- The first iOS 18.4 developer Beta could land sometime within the next week
- Rumors predict that the beta will fall “in the coming days”
- The update is expected to give Siri “Awareness on the screen” and more
iOS 18.3 recently brought visual intelligence upgrades and more to our iPhones, but develops beta testers will soon come to Test-Drive iOS 18.4, according to new rumors. It is expected to be a big update and contains a Siri boost I’ve been waiting for since WWDC 2024.
IOS 18.4 Beta arrives “in the coming days”, according to Bloomberg’s generally reliable Mark Gurman and writes in his power on newsletter. To be more accurate, Gurman believes the update will roll out “sometime between the middle of this week and the next one” in front of a public version in April.
The great feature of this update is expected to be a more personal SIRI that can utilize your personal data to answer queries. It’s not all, with iOS 18.4 Beta, which also probably gives us our first taste of Siri with attention on the screen and app control.
While Siri’s latest brain upgrade will be iOS 18.4’s most important highlight, the update is also expected to bring a few other practical features. We are likely to see priority messages (which uses AI to highlight your most important messages), and the new emojier recently announced by Unicode Consortium – yes, expect to see a new ‘Fight Cloud’ Emoji and more to your iMessage – Chats.
But that’s the Siri upgrade I am most looking forward to – though Gurman has tempered expectations by warning that “Apple is still well behind in this area” …
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Apple Intelligence Rollout has been painfully slow, with many of the features highlighted on WWDC 2024 last June, still not available on our iPhones. But I look forward to seeing Siri finally breaking out of his Straitjack and becoming more a personal assistant than a voice -enabled timer.
We’ve already seen Siri get a few minor updates in the last six months. iOS 18.1 gave us the opportunity to ask the follow -up question, while iOS 18.2 connected Siri to Chatgpt for the first time (though this is something I’ve used sparingly due to chatgpt’s propensity to hallucinate).
But it was the next general Siri-Lover from WWDC 2024 last year (the video above jumps directly to them) that I am most pleased with. Apple showed demos of “On Screen Consciousness” and “In-App actions” that look really useful out-and they won’t be limited to Apple’s own apps thanks to app purpose API for developers.
There will probably be a delay until third -party apps use these forces, and we will have to see if the experience lives up to Apple’s high promises. But I could actually see Siri become my standard way of navigating my iPhone if it works well, especially since it is now possible to write to Siri (by double the base on your home screen) when you do not want to talk to the audible.
The full version of iOS 18.4 does not land for a few weeks yet, with rumors pointing to an April release, but this developer Beta will give us an idea of whether Siri will be able to fulfill the promise shown in its WWDC 2024 Previews.
