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- FaceID

- Facial recognition in Photos

- "Memories" in Photos

- iOS keyboard autocomplete using LLMs. I am bilingual and noticed in the latest iOS it now does multi-language autocomplete and you no longer have to manually switch languages.

- Event detection for Calendar

- Depth Fusion in the iOS camera app, using ML to take crisper photos

- Probably others...

The crazy thing is most/all of these run on the device.

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pants22y ago· 2 in thread

The iPhone's built in text OCR and image subject cutouts are also extremely good, just in the photos app.

shrimpxOP2y ago

Yeah totally, I copy text from images all