Apple Intelligence is a disaster

[@humidifier_enthusiast]

I think the whole "ai craze" is silly. We don't need AI for everything.

[@leveleduphuman]

naw, it's just too early give it about 5 more years to be completely unrecognizably smart

[@nathanreedy4380]

Agreed 💯. I couldn't care less about anything AI.

[@cpufrost]

The rush for artificial intelligence is paramount because they've determined that natural intelligence is harmful to one's health! 😛

[@2xtreem4u]

AI toster with AI drip coffee maker

[@V10_EPJ]

I totally agree its unnecessary and doesn’t have much benefits for its users. Just been used for marketing and buzzword

[@AyaWetts]

Its a mess... and I haven't seen a single "feature" I'd ever care to use in it

[@garydiamondguitarist]

It's a very 2020s approach to software - introduce pointless new features while neglecting the old ones people actually do use, that need iteration and refinement over time to a) improve and b) stay functional. Otherwise you have a situation like with Google search where it was more effective a decade ago and is kinda ruined now.

[@JordanBoldt]

writing tools is the best

[@charles_wren_films]

@@JordanBoldtThe writing tools are poor in reality.

[@Sashazur]

So far the summarizing for incoming emails is slightly useful to me. The summarizing for notifications isn’t since I don’t get lots of them. And I’ve tried the other features but don’t use them at all. I already know how to write so the rewrite thing is useless, and I don’t care about the imagery stuff.

[@AyaWetts]

@@Sashazur except when the summary gets it wrong, and you don't notice... lol... but its usually pretty accurate.

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Such a wasted year honestly. Apple should have just skipped the 16 completely

[@LiamTheYoshiDude]

I agree. The 16 is pretty much what a 15s would be. Cmon’ just a single new button?

[@justinfuller3053]

Samsung is king

[@vladimiro.6067]

This is why they made visual intelligence only available on the 16. That makes no sense but it's the only apple intelligence not available on the iPhone 15 pro ...

[@martinsx]

But, at least, the Mac Mini and the... Vision Pro saved the year. The advantage of the iPhone 16 Pro Max is the A18 Pro, as always.

[@Wannes_]

They've manoeuvred themselves into yearly updates ...

[@WilG082]

The best thing about image playground is that you can delete it from your phone

[@Gurenn83]

😆

[@dplj4428]

good to know, i can remove it.

[@simonrobbins8357]

Yes, I never even opened it, delete within 30 seconds. The only problem with it is you can’t delete from a Mac😢

[@syedchain]

😂 Mine is already collecting dust in the app gallery… Nice knowing I can actually delete it

[@ys5108-w2p]

But not from your Mac.

[@alext.r.o2048]

Honestly, I am quite happy for Apple to fail so badly rn and sales being down. Not because I hate them, but because now they will have to focus more and lock in and deliver a better experience if they want to keep up.

[@alastairleith8612]

or they could have succeeded and you’d be disappointed?

[@RetroMario]

Actually, especially Mac computers have been on the rise lately, but not because of Apple Intelligence. The M4 Mac Mini is an incredible value, and so is every base model MacBook Air, now that the baseline has been upgraded to 16 gigs of RAM. They're in the forefront of ARM64 architecture and they're killing it - even though they kind of make their line of products confusing as hell. All those work and will continue to work WITHOUT Apple Intelligence. Nobody needs Genmogis and AI-generated pictures in their lives besides some quick laughs at how bad it is. Nobody asked for text that writes itself, even though the "proofread" function is pretty nice. Or summaries that make no sense, and it's easier to dive into the messages/mails to see for yourself. There are plenty of writing tools, ironically some of them are Mac ONLY, that can help writers. Nobody cares about any of this, and it can be all turned off with the flick of a button in the settings and never have to deal with them. To me, the actual magic of Apple Intelligence is that it can be turned off. By doing so, you lose very few of the things that make those products so amazing. An Apple Silicon Mac is still the same speedy miracle that lives for a gazillion hours on end toiling away. It's not that the Apple Intelligence gets shoehorned in every crevice of the OS like Microsoft does with Windows and that's fine. Hopefully it will be as you said. They salvage the experience and maybe the AI implosion everyone is expecting won't be as severe and we all get something good out of it. If not, we turn it of and move on to the next thing...

