*** The Official iOS and iPadOS 26 Thread ***

Grim5 said:
Apple reporters say the upcoming new AI Siri will use google's Gemini. Apple's reportedly dumping it's current Apple Intelligence model and will instead use Google's Gemini AI
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What's going on over there that they can't develop their own LLM? Surely they've got the resources?
 
Apple have done this type of stuff in the past though haven’t they?

So they were using Intel CPU’s until they were ready to go it alone with their own.

The same with Maps. Didn’t they use Google Maps until they were ready with their own?
 
Grim5 said:
iOS 26.1 is out

If like me your battery life has been rubbish since upgrading to 26, I suggest you try 26.1 as several people have said it significantly improves battery life especially 17 and 17 pro owners

The update is 14Gb though because Apple is bundling AI model changes in the update. I guess they can't update AI's models without rebuilding them
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Early days but there appears to be an improvement on my 13 Pro Max.

That was the one noticeable thing I observed when upgrading to iOS 26 was that the battery was getting hammered hard and by lunchtime and the evening, remaining g battery was significantly lower.
 
GuruJockStrap said:
Apple have done this type of stuff in the past though haven’t they?

So they were using Intel CPU’s until they were ready to go it alone with their own.

The same with Maps. Didn’t they use Google Maps until they were ready with their own?
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Yeah, reading up a bit more, it seems they’ll use Gemini until they get their own model sufficiently advanced.
 
Anyone else finding that the keyboard doesn't feel as accurate as it used to be, both in typing and swiping ? I've had iphones for years, but I've never felt as much as I do now, that it either auto-corrects to the wrong thing when I know I typed it correctly, or that swipe word selection is wildly out.
 
Yup - thats exactly the sort of mis-types I'm feeling. It feels like it is overthinking / predicting what I want to type and then getting confused or getting it wrong.
 
Could it be your focus mode your in ? ... which appears to vary a lot of settings depending on which focus mode you are in at the time. I've not found it very intuitive to be honest, and it isn't immediately obvious get the no-focus-mode setting on my phone.
 
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Not in my case, for some reason beholden to Apple when I added a new pill at the same time as I had existing ones it put it in as a separate item, both in theory at 8AM. Yesterday I got the sound for the first lot but no audible alarm for the second, 30 secs later, even thought the screen lit up. This morning I heard both.
 
Messing about with multitasking on with my ipad and if you pull down from the top you get the menu bar with load of setting etc like you would see on a Mac if I'm in the Mail app for example. This is superb but if I go back to full screen mode you cannot do this. Am I doing something wrong?
 
dannyjo22 said:
Messing about with multitasking on with my ipad and if you pull down from the top you get the menu bar with load of setting etc like you would see on a Mac if I'm in the Mail app for example. This is superb but if I go back to full screen mode you cannot do this. Am I doing something wrong?
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No, it only works in Windowed or Stage Manager views.
 
Donnie Fisher said:
Could it be your focus mode your in ? ... which appears to vary a lot of settings depending on which focus mode you are in at the time. I've not found it very intuitive to be honest, and it isn't immediately obvious get the no-focus-mode setting on my phone.
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No focus modes ever get used on mine. Used to have the automatic sleep mode for alarms but aren't currently using it. Just very annoying that they've messed something like this up so badly...
 
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