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iOS 18 Speculation Thread

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gwhizkids said:
While I wouldn’t call these things gimmicky, clearly they still need polishing (my daughter’s cat should not have two tails for example).

Right now Apple is at the “throw features at the wall and see what sticks” stage of rolling this out. It will get better and stuff that has little uptake will be (quietly) deprecated.

On a tool by tool basis:

Genmoji: I think Genmoji are here to stay.

Writing tools: Writing tools may get better but I don’t think Apple wants to put Grammarly out of business so that may not get a lot better. But just adding the ad hoc “Describe your change” was a big change from 18.1 to 18.2 and I would expect changes of similar scope as we go forward.

Image Playgrounds: this is fun and a good add if you accept it for what it is. In other words, don’t expect photo realism.

Image wand: This could be much better. Right now it’s just another window into Image playground, using an image as a prompt rather than words. Some more realism (within reason) would be appreciated here.

Photo cleanup: great tool. Saves trips into more saved image editors.

Summaries: had potential but so far it’s been hit or miss. Too many summaries in grouped notifications are useless.
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Yes I agree with this 100%. While not useless, they need work.
 
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kirbysmartsdawg said:
I guess mostly is the wrong word. The most “exciting” features thus far have been gimmicks. The Genmoji and Image Playground. You are right the other features are rather useful, but not overly note worthy. The Genmoji was the first standout features that no one else is doing. Writing tools and summarization are all standard in AI these days. The real AI Apple trick hasn’t come yet.

As far as bugs, my email is a complete mess. Any time I am on WiFi none of emails will load, I get the CC button UI that stays on the screen even when I am done with the camera, battery still seems to be a miss, and just some more small things. I am glad you haven’t had issues, but I sure have. Oh I almost forgot, my pictures when I sent them in iMessage the recipient couldn’t see them.

I am excited for 18.3, and I hope we get maybe 1 new AI features, but my hope is that the focus would be on cleaning up iOS 18.
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Yikes, it sounds like you’ve run into some nasty bugs. I haven’t heard widespread reports of those bugs, so maybe it’s something with your system, maybe restoring and reinstall would help. 👍🏻. I’m mostly interested in improvements other may deem more minor, such as expanded AirPlay Receiver functionality to allow screen mirroring iPhone to iPad (not holding my breath for this one in iOS 18.3), additional options in Privacy & Security such as “Screen & System Audio Recording” that would allow me to grant more system access to apps (may come at some point in iOS 18 since an advertised feature was improvements to this particular Settings section), some additional Control Center controls, some additional options in the new Default Apps settings, new Siri Shortcut actions, etc.
 
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Kal Madda said:
Yikes, it sounds like you’ve run into some nasty bugs. I haven’t heard widespread reports of those bugs, so maybe it’s something with your system, maybe restoring and reinstall would help. 👍🏻. I’m mostly interested in improvements other may deem more minor, such as expanded AirPlay Receiver functionality to allow screen mirroring iPhone to iPad (not holding my breath for this one in iOS 18.3), additional options in Privacy & Security such as “Screen & System Audio Recording” that would allow me to grant more system access to apps (may come at some point in iOS 18 since an advertised feature was improvements to this particular Settings section), some additional Control Center controls, some additional options in the new Default Apps settings, new Siri Shortcut actions, etc.
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This isn't the 18.2 bugs and features thread, so I won't go too far into the bugs. All the bugs I am dealing with have been posted by others as well in the bugs and new features thread. These are a bit more widespread than you may think. The email one is very well known, and popped up in 18.2 RC and hasn't been fixed yet.

Yes improvements in 18.3 would be great.
 
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thatJohann said:
did they release a beta last year so close to Holiday time? usually there's a code freeze in place around this time.
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Yes, historically the .3 beta has come out before Christmas break. And with Apple wanting to get iOS 18 development moving as fast as possible, most of us here think it’s very likely a beta will drop before the Christmas break.
 
maxrest said:
Really interested to see what comes out with 18.3
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So am I! I’m hoping for maybe some additional options in the Privacy & Security section in Settings (don’t know how likely this is, but would be nice if I could allow apps to access screen and system audio recording in this section like on Mac), perhaps some more options in the new Default Apps section, some new controls for the Control Center, and some new Siri Shortcuts actions. 👍🏻. I’d really like to see expanded AirPlay Receiver functionality, but I’m not holding my breath. Overall though, I’m thinking it should be a nice update. It really is a wild card though, because there’s practically zero rumors about the features it could include.
 
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maxrest said:
Really interested to see what comes out with 18.3
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Same - It is going to really determine whether or not I stay on the beta train or jump off for a while. I am mostly happy with 18.2. I plan to give it a couple of days to see what the features are and see what bugs people are seeing before I pull the trigger and update. I only have my primary iPhone, so I need it to be stable and work somewhat reliably. If there's not much new, I may just sit out until 18.4 rolls around.
 
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