[@SaulidSnake]

Hopefully they stop with the virtual signalling, I know it is California though

[@hachuelo69]

For starters, they need to get rid of all DEI policies that are destroying the whole corporate world and hire real innovators and people with amazing skills just like in the past, and leave the race or sex bullshit behind.

[@bigbubba0439]

Also because they haven't released an optimization update since 2009. They're really acting like Mojang thinking that 20 minutes of work per week is enough to satisfy the demands of millions.

[@aavnpn]

calling the marketing misleading would be generous. sometimes it's just lies: the new genmoji ad shows off a "12 sided die"... but try to generate that and in reality it'll give you a regular die that looks like crap.

[@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh]

I don't think genmoji is janky, but I don't know who would want to use it. What or who is it even for, for kids?

[@ChrisSh1984]

Apple: this is the smartest version of Siri we’ve ever released Me: Siri, add this song to the playlist ‘Burnouts’ Siri: I can’t find the playlist called bird bath

[@teamkinetixmedia]

Feels like Apple were in a hurry to remain current with AI. Seems like they took it out of the oven before it was cooked, hope it can be salvaged

[@alastairleith8612]

hardly the first time they’ve done that! they’ll get there eventually. they usually do eventually.

[@DineNastyLakers]

Not an Apple fan, but they will polish it

[@joh2434]

It sounds/feels like Apple Intelligence is like the early days of Apple Maps.

[@mrk-ism]

Been saying this since the first announcement, the image generation is creepy and ugly and already looks dated in comparison to other image generators.. if they released this 2 years ago maybe it would’ve been mildly impressive. The lack of polish is very un-Apple like

[@baracjohn3913]

It feels like apple has lost their direction. I have never before had such a buggy inconsistent experience with their products. It no longer feels like a unified finished experience. It’s also so half asses to begin with taking that and adding a bunch of useless AI features on top makes this the worst (in my opinion) times apple has ever been in as a company it feels as if they don’t know where to go and are just milking the last drops of their past successes

[@AlloffroadAu]

With 27 years of Apple experience I can only wholeheartedly agree with you the worst I've seen Apple ever in. They have thrown all their UI guidelines out of the window, implementing changes for the sake of changes and making usability worse. Most hardware products are failure if you do not count the move to Apple silicon which was also not pain-free and the new Mac Mini.

[@BlackPrimeMinister]

I disagree, but not by much. The worst period was when the company was dying in the mid-90s but yes - it is the most listless the company has been for decades. The gas has finally run out on the Steve Jobs era and what's left? Tim Cook squeezing everything from supply chain to ensure people can't upgrade phone screens and hard drives without paying Apple a king's ransom. I mean, that's what he was hired for. Vision Pro is an amazing technology demo with no reason to be. What does it replace? Nobody knows. iPad is dying, too - it's just there, doing everything badly with a mountain of under-used horsepower. I think the boom under his reign is really the "dead cat bounce" and I don't see good things emerging while he remains in charge.

[@VFXTECHYT]

As soon as I updated my Mac to Sequoia, my router seemed to crash every few minutes or so when my Mac was connected through WiFi. Now even after a few months it continues to crash it every few hours so I settled to ethernet

[@edgarallanmendozacampos29]

Companies think of the AI as a cheap tool/marketing magic trick to sell people more devices. People think of the AI as a novelty, a cheap toy that maybe you use one day and nevermore, it's useless

[@akin242002]

@@edgarallanmendozacampos29 I wouldn't go so far as calling it useless. It is good for automating routine tasks. Examples: Birthday texts, legal emails, programming code drafts, ...etc.

[@VFXTECHYT]

@@akin242002 Yep, AI is the reason I got into coding in the first place making it so accessible that I'm able to balance my A Levels

[@bobbyhinner3225]

Thats exactly what happened with my s24 ultra. I got it, played with the AI stuff for an hour, and now I have completely forgotten how to even use those features.

[@kinocchio]

It’s so gimmicky. One of those things you play around with once and then just forget it, it’s such a mess. I can’t believe this is what they’ve been working on for so long and even that was delayed for months. What a waste.

