Apple’s iOS is feature-packed with iOS 18, but you’ll have to wait for many key features as they will not arrive this fall with the public release of iOS 18.0, but will instead trickle out with iOS 18 updates over the course of many months spanning well into 2024.
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac:
Apple Intelligence’s fall arrival will bring with it a new Siri interface and select new capabilities, but some of the most powerful Siri upgrades will be added some time over the coming year.
Siri abilities coming later include having on-screen awareness of what you’re doing at any given time so that you can say, for example, “Use this as their contact photo” and it will understand the context and perform the action accordingly.
Similarly, Siri’s deeper knowledge of in-app functions and ability to, say, play the podcast that your significant other sent you, won’t arrive until some time in the year ahead.
While the core Apple Intelligence features are set to arrive this fall as part of iOS 18 and more, it’s important to know that Apple is labeling this initial AI release as a beta feature. So expect issues and inconsistencies to get worked out in the weeks and months following the fall release.
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MacDailyNews Take: iOS 18 should be codenamed “Vapor” or, at least, “Hurry Up and Wait.” By late spring 2025, iOS 18 should reach its full promise.
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Completely agree with MDN – if anything, MDN is being too optimistic thinking all the AI stuff will be out by end of spring ’25. And this Ryan Christoffel is being too optimistic when stating that Apple Intelligence will arrive – at least partially – this fall. We’re now in the 3rd developer betas of IOS and macOS – and neither has any trace of Apple Intelligence whatsoever. With less than 2 months to go until the traditional release dates of new iPhone and iOS, it’s pretty clear to me that there’s not enough time to beta test any AI features by then.
And that’s why I’ve been saying, all along in financial posts, that analysts’ expectations of a super cycle for iPhone 16 due to AI hardware requirements are completely ridiculous. If “must have” AI features – and I can only think of a tremendously improved Siri being a “must have” that would cause folks to upgrade their phones – aren’t arriving until the spring of next year, then advertising/marketing to the consumer will still have to take place to let them know of these must-have features. That will take time! So, even if there is a killer AI feature, I’d expect an iPhone 17 super cycle, not one this year.
7+ years on a vaporware vehicle.
$3500 for a pair of beta augmented reality goggles.
A tablet with a self induced identify crisis.
And now, a bait and switch iOS AI rollout.
WTHell, Tim??!!
James – the one of millions upon millions of people called James in the world.
Thinks he know better than Tim Cook… 🤣😂
In the EU, nothing will arrive in the spring. iOS18 is an empty suit. Time to move on.