The deluge of news about iOS 18 over the past two weeks has prompted only one response from me. Confusion.

Creating emoji with AI? Coming out of beta in 2025? Camera redesign in VisionOS style? A?

And I haven’t written yet about the flurry about the border with OpenAI instead of normal developments; I’ll touch on it a little lower.

Futuristic and aesthetic features are great, but the iPhone still lacks basic capabilities.A well-known Android smartphone owner has been using it for almost a decade in the last couple of years.

And we are really looking forward to them in iOS 18, although there is great confidence that at most half will be achieved.

I suggest you look at 7 life-enhancing tips and weigh whether you think about buying a new iPhone 16 in the fall without them.

But first, a little background information on why I will almost completely skip in this post everything that Apple is going to do based on GPT models.

Context. Miracle GPT disappoints everyone, there are real problems


An interview in which top managers smile slyly, saying that an analogue of GPT-4o has already been developed (not developed)

In December 2024 Presumptive successor to Tim Cook John Ternus and Apple hardware chief Joni Srugi were interviewed by CNBC. When asked about the company’s move into AI, they grinned meaningfully and surprisingly convincingly and said, “I don’t think we’re staying anywhere.”

They are often right, neural networks have been the main magic of the iPhone for 6 years, along with animation, but they all play the most simple and utilitarian role. Sell ​​these chips, because something incredible is not possible even at Apple.

I believed in these faces, which know much more than we do, and hair, that from iOS 18, it seems, we can really expect a miracle in the field of generative models.

There won’t be a miracle. Here are 5 reasons:

  • There is talk that Apple is not going to launch its full-fledged GPT
  • Instead, a set of small offline networks has been developed there
  • The company went to OpenAI for new features
  • Although this path has already been trodden by Microsoft, and it is very worried
  • Perhaps in iOS 18 there will even be a collaboration with Google based on their Gemini, and this is completely powerless (or saving resources).
  • Topic: I abandoned ChatGPT and switched to Gemini from Google. How are they different, which is better?

    There are rumors that the main features of Siri in iOS 18 seem to perform several actions at a time, and opening a detailed document in the required application will not appear at all until 2025. Why is it all there then?

    As a result, I looked at my iPhone, at other people’s Androids, and realized that the company urgently needed to solve much more obvious problems with iOS.

    Let’s start with the elephant in the room.

    1. Where is the split screen already?


    At least in some form. Please Apple 🙏

    I know, the most hopeless dream. The fish moves to the top of the most desirable ones from year to year.

    I really don’t understand why Apple stubbornly ignores this really useful and necessary feature. It’s stupid to ever make it the headliner of an update, but the screen sizes are already screaming that it’s time – especially considering the increase in diagonals in the future iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.

    Two individual options. I keep track of my expenses and count calories. After ten times in a minute, scrolling between Notes, where what you have eaten is written down, YAZIO is annoying, but switching between bank applications with constant authorization via Face ID and Coinkeeper is simply infuriating.

    The simple ones immediately include the ability to open a video call and notes to record something or in the browser to find and show something during a conversation. Or the ability to open a video to someone along with X for double consumption of content, if something is very boring.

    Speaking of video. Where’s the magic button?

    2. There are still no buttons for changing orientation

    Android has been showing contextual support for a million years now when your screen position is locked, but you start watching a video and turn your smartphone horizontally.

    From iPhone, play guessing game every time. I already have PTSD whenever the phone is placed on its side, since I don’t know if the orientation is locked or not. And, accordingly, every time we have a riddle, the video returns to full screen or not.

    Solve with a magic shortcut using taps on the back“, you say. So it doesn’t work properly. I was building to deal with the orientation of the touch, however the gesture to get the job done, then there is no danger of 50/50.

    They sincerely envy Android lovers at this moment, who, for what, ten years, have not known this problem?

