series and above, which were also expected to reach older models with the iOS 18 update. However, Mark Gurman has recently revealed that more advanced AI features will only be rolled out to theAccording to previous reports, Apple is also developing chips to deploy on its servers to run the advanced AI features. Reports have also mentioned that the company plans to use its M series chips in its servers to handle the AI processing.
Not offering the cloud-based AI features to more iPhones could be due to the limited infrastructure at present. Samsung and Google have also kept many of their cutting-edge AI features exclusive to newer models., a revamped notes app with speech-to-text conversion and summarization capability, and more. The development also adds new capabilities to Siri, such as the ability to open a specific document, delete an email, summarize an article etc.
Additionally, Mark Gurman says there could also be some on-device AI-based functionality that the iPhone 15 Pro models and later can handle but not the older models and the non-Pro iPhone 15 models with A16 Bionic. Those features could also remain exclusive to the latest models. iPadOS 18 and macOS 15 will also get some of the AI features. According to Gurman, the requirement for macOS and iPadOS devices will be at least an M1 chip or a later version. So, Intel-powered Mac devices won’t get the features either. It’s reasonable as the Intel chips and the Bionic chips in older iPhone models lack the capable NPU that’s necessary to run the on-device LLMs.