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Gurman said on late Thursday evening, “A lot of people using macOS 15 and iOS 18 keep mentioning the revamp to Settings.” He continued to say, “Obviously not a huge deal, but it’s getting a new UI with a reorganized, cleaner layout that’s more simple to navigate. It also has much improved search. There are also updates to Control Center.”
Yesterday, Gurman also reported on the upcoming AI features coming to Siri in iOS 18 and the Mac. Siri will apparently be able to control apps and specific functions. New AI features for Apple devices will include summaries of websites, notifications, automated message replies, advanced photo editing and emojis generated by AI.
But one of the biggest changes coming? Apparently Apple will only let the newest iPhone 15 Pro or newer and M1 Macs and iPads get access to the newest AI features. That would leave out older devices, such as the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which would be a travesty, as customers would be forced to upgrade to get the newest software features.
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Apple needs to boost sales. They probably can extend AI features to older models.
of course apple can but if they give everyone the new features then how will they push the next iPhone. Hell there are a lot of features in todays iPhone that the older 6/6s could probably still run just fine.
Travesty? Why are we assuming the new AI features are fantastic? Have you seen some the Google search AI summaries?
Another view is that it gives people a chance to run newest iOS version guaranteed to be without AI. That could be considered a good thing. Let the issues get sorted out by those on bleeding edge.
Course opting out could also be done via user settings…but we’ve seen preferences get reset once in a while (e.g. location privacy settings were flipped back on for iPhone settings with one iOS update). Rare to have settings reset like that, but it has happened.
Other possibilities:
– Several stories around about power usage by AI, and projections that data centres won’t have enough power supply. Maybe limiting the number of iDevices is a bit of a hedge on the power impact vs. all iDevices that can run iOS 18
– Maybe Apple is paying per device, and they didn’t want to pay for devices that users were likely to disable AI (older batteries draining too fast AI enabled)
Not saying any of those are great reasons, but travesty?
Is the decision strange and surprising? Sure. Follow-up questions warranted? Certainly. Travesty? Not at this point.