Do people think Apple massively improved the neural engine on the A17 Pro just for fun? They clearly had a reason in mind. I mean it’s only a bit slower than the one in the M4 and I expect the A18 Pro to have a faster neural engine than the M4.
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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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And you also get what you pay for - literally. If you want the most future proof phone possible, you paid for it.
At the same time, I doubt anyone from iPhone 13 forward will notice any difference as any task not doable on device will be done off device.
There will possibly be a speed difference e.g. Comparing on device Siri to externally processed, that made a huge difference on this last years watches.
Possibly.
But that’s always a possibility with older devices or less powerful devices.
There are several factors we might not have considered?
Like anything with various hardware processing it’s not always about maximizing local performance, it also concerns the energy usage of what is processed. Has anyone in real life at this point know what this will achieve with Apple’s implemented software, we just have to wait to see?
I heard about the settings getting a make over well I just wander if Apple is going to kill the settings and have some thing like control panel?
What is the difference? Seems like mostly a naming thing. Control Panel was the old name and Settings is the new name.
I don’t think that’s correct. I believe the iOS settings app has always been called “Settings”.
You may be thinking of MacOS where the Preferences app was renamed Settings last year.
Control Center is the name of the quick settings panel you access by swiping down at the top right. Settings is the full settings app. I think you were meaning Control Center when you said Control Panel?
OS in the 90s and 2000s use Control panel with applets.
With heydays of smart Phones post 2010 they started to use setting menus than applets.
That what I’m asking if Apple is going to nuke the settings and make it over what are they going to make like Control panel?
So you just want to go back to an old design, not a functionality difference? Settings is at least better suited to moblie devices. Settings on the Mac was a better organization. The old groups were confusing. The problem was that the individual settings panels were poorly implemented by the interns.OS in the 90s and 2000s use Control panel with applets.
With heydays of smart Phones post 2010 they started to use setting menus than applets.
That what I’m asking if Apple is going to nuke the settings and make it over what are they going to make like Control panel?
All I want is a UI refresh of the Messages app. It looks so dated. But doubt it will happen anytime soon. Those bubbles are their hallmark.
If the current practice continues, it will be anyone who signs up. No payment necessary. But this could change, as it did last year, from paid only.
I’m guessing it will probably continue. I don’t think Apple would decide to offer it for free, just to a year later go back to charging. I could be wrong, but the whole point for them doing that in the first place was to make basic developer tools more accessible for smaller developers.
I think it will continue also. But with Apple, you never know.
With rumors about Apple offering third party AI integration, I wonder if this could signal that iOS and iPadOS will gain greater app extension support like macOS. Most of the features of third party AI services beyond just chatbot type apps require greater access to other apps in order to be able to provide their functionality. This is also interesting considering the rumors of the new Settings app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Currently, macOS’s System Settings app is similar to the iOS and iPadOS Settings app, but their menu items and layout are also vastly different in many ways. With a new cross-platform Settings app design, I wonder if the settings themselves will be more unified. Perhaps all of the permission settings that can be granted for third party apps on macOS will also be available on iOS and iPadOS, allowing for more capable apps that can integrate at a deeper level with the system. It will be interesting to see where that goes, but between the rumors of deeper third party AI software integration, and the new unified Settings app, it seems to imply changes like this. 👍🏻
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