I don’t imagine I’m ever going to use
I would include sorting Safari tabs but I guess that’s on by default if I ever actually turn “AI” on
What are yours?
I live in the EU. All AI features are too far from me 
I don’t have the thousand upon thousands of dollars to upgrade my still working iPhone 11, iPad 9, 2020 MacBook Air, Apple Watch 6, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. Digging the Fitbit Coach, however…
Well indeed the upgrade cycle does limit adoption but this might actually be a good thing…
Sent by iPhone 13 Pro Max… running iOS18 for many, many reasons…
It’s not my daily driver but I keep my iPhone 11 charged with an up to date copy of 1PW. It’s still my favorite of all the iPhones I’ve owned.
Most I ever used image playground was to create a themed based background image while I podcast.
Do you mean the feature that lets you extend a photo? And the feature that rotates them?
I thought that looked brilliant. A lot easier than building a Time Machine and going back and taking the photo again.
- Anything with image playgrounds
I also liked them. I might use image playgrounds, if it helps me make useful images. Dunno. They looked better than clip art!
- Batch updating login passwords
That one - I will definitely use, when I grow to trust it.
I can’t wait for this. Will use this for non important websites.
I can just picture this either changing the passwords and not recording the new ones or thinking it has changed the passwords, recording the new ones, when it hasn’t.
I wouldn’t trust it with something so important.
The ‘agentic’ password change thingy seemed the most questionable to me. In order for it to work effectively, there needs to be a trust layer on both sides. I suspect that many websites aren’t setup for this trust layer yet, especially financial institutions.
It presumably only works with modern, supported services.
Not those still using one time passwords by SMS / email and other such authentication methods
Currently I log into some websites, such as this one, using only a username & password.
In addition to username & password some sites also require:
And I use a passkey on some.
+1
Hopefully, this will make the “social media crop” less of an issue!
The tech universe is in a very different place than when Apple made AI promises (unfulfilled) over the past several years. I don’t need a robot making appointments for me, or writing shortcuts, or most any of the things announced this week – they all feel like parlor tricks with no substance. I prefer having OS / hardware built to make using the frontier models safe and secure. (Because i don’t trust the model makers to do that effectively on their own.)
That’s what I expect from the kit makers.
Katie
Updating the passwords without having to do the work (I’m sure it’s not actually AI but normal code) sounds pretty awesome.
(Edit: does sounds like it’s literally a headless browser tapping into the websites and updating the passwords. That is wild. I had imagined it was Apple working with a selected amount of providers with a standard for updating the passwords)
This has me curious: What do you mean? Local hardware can’t run frontier models and I doubt that there’s anything truly meaningful that an OS could do to make the use of could based models secure (especially since LLMs have effectively removed the barrier between the control plane and data plane).
I was testing out Octarine’s built-in LLM and I pointed it at my daily notes and other notes and it couldn’t make sense of them at all. Nothing really definite.
I’ve quit using digital calendars because I have so many appointments in a day. I only want to write them down once into Octarine.
I delete my text messages when the job associated with them is finished.
It would be interesting to see what my accounting program could do, but that’s a Indie program that isn’t connected to anything.
I think I have an AI-proof life!
UPDATE: after much consideration, and also seeing that Golden Gate may not allow you to set reduced security in recovery mode (although that may just be a missing setting in developer beta 1) I switched back to Sequoia.
I really don’t think what data I generate can benefit from artificial intelligence.
I also really really want the old Sequoia Contacts app, but I’m really going to miss Messages moving spam messages to their own category.