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by JustFinishedBSG 591 days ago
iPhone reviews don’t mention AI because : 1. They didn’t exist in iOS 18.0 at release. Can’t review it if it doesn’t exist 2. it still doesn’t exist in the majority of the world in iOS 18.1. If you are not in the US or UK, Apple Intelligence just doesn’t exist
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JimDabell 589 days ago
> If you are not in the US or UK, Apple Intelligence just doesn’t exist

Technically, only the US is supported. If you are British and you try to enable it, you’ll be told that it’s not available in your language. To get it to work, you need to switch your device language from English (UK) to English (US).

Apple says “English (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) language support available this December.”

Since access is controlled by your language setting and not your location, I don’t think this is a regulatory thing. No idea why it takes Apple months to localise from American English to any other type of English.

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Wheatman 591 days ago
Cheked, it is True,I rarely see or hear about iphones, so i just heard they sold badly and made a connection.

Though why was that fact never mentioned in the adverts? Or did i just not notice?

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tim333 591 days ago
I just had a look and though I can't use my iphone 13, apparently the m1 macbook should be ok, so I'm trying to update the os to 15.1 and give it a go. I can't say the features seem super exciting though:

Writing Tools

Clean Up in Photos

Create a Memory film in Photos

Natural language search in Photos

Reduce Interruptions Focus

...

I mean its nice but stuff that mostly seems out there on the web already. The auto turning photos into film is mostly something I have to spend time figuring how to turn off. We shall see. Sticking my phone into 'focus mode' without telling me was one of the worst things Apple has ever done to me. I missed important calls because I expected my phone to work as a phone as usual.

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anshumankmr 590 days ago
Yeah I have an iPhone 15 plus and I am in Bangalore, I tried installig the update, changed the language and everything but no Apple intelligence on my phone.
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