The MacRumors Show: iOS 18.2 Ramps Up Apple Intelligence

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the first beta version of iOS 18.2 – a significant update that continues the rollout of Apple Intelligence.


iOS 18.1 will bring the first ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features to Apple devices. The update includes Writing Tools, the ability for Siri to answer Apple product questions, smart replies to emails and messages, audio transcripts, the Reduce Interruptions Focus Mode, and a new Clean Up tool in Photos, as well as email, text, and notification summaries. iOS 18.1 is expected to be officially released on Monday, October 28.

Ahead of this, Apple this week seeded the first beta version of iOS 18.2 to developers. The update further expands ‌Apple Intelligence‌'s capabilities, with new Mail app categories, Image Playground to generate pictures, Image Wand in Notes, Genmoji to create custom emojis, ChatGPT integration in ‌Siri‌, Visual Intelligence on iPhone 16 models, expanded Writing Tools, and support for regional versions of English outside the United States.

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Top Rated Comments

walkingm Avatar
9 months ago
I wonder why there is no news or post regarding the fact that everyone is still waiting and only influencers and certain media outlets have access to the new image creation tools. I haven’t seen any independent developers with access to this new tool yet. Do they perhaps have a confidentiality clause about it?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Vlad33141 Avatar
9 months ago
Question is why Macrumors has not made a piece about this ongoing problem??
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klasma Avatar
9 months ago
Kudos to Hartley for telling it like it is.
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klasma Avatar
9 months ago

I think he is missing the point of this integration. He is attempting to use chatGPT as if Apple is integrated into it. The Siri integration is specifically intended to get deeper responses that goes beyond Siri while maintaining privacy and security. Siri has been able to open apps since its inception and long before ChatGPT was even developed, so the proper solution would be to have Siri to open the app for you.
I don’t think he’s missing the point. He’s saying that the way it is implemented is inconvenient, to the point that it’s often more convenient and more pleasant to just use the regular ChatGPT app when going beyond Siri’s scope, and that the integration is a clunky and awkward experience for the casual non-technical user (which is most iPhone users).

As an example, regarding one aspect he noted about not being able to do Siri things once you’re in the ChatGPT context, Apple could have customized ChatGPT so that it detects when the command is something that should be handled by Siri, and then transparently redirects back to Siri. Instead, ChatGPT seems to be oblivious that it has been invoked via Siri.

Another criticism is that Siri’s text-to-speech quality (speaking voice) is much worse than ChatGPT’s (that alone is bad enough), but then you still get that worse experience in ChatGPT mode.

These are just two examples off the top of my head. It’s all very uneven, and not Apple’s touted “we’ll release it when it’s ready”, or “we are not the first, but we are the best”.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ghostface147 Avatar
9 months ago
Still waiting to get access to the 18.2 stuff. Requested last night.
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Danbrown521 Avatar
9 months ago
If only they would let people have access to it.. been waiting since the release
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