iPhone 16, iOS 18

[Aaron]

Just pre-ordered (haha) the new iPhone 16. I was due for an upgrade from the 12, so I’m basically just paying the sales tax and fees and that’s it, for the trade-in.

The 16 is supposed to have a lot of AI things like creating your own emojis and such.

iOS 18 release date is September 16th

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I am debating. Don't really care about AI. When the cyborgs come to get me I don't want my phone turning against me. I have an iPhone 11. I think it will take iOS18 but I may use some of my Christmas bonus to buy a new phone. If I don't do it this year, I would have to upgrade to the 17 as the 11 would not get iOS19. The biggest thing I would get would be 5G and a much better camera. The downside is that I have a tonne of lightning connectors which would now be useless.

 

[Aaron]

iPhone 16 expected to arrive on Friday. In the meantime I updated the 12 to iOS 18.

Took Apple 20 years, but with iOS 18 you can finally put the apps where you want them and not always stacked towards the top left.

My phone will look like this in October.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I updated my iPhone 11 to 17.7.

 

[Aaron]

I got the new iPhone yesterday. Physically it does not look much different than the iPhone 12 except for the noticeably larger camera. It seems to operate more quickly and battery life is going to be so much better than I had with a 4 year old phone.

The install was relatively painless. Backed up from iCloud and everything came back okay. Just had to re-login to a lot of apps, thank goodness for the passwords app.

The camera 48 mp seems to be super sharp.

All the fun Apple Intelligence features will become available in updates this fall.

 

[Aaron]

The downside is that I have a tonne of lightning connectors which would now be useless.

Yes! This is annoying