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Testing the Image Playground, Genmoji and Siri ChatGPT Integration in iOS 18.2
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18.1 is finished. That's what the RC means. Barring any critical bugs, this is the final. Any changes from this to the final will be very minor if at all.
Nope. Still waiting too. Been on waitlist now for over three hours
Still on the waiting list in Canada - been a few hours
Sorry to be the person that writes something positive on MR message board, but Apple could have stopped at 18.1 and I'd be happy. I cannot overstate how much writing tools has changed my creative and professional life. I use it at least 30-40 times a day. It isn't perfect, but it usually gets me usually 85% of the way. My only complaint is it bleeds battery life. 18.2 sounds really cool and I think the eventual device awareness will help us use our devices better.
I know everyone hates Apple right now. I get it. But the staggered approach seems like reasonable strategy. Especially in terms of the iPhone 16 cycle. As each new feature drops, buyers may have a new incentive to take another look.
Ask Sam Altman or any of the other tech company that's rushed an AI product to market. Could (temporarily) lose your job.
I know everyone hates Apple right now. I get it. But the staggered approach seems like reasonable strategy. Especially in terms of the iPhone 16 cycle. As each new feature drops, buyers may have a new incentive to take another look.
Ask Sam Altman or any of the other tech company that's rushed an AI product to market. Could (temporarily) lose your job.
Real kicker is that image playground works in airplane mode and is, as best I can tell, running locally. Silly app, amazing tech.
Actually after using Writing Tools on my Mac a bit today, I do have to admit it's kind of nice. The concise option helps me boil down long paragraphs of irrelevant information from my users down to the question they're actually asking. So far it's accurate and highly conservative. No noticeable battery hit on the Mac either.
Something tells me this waitlist is a tad more popular than the 18.1 iteration hehe
And grants access to cloud compute so prob something they need to limit more?
And grants access to cloud compute so prob something they need to limit more?
Staggering the new Siri UI and the Siri/GPT integration is bad branding. A ton of people are gonna think they’re getting “new Siri” next week, and not realize it’s not coming until 18.2.
You need to set both Siri and your main OS language to the same thing. I set my Siri language to New Zealand English and then Siri was disabled and it said "Your device language and Siri language need to be the same to use Apple Intelligence" so I change my device language to match and viola.
ChatGPT integration is amazing!! So cool. I've played around with it a bit already and I am pretty impressed. Also if you go into the settings you can make it automatically use ChatGPT without needing to confirm each time. I'm still waiting for access to Image playground though.
Even iOS 18.2 doesn't have Siri 2.0. The full Siri 2.0 with contextual awareness etc is coming next year.
It is a dedicated menu. It's called "Apple Intelligence & Siri" and it's right there when you open the settings app.
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And you expected it to?! But it may keep people on the iPhone rather than jumping to other platforms that have had these feature for a long time now.
