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iOS 18.4 Beta Reveals Helpful Changes (But What About Siri?)

Apple released the public beta of iOS 18.4 and we get a peek at new features including priority notifications, Image Playground sketch art, ambient music in the control center and a cooking mode in Apple News Plus. But we have to keep waiting for Siri to get an AI-infused makeover. Read about iOS 18.4 on…

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Apple released the public beta of iOS 18.4 and we get a peek at new features including priority notifications, Image Playground sketch art, ambient music in the control center and a cooking mode in Apple News Plus. But we have to keep waiting for Siri to get an AI-infused makeover.

Read about iOS 18.4 on CNET:
iOS 18.4 Public Beta 1: Your iPhone Could Get a Ton of New Features Soon

0:00 Intro
0:57 iOS 18.4 Release Date
1:40 iOS 18.4 Beta Testing
1:56 Priority Notifications
2:43 Image Playground Updates
2:54 Ambient Music
3:16 Background Sounds
3:37 Apple News+ Food
4:04 But What About Siri?
4:55 Final Thoughts

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  1. @flubb831

    February 28, 2025 at 11:24 am

    Wheres the guy with the lisp he cracks me up

  2. @kidzombiepdx

    February 28, 2025 at 11:27 am

    This is really embarrassing for the brand. I love Apple, but damn.

  3. @sagarviswanathan1956

    February 28, 2025 at 11:27 am

    Looks like Apple is chasing intelligence 😂

  4. @Turtle-ii2zt

    February 28, 2025 at 11:34 am

    I sold my iPhone 15 to pre-order my iPhone 16 Pro Max I feel like a fool iPhone 17 is about to come out and I fell for it

  5. @mikeb7117

    February 28, 2025 at 11:34 am

    I like her, she’s got those crazy eyes.

  6. @harrychildress4575

    February 28, 2025 at 11:36 am

    I wouldn’t recommend “AI” without the ability to shut it down”, temporarily to permanently. Now that AI is working in the background, it consumes battery life, and batteries are not an Apple-brain concern. They already shut charging down when the cellphone detects “heat”.

  7. @os2171

    February 28, 2025 at 11:54 am

    Agree, Apple must deliver step by step to avoid costly errors. Good things always take time.

  8. @matthijs.tieleman

    February 28, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    Let’s be honest: the consumer facing products of AI – not just Apple’s – are mostly useless. The image generators look cheap and lame. The shortcuts to certain things it’s supposed to deliver seem rather minor. I can see AI becoming big in medical and business applications … for consumers? Meh.

  9. @joelnehl

    February 28, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    Siri has got her British accent back!

  10. @cesarordaz139

    February 28, 2025 at 1:07 pm

    I could care so much less about Apple Intelligence

  11. @jazenka99

    February 28, 2025 at 1:46 pm

    It’s reliance on a fundamentally flawed LLM is the problem.

  12. @internetfrnd6496

    February 28, 2025 at 2:01 pm

    I just want a Siri that I can trust with more than just timers tbh.

  13. @DINU_R

    February 28, 2025 at 2:50 pm

    I think once they change the name from apple Intelligence to artifical intelligence itll be great

  14. @spicecaptain7279

    February 28, 2025 at 3:03 pm

    4:44 Ivana will definitely recommend you to read The Art of The Deal

  15. @hudsonr6358

    February 28, 2025 at 4:12 pm

    I got a 16 pro max in November, thinking I wouldn’t have to wait long for all the ai stuff since the phone had already been out for a few months. I am now even more mad, considering Siri is just as useless as it was years ago, and most of the 16 release event focused on the ai stuff.

  16. @xcalibur1011

    February 28, 2025 at 4:44 pm

    even if apple was to give their so-called voice assistance siri another name it wouldn’t make any difference she’ll still be as DUMB AS EVER! if she only had a brain! go see the OZ WIZARD!

  17. @xcalibur1011

    February 28, 2025 at 4:48 pm

    I REALLY DON’T SEE HOW AI WILL HELP THE I PHONE EVOLVE AND THEIR # BETA’S ARE SLOW AND TERRIBLE SO WHY BOTHER TO UPGRADE TO ANOTHER $MARTPHONE?

  18. @BobbieGWhiz

    February 28, 2025 at 5:59 pm

    Apple’s “AI” demo on 9/5/24 was clearly a concept demo. None of it was live. They were forced to come up with it because everyone was correctly saying how far behind Apple was. I’m very much into the Apple ecosystem, but I know a concept demo when I see it.

  19. @rosariodagosto6484

    February 28, 2025 at 6:13 pm

    Very Old Software

  20. @digitalbanditostudios

    February 28, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    My eyes just glazed over🙄

  21. @chinito77

    February 28, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    Was not aware of the hidden background sounds. Thanks for the tip!

  22. @pissbabygrandad

    February 28, 2025 at 6:58 pm

    I don’t enable Siri ‘cause I don’t want Apple contractors or governments listening to me

  23. @pissbabygrandad

    February 28, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    Apple just created a new job. Notification engine optimisation. How to outsmart Apple and users to get to the top of the stack

  24. @la3692

    February 28, 2025 at 7:53 pm

    I’ve been running eighteen point 4 the past week or two, and there’s nothing no at all😢

  25. @mariacheebandidos7183

    February 28, 2025 at 8:11 pm

    the siri hate always seem cheap, lazy, band wagon-y, …

  26. @CNET

    February 28, 2025 at 8:55 pm

    Read about iOS 18.4 on CNET.com: iOS 18.4 Public Beta 1: Your iPhone Could Get a Ton of New Features Soon

  27. @somecallmedean

    February 28, 2025 at 9:27 pm

    Apple intelligence is garbage

  28. @matthewheber

    February 28, 2025 at 9:36 pm

    beta 2 tuesday or wednesday

  29. @matthewheber

    February 28, 2025 at 9:37 pm

    dont download betas if you have any problems

  30. @josephdouglas6260

    March 1, 2025 at 12:57 am

    I was one of those useful idiots who bought the 16 pro (coming from an android) – I feel like I’ve been straight up defrauded by apple.

  31. @minimalist1911

    March 1, 2025 at 2:18 am

    Bridget the Apple Queen pregnant again?! No offense in asking…😅

  32. @mikecoshan3752

    March 1, 2025 at 5:15 am

    im very disappointed that Apple Intelligence is so far behind everyone else, i have downloaded Gemini to my iphone 16 pro max to tide me over until apple intelligence delevers the way it was actully adverised

  33. @Karan_Thakkar

    March 1, 2025 at 5:53 am

    Almost forgot about priority notifications lol I could’ve sworn I used it in an early beta of AI

  34. @ninjanerdstudent6937

    March 1, 2025 at 6:32 am

    That is a very bold claim to think Siri could become smart. So very naive.

  35. @ninjanerdstudent6937

    March 1, 2025 at 6:34 am

    Apple does not know how people use AI. Apple wants people to use AI in a particular way—their way.

  36. @KaiPhD

    March 1, 2025 at 7:49 am

    🤣 Apple is for kids. I have grown up. Time for me to switch.

  37. @johannbereaux2993

    March 1, 2025 at 8:12 am

    None

  38. @zebonautsmith1541

    March 1, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    Siri what book did Ivana recommend for me? “You can buy books in the books app”

  39. @UT48D

    March 1, 2025 at 1:21 pm

    Siri stands for Seriously Inducing Rage and Irritation. 😂

  40. @JSmith-nu4bl

    March 1, 2025 at 5:25 pm

    DEI ruined Apple

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