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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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Some polishing is also good!
There is more than enough to do under the hood of iOS 18 and i'm definitely not talking about "AI"...
About custom Genmoji.
I āve got a picture of myself and one of a cousin that popped up.
Impossible to add another person or delete the cousin or even to choose another photo for myself.
Is this a bug ? Has it been fixed with todayās release ?
I āve got a picture of myself and one of a cousin that popped up.
Impossible to add another person or delete the cousin or even to choose another photo for myself.
Is this a bug ? Has it been fixed with todayās release ?
On 18.2, you enter your name in the Genmoji creation bar. A āChooseā option appears below that which opens up your people gallery. Under your picture there, select āEditā. On the next screen select āChoose Other Photoā¦ā at the bottom and pick another picture of yourself
It definitely does not work for me. Only two photos to choose from , canāt add better one. And for the second person itās impossible to delete it and add a new person.
Itās hitting us hard here at the Apple compound. After all this anticipation, Apple does this to us?
Maybe with having to release the additional RC beta for iOS 18.2, maybe they didnāt have time to finish new features for 18.3. I wouldnāt be shocked if we see some more new changes in future 18.3 betas, but probably in January because I donāt know if theyāre going to release any more betas this month with the holidays.
I am surprised though that it doesnāt seem like a whole lot has changed. I guess Zollo is saying that likely some of the back-end for some of the AI features has been improved and changed with 18.3. Heās noted differences in the results heās getting from some of these AI features in 18.3.
Iām guessing weāll see some features pop up in future 18.3 betas. Perhaps they had to delay some of the planned iOS 18.3 beta features due to the longer than planned rollout of 18.2 with an additional RC beta required.
Yea maybe they rushed it out before the holidays to appease us? Maybe we are our worst enemy? Maybe they were going to wait until January but Tim was worried about the growing angry crowds outside Apple HQ and decided to drop it today to give us something? I have a feeling beta 2 and 3 may bring some changes as well.
I need to watch the Zollo vid to see whatās going on, I am just impatient as I look forward to the day Siri finally becomes sentient and builds herself a body.
Generally Iād say this is probably correct. There may be some tweaks to existing features though.
are they going to try sneak 18.2.1 right before christmas? It's not even been a week so I'd say doubtful
18.4 is supposed to release in April, so doubtful it would start that early. Siri onscreen awareness stuff and additional languages for Apple Intelligence are supposed to be the headliners, so it might be a longer beta cycle, but I don't expect it to start until February.
Earlier this year 17.3 was released on January 22 and the first beta of iOS 17.4 was released on January 25. I would expect similar timing for the corresponding iOS 18 releases. The timing usually allows a X.4 release to accompany a March hardware release. So expect 18.4 sometime in late March.
Hereās to hoping there are some new changes coming in a future 18.3 beta. Otherwise, this will be a very boring wait for 18.4.
Itās been a pretty exciting beta cycle for iOS 18 so far, so taking a breather and letting Apple work out some of the kinks is not the worst thing. 18.4 should be very exciting.
Apple already said April is the big language update, so unless they are holding that for 18.5, 18.4 is April. Edit: 17.5 was mid-May, so we are going to break some patterns one way or another.
Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more
The release of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features.
www.apple.com
"Additional languages, including Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese will be coming throughout the year, with an initial set arriving in a software update in April."
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Yes! I think Apple is due a beta cycle smoothing things out in iOS 18. No new features means that iOS 18 in general can get better for everyone. Don't see how that is a bad thing at all.
Apple already said April is the big language update, so unless they are holding that for 18.5, 18.4 is April. Edit: 17.5 was mid-May, so we are going to break some patterns one way or another.
Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more
The release of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features.www.apple.com
"Additional languages, including Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese will be coming throughout the year, with an initial set arriving in a software update in April."
Had not seen this. Makes sense.
Donāt get me wrong, Iām not too upset, but it is kind of disappointing after such a long wait for iOS 18.3 betas. Even some minor feature improvements or changes would be great. But the first beta has practically nothing changed at all from 18.2. Hopefully future 18.3 betas will provide some āminorā improvements like maybe some new Control Center controls, some new Siri Shortcuts actions, new Settings options, etc. I have no problems with Apple focusing on bug fixes (even though Iām not really running into any), but it would be nice if they can also make at least some minor tweaks/improvements as well. Another month of essentially iOS 18.2 would be kind of boringā¦