forward to Genmoji to be able to do something similar in texts.
Smileys, Emoji, Memoji, now Genmoji. I barely got used to the first two 🙄.
To my understanding it is not possible because it utilizes on device processing for quicker generation. It’s like emojis that are already on your phone. Could you imagine every time you wanted to use an emoji it had to be downloaded to be sent.
In fairness that's exactly how gifs in iMessage works and that doesn't seem to be a problem.
Actually it is a problem in many places you don’t have cell signal but have WiFi, it doesn’t always work. For example at my job, GIFs do not work on the WiFi, not sure if it has something to do with them blocking google services.
With on device generating this wouldn’t be a problem. Can you imagine the uproar if Apple releases this feature that doesn’t work when connected to certain wireless networks.
It probably depends on the network. I can't receive images/videos at all while I'm on the corporate network so I expect on device Genmojis won't work for me either.
That being said, I'm fully on board with on device being better than offloaded into the cloud, but I strongly suspect that having it in the cloud would be better than not having it at all for most iPhone users that don't have a 15 Pro/16.
Not for me. I got both at the same time. Are you sure you're looking for it in the right spot?
Apples whole take on AI is that it is done on device for privacy. Your data stays on device. That's what differentiates them. They have a Cloud version that has privacy built in(and can be verified by third parties), but that requires Apple's servers and money to run, for much bigger requests and wouldn't makes sense for something so simple that could be built on device that has the processing power to run locally.
I’m not sure, as I haven’t seen it referenced anywhere. I just updated to 18.2 beta 2 and still don’t see it at all. Is it elsewhere?
It’s not straightforward if so.
Edit: I found it in Notes and Mail, but not in Messages. Weird.
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