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.
An app folder on iPhone containing AI apps, including the Google Bard Safari shortcut. The report says Apple goes through about four milestones with the new software releases, before unveiling them at WWDC in June. Each milestone lasts six weeks. Four are reserved for adding features, and the following two weeks will be dedicated to fixing bugs. Apple essentially added one week of bug squashing to the last period. The delay should not impact the overall rollout of iOS 18.