    3. System subtitles and translation of speech on the voice recorder into text

    I combined one point, because this is an internal thing that directly depends on neural networks and concerns Universal Accessand this is where Apple is traditionally strong.

    The subtitles button has been available in the built-in iOS player for a long time. However, nothing is ever created “automatically” there, but in Android, transcription of everything on the screen has been working for two years.

    IN Dictaphone speech is translated into text on Android, which also already sounds like this: I really miss this on the iPhone. I sometimes take notes there, but listening back until the right moment is not always convenient – I want to find visual information.

    They say it really exists in iOS 18. Almost more from this list. The main thing is not as usual, only in English.

    Although there are fears that there will be something else.

    4. Search anywhere, such as Pixel and Samsung.

    Circle to find“- this is purely an Apple moment that Google did for some reason.

    The feature first appeared in the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, and a few months later Samsung announced it in its Galaxy S24 flagships in early 2024.

    It works very simply. We hold down the navigation bar at the bottom or the central button, if we use a three-key layout, and display on the screen the thing we are interested in, an animal, a person, a plant, a barcode, a place, a landscape, a dish, and so on, and give you the information.

    It’s clear that this is powered by Google search, and Apple’s implementation of the same feature could be problematic, at least due to its emphasis on privacy.

    On the other hand, the English version of iOS has long had recognition of plants, animal breeds and food in the Photo application, so you can pick up some Bing or negotiate with Google. That’s probably what the rumors about Gemini’s take on Apple’s system were all about. The only thing left to do is to release the functionality in English immediately, and not after 5 years, as usual.

    5. Change to a darker mode based on the light sensor.


    Just one additional point. Perfect adaptation ready

    Apple’s Books app has long been adept at changing the theme from casual to nightlife depending on the time of day, but relying on the brightness around the iPhone.

    The same thing is very much lacking in system components. Sometimes I have to work until dawn, and it’s annoying to see the iOS theme lit up when I’m getting ready to go to bed.

    The new iPad Pro has an additional light sensor, which also helps assess the environment. It is possible that it will migrate to the iPhone 16 firmware. The main change remains more accurate scanning of documents, but it does not hurt to add functionality.

    6. Freedom of icons and home screen.


    Well, at least this is not beyond fantasy and should appear

    Well, iOS is inconvenient when you put things in order and change the location of applications on the home screen.

    If you move one thing, absolutely everything moves. It is impossible to create free space between the widget and neighboring applications without any solutions that can be configured as crutches through a screenshot.

    There is a cool widget that itself suggests applications, I use it all the time.

    But this mobility and contextuality are not enough. I would like to change the wallpaper as easily as in lock mode and move the icons the way I want, and not the way the system thinks.

    They say something like this will happen. We are waiting for memes about Apple’s slowness once again.

    7. Calculator for iPad

    No comments. For now, we continue to write calculations in Spotlight.

    Is there any hope that this will happen? How to say

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    They also say there will be a redesign in the style of VisionOS. Not this gray translucent nightmare

    Just for fun, I looked through my “wish list” for iOS 14. Only three features reached the release: widgets, calls and Siri not on the entire screen, and then the search bar on the lock screen returned.

    Do you know how many items have migrated to today’s list? Three more. Let me remind you that four years have passed.

    I’m afraid that from all of the things we have listed, the transcription of recordings in a voice recorder and finally the freedom of icons on the desktop are creakingly expected. If Apple tries hard enough, it will quickly copy how Pixel and Samsung search for something on the screen. If you really push it, there will also be a calculator for the iPad. Everything else seems to be from the science fiction section.

    On the other hand, iOS 17 introduced several timers. As Craig Fredericki said at that moment: “What a wonderful age of miracles we live in.”

    So there is hope for split-screen. In another five years.

    Topic:

    ◈ 20 innovations in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 that we are looking forward to most. It’s not just AI
    ◈ Here is everything that Apple will show at WWDC 2024






    Source: Iphones RU

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