iOS 18.2 could land a week earlier than expected, and it'll include big Apple Intelligence updates

Date:
Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:09:18 +0000

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Visual Intelligence, ChatGPT integration, and more could arrive in early December.

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Usually its the big annual iOS updates that are most worth getting excited about, but this year, due to Apples decision to gradually roll out Apple Intelligence features, some of the supposedly smaller updates are arguably just as interesting, and the next of these could land sooner than expected.

According to Mark Gurman, writing in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg , iOS 18.2 will land sometime during the week commencing December 2. Typically, Apples iOS x.2 releases land in the second week of December, so that would mean this is around a week earlier than usual.

Thanks to the betas we already have a good idea of what to expect in iOS
18.2, and that includes ChatGPT integration, Genmoji (which lets you generate custom emoji using AI), and the Image Playground app, which similarly lets
you generate custom images. Visual Intelligence and English options Visual Intelligence on an iPhone 16 (Image credit: Apple)

The update is also expected to bring Visual Intelligence to iPhone 16 series users, allowing you to activate the feature with a long press of the Camera Control button, and then have the phone use AI to provide details about what the camera is pointed at.

On top of which, varieties of English other than US English should also start supporting AI with the iOS 18.2 update so if you're in the UK for example, and you changed your device and Siri languages to US English in order to access Apple Intelligence features, you'll be able to revert to UK English.

So this is a hefty update at least for anyone with an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence and if Gurman is right, its only around a month away. Gurman quite possibly is right too, as he has a very good track record for Apple information.

Following the iOS 18.2 release, the next major Apple Intelligence update is expected as part of iOS 18.4, and Gurman says this will include improvements to Siri. However, this apparently wont land until April, whereas iOS x.4 updates usually launch in March, so while iOS 18.2 will reportedly land a little earlier than expected, iOS 18.4 might be later. You might also like iPhone 16 review : elevating the base to new heights Best iPhone : which
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