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Apple Plans to Release iOS 18.1 With Apple Intelligence on October 28

Apple intends to launch iOS 18.1 with the first set of much-anticipated Apple Intelligence features on October 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

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Writing in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Gurman says the release date is arriving this month later than initially expected, as Apple is reportedly taking extra time to ensure a smooth rollout and prepare its AI cloud servers for the increased traffic.

The update will bring the first wave of Apple Intelligence features to iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 owners. Among the initial features are enhanced writing tools for rewriting, summarizing, and proofreading text, as well as a new Siri user interface. Users can also expect notification summaries for various apps, including Messages and Mail, and a new "Clean Up" tool in the Photos app that can remove unwanted elements from images using generative AI.

However, some of the more advanced Apple Intelligence features will be rolled out in subsequent updates. iOS 18.2, expected in December, will introduce ChatGPT support, Image Playground, and Genmoji for custom emoji creation. The full overhaul of Siri, which promises more precise app control and personalized responses, is slated for early 2025.

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Top Rated Comments

breather Avatar
21 months ago
Hopefully there is a LOT of bug fixes on iPadOS... never seen as many.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TonyC28 Avatar
21 months ago
iOS Team from the other room: You told us we had until midnight on the 31st!!!!!!!
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
aleni Avatar
21 months ago
For those who love the current 16 Pro Max's battery. Calm down, your battery life will be back to normal with Apple Intelligence. 😂
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
21 months ago
Whatever is release will be half-baked. Why? Because that is the new Apple that focuses only on maximizing short term profits.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jmh600cbr Avatar
21 months ago
My experience with Apple intelligence has been lackluster. The notification summaries aren’t overly useful and the message suggestions are terrible. I haven’t used the summarize stuff at all because I just haven’t found a use case for me. Really disappointed with the messages recommendations. It’s no better than auto text.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
21 months ago
During the interview when that woman asked the two apple execs if they were behind on AI they laughed.

They are very, very behind. Completely out of touch with the tech landscape.
There was an article that spoke about Federighi playing with AI and being interested, not even that long ago. Google and OpenAI were already in fierce competition when Apple realized what was happening.

We will wait until the very end of October and then we will get Apple Intelligence in beta, by the way.
And I can’t even imagine the plethora of bugs introduced.


I can’t even snap a photo and share it on my new iPhone, oftentimes it says something like “there was an issue with this photo” and can’t see the Live Photo and can’t share it. It happened to me already twice.
Not to mention my photo library optimization is stuck at 74% for the last 2 weeks. Phone is on charge every night and on wifi.

The basics are falling apart day by day.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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