🆕 Apple releases iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 developer beta with the first ‘Apple Intelligence’ features

📱 The new beta is only available on iPhone 15 Pro / 15 Pro Max, and iPads and Macs with M1 chips and newer.

⚙️ Inside the first Apple Intelligence features! Users have to join a waitlist from the Settings menu of their device and wait for a notification that it’s ready for them to test new features, including Siri. You can finally see the new animation when the assistant launches, and in the Settings Welcome Screen after successful activation there is an option to switch between voice and text communication, just double tap at the bottom of the display to bring up the keyboard. It works only in English so far and fully functional only in the US.

🤖 The assistant also supports context between queries. But so far there is no integration with ChatGPT or any other AI service. At the same time, the new Siri has an inbuilt Apple Support database and can answer questions about the operation of certain iPhone functions.

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📱 More features in iOS 18.1 beta 1

🖊 Typing with Apple Intelligence
Text editing works in test mode. Check out the full review on the feature here. It only works in English for now.

🤫 New ‘Reduce Interruptions’ mode
This is a focus related to Apple Intelligence. The AI on your device automatically analyses the content of notifications and shows you only important notifications.

📝 Phone call recording
The feature is activated after pressing a special button during a call, then follows a phrase that the call will be recorded and recording starts. After the recording is over, it goes to the Notes app, where you can listen to it and even transcribe it (it doesn't work with all languages). The function is generally available everywhere.

✉️ Highlighting important in Mail
Apple Intelligence reads the context and highlights an email if it might contain important information.

💬 Have you found any other interesting features? Share in the comments below.

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📸 Make the iPhone bright again

Insider Sonny Dixon posted in his 𝕏 photos of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro in all the expected colors.

Apparently, the base version will be available in five colors:
Black, White, Blue, Green and Pink.

The iPhone 16 dummy units shown off in this new image further corroborate the colors Ming-Chi Kuo reported earlier.

As for the Pro version, there is White Titanium, Natural Titanium, and Black Titanium. Based on this image, the iPhone 16 Pro’s Black Titanium option will be significantly darker than the iPhone 15 Pro.

Notably, however, the image omits the Rose Titanium color for the iPhone 16 Pro that other insiders told of earlier.

As previously reported, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will get an A18 chip, 8GB of RAM, a new Capture button and an Action button like the iPhone 15 Pro. The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will get the A18 Pro chip, updated cameras, a new Capture button and a larger display.

🔜 The new models will be announced in September along with the new Apple Watch.

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💰 Apple reports third quarter results

📈 Revenue for Q3 2024 was $85.8 billion (+5% vs. Q3 2023). Net income was $21.45 billion. Full revenue breakdown by category:

📱 iPhone: $39.30 billion (-0.94%)
🖥 Mac: $7 billion (+2.4%)
📖 iPad: $7.16 billion (+23.6%)
💸 Wearable devices, accessories, smart home: $8.10 billion (-2.26%)
📱 Services: $24.21 billion (+14.14%)

🏆 A quarterly record for revenue and earnings was set, with services and services revenue hitting a new high.

📆 Earnings per share totaled $1.40 (+11%). Apple's Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.25/share and it will be paid on August 15 to shareholders as of August 12, 2024.

“Today Apple is reporting a new June quarter revenue record of $85.8 billion, up 5 percent from a year ago. During the quarter, we were excited to announce incredible updates to our software platforms at our Worldwide Developers Conference, including Apple Intelligence, a breakthrough personal intelligence system that puts powerful, private generative AI models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac. We very much look forward to sharing these tools with our users, and we continue to invest significantly in the innovations that will enrich our customers’ lives, while leading with the values that drive our work,”

said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

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🤖 New Siri can't help pleasing but still there's much to handle

New Siri animation
A colorful animation emanating from the edges of your phone. It does this on iPhone, iPad, and even when using CarPlay. This light reacts to your voice, moving like an on-screen visualizer. If you invoke Siri using the side button, the animation sprawls out from that top-right corner while if you use your voice or the keyboard, it comes in from the edges.

Speaking of the keyboard, this too is new. With a double-tap at the bottom of your phone screen, a keyboard will appear to type Siri your questions.

Better understanding
Siri can manage when you stumble! "Can you check the weather tomorrow, actually, no, check it for Tuesday in Cupertino" will return the correct answer while asking on the legacy version of Siri gives a range of weather info.
Similarly, if you say "set a timer for three hours, wait I meant set an alarm for three," the old Siri somehow set a timer for about 5 hours while the new Siri correctly set an alarm for 3PM.

Contextual awareness
Siri's also able to retain context between queries. It works for anything that has follow up context. In the home, you can ask Siri to turn off the bedroom lights and follow it up by saying "and the living room ones too."

Compounded questions still elude Apple's voice assistant though. If you try to combine two questions into one, it only is able to answer one.

Product knowledge
You can ask things like "how do I send a message later?," or "how to I fix a photo when someone is blinking" and Siri will show you step-by-step instructions on how to do it. But many other questions of this type don't work fully yet. However, when the feature does work, it's very handy.

ChatGPT is coming to Siri later this year

🔜 Together all of these are poised to deliver a vastly improved Siri. Only time will tell if it is ultimately enough.

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