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Aka it will be filled with bugs and iOS 19 will fix it. And also add features from last year to the ipad 😂

Seems like it will be a heavy and bloated os

I always feel like when there’s a major overhaul happens in iOS, expect it to only be stable on the next major version.

It has always been this way since iOS 7. Though, when iOS 11 was released, it was buggy as hell. They then decided to highlight stability on the next version 🤣

It's not a good sign when I'm filled with dread instead of excitement at the prospect of an "ambitious" iOS update 🙄

If the company continues to double both the CPU and graphics configurations with the Ultra, we’re looking at a Mac chip that tops out at an outrageous 32 CPU cores and 80 graphics cores. And as Apple steps up the memory, you could imagine an option with 256 gigabytes.

Sounds like it’s going to be a beast. Imagine what the next step up from Ultra could be…

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As a long time Apple user, I would be happy with a year of stability prioritization. It has been rough since iOS 16.

All that’s cool, but are they going to give me a way to remove the camera and flashlight from the lock screen? It must take some heroic effort to do it.

I for one will be excited to see something new in iOS if it happens. Been bored.

I just want them to fix notifications.

The articles below reveal that Federighi (Head of SW) has been struggling with the annual release scramble for some years now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/how-apple-plans-to-root-out-bugs-revamp-iphone-software

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/apple-ios-14-features-changes-testing-after-ios-13-bugs

Usually, I'm the first to lay Apple's declining quality record at the door of Federighi, poor resourcing etc., but perhaps that's not the whole picture. Maybe, just maybe, the lion's share rests with Apple's obsession with annual sw releases to ship with annual hw releases. Hardware could still be annual, but surely this annual release obsession needs to be broken. S.Jobs recognised this. How can someone get this through to the present CEO?

The company is racing to catch up with Google and OpenAI in generative AI

The company is racing to catch up with OpenAI in generative AI

fixed that for them

google might be tinkering with AI but if you've used it one bit you know its a literal joke. If anything google is the one caught with their pants down here because they showed their cards, their cards are awful.

A welcome article, but one that raises more questions than answers.

In 2019, Federighi adopted a policy that his division calls The Pact: “We will never knowingly allow regressions in the build. And when we find them, we will fix them quickly.”

In other words, if the company finds that the addition of a new feature breaks something else in the software — a regression — that bug needs to be immediately fixed. It seems clear that Apple had struggled to follow this guidance with development of iOS 18, macOS 15 and watchOS 11, necessitating the pause.

This 'no-regression' policy was introduced in 2019 (round the time of macOS Mojave). Subsequently, we've had 4 years of releases where reliability (IMO) has been declining each year. According to this report, Apple has taken special measures to halt development (for 1 wk) for iOS 18, macOS 15 and watchOS 11 to wheedle out the quality issues. I don't know whether to jump for joy or weep. I mean, Federighi didn't introduce these measures for macOS 11, 12, 13 or 14, so does that mean he finds their quality acceptable? If so, exactly how bad is the upcoming macOS 15?

What does it say about Apple's tight development cycle that they'll only allow 1 extra week in their timeline to fix bugs?

We present, a revolutionary update. #Dynamic iOS.

The interface

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Proper back gestures, combining notifications and control center into one pull down gesture, a clear all button in the notification center, apps moveable anywhere on screen, allow iPhones users to send high quality videos to Android users, double press power button to open an app (like the action button but like on the power button because that's what it should have been in the first place).

I know it’s not going to happen, but all I want from iOS 18 is RCS. I get it’s their biggest Walled garden, but there are some friends of mine who would not switch to an iPhone if it was their only option. And unfortunately, they are in a bunch of my group chats.

My iPhone 11 Pro Max has been on a constant freezing state since running iOS 17.

As if iOS 17 brought anything useful other than Bugs the only good thing on 17 is the possible preparation for Sideloading in the 17.2 beta.

It’s been a clown show for years now.

Developers spent 1 week on bug fixing. Color me unimpressed...

Probably just trying to make it run on 2gb of ram

Why there was no extra care for 17 ?

Would this update be available late next year?

Meanwhile iOS 17 just came out and people are still on iOS 16 or 15 because updating is too much work and scary and makes things "worse" somehow.

IDK why we have to have news of the next years things now, hate the news cycle.

I hope that ambition includes making reminders work properly.

Hopefully a way to add my own music that isn’t on Apple Music

I already know that when apple calls something ambitious and groundbreaking, it usually ends up being very mild

The ability of being able to move the icons where I please will truly be next level.

iOS 20...be able to remove icon labels <<<<----- insane tech.

iOS 38...be able to switch cards right within Apple Wallet instead of fumbling through the settings.

I also foresee the next iPhone to be the best iPhone to date.

I’m more than happy for OS releases to go on an 18 or 24 month release schedule.

Hope my XS Max receives it…

I think I’ll update to iOS 17 when iOS 18 comes out lol

So…wait for iOS 20 when all the bugs are ironed out? Got it.

Will be just in time to consider an upgrade from my iPhone 11, anyway.

Siri rebuilt from the ground up with Gen AI and that system being imbedded into iOS could be game changing. You could tell your phone to open an app and do something, and without 3rd party devs building in support, Siri should be able to recognize elements and do actions. If this model has access to your texting and email and keyboard history it could write messages in your voice. Seems legitimately useful as long as the privacy safeguards are maintained. With the super advanced Pro A series chips, they could potentially do all this computation device side so it’s fast, secure, and private.

I feel like we've heard this for the last couple of releases too, a re-focus on quality, but then the .0 and even .1 releases are as normally buggy as they've been for a while.

To not fall further behind on deploying generative AI makes sense, but after that I'd still really love to see what a full Snow Leopard year for all of their platforms can do, a complete focus on speed, bug fixes, and getting little things that aren't quite bugs but annoying little visual hitches and lags and things that leave you not knowing if they're working down to as near to zero as humanly possible.

The quality of apple user's experience drops, too many goddam bugs in 17.

"Good mooooooooorning !"

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"iOS 18 is out best iOS yet"

Siri needs some love, we want AI everywhere, no bugs, Metal 4, and plenty of speed optimizations. I speak for all of Reddit of course. :)

I wonder if this is the first year that we'll see iOS 18 for new devices only?

TLDR: If Apple attempts to launch iOS 18 with a 'transformer Siri' on a range of older devices in September, it'll likely be a buggy disaster.

So perhaps we'll see:

- New iPhones get iOS 18 with the 'ambitious' transformer AI / Siri stuff (which is obviously what this is).

- With older devices on iOS 17 getting new features that aren't dependent on this.

AND/OR

- A staggered release, with iOS 18 gradually being made available for older devices as it becomes more optimised and stable.

You could imagine them doing the same for iPadOS and macOS too & for macOS, making the next version Mx processor only.

How about they focus on fixed their OS and not releasing more features? I still can’t use the reminder widget since iOS 17.