Because when it works, which despite what’s suggested by the volume of screenshots of when it doesn’t (people aren’t sharing all the times when it does), is in the vast majority of cases, it’s game changing for me. The only AI feature I not only care about, but truly appreciate.
When it misses the mark, it’s usually quite obvious, and I can just expand the context and see what it actually was, like I’ve always been able to do, and always had to do in the past to read my notifications anyway.
Without sufficient warning. I never expected it to be correct all the time but I am IT, most users (including enthusiasts not real IT) expect it to be correct esp with default on next week.
100% this for me
It’s so good when I get lots of notifications to just scroll through the summaries from the apps & move on
If something sounds weird I’ll expand the stack and dig deeper.
Here’s Brandon!!
I am going to assume 18.4db1 tomorrow or next week, it’s usually a week after official release
Not really specific to iOS 18 but it involves Siri/Apple Intelligence and (somewhat) amusing.
So I was watching a YT video about a huge hoax online where for about 10 years some random university students in the UK created an article on Wikipedia saying they invented the electric toaster.
Even using their own name (Alan MacMasters) and photoshopping their image to look old.
It was cited by the BBC, large news organisations globally, on TV, schools in Scotland commemorated him and his achievement and was even on the shortlist for being on the £50 note!
They then just added the news articles as sources and it became a cyclical article that was only sourced by articles that had sourced the fake page itself.
Quite wild how much this took off.
However now that it’s a pretty settled matter (it was an American who invented it) I thought I’d ask AI:
Oh dear 
So chat GPT gets it right as well:
However when asking who this completely fake inventor was…
I’m genuinely surprised about this hoax and if you’ve a few mins spare watch the YT video about it. It’s fascinating (and a tad scary).
What’s particularly bad about Apple Intelligence’s response to that, is that if you go to the website they reference ‘cookingindoor.com’ for their answer, that site had both an article stating originally Alan MacMaster invented it, but ALSO a follow-up saying ‘Yeah - we fell for the hoax as well, sorry’. So, Apple Intelligence hasn’t linked the 2 things together.
Checking their original item on who invented the toaster - they’ve also removed any reference to Alan MacMaster now - but there’s no date on when they made that update.
It’s a basic textbook example of not always believing everything you see online; no matter how cited it might be with other websites.
But now I don’t know what to believe
This just makes me want to pretend to be the inventor of something.
A mixed bag of chocolate sweets perhaps.
Does anyone know how to recategorise a Mail email from the Personal category to one of the other ones? I’ve been going mad trying to make it work but I don’t think it’s possible which is weird. You can recategorise e.g. Transactions to Updates. I might give up on this new Mail feature and just use the list view instead.
New update for iPhone 11 - different build number.
Not sure this needed its own app, but maybe this is the next step into social for Apple.
They need a bit of functionality for people to pick dates that work for them & then using the one with most responses etc.
It’s cute but everyone I know just has a WhatsApp group and just arranges it that way.
I swear Apple folk live outside the real world.
Is this app for those sociable people with…multiple friends? I’ve heard about those.
Definitely not something I’d find useful.
Did it really need a dedicated app? Come on Apple.
This absolutely should have been in the calendar app baked in. With AI for those who have it to auto-populate based on emails/texts etc.
I’ll give it a whirl and subject my other half to a Vienna trip we’re going on. See how it functions.
Just had a play and set up one for when my parents are visiting. It’s very well designed but agree it could have been baked into the calendar app.
Yeah it doesn’t really work for trips. Which is a shame as it’s about the only thing I can consider it being useful for.
If it could be a trip where everything was in one place:
You could even integrate third party apps; Flighty, Monzo pots (or banks generally), Trip Advisor, Citymapper etc
I honestly can think of a bunch of immediate things that this app could have been used for and sadly it’s no better really than just a Facebook event for a houseparty.
