Anxious For The New iOS Update? The Wait Is Almost Over.

Apple has been cultivating significant media buzz around its upcoming iOS 18.2 update. Some of the highly anticipated features have been unveiled through the beta version of the new software, but insiders say the full update could be released in less than a month.

What’s inside?

Most of the excitement about this update has surrounded the introduction of new artificial intelligence features, including:

• Image Playground
• ChatGPT-enabled Siri
• Genmoji

With a host of other features including writing and image editing tools, early AI adopters have been eagerly anticipating Apple’s full-fledged entry into this flourishing segment of the tech industry.

A couple of the significant non-AI updates included in iOS 18.2 are the reintroduction of a volume slider on the iPhone lock screen and, in the European Union, an option to delete the App Store from devices.

Still more to come

Mark Gurman, a tech journalist for Bloomberg, offered some insight into Apple’s expected timetable.

“The iOS 18.2 operating system update, which includes major improvements to Apple Intelligence and is likely to arrive on the earlier side of December, I’m told,” he recently wrote. “How early? The week of Dec. 2, barring any unexpected delays.”

That will likely come as a relief to the many consumers who bought the new iPhone 16 without the AI suite installed.

And the integrated chatbot is believed to be advanced enough to provide responses in the local English dialect across nations including Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

After that update is in the books, iPhone users will begin anticipating iOS 18.4. Gurman says it should arrive in April and will, among other things, allow Siri to “tap into people’s data and respond to queries based on the information on their screens.”

Chris Agee November 5th, 2024

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