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iOS 18.2 Lets You Create Emoji, Rolling Out in Beta Over 'Coming Weeks'
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Don’t know if many would anticipate this kind of generative image thingy.
When the highlights of new version of OS is emoji or the likes, it meant the maker is lacking of momentum for innovation!
cool. Can we get multiple user profiles? Would be nice to have completely separate spaces. Thank you.
Who says Apple can’t innovate…?
I must be an outlier, having only used about five of the original list of emojis…
I must be an outlier, having only used about five of the original list of emojis…
Great, did you report it to Apple? It gets very tiring of people just complaining here, after signing up to BETA software and signing up to advise Apple of any issues. Of course there WILL be issues, its not a RC.
It’s because your phone doesn’t have enough ram to be able to handle AI because was cheap with the ram. Plus there would be no benefit for you to install iOS 18.2 right now as it’s all about AI features & nothing else
The beta test is not for users to enjoy any new feature, is for Apple to do their testing. Users don’t have any entitlement or right to complain at this stage. That being said Apple intelligence is hugely underwhelming and Apple is incredibly late with anything ai related. Image playground in particular is extremely subpar.
Who cares except maybe for some teens. Leave this nonsense to third party apps instead of baking in into the OS.
It’s too cringe and mid even for Gen Z
I'm sure this would be fun to use a couple of times. But I do wonder what the business case for all the AI features is. At some point they probably will have to charge for the server side processing of image generation and LLM request. Or at least make it part of the paid iCloud subscription.
I'm not that young and I use emojis and gifs everyday to communicate how I feel via text messages.
I know many people who had fights over text messages that had ambiguous tone because they used no emojis or used the wrong one.
Like it or not, it's a huge part of our lives, I'm fine with these things getting as versatile as possible.
Plus it looks funny.
And even if it was a useless feature, I don't think it's remotely as simple as "why are you developing new features I don't use instead of fixing bugs and focusing on UX?".
iOS is already a relatively stable and usable OS, it desperately needs new marketable stuff to attract young people, now that game-changing features gets more and more rare.
By the way, this is only one of many AI features, there are many that are undoubtedly useful, such as a Siri that works, AI text generation and so on. You cherry-picked the most trivial AI feature to say all engineers are thinking about unimportant stuff.
I know by now most people have realised that Beta = potentially unstable product released for testing purposes, but I think lots of people are still confused (or forgetting) the difference between a dev beta and a public beta. This is a dev beta, it's not meant for people who just want to get the newest features before they're publicly released, that's the purpose of the public beta. A dev beta is to let devs check that their apps are still going to work, and feed back on any issues related to that. You need the 18.2 beta with the Image Playground framework for that; you don't need the Image Playground functionality to be enabled though. The release notes for 18.2dev are here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-18_2-release-notes They don't even mention Image Playground.
Sure, there are people in the dev beta ring who aren't devs (me included), but those people shouldn't feel entitled to a public beta experience.
Sure, there are people in the dev beta ring who aren't devs (me included), but those people shouldn't feel entitled to a public beta experience.
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Ironically I think you communicated pretty clearly without emojis.
In regard to your analysis, you are not alone. I feel the exact same way.
Hmmm... I'm 55. I use emojis, they're a bit of fun that I don't take myself too seriously to use in casual exchanges and I find them useful for communicating nuance that short-form text can struggle with. I'm also part-way through a part-time Masters in Astrophysics for which I use a fair bit of AI, so hope it doesn't make me too stupid before I graduate.
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it still seems like such a bait and switch to run commercials showing Apple Intelligence, I know they have a tiny disclaimer, but it seems like such a shady slimy business practice. They had to satisfy the desires of shareholders and get Ai out as quickly as possible, Apple was falling behind the times, but with with all the resources Apple has there was just no way they could have released the phone at the same time the 18.1 feature or at the very least add the stupid glow effect to legacy Siri, they so blatantly show off that stupid effect in their ads. How have the competitors pulled off such a fully baked AI product that seems to be leaps and bounds above what Apple can do. Wasn't Apple a software company first and a hardware company second.
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If you’re right in what you’re saying then why does Apple allow you to sign up for the AI features if you’re not meant to try out the new features. That’s the whole point of this beta test being restricted to only iPhone 15 pros & 16 models. You try out the new features & if it doesn’t work you give your feedback.
Nobody is expecting a stable build with a developer beta especially when this is a very early version. That’s why you’re always told not to install it on your main device because you can encounter a buggy os. As I said before why allow you to sign up for AI features if your not expecting to use them
Two pieces of food for thought:
Apple has enough cash that they can hire enough employees to test and perfect their operating systems, instead of crowdsourcing the testing of the software. Back in the day, we used to pay for and get a finished product. Nowadays, Apple (and other tech companies also, I'm aware of that) essentially get free labor from the masses.
And second, if tech companies insist on using the general public to test their software, those who are beta-testing software should get some sort of compensation. I know these companies are too cheap to give people a free device, I would never expect that, but maybe beta-testers should get some kind of perk. Like free Apple Arcade or Apple News+ as long as the user is beta-testing software for Apple.
As I understand it, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, "beta software is provided as is, no guarantees, and you install it voluntarily and at your own risk."
So, in other words, Apple tells us, "Help us test our software so we don't have to hire a thousand employees and pay them, but do so at your own risk. You won't even get a $10 Apple gift card for your troubles."
I used to "share diagnostic data" with Apple to help out. I've stopped doing that. Why would I waste my CPU power (no matter how minimal it might be) to help a company (which already charges a hefty amount for their products) that isn't going to give me anything in return? I still occasionally give a thumbs up when the Clean Up tool in Photos does a good job, but I draw the line there.
Is it possible that we've all been slowly brainwashed into believe that this practice is somehow okay?
mass beta testing with the public is WAY more accurate than closed betas. As for the compensation thing, we now get OSes for free, they used to cost $129 for Macs. you don't have to beta test, it's a volunteer thing
What a useless upgrade at this point. 18.2 is basically just 18.1 and nothing more. lol.
I’m with you on beta testing. A long time ago there were small perks… as a kid I remember receiving a gift from Microsoft for being part of the msn browser beta.
Unless you have one of the 15 pros or 16 models then your right in nothing has changed much for you