Apple iPhone 16 is expected to be released in the early morning of September 12, 2024, Taiwan time, and the official version of iOS 18 will also be released simultaneously. Currently, the iOs17 version has been significantly upgraded five times since its launch last year. iOS 17.5, released on May 28 this year, is the latest version.
What are the functional features of Apple iOS18? What is the proportion of the latest historical version? The following is a summary and explanation:
1.New functions and features of iOS18:
Apple announced a new version of iOS 18 at the WWDC Global Developers Conference in June this year, featuring the new Apple Intelligence, which strengthens privacy protection and speed advantages by building in self-developed LLM and supporting generative AI functions.
In addition to Apple Intelligence, iOS18 has added or optimized 23 functions or features, which are summarized as follows:
iOS 18 supports the same models as iOS 17, but some features are restricted to specific models.
Among them, becauseThe Apple Intelligence function has built-in self-developed large-scale language model LLM. Mobile phones and tablets must have more than 6GB (preferably 8GB) of RAM memory to use it. Therefore, the Apple Intelligence function is currently only available for iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad, MacBook or iMac equipped with M1 or later model CPU. Whether the entire iPhone 16 series can be used, or whether the remaining iPhone 15 series will undergo hardware upgrades, we can only wait for Apple’s September press conference to know.
2. iOS historical version proportion:
According to APPLE’s official website, as of June 9, 2024, 86% of iPhone users have upgraded to iOS18, and 77% of iPad users have upgraded to iOS18.
If based on the Irish website traffic analysis tool [StatCounter] According to statistical information released in June this year, only 43.39% of Taiwanese users use IOS 17.5, which is 9.5% behind the global iOS 17.5 accounted for 52.89%. Compared with the statistics [Android historical version proportion] Taiwan users in China lead the world in using Android 14 by 9.57%, which is quite different. It is speculated that iOS 17.5.1 mainly solves the problem of rare old photos re-displaying in the photo album. However, there are reports of power consumption and heat disaster after the upgrade, so many Taiwanese fruit fans choose to wait and see and wait for the subsequent direct upgrade to iOS 18! ?
Source: KOCPC Chinese