From Mark Gurman’s latest, the AI rollout still feels haphazard. ChatGPT may come as soon as 18.2:

Looking further ahead, Apple is already racing to complete a major iOS 18.2 upgrade, which will include features like Genmoji, ChatGPT integration and the Image Playground app. The company is looking to get that release down to zero-bug status in early November so it can ship it by December.

But the new Siri will apparently be later, maybe spread across 18.3 and 18.4 next year.

Aleksandar Vacić

@manton That whole thing is rushed a year earlier. It’s embarrassing and unnecessary own goal.

Jonathan W

@manton I worry that all this intense – perhaps rushed – work (which they do indeed need to urgently address for their flagship products) might impact the overall quality we’ll see for those of us using devices that will never support the AI stuff. That’s a rather long way of saying: I’m going to be extremely cautious about applying any of the updates this cycle (including to macOS), but “when to jump in” given that the all the foreseeable dot releases will contain big new headline features? Tricky!

Manton Reece @manton
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