iOS 18 - Apple’s AI is NOT What You Think!

Well, you probably already know that iOS 18 will come with some revolutionary AI features, but we've had some recent news that completely changes this whole story about Apple's AI approach, so here are the latest iOS 18 leaks. We're almost there. at the end of March, so we are in the middle of spring season and to celebrate, we are launching our spring season pack for app wallpapers created by your talented designer Hannah. The Spring Season consists of 10 beautiful hand-designed works of art, each depicting a specific spring. All landscapes are in 8k, so they look great on everything from your phone to your tablet, including your desktop.

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what

you want those edits to be.

So far, Apple has been spending a billion dollars per year while also planning to build hundreds of AI servers adds to

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Tim Cook has recently stated that they have been investing an enormous amount of time and effort into Ai and it is very clear that Apple takes AI very seriously; in fact, even the new MacBook M3 Apple's own marketing team announced the Air as the world's best consumer laptop for AI, however, Mark Gel reports that Apple has been in talks with Google to integrate Google's Gemini into iOS 18. Wait a second, so far it looks like Apple was just using their own AI instead of literally partnering with one of their own competitors and while that was true according to Mark's report, they seem to have changed their mind, they haven't yet officially started their partnership with AI, but are currently in active negotiations.

As some of you may know, Apple already has a licensing deal with Google where Google pays Apple billions of dollars each year to make Google Search the default search engine for Safari, so it makes sense. Let them continue that association, but why after all? the news we've heard about Apple pursuing its own AI, why would they abandon all those efforts to just use Google's own AI? Well, M Cod reported in August that Apple's own AI efforts were significantly behind its competitors and that a late 2024 deadline was still unclear, so it seems Apple was aiming to have its own AI features in 2024.

But in the end they couldn't take them to the level of open AIS or Google and in the end they decided to partner with Google, which I believe. I

think

it's a shame as I was expecting to see some real chpt and Gemini competition from Apple and it looks like we won't be seeing this anytime soon and not only that but a new research paper that came out last week shows the Apple's new big size. language model called mm1 and this sounds very promising. Until you realize that mm1 only uses 30 billion parameters, gbd4 has over a trillion, so it's worth mentioning that Google Gemini comes in three versions, Gemini Nano, which is their device model.

DA has 3.25 billion parameters, then there are Gemini Pro and Gemini Ultra, for which Google has kept the number of parameters hidden, however I can only assume that they are both more powerful than Apple's mm1, possibly why Apple is considering partnering with Google here now if Apple strikes a deal with Google, this won't be like a one-year partnership until Apple gets its AI going. This partnership will likely last for many years, similar to their existing agreement for Google search that began in 2007 with the launch of the original iPhone, which made me wonder who would pay who here.

Apple needs Google to be able to implement AI features in iOS 18, so you'd assume Apple would pay Google here, but then Google technically needs Apple to do it in order to do it. to bring Gemini to even more devices and compete with open AI, if you

think

about it, Google already has Gemini in its own pixels, it also made a deal with Samsung to implement Gemini feat features in the s24 line and Gemini surely will come. to more Android phones by default, not to mention we already have Gemini as an app for both Android and iOS, so if Google manages to get Gemini to iPhones as well, they will own both the Android and iOS space and, therefore, they will own Gemini. a serious threat to openai and Microsoft who as you all know are also partners so yes it seems like Apple plus Google versus Open AI plus Microsoft would be the main players in this AI battle now for those of you who would like to see the features of Apple AI. in iOS 18 instead of using Google, I still have good news here, according to Mark Gman, only Apple's AI functions that will be cloud-based will be outsourced, all AI functions on the device will still be developed by Apple , so my guess is that Siri will be fully powered by Gemini, while the features within xcode, Apple music photos, etc., will be powered by Apple's own AI to remain true to Apple's values ​​of respecting privacy of its users and this brings us to a couple of other new iOS 18 leaks that aren't necessarily AI-related, but they give us a good idea of ​​everything we can expect.

Mac rures reports that Apple's freeform app will be updated with a host of new features and improvements, and one of those features is said. be freeform scenes so you know how in freeform you can have these giant boards with notes, sketches, photos, basically anything and you can keep zooming and scrolling so yeah it's a cool concept but you can get lost easily on your dashboard. especially if you have a big one, with this new scenes feature apparently you will be able to save specific areas of your board as scenes and then quickly return to them and these scenes will be shareable via iCloud which is great especially if you only want to share sections specifics of your board with someone and we'll also have some new controls at the bottom for navigating between scenes, including some new keyboard shortcuts, so yeah, to be cool, I don't really use freeform, I've used it in the in the past, but I found its performance to be quite poor, so I hope this improves in iOS 18.

Apart from this, the airpods pro will finally receive support in iOS 18 as we have been hearing about this for a couple. of years really, so it's not really clear why we didn't get it after all, Apple introduced the talk boost that automatically increases the volume of someone speaking in front of you and we already have that accessibility setting that allows you to use the iPhone as a microphone and then the airpods as a speaker, so you can already use that function as a kind of hearing aid, you just have to keep moving the iPhone close to the person who is speaking, the reason why the holder kept pressing The hearing gate could have something to do with FDA clearance, although from the looks of it, the FDA approved a new category of over-the-counter hearing aids called personal sound amplification products or psaps in 2022, so Apple is technically no longer You need FDA approval for this, but they still have a hearing introduced and support for Whatever the reason, it looks like iOS 18 is finally bringing this and in addition to hearing support, there will apparently be a couple more accessibility updates in iOS 18, There will be some adaptive voice shortcuts that will allow you to assign a spoken phrase to an accessibility setting so you no longer have to save your most used accessibility options in the accessibility shortcuts menu;

Instead, you won't be able to simply say a custom phrase to activate them; there will also be a new category section for similar speeches which will allow you to store some phrases within these custom categories apparently also with some custom icons which will be extremely useful for speech impaired users and we also have the ability to set custom text sizes for individual apps this is also great as currently you can only set custom Tex sizes for the entire OS and lastly it was reported that iOS 18 will actually support the exact same devices as iOS 17 so it's all models of iPhone since the 1910s and all SC models since the SC2 in general.

Overall, I'm curious to see which iOS 18 ends up being the biggest iOS change yet, as claimed, or will it be more similar to Samsung's AI features within the s24 line which, while they seemed interesting at first, ended up being quite disappointing in the end. and I personally didn't find much use in them, but yeah, I'd love to hear your thoughts on all things iOS 18 and beyond, and subscribe for more updates as soon as we get them. I'm Daniel s z from technology and me. We will see you in the next Z of technology when I close the session, greetings.