With iOS 18.3, Apple kind of takes a respite before it continues its staged roll -out of large Apple Intelligence Features. It does not mean that there is nothing there, but bug fixes and security fixes (although there are them too). There are lots of small changes coming to your iPhone – here are the five ways your iPhone will be different when you have updated iOS 18.3.
Apple Intelligence is by default turned on
When Apple introduced Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, you had to choose to activate it. With iOS 18.3, it is turned on by default. You still need an iPhone, iPad or Mac that of course supports it.
If you want to disable Apple Intelligence, open settings, select Apple Intelligence & SiriAnd turn the change off.
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Message resume is italicized
The new Apple Intelligence feature summarizing messages has been greeted with mixed reviews. Sometimes it just gets things wrong and when you can’t tell that it’s an AI resume instead of a real text from mom, it can lead to disaster. The little little “summary” icon about the message is not enough.
So in iOS 18.3, Apple makes it more obvious when a review shows an AI resume. The text will be italicized while normal messages have regular text.
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Summary of messages is disabled for some apps
Even if you acknowledge that the message text is an AI -resume, there are some that may be very problematic if they are wrong. Summary of Apple Intelligence Notification For some news events has at times been wrong to the point where a person who reads them would think the opposite of what happened.
Of course, we all know it’s just a review and just an AI-generated summary on it, and you always have to go and read the article before you put a judgment, right? Just fun! This is the Internet where you have to immediately Send an opinion from seeing a link to a headline somewhere.
To help reduce the very obvious problems this can cause, Apple has disabled message listings from all apps in the “News and Entertainment” category for now. The company plans to activate it again in the future when the quality of summary is more reliable.
The Perasser Rapping River gets its repeated operating function back
Until iOS 18 you could continuously press Equalist (=) on the Calculator app and it would repeat the last operation. If you said 10 x 2 and tapped = would you get 20. Tap = again and you get 40. Tap = again and you get 80. And so on.
With the new calculator -app and all its smart features (not to name an iPad version!) Apple apparently forgot this popular capacity.
With iOS 18.3 it’s back!
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Visual Intelligence gets new forces
If you have an iPhone 16 with a camera control button, you can press and hold it for a few seconds to launch a special camera -interface Apple calls visual intelligence. Barely a picture of something and you get all kinds of contextual information. You can get business information, details and books or albums, ask chat about the image, search Google for similar images and more.
With iOS 18.3 update, you get an instant screen at the top of the screen to identify animals and plants without having to take a picture. And if you show something with an event on it, you can quickly add it to your calendar.
You will have to wait for iOS 18.4 to the new Siri
I know what you’re thinking – all these AI things but when will Siri be good? The answer is: In the next update!
Or at least Apple has said to expect the improved Siri, with personal context and lots of app purposes, in the spring time frame, which is when we expect iOS 18.4. Will these new Siri capabilities change people’s perception of Apple’s AI assistant, or will it remain the subject of ridicule for another year? We know more when the next round of betas is underway.