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iOS 18 Potentially 'Biggest' Software Update in iPhone's History
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Ill do you a favor…..BYE. Its incredibly simple. DO IT.
The RCS change will get a lot of talk in the press and in the comments because it has been so contentious but the functional impact will be pretty small.
The Siri change is probably just one tip of some underlying AI changes to iOS that could be a big change. I suspect that Apple will use AI in even more features than they do now and, while it may not be complete this year, it will significantly change how these features work. Over time that may have tghe biggest impact on iOS of any change in the last several years.
It’s also likely that there will be other features and changes in iOS 18 so we have more articles to look forward to.
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Basically this. However, it doesn't matter. Software isn't the issue for me. It's the lack of phone diversity. It's time to move on.
I suspect you're right. And that's a big reason -- along with the smaller (read non-phablet) screen -- why I think I'm going to buy an iPhone 15 Pro and keep it for a very long time.
Nobody called RCS support and Siri upgrades “the biggest iOS 18 features”, they are just the two Macrumors have already known about, so mentioned them. From the original article:
“Gurman said he plans to share more details about specific iOS 18 features and changes that are planned in the future, but we already know about two new features that are likely to be included in the update, as outlined below.”
All the rest, including possible UI changes, new features, app improvements, etc. are still unrevealed. So let’s wait for June before jumping to any conclusions.
Very true. But my broader point is that I think a decent percentage of iPhone users have no idea what their devices could do if Apple only allowed it.
Thats a honest assessment. Every year you have the hype and then you have the reality set in after they announce a few things that aren't terribly what you wanted as far as OS progression, just more and more functions like a massive Swiss army knife. It's been said many times most people don't even know how to take advantage of all the functionality IOS offers. They really need to tackle that next.
Probably the best stimulus to this process has been the EU DMA that Apple has had to think about for a year. That has Apple thinking in many different ways for once. Add the fact that Apple hasn't done much to show off AI in light of the competition especially Siri and you have a recipe for some actual changes starting with 17.4 thru 18.x. I hope a lot of it affects tvOS and IPadOS too. Siri for tvOS is much more limited because it has no read only browser to draw content details from the web. iPadOS needs to parallel what IoS is capable of providing with new apps.
Your loss - just a suggestion.
By the way; It’s called BusYcal. It’s not ‘for business’ it’s just a very good Calendar app. It integrates directly with apples calendar. It’s just a front end for it, it doesn’t even see you data and it has no ads, though I think it’s like 3.99 single time purchase. It’s not a replacement for Apples calendar.
But if you’re angry at apples app not giving what you want, and refuse to try 3rd party options which give you exactly what you want, then there’s nothing more to say.
Are people actually impacted by significant bugs? I use an iPhone every day and can’t remember the last time one annoyed me.
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Same. I get the odd thing now and then but people on here are laughably over the top with these claims.
It isn’t very professional to call these two things “the biggest change / upgrade ever”. (Particularly WRT Siri, which is more of a “seeing is believing”…) I’d call iPhone OS / iOS 4 the biggest upgrade ever. Or the 4->5 change. Those were massive (4: cut-and-paste etc.).
It will obviously depend on implementation, but in my view the RCS change will both have a massive impact and no impact at all, depending on where you are.
For iOS users, predominantly in the US, who only use Apple's own messaging app for iMessage with other Apple users and SMS/MMS with everyone else, RCS should be a massive improvement by upgrading their messaging experience, being able to send high-quality images etc.
For iOS users in markets where alternative messengers have been the de facto default for years, so Europe, Latin America and probably others, this change will have zero impact, just as most iMessage improvements over the years have been.
The idea that AI creates MY answers and I am just asked to confirm them is quite creepy. Will the next generation of people be unable to form sentences themselves, because AI does that job all the time? Imagine people at both ends use AI for messaging. Than AI is talking to AI and the people are just spectators.
True, but best to wait at least a year after it's released to make sure all the bugs are ironed out and it's stable as f
*biggest update in iOS history*
Two features shown as examples, one of them a crutch for conversations with Android users, another catching up with 2023 LLM trends: a "must have" feature to not become a complete embarrasment.
There's barely an indicator of the size of this update yet. Where did that rumor come from - what is it based on?
Because I think an update that introduces a new design language, AirDrop, Control Center, Notification Center, paged folders, Automatic App Updates, camera exposure adjustment and focus lock, a new FaceTime app... Might still have been a little larger.
Or the update before it that introduced Notifications, iCloud, Wireless Updates, Siri, iPad Multitasking...
Granted, the mobile landscape was less mature back then, with far more ground to still cover giving them perhaps an "unfair" angle in terms of how feature rich and revolutionary the updates were, but that does not make later updates greater.
Two features shown as examples, one of them a crutch for conversations with Android users, another catching up with 2023 LLM trends: a "must have" feature to not become a complete embarrasment.
There's barely an indicator of the size of this update yet. Where did that rumor come from - what is it based on?
Because I think an update that introduces a new design language, AirDrop, Control Center, Notification Center, paged folders, Automatic App Updates, camera exposure adjustment and focus lock, a new FaceTime app... Might still have been a little larger.
Or the update before it that introduced Notifications, iCloud, Wireless Updates, Siri, iPad Multitasking...
Granted, the mobile landscape was less mature back then, with far more ground to still cover giving them perhaps an "unfair" angle in terms of how feature rich and revolutionary the updates were, but that does not make later updates greater.