[@mendodave]

But it makes a rainbow ring around the display when you invoke Siri.

[@lenOwOo]

They haven't worked on it for that long

[@geogeo6071]

Yeah  intelligence does kinda suck. Best feature is letting ChatGPT handle Siri requests. And that’s not even working that well.

[@amoore2165]

Agree on both points.

[@mardymarvin8441]

well as lots of people say dont buy something for what it might do later but for what it does now.

[@Krell666]

Apple need to focus on delivering value for customers with bug-free software and reasonable pricing for upgrades. AI is something I neither need or want.

[@AntonChigurh-q7s]

Playground is a joke. I ran a picture I took of a 500 year old church in Italy with Mt Vesuvius in the background and it looked like something drawn by an 8 year old.

[@yghhhhrffv]

Half of the AI features are really for teens

[@LiamTheYoshiDude]

And annoying Twitter techbros

[@anianii]

No Luke, please disable the automatic translations of your videos by KZbin. It is such a horrible experience and automatically turns itself on :/

[@alecrash96]

TRUE!!!

[@jean-philipperottiers614]

You mean the titles? Because aside from the title, it’s still in English?

[@anianii]

@ No, there are also audio tracks in some other languages like German and French. It's just a Text to speech voice reading the translated subtitles

[@anianii]

@@jean-philipperottiers614 Oh you're right, I just checked. The audio tracks is now english/original only. Thank god

[@jaxjaggywires]

My family got a kick out of the image playground…I mean, I don’t see the problem. It’s not like it’s a done project, Apple will keep working on it.

[@jmattos]

I agree. Im so disappointed and I regret upgrading from my 13 Max Pro to the 16 Pro. I should have waited :( I feel deceived.

[@AlloffroadAu]

I returned my 16 Pro and went back to my 13 Pro. I purchased from JB Hi-Fi and told them not fit for purpose and misleading advertising and they refunded.

[@arctan2010]

Reminds me of vaporware in the old days where the promise doesn’t match the hype.

[@Petexy]

I've been using iPhone for more than 3 years due to iOS always being polished to the top. Now when I'm on 18.1.1 and I'm using dark mode with light icons, even folder opening and closing on home screen is bugging out SINCE 18.0. It's just a shame to look that the magic which brought me to this ecosystem is completely disappearing on my eyes.

[@Londoncycleroutes]

I think the basic problems with most of the features - and this is a thing in common with lots of AI - is that the convenience you gain from the AI aspect is weighed against the fact there's a good chance it might be wrong and has to be checked manually. So OK, you're going to summarise a message someone sent me... but I think I'd rather read it in case it's important and you got it wrong? Even stuff like asking it the weather... well, I think I'm going to just look at the Weather app because it's just easier to work out what's going on than a casual paraphrased spoken summary of the AI looking at the weather app for me. It's worth one extra click (sometimes no extra clicks) and using my eyes instead of my ears to avoid getting caught in the rain. For my professional workflow the only feature that has the potential to be really useful is audio transcription, which is out already - but it's still not as good as the leading third party app (Otter) mostly because I need it to be accurate so need a solid interface to make manual typed corrections to the transcript while listening to the original audio, which Otter wins in hands down. It would have been better to let me give Otter permission to use my phone calls as the audio source... but for now it doesn't really help. More generally it just feels like everyone in Silicon Valley spontaneously decided that AI was the future and nobody wanted to be left behind. Without asking anyone whether they wanted any of this stuff or if it would be remotely useful. I'm sure there'll be some fields eventually where it finds a niche but it could be a while. I remember when 3G first came out in the UK in 2003-4 and video calling was heavily promoted as the selling point - nobody wanted to do it. But the 3G connection turned out to be far more useful for browsing the web once handset design picked up and people did eventually start doing a bit of video calling in specific situations, but not really until a decade and a half later.

[@graphguy]

I've played with this for the last day.. WHAT A MAJOR WASTE OF NEURONS AND OXYGEN. If these is what we are supposed to buy an iphone by... they are dead.

