The iPhone’s iOS 18 release will be a big software release that could help Apple sell the iPhone 16, which won’t have any major advances.
Apple’s senior management described iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as “ambitious and compelling,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This should be an exciting claim to any longtime iPhone and iPad user, especially considering the current landscape. Everyone in tech focuses on generative AI like ChatGPT, and Apple is no different. I wrote recently that I will upgrade to the most expensive iPhone 16 if that’s how I can get access to the Apple GPT features coming to iOS 18.
Apparently, Apple is aiming very high with its iOS 18 upgrade, if a new report is accurate. iOS 18 will feature “major new features and designs,” on top of security and performance improvements. iOS 18 has to deliver big upgrades next year, the report says, to make up for the iPhone 16’s hardware, which won’t feature any major changes.
After claiming that Apple had stopped iOS 18 development recently to deal with the increasing number of bugs in the early version of the iPhone software, Gurman detailed Apple’s iOS 18 progress in his newest Power On newsletter.
Late last month, Craig Federighi reportedly decided to freeze iOS 18 development to address bugs and improve performance. Apple hit pause after reaching a key milestone in iOS 18 and macOS 15 development.
