Right now I TOTALLY read every email l get rather than archiving half of them just based on the subject line.
Sarcasm aside, the alternative to summarization is not necessarily a detailed and personal examination of every message. It’s hurried triage of the deluge of incoming messages.
Very disappointed that the “huge new” photos app update in iOS still does not seem to let a person mirror their Mac photo library on their iPhone as it appears on the Mac. I have 0 interest in any of these “smart” and “automatic” sorting functions.
I mean I pretty much have to do this already with some of my regular interlocutors. 
Given that some of them begin every frantic phone call with “I don’t have time to read the whole email, can you just give me a summary” I’m kind of inclined to hand the task over to Siri and let the devil take the hindmost.
People already don’t read the emails I send in their entirety. AI won’t change that.
IMO if you even suspect I didn’t read your entire email, then your email was too long. 
I would occasionally get very long emails describing some technical problem. My response was always “Call me”
Also, I wonder when Apple Notes will be powerful and feature-rich enough to enable you to choose your own default font… 
I am 100% with you on this. The human beings who work for (and with) me don’t always get the nuance right when summarizing things. (I am doubtless guilty of the same, but I don’t get visibility into that!) It might be fine for simple things like notifications or for getting a 50,000 foot view of something before you dig into it. OR, it might be good to use they way you’d use notes after fully reading something – shorthand to refer back to and jog your memory.
We have some AI summarization tools in Zoom, and I’ve tested it (albeit accidentally) with a long client call. When I received the summary, it seems as if a real person was on the phone taking notes. But there were some things–important things–that it got tragically wrong. It was not bad if it were a first draft, but it was not reliable. I disabled the feature after that experience.
Actually I use 2 monitors plus the MBP screen and Moom works pretty well for me. The left monitor is my reference monitor, the 5K in front of me is where mot work gets done and the laptop screen is usually full screen web browser. I have a button on my stream deck that snaps everything back in place after I’ve been working.
Looks like I’ll be upgrading my iPhone 15 Plus to something that can handle AI this fall!
On the topic of Sherlocking, i saw this thread on X; it’s a catalog of all the presumably sherlocked apps:
https://twitter.com/tweetsofsumit/status/1800239663958876310?s=61&t=6jlWBTEKvOtZQzLQPiSmig
I replied to @Steven’s message, but I know many others have posted here on the topic.
Both my MacBook Pro and my M1 iPad Air will handle it, so I should be responsible and see how much I actually use the AI features on those before upgrading the phone.
I hope I remember that when the new shinies drop in September.
I just remembered something I really liked the sound of.
If it works well, the new satellite messaging will be a game changer for wilderness backpacking and traveling in remote areas. That should pair nicely with the new topographical maps feature.
Satellite messaging does have me reconsidering my Garmin InReach subscription. I’m a bit surprised that this is an OS feature rather than being a feature of this year’s iPhone. Especially since this seems to be a commitment to provide service to lots of existing devices using expensive satellite time. If nothing less it should be easier to get my parents to message me via Messages rather than InReach.
The InReach is a dedicated device with a longer lasting battery than the iPhone, so there still may be a place for it. I may keep paying for it solely as an emergency device (it also does weather forecasts via satellite, which apple doesn’t do yet).
iPadOS 18 is a major disappointment and a downright disheartening update. At this point, it might as well be folded back into iOS as it does nothing to justify its separate branding and is the least meaningful update since it was split (well, in branding, at least) from iOS in 2019. A year of development, and it has a calculator app now. Truly magical.
1Password or others definitely not Sherlocked.
I just put the beta on my iPad. The iOS Password app is so minimal it is only useful if you don’t have any other password manager and have actually been using keychain to edit or manage passwords saved by the system.
Will take a lot of additional work by Apple to even achieve parity with 3rd party apps, and that’s even without adding support on non-Apple platforms.
I won’t be giving up 1Password for a long time, if ever.
I disagree with that. There are times when I’ve sent an email with 3 short paragraphs and I get replies asking something which is in the email. Some people just don’t read a full email.
My initial thought about the phone screen sharing was that it was a really creative solution for those that use (or don’t yet use) their iPhones as a video conferencing camera.
I wonder if they pulled back on some of the features they were planning to prioritize the AI features
I had a play with one on iPad (don’t know if it’s the same) and you had to authenticate every time you opened it.
That was probably just a Safari shortcut to WhatsApp (and the only way you can kind of run WhatsApp on the iPad). It often asks to be reauthenticated.
The macOS app works fine, though.
I don’t think there is an official iPadOS client, but there is for MacOS which works seamlessly. I use it daily.
You can use WhatsApp via the browser (web.WhatsApp.com) on iPad - saving it to the Home Screen makes it appear as an app. I don’t use it enough to know if it has any issues.