[@horridohobbies]

I agree with you 100 percent. You are the only KZbinr and tech reporter I've found who is totally upfront about Apple Intelligence. Therefore, subscribed and upvoted. 👍👍👍 Genmojis and Image Playground look awful. And even if they didn't, I have absolutely no use for them. It's all pure gimmickry. The photo clean-up features are also useless to me. Like you, I'm something of a purist. I want real photos, not doctored versions of photos. If I wanted to create false reality for my friends and family, why don't I just use Photoshop to gin up all kinds of fantasy images of me in Tibet, on the moon, or flying a fighter jet? Whom am I trying to kid? Other KZbinrs have mentioned that the text summary feature is flaky. Sometimes, it works; sometimes, it doesn't. Here's my bottom line: *The only thing worse than having no AI assistant is having one I can't trust.* Unless Apple can give me a reliable AI assistant, I'm not going to waste my time with it.

[@zapnote]

I thought Image Playground was useless, until I handed the phone to my sister who has a baby boy. She immediately added him as the 'person' and was absolutely gushing at the generated images of him as a football player... It's for kids and their parents to laugh at for a few minutes. Not for adult YT tech reviewers to use for any real function.

[@breadone_]

well it is being advertised as the main selling point of apple's flagship product, which adults will buy

[@Gravage]

Still sounds useless to me.

[@DojoOfCool]

My gut feeling is Apple's board saw the rest of the industry diving in heavily into AI and wondered why the self proclaim tech leader had nothing. So being pressured by their board they scramble to start talking about and doing early released of what AI they did have. So we got an very Alpha level Vision Pro and now some cheesy AI and promises we'll have something real soon. I think the AI boom caught Apple off guard and they are scrambling to catch up.

[@douglasgreen437]

Well observed.

[@BlackPrimeMinister]

@@douglasgreen437 I think it was pressure on the stock to respond to ChatGPT. They've been caught napping. It's a well-deserved kick to the groin, because they've been focused on nickel-and-diming customers and ignored Siri. I just don't know what Apple's Big Idea is anymore. They used to have that, and it set them apart.

[@TyreonCryptor]

When did Apple self proclaim themselves to be the tech leader? Is that like proclaiming yourself to be the dogo of cool? It’s certainly NOT cool to lie.

[@DojoOfCool]

@@TyreonCryptor The "dogo of Cool" I like that and it's all true.

[@megatronskneecap]

The "Genmoji" thing is genuinely one of the saddest pieces of software I think i've ever seen Apple produce. Memoji was fun back in 2017 as it displayed what the FaceID sensors could do but this... What does it do and show can do?!

[@panagiotispappas1001]

I live in the EU and I don’t know if I should not be disappointed yet or if I should be double disappointed already

[@mrgrumpy888]

You should not be disappointed at all. AI feels like it's still in beta.

[@jean-philipperottiers614]

I think we will get it when it actually works lol.

[@Johnny91832]

I'm glad this slop isn't here.

[@XDevonBueno]

be triple disspointed dude

[@en-oa-li4]

Apple lack of intelligence👍🏽

[@drewcaro_]

nice title

[@Gurenn83]

💯

[@jasonhindle4054]

If you're outside of the US, Apple Intelligence isn't a mess at all - it simply doesn't exist.

[@kindofanmol]

Samsung came out in the beginning of 2024 with AI features and Gemini on the S24-series (all available at launch), and Apple couldn't even catch-up towards the end of the year. Galaxy S25 series next month will absolutely annihilate Apple's archaic software.

[@paulvanobberghen]

Anyways, Apple Intelligence will never be available here in the E.U. because it only runs on Apple Silicon and the Commission insists that it must run on all devices (Android or Windows) to be allowed in Europe. Strangely enough, The E.U. does not seem to worry that Mercedes-Benz engines can only be mounted on Mercedes-Benz cars. You can’t have your Renault fitted with a BMW engine, for instance, but that’s OK for the E.U. apparently. Go figure.

[@Galaxy-Being]

This Ai craze reeks of gold rush madness.

[@worldspinning222]

More like fools gold…

[@hypoluxa]

Yes, it is not good....right now. I just wish they would not release any OS updates until it is all basically user ready with all promised features ready to go. Stop piecing it out over a span of months. Just release it when it is all pretty well baked. Then drop the monthly patches etc. I can wait 18 months or whatever between OS updates. They don't NEED to annually release a half baked OS every Sept, every year...Just revert back to how they operated under Jobs' tenure. When it was all ready, they released it. Whenever that was.

[@kirishima638]

‘Hand crafted and polished and perfect’ - Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom - Mac mini with power button on the base - shipping MacBooks in 2024 with 8GB of non-upgradable RAM - Apple Vision - shipping an M2 MacBook Air with half the SSD performance of its predecessor - the butterfly keyboard - etc etc Apples messes up all the time.

[@johnvender]

Totally agree but one has to remember their only real competition is Microsoft and Samsung. 😉

[@imelliam]

the power button belongs there

[@THE_GRIMDAWG]

dont they now ship with 16gb?

[@paulwoodward8265]

The mouse is crap, the charging port location is the least of its problems. 8GB ram was awful, but a savvy consumer could avoid that (for an outrageous fee). I’ve haven’t bought an 8GB machine since 2005. But in general, their design, build quality and software polish is the best in the industry.

[@kirishima638]

@ yes.

[@ianma2325]

Only found eraser useful for removing ghosting in low light photos, but it should not have existed in the first place….😢

[@randomzneta6028]

Tbh, If I had one of the newest iphones I would like an option to delete the AI-related stuff altogether to save space. I have no idea if it’s possible right now or not tho

[@krskadave]

Yes it is. Just disable it in settings.

[@Gurenn83]

And way better battery life probably

[@balthazarbulau4095]

In Apple ecosystem, it's mostly the users who need the intelligence, not the phone.

[@VFXTECHYT]

Judging people from the devices they use, do you really think it matters?

[@KlutchAndJerel]

Not really a disaster. Just kinda mid. And an actually solid foundation, from which useful feature will come in the next few years. Only ppl freaking out are the tech KZbinrs and commenters. 🤷‍♂️

[@zeroxjf]

Exactly. This whole discourse is pure rage/engagement bait

[@tambourinedmb]

there’s a thread of honesty. i agree with their plugin architecture. it’s a good way to deal with china and EU. just need to more deeply integrate with chatgpt

[@grouchyfluff]

I definitely agree with the lack of a “polished” feeling, especially in image playground. those pics are wack lol. But what i think IS extremely impressive, and no small feat of engineering, is getting any kind of halfway reasonable result (ie, not literal nonsense pixels), in a _reasonable_ amount of time running *on device* . Processor speed limitations, battery power limitations, thermal limitations should be huge considerations for the (relative) success of these features to generate anything at all. My friends and I joke that when we ask chatgpt to make a picture for us, we can see the lights dimming as the GPUs spin up to churn out that picture lol. But again, as far as usefulness to the consumer? we are a long way off from the image tools being even remotely usable. those teeth 😬

[@madebybela]

I always believed Apple purposely abstained from hype-trains like Crytpo/NFTs/metaverse/etc. because they knew it was trash. But as other commenters have alluded to, the aversion to these things probably comes at the anger of the board, who probably pushed them to jump in to AI this time. IDK everything about this feels un-Apple like.

[@pierspim4341]

The problem is that Apple is giving us features we didn’t ask for. For years we’ve wanted dramatically improved battery life, but we get only incremental improvements.

[@domthecuber]

It really feels like the enshittification of iOS is starting soon

[@TopMaverick-k4o]

By the middle of the century so many things will have turned to shit that there will hardly be anything left

[@cesramm1120]

Apple is the world’s best-selling phone. Short-term talking points like low sales are irrelevant.

[@Kainmuchan83]

Apple AI has been largely disappointing. Your right about the Image generation stuff...yikes...and all it does with the text is basically shorting it. It feels like the bare minimum streched out to make it artificially feel like its this major deal and its not!

[@flappospammo]

So much for the advantage of the M4 and it's AI cores

[@mortenthorpe]

Apple intelligence is a clusterf***

[@edgarp66]

Remember when apple maps came out? It was a mess too.

[@stratocasterguy]

Yes, and Scott Forstall got fired for it. Maybe Craig Federighi will get fired now and take his hair with him.

[@sidbrun_]

7:10 the AI remove looks close to seamless to me. Show the picture to someone else without them knowing what the original looked like and they won't notice, you only notice it here because you saw what was removed and you can still remember the outline. Other pictures (Like the one with the escalator) are much more tricky to fix and that's why those ones look bad, but for the most part people who view the final photo aren't going to notice.

[@inputerase]

The good thing -> You can turn off “Apple intelligence” in settings, saves battery!

[@peterbanister1319]

i’m honestly glad i have the iphone 14 and won’t get every feature because i just can’t stand AI taking over so many aspects of my devices

[@davidlarson2534]

I am literally on the phone with Apple Tech Support at least once a week. News features that are not intuitive and older features that are now broken with the latest updates. I hear from Apple Techs tell me I am the first to discover these problems and report them. I’ve been using Apple products since 1978 with the Apple ][. Steve Jobs stressed intuitiveness 9:44 . What I see going on at Apple is a move away from intuitive computing to surrendering self-control over the GUI environment to more complex methods of using the products. Thank you Apple for taking us to the Dark Side.

[@The_Hero_Is_Back]

New emoji! Psychedelic kittens! Make your own psychedelic emoji! With kittens. And have an ai assistant named after a Witcher character for the Netscape generation. Apple seems desperate to sell to fourteen year olds. They’re risking losing the older demographic.

[@Fen2C]

Ironic you say Clean My Mac is a holiday guest that cleans up after itself. I made the mistake of installing it after another channel had a video sponsored by it, and after quickly deciding it was not the sort of thing I wanted anywhere near my Mac it was painful to get it off the machine again.

[@accordinglyryan]

Yeah I wouldn't put that shit anywhere near my computer lol

[@anetizen6404]

That company’s sponsoring his video lol not ironic at all

[@aaronaustrie]

Apple is a BIG joke nowadays 😂

[@greenwhite79]

7:30 i think imperfections are also important for a photo, perfect photos are „boring“

[@iPhone_3GS]

The one thing I was excited for was Genmoji, thinking I was able to make a custom emoji for my car, or funny pics, turns out I can't make emojis of my car because it just craps out, and the same for any Skibidi toilet images I try to make

[@stephm4047]

AI, VR, AR, VA, EV, 3D, BigData…. What’s the next one ?

[@kirishima638]

AR is great

[@Rood67]

01:28 *TRUTH* I barely use what is available; and do not like most of those as they are lackluster, and clunky.

[@jmvet16]

I currently use an iPhone 14PM 512 and a Galaxy S24 Ultra 512 everyday. iPhone for personal use and Samsung for work though I own both. I find myself wanting to use features of the galaxy more and more even though I’ve been a die hard Apple supporter since the iPhone 4 (Still have it,still works). I honestly might be switching my primary soon.. I’ll keep the 14 Pro Max for a secondary but I won’t upgrade it until I have a reason to. Neither the 15 nor the 16 gave me a reason. The colors aren’t impressive and no real improvements have been made at all for years and years. Titanium was the big selling point last year but I’ve had 0 issues out of a non titanium frame. Underwhelmed is an understatement.

[@craigs.4302]

You're right, Miani cutie. It's a mess...they're all tripping over themselves to rush AI to market, when it's all mostly just a novelty at this point.

[@fruitcake4910]

6:54 Luke: Cat riding on a dinosaur Apple AI: Catosaur riding on a dinodog

[@divinediplo]

For two years we’ve been talking about Apple AI and will continue to do so just to realise none of these new features are actually of any use.

[@ofgs2]

Out of curiosity I just tried “Beam me up, Scotty” with Siri. “I couldn’t find Beam Me Up Scotty on Apple Music.” Then I tried “Scotty, beam me up” and got “I didn’t get that. Could you try again?” What a shame.

[@Oddingen]

The word "Playground" says it all. There are effects that the grandchildren can play with when they are visiting their grandparents and want to play with their phones. I myself bought a Google Pixel 9 Pro this fall. It has AI and is both a smart and a pretty phone to look at, a toy for people who want something new.

[@isira2800]

I’m using my iPhone 15 pro and iPad Air with Apple intelligent TURNED OFF!!! great battery life BTW!!

[@merhaba12he]

I just installed macos sequia onto my m1 mac. The two things I immediately realized were 1- No more third party unsigned app sideloading 2- siri got a huge nerf, making it function even worse than iOS 6 siri.

[@devopstester6575]

I respect Luke for actually calling out the BS and terrible features. He's not endlessly glazing Apple like Jon Prosser would.

[@mrrfyW]

> AI related video > Look at description > AI Auto-dubbed

[@robsquared2]

You misunderstand. Apple intelligence wasn't a product, it was a test. How much intelligence does their base have?

[@EzraWard]

"Even I couldn't tell you every single Apple Intelligence feature that's available..." Additionally, as someone that has an iPhone 11, it's difficult to tell what features I'm getting with the iOS 18.X updates. So much of the documentation is focused on the AI stuff.

[@checkmychannel5092]

I am already being left behind with my 14 pro max. Now I only update ios solely for security.

[@Yewbzee]

They just dropped the ball on AI in a monumental way. They didn’t see it coming and are scrambling to catch up with a strategy that is terrible. The bottom line is they don’t have anything to offer their customers on this and so they are in pure BS mode.

[@tambourinedmb]

they are under anti trust investigation everywhere. if they did their own LLM (which i kinda doubt they could do well) , its not gonna be allowed in EU and China. The plugin system was actually smart but the chatgpt integration leaves a lot to be desired

[@Yewbzee]

@ no way, don’t paper over the cracks for them. I hear what you’re saying on the anti trust issue, it’s definitely there as you can see with OpenAI’s releases being excluded in the EU however this wasn’t tailored due to anti-trust. They effed up in a massive way. Their entire iPhone 16 release was on Apple intelligence. Where is it? They haven’t released the major features and aren’t going to do so until the end of Q1 next year. You think that is their preferred strategy? The bottom line is Apple have followed the strategy of not being first but being first to perfect a technology and it’s worked amazingly, taking them to the top slot globally. You can’t do that with AI, it moves way too fast. By the time you’ve perfected todays or yesterday’s tech it’s way out of date. They didn’t realise that and it is blatantly obvious.

[@tambourinedmb]

@@Yewbzee i suspect they tried to develop their own LLM and failed and decided on the plugin architecture. it’s ultimately the right move but it’s been a bad rollout of course

[@geminibodyshop71]

I totally agree lets hope they sort it out

[@_SLKK]

“Think different” think how can we fool the public to increase my own stock value

[@technocatdance]

making apple memes with luke in them is enough of a use case for genmoji to stay on my phone

[@absolute_tk]

I didn’t even expected the bar to be this low lmao.

[@MannyRamirezM]

“Handcrafted , perfect and polished “ So we’re not gonna talk about Apple Maps? C’mon man

[@Sglinert]

Gee, what I would really like is the ability to use real printer drivers instead of the lame Air Print and be able to organize messages into folders. And batch delete them, too. I don't care about emoji, mail sorting, or writing tools. What a mess.

[@Mattened]

Image Playground is appropriately named. It's AI image generation for kids.

[@winmac2565]

The fumble of iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence finally opened the flood gates with everything wrong with iOS and made me see my iPhone 15 Pro Max and switch to Android. Apple has lost their way and they resemble more late 2000s Microsoft more and more each day.

[@jakecoventry9004]

Android is an AI mess too... with ads

[@karpabla]

Imagine driving an Apple car, using Apple Maps and assisted by Siri. I can only think in a Mr Bean sketch.

[@thetruthhurtsu]

I felt the exact same way as you did about image playground. I used it this morning for the first time and the images do not look like me at all. To be brutally honest, I am sick of hearing about AI all together. I suspect that in six months to a year, we would have forgotten all about AI. Can’t wait for that time to come!

[@DataHombre]

AI - Apple Ignorance

[@Tonabillity]

I’m having a BALL with it! 😃 Once we begin ‘adulting’, we sometimes lose our childhood capacity to ‘play’ - along with our sense of humor. As an accomplished caricaturist, I can assure you that although some exaggerated faces completely miss the mark, OTHERS make us look far BETTER than we “think” we do! We have NO IDEA how we actually occur’ to others. It’s like a blind spot. Besides, it would obviously be a security risk if they made them look precisely like us 🤷🏽‍♂️ And I’m all for using text tools to improve my writing. Besides, Apple shows us work in progress “features” to make THEIR loot, while you show us commercials to make YOURS. Personally, I’d MUCH rather experience the former 🤷🏾

[@zGhillie]

The only ai feature I’ve used is the photo cleanup to remove text on a map so I could write updated stuff without using whiteout. Worked great and now I have a clean version I can print and markup as needed. The only useful thing so far

[@boredgrass]

I care for one, and only one thing: Does an Apple device allow me to deactivate Apple AI, like in Mac OS 15.2, and to opt out of using chatgpt! The moment that is no longer the case, the next phone is an Android phone, and the Mac becomes a Linux system! I actually run my old Macbook Air 2012 with Linux Mint! That doesn't mean I totally oppose AI. I don't like "well meaning" people and tech get in the way! The only reason why I still intend to by a Mini M4, is that Windows 11 is so obnoxiously patronising, that any other system can only be better! Plus, Linux runs pretty good on the old Mac. Though I don't know whether there is a dystro which can run on the M4 chip. Does someone know? I mean, not virtualised but as instrall on the "physical harddisk"?

[@Mrclavet]

The inconsistency is ridiculous. The new mail box is one of the features i was looking out for. It just came out on the iphone… but the mac has to wait. Why!??!? This is so confusing

[@whatsupunderthebed7755]

As an iPhone 13 Pro user who has an M3 MacBook Air with Apple Intelligence, I was at first worried I’d be left behind this cycle. After using Apple Intelligence on my MacBook… I am glad I saved my money for the next phone that will hopefully actually be worth upgrading for.

[@sm0kas3rr69]

do continue w the title i'm disappointed in how ios 18 control center looks and how buggy it is along with the app library

[@AlexanderAchusim]

Apple fans like to complain about apple intelligence because apple software is usually perfection. At least we have better implementation and features than copilot ai

[@autumnmatthews3179]

I think Apple were getting worried that they were falling behind with AI and they thought they had to get bits out as soon as they could rather than wait for the iPhone 17 when it's all working

[@classicaloracle]

My concern is that they take their eye off the ball regarding the core elements of the OS - the stuff most of us actually need every day. While they try to fix 'Intelligence' will everything else suffer?

[@nethook5588]

I actually use it all the time specifically in mail, rewriting emails, email summary etc…

[@Blubb5000]

AI is great to create vast amounts of customized NSFW content. Other than that it’s all super useless.

[@Siverly]

I've actually been impressed with some of the Note features on the iPad, such as the ability to clean up handwritten text. Really useful to me, as I'm pretty sloppy. I do like the suggestions in Messages for responses, and they keep getting better. Summaries on notifications are a mixed bag for me, but still fun and kind of useful. It also seems that photo search is improved with AI, as I'm able to describe a photo that I want to see and it pulls up like 90% of the time. I only wish some of the promised features of the built-in Mail app were available now, and not what seems like the distant future. I'm particularly interested in avatars for email senders, and until they show up, I'll be using Spark.

[@XashA12Musk]

Hey Luke, is these audio track on your video are Generated by youtube or you put it there ?

[@tvandever2010]

First of all Apple needs new leadership. Siri should have been the focus of iOS 18. Make it useful. It's never been that good compared to google. The next thing to do is make the other OS's as bug free as possible. Let's slow down and just fix things that are broken. Now once that's done then add a few features that the users won't. The new OS for MacBooks has issues. It has become bloated and buggy. It's just trying to do too much. Another area of concern is pricing of hardware upgrades. Prices should be inline with other manufactures. SSD for 4 TBs is only $300 Apple needs to charge the same. Their products , while being good aren't that much better. Ram should also drop icy'e prices. At the very least allow users to upgrade their SSD's. Doing things few things would really help people who want to buy Apple products.

[@GaryRuschman]

Guess what: lots of folks have no interest in these "AI" "features" in the first place. I wish Apple'd spend a little money on letting people customize their Apple products, or, you know, have the correct album covers on the songs on an iphone??