The iPhone's biggest change EVER! iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence preview

I am confused. I see it in Canada without changing anything.

is there any downside to change Region to USA while living in Canada?

I changed the region & language to English US after the update however it still shows (Apple Intelligence is not currently available in your country or region.) .. tried restarting device couple of times but not resolved yet, any ideas?

Is stupid only be avaible on iPhone 15 pro and pro max!!!!

Thanks for this interesting preview. Anyway...NO Apple Intelligence in EU, due to the DMA, at least before 2025/2026.

Wow, thanks a lot for a great summary. I had no idea how this was going to work as I’m not very technically oriented, but this was extremely useful and now I’m looking forward to updating my phone in the future.❤

Just a hype. Apple is there to sell more new generation phones

I’m not impressed with it so far.

Kind of a non-story because such a small percentage of users will have access to this feature.

Great content as usual.
United States 😎👍🏻

I like this more off-the-cuff video style 👍🏻

There are 2 UI effects for Siri 2.0: one pressing the button and the other speaking.

I can’t wait for the actual Siri 2.0 experience.

Good video and like you say once you get past the initial playing with the new features you will soon settle down and only actually use a few on a daily basis

I have installed Mac OS 15.1 on my Mac Mini and I have the same sense of underwhelm but using it to redo a book I used AI to generate recently I am impressed by the professional writing tool as makes the quality of the writing just a bit more higher than before.

I am slightly concerned about how this tech is going to affect education in the immediate future with Secondary, further and higher education specifically as my brother is a University lecturer and I can see how this tool will slant the playing field towards the tech savvy and moderately well off student.

I am based in Aberdeen Scotland by the way and this comment was written with my own organic intelligence. 🤓

Can Apple Intelligence be toggled off if you're encountering issues?

Mm, seems underwhelming because it’s largely geared towards business use. Conversion of speech to text would be pretty useful to me though, as I like making audio notes to capture thoughts and ideas.

Well large language models if they run together basically it’s called Inference, so it requires huge memory bandwidth and best neural engine processing where only a few chips like Silicone ones & A17pro and 8gigs minimum memory to handle the requests in a least time possible as the user expects.

The update available notificaion is available in India on a 14+. Did not install it though. Buggy.

All very interesting, but if it's not available due to EU DMA we won't be using it, and so we won't need to upgrade our phones.

The trouble is that iOS is pretty awful now. This won't rescue it. Too many bugs, too complex settings.

Excellent post. Thank you, Tom!

Only have it on 1 device and going forward since this isn’t really anyone asked for I will not upgrade past my iPhone 14. My iPad has 18.1 and will test it out however after using other AI products it is all junk and in my view still in alpha stage. Just don’t want or need it.

Cheers Tom, let us hope the public release in October is more up to par, however, I have my reservations.

is it true that Apple Intelligence will only be available on 15 Pro?

Thanks for the video. I understand this is in the Dev stage still, but the more I see and hear about iOS18, the more it makes me want to stay on 17.x or even go back to Android. 😐

So with your question to Siri about Manchester instead, I asked what the weather was and “will it rain?” and it gave me an answer for Manchester. It seems it’s the type of phrases used.

Thanks, interesting insight.
I can't bloody believe they've fu** up Siri again. It it doesn't work properly I'm not buying new iPhone for sure.

My thoughts exactly: underwhelming and of no use whatsoever in my life.

I’m one who’s always looking for new and shiny. Agreed - this is so far underwhelming, but it IS an early beta. Apple almost always starts slow and gradually tweaks, upgrades and adds. I wouldn’t expect anything too exciting at this stage. Good video though - I always enjoy your stuff, whether it’s a deep dive or something off the cuff.

You do very good videos, but unfortunately I will not be blackmailed into spending $1,500.00 to get an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max in order to be a guinea pig for Apple's AI. I think it is a shameful money grab on their part. And it is even worse because most of the "features" are disabled. Major pass.

Great video mate , on the benefits of AI for average people , clearly it has some benefits , from my perspective though as just a bloke that uses his phone pretty much mostly basic stuff , the very occasional email , a bit of you tube , web browsing , maybe navigation occasionally, step counting when I go for a walk , the odd phone call , in all honesty , it doesn't really seem like a life changer for me , though certainly some of the AI tools would be handy without a doubt.
I still have my 14 pro max which still works fine and i think has a good couple of years life left in it , im just not feeling compelled to buy a new phone for considerable expense just for the extra AI function .
Maybe that view will change if something really takes my fancy😊 , for me im happy to use my oldie for until something grabs me.
Thanks for your videos mate.

So cool this new age of our times and what we’re seeing is just the start… imagine 5, 10 years from now❤

I wanted to return to Apple after a brief hiatus and picked the correct time… I ordered the brand new iPad and iPhone and they’re great❤

It’s so trivially unintuitive garbage! I’m not seeing the value of any of this shit

While AI is important to many who are in the bracket that can keep up with hardware required. I think you need to do an article focused on the new iOS 18 for the average user would be a hit! There have been a lot of updates but the AI takes over from the basic IOS 18 in most articles available. 😊

Quite enjoyed this change in video style. Love your videos, thank you for sharing.

Very interesting. Thanks