Interesting fact: since iOS 27 and Siri AI, my use of non Apple AI services dropped close to zero for answering mundane questions. Integration within apps plays a major role in this change.

First photowalk today with my iPhone 18 Pro Max. The main camera produces new visual artifacts: the dot is well known, but the weird shape is new. Thankfully, Apple Intelligence can easily remove these, especially in that image. Yet… 😔 you can see the removal of these using Apple Intelligence here.

My dictation success on the 18 Pro Max is not very good, a real regression compared to my 15 Pro Max. Dictation often stops in the middle or comes up with missing word. I don’t know how to explain this. Very disappointed. 😔

It’s fun to see developers share their first screenshots as they try running their apps on the iPhone Duo simulator for the first time… it goes from great to… utterly weird.

Quick update on my writing in public project: I received my first comment/feedback today, which triggered some small changes. I hope to get more feedback like this. As a reminder, this project is an article I’m writing about upgrading to the just-released iPhone 18 Pro Max.

Incoming App updates flow to increase soon

Tomorrow is OS 27 day! I’m excited to catch up on and test any updated apps related to Siri AI and Apple Intelligence. So far, my experience beta testing Craft has been mixed. Siri AI seems to have limited access to Craft content, especially with nested documents (pages inside a main document container). “Play” is a great one where it can summarize YouTube videos using Private Cloud Compute.

Reconnecting

This weekend, I had the opportunity to reconnect with my former university colleagues (1987-1993). For many of us, it had been 35 years since we last saw each other. We had a lot to catch up on. We all studied computer science and have all had careers in that field. For many, it’s a time of reflection and retirement. That’s not my case yet. I’ve been fascinated by several of their journeys, and I’ve noticed a shared feeling about artificial intelligence: it’s both impressive and dizzying, moving too fast, and we’re questioning what the next generation will look like.