To be fair, there’s normally a lot more rumors for iOS than for iPadOS. A lot of times it’s like pulling teeth to get any rumors about iPadOS. We’ll soon see what new features and improvements will be included! 👍🏻
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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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I have to imagine there will be a lot in store for iPadOS as it relates to the new M4 iPads….. they wouldn’t release that new super powerful chip if they didn’t have some nice software for it to play with
(Again, sorry for a macOS post in an iOS forum) Great to see some Intel Macs still listed here!
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Was thinking my Intel Mac mini had seen its last major update but I guess not!
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Was thinking my Intel Mac mini had seen its last major update but I guess not!
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Been down that road before with the M1 chip, nothing exciting came out of it during that WWDC 2021 year (caused an uproar amongst the community lol).
I think the M4 has more to do with the tandem-OLED technology (has been mentioned by Apple repeatedly), supposedly they wouldn’t have gotten the performance it wanted out of the OLED display if it wasn’t for the M4 chip as well as trying to get off the M3 cycle than it has to do with features dedicated to the M4 iPads.
Not to say that M4 iPads will never get dedicated features, but highly doubt it would be this year.
Is it just me or anyone finding it hard to get any work done or concentrate on work today 🤣🤣
Well it’s gives you time to witness initial discussions on how dev beta installs went and some issue encountered. There will always be someone with something installed that extends the browser or networking capabilities that breaks with this new operating systems. So you get to avoid that by not being first.
People need to understand WWDC betas need to be initially tested as safe as possible as far as not using software that breaks with OS changes.
Now the hype begins. 60 minutes to go until we know how big this years update really is besides all the AI stuff. Big fat bowl of good ganja is loaded in the vaporizer, this will be nice. Hopefully we will see first betas today as always
Yes it is my job to test apps and let developers know via Feedback Assistant, Third Party apps category.
I reserve the App Store route for banks and other national institutions.
I was invited as an Appleseed tester by Apple from a user perspective, I have every right to be on the program.
PS - DONT SHOUT
No, it is not your job to test apps that are only made for iOS 17 for their performance on iOS 18. If the apps have not been optimized for iOS 18 and you are running them there, then, of course, they may have issues. That is why Apple doesn't let you file app feedback from within a device running the beta. So you just circumvented that protection by filing that feedback from devices not running the betas. C'mon...
While you have just as much right to join the betas as anyone else, you aren’t supposed to be giving apps bad reviews in the App Store due to their performance on a beta. That isn’t fair to the developers, and also isn’t fair to those who are running the current public version of iOS which those apps are optimized for, because your negative reviews will tante their view of the app, even though the issues you gave the app a negative review for are likely only encountered when running the app on an iOS beta. Doing what you’re describing hurts app developers and consumers not running a beta of iOS, and is definitely not the purpose for the iOS beta program, or the job of iOS beta testers…
With the focus on AI, I doubt that there will be many (or any?) iPad OS features this year. Perhaps bug fixes and maybe tweaks to Stage Manager. Hopefully all of the iOS enhancements make it to iPad OS this year. It sucks when they hold those back a year.
One last, pure speculation, since everyone seems to have such bad feelings about Siri, I wonder if Apple would drop that name and go with Spotlight as the branding? It sounds like a lot of the AI features are coming to Spotlight and it would be a good branding for an assistant.
Not that I really think this will happen but it feels like it could happen.
Edit: Siri is still here. Just a little smarter and with a new icon.
Not that I really think this will happen but it feels like it could happen.
Edit: Siri is still here. Just a little smarter and with a new icon.
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I think iPadOS 18 could quite possibly end up incorporating several seemingly smaller feature improvements, like smart folders, an eject button, default app for opening certain file types, etc. in the Files app, things like this likely wouldn’t make great leak or rumor fodder, but would check some boxes off a lot of people’s lists. Even iPadOS 17 introduced quite a few smaller QOL improvements, and that was a fairly minor update, and many of those QOL improvements weren’t even mentioned at the keynote.
Oh I’m counting on that happening! Some of those are the best updates!
Im already disappointed by the „redesign“ 💀 nothing looks different besides control center bravo apple