- The first version of the IOS 18.4 developer could land in next week
- Rumors predict that the beta version will drop “in the coming days”
- The update should give Siri “consciousness on the screen” and more
IOS 18.3 recently brought upgrades of visual intelligence and more to our iPhones, but the beta testers of developers will soon be able to test iOS 18.4, according to new rumors. It should be a major update and contain a Boost Siri that I have been waiting for since WWDC 2024.
The beta iOS 18.4 version will arrive “in the coming days”, according to Mark Gurman, generally reliable by Bloomberg, writing in his power on newsletter. To be more precise, Gurman thinks that the update will take place “in the middle of this week and the next”, in front of a public version in April.
The great functionality of this update should be a more personalized SIRI that can use your personal data to respond to requests. That’s not all, with the beta iOS 18.4 version probably giving us our first taste of Siri with an consciousness on the screen and an applications control.
Although Siri’s latest brain upgrade is the main point of iOS 18.4, the update should also provide some other practical features. We will probably see priority notifications (which uses AI to highlight your most important notifications) and new emojis recently announced by the Unicode Consortium – Yes, expect to see a new emoji ” ‘and more For your cats iMessage.
But it is the Siri upgrade that I look forward to – even if Gurman has tempered expectations by warning that “Apple is still late in this area” …
A better way to navigate your iPhone?
To watch
The deployment of Apple Intelligence was painfully slow, with many features highlighted at WWDC 2024 last June not available on our iPhones. But I can’t wait to see Siri finally getting out of his camisole by force and becoming more personal assistant than a timer activated by the voice.
We have already seen Siri get some smaller updates in the past six months. iOS 18.1 gave us the opportunity to ask him follow -up questions, while iOS 18.2 plugged Siri to Chatgpt for the first time (although it was something that I used sparingly, due to Chatgpt’s propensity to Halluner).
But it is the promises of the next generation of Siri de la WWDC 2024 last year (the video above jumps directly) that I was most impatiently expected. Apple has shown demos of “Consciousness on the screen” and “actions in the application” which seem really useful – and they will not be limited to the Apple’s own applications, thanks to the API of the Inteents of the Application for developers.
There will probably be a delay until third -party applications draw from this powers, and we will have to see if the experience is up to Apple’s high promises. But I could actually see Siri to become my default way to navigate my iPhone if it works well, especially since it is now possible to type for Siri (by typing the base of your home screen) When you don’t want to talk to him auditably.
The full version of iOS 18.4 will not be cleaner yet, with rumors indicating a version in April, but this beta version of the developer will give us an idea of knowing if Siri will be able to keep the promise presented in his WWDC or not 2024 overview.
