With iOS 18 on-device AI, Apple has some explaining to do in 2024
With iOS 18 on-device AI, Apple has some explaining to do in 2024 Which iPhones will support on-device features? And which will have to turn to the cloud? As we've waited for our first official look at iOS 18 — that should happen next week when Apple previews the new iPhone software at WWDC 2024 — one rumor in particular has stood out for me. It's not the laundry list of AI features that are apparently coming to your iPhone through this software update. Rather, the part that grabbed my attention was the suggestion that Apple planned to make sure most of the AI features ran on your iPhone , instead of using cloud servers for extra processing oomph. That sounded appealing to me from both a performance and privacy standpoint. As it turns out, it's not really the complete story. Oh, some features will live entirely on your iPhone. But there are others that will need to be off-loaded to the cloud, no matter how much Apple would like to keep things iPhone-...