It’s kinda crazy. I’ll just keep and eye on them and see what happens with the next beta.
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iOS 18.4 Beta 2 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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It’s kinda crazy. I’ll just keep and eye on them and see what happens with the next beta.
After testing Apple Intelligence since beta 2, I've come to the conclusion that it's not worth giving up a chunk of RAM on my iPhone for. I've decided to turn it off, things like notifications summaries and writing tools just seem a bit pointless to me.
Notifications are usually quite short anyway so I don't really see the point in shortening them further whilst garbling their meaning.
Writing tools may be useful to someone who really needs them but I don't feel the need as I don't do much long form writing on my iPhone.
Siri just seems as bad as ever even though it has some very pretty animations. Once Apple improve Siri then I think Apple Intelligence might be worth turning back on, but until that point I think I will leave it off. Unfortunately, I think it could be another year or so before Siri actually improves, based on all the rumours.
Notifications are usually quite short anyway so I don't really see the point in shortening them further whilst garbling their meaning.
Writing tools may be useful to someone who really needs them but I don't feel the need as I don't do much long form writing on my iPhone.
Siri just seems as bad as ever even though it has some very pretty animations. Once Apple improve Siri then I think Apple Intelligence might be worth turning back on, but until that point I think I will leave it off. Unfortunately, I think it could be another year or so before Siri actually improves, based on all the rumours.
Did anyone else see their App Library get rearranged? I have had Utilities in the top right forever and Finance on the bottom left. No new apps installed in either category in ages, so the reshuffle really messed with my muscle memory.
Mine seem to randomly swap positions with no rhyme or reason each beta. Usually 🤣😂👍
That’s how the system works. If there is any payment or „urgent“ date listed in the message the system will get it under priority. It’s still a beta and it will further improve but this will never be 100% perfect.
Yes, and it will happen again. The solution works once until the system switches back to the Siri globe. I'm not sure what triggers the switch.
In addition, however, an existing Homepod is spinning. If you have set the Homepod to only respond to “Hey Siri”, it suddenly also listens to “Siri”, despite demonstrably different settings.
The problem is not exclusively related to local settings, it seems to me that processes on the server side also play a role.
It is up to Apple to eradicate this misbehavior.
Glad I'm not alone. But it's the first reshuffle I've had (or at least noticed) in a couple years.
I once again need to petition Apple to fix App Library. It's ugly and ineffective. Just make the alpha sort the default view instead of an additional gesture and make it look like something between watchOS list view and Niagra Launcher on Android. It could be soooo much nicer.
Edit: Feedback FB16768767. Put a little hyperbole into my word choice to hopefully give it more attention than just a suggestion.
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And it’s not only the Siri animation that rolls back to the old one, I can’t also see the rewrite and text correction not any longer on the keyboard if I select text. It’s still there in the context menu but not on the keyboard bar.
Ok switched the Siri language to another one (English Uk) and then back to German. Working again.
Needed space for the AI models on the storage bumped up from 6 to 8 Gb. Haha
Update: this only worked for a couple of minutes. Then the animation was gone again and phone get pretty warm. Probably some further background downloading.
Turned Apple AI off now and will wait for the next beta. Did almost all of my best friends with Genmoji - fine so far haha.
Needed space for the AI models on the storage bumped up from 6 to 8 Gb. Haha
Update: this only worked for a couple of minutes. Then the animation was gone again and phone get pretty warm. Probably some further background downloading.
Turned Apple AI off now and will wait for the next beta. Did almost all of my best friends with Genmoji - fine so far haha.
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Specifically when trying to search for something after hitting Command + Space to bring up the Search bar?
It no longer looks like when you pull down on the Home Page where it populates with possible options.
nm it seems to have started working again after a second reboot.
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I don’t think emails or text messages asking for a payment should be categorized as priority at all, unless the phone number or address is in your contacts. Especially since email and text are so susceptible to fraud.
As I wrote this will and needs to be improved. All the AI stuff is still marked as „beta“ by apple.
Not having any issues with WhatsApp at all. iPhone 13 here. As I recall, there was an update for it waiting in the App Store along with some others. Maybe check that if you haven’t already.
I don’t experience that problem. WhatsApp has been updated 3 times in the course of two weeks.
Let’s present it in a nice video during the keynote for investors and fans…
Is it stable and works as intended?… äähh okay give us a „couple“ of months more.
Something really unusual is going with mobile data, since last betas.
I got lot of mobile traffic for something Common and for Software Updates, I do not know what’s going on….
I got lot of mobile traffic for something Common and for Software Updates, I do not know what’s going on….
Am I going crazy or is the screen slightly brighter when turned all the way down? I really like the new 1 nit brightness for late night scrolling.
