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iOS 18 Speculation Thread
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Hope it fixes Apple Music not displaying album art in playlists, though that could just be happening to me.
[edit] actually deleting Apple Music and downloading it again seems to have resolved this.
[edit] actually deleting Apple Music and downloading it again seems to have resolved this.
Do you guys think they will ship the "context aware" new Siri with 18.4b1 right away? They took their sweet time with it and now, when everybody ships reasoning models and advanced AI agents, they need to deliver something at least as capable as these models. You really think they will "show their hand" during a regular beta cycle of a point release? I'm a little hesitant here and think they will push out the "new advanced LLM Siri" to iOS19 (maybe until 11/2025). The AI team at Apple is in shambles...
Anything is possible, it could be that showing both same day is part of the SE marketing rollout to further increase insterest in both. They might have this well coordinated.
Show their hand? They’ve already announced it’s coming. They’ve already shown their hand in that sense.
Perhaps the management reassignment recently of the lady that was previously involved with AVP efforts directly to Siri tweaked plans? As you said their larger efforts are much more noticeable and can effect AI marketing for the coming months thru iOS 19 developers preview?
The iPhone SE deserves a party, not a press release
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I’m wondering if with the rumored inclusion of on-screen awareness for Siri if there will also be a Privacy & Security setting for allowing third-party apps to request access to screen recording. This could be useful for third-party AI apps, as well as some other types of apps. I’d like to see improvements to screen recording. I think it’s probable something like that will come eventually, but I think it’s more of a question of when something like that would come. It could be in 18.4, or it could be in a later version. I’m guessing though that they would add an option for this to avoid being accused of self-preferencing. Or maybe allow other AI apps and other apps to tap into Siri’s on-screen awareness. However they did this though, you would want good safeguards in place for privacy like on the Mac. A setting like this could also make sense now that we’re starting to already have other features that capture the screen like in Share Play. I could see Apple adding a Setting like this down the road, it would be interesting to see if they do that in 18.4.
I'm a ProMax user so don't care about SE4... Give me the Beta all day
maybe iOS 18.3.1 today
they have done monday releases before for this type of update
they have done monday releases before for this type of update
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Same here, I would much prefer the beta (not a Pro Max user), but a product release wouldn’t be bad. I think likely we’ll get both this week.
I think there’s a chance for 18.4 today. Unless 18.3.1 has some security flaw that needs to be patched, I see no reason to release 18.3.1 before the iPhone SE 4 is released.
I just remembered Mark Gurman said between the middle of next week and early next week. He’s usually right with these things.
Looks like this update is not going to have a million betas.
Looks like this update is not going to have a million betas.
This year betas have shown up on Mondays fairly regularly. It used to be more like public was Monday and seeding was Tuesday.
If the new Powerbeats need an OS update then it could be 18.3.1 today.
Yeah, I’d say there’s definitely a chance for a beta today. I don’t know if it will come today or not, but I definitely think it’s coming this week. Monday releases have been pretty common so far in the iOS 18 beta cycle, so it very well could end up dropping today. 👍🏻
The only thing that gives me pause is Mark Gurman is rarely wrong, and he thinks it’s coming later in the week. But he’s been wrong before.
It hasn’t been updated since 2022, but 86.5% accuracy rate-
Source Leaderboard - AppleTrack
Top Apple Sources in 2022 # Name Accuracy 1 🐟 Ross Young 92.9% 2 🏀 Mark Gurman 86.5% 3 📉 Trendforce 84.5% 4 🎧 52audio 83.3% 5 🕘 9to5Mac 82.8% 6 ❓ MacRumors 72.7% 7 🇨🇳 China Times 72.7% 8 👨💻 Ming-Chi Kuo 72.5% 9 🧻 Jon Prosser 69.1% 10 🍍 Max Weinbach 69% 11 […]
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Yeah, but his accuracy on these things seems to have declined quite dramatically the past few years, so I always take his predictions with a bit of a grain of salt. Part of it is just that Apple has upped their game on stopping leaks, and has caught a number of sources that leakers relied on, so it’s not all his fault necessarily. Apple has also fed those who don’t need to know exact timelines on things with false info to help narrow down sources of leaks. And Gurman seems to be guessing an awful lot as well. Most of his “leaks” read as non-committal so if he’s wrong (which he has been quite a bit on things like timing of events and such) he can save face. Overall, like I said before, I don’t think it’s all Gurman’s fault, he’s probably lost several sources he used to rely on. But I’ve definitely noticed a decline in his accuracy.The only thing that gives me pause is Mark Gurman is rarely wrong, and he thinks it’s coming later in the week. But he’s been wrong before.
It hasn’t been updated since 2022, but 86.5% accuracy rate-
Source Leaderboard - AppleTrack
Top Apple Sources in 2022 # Name Accuracy 1 🐟 Ross Young 92.9% 2 🏀 Mark Gurman 86.5% 3 📉 Trendforce 84.5% 4 🎧 52audio 83.3% 5 🕘 9to5Mac 82.8% 6 ❓ MacRumors 72.7% 7 🇨🇳 China Times 72.7% 8 👨💻 Ming-Chi Kuo 72.5% 9 🧻 Jon Prosser 69.1% 10 🍍 Max Weinbach 69% 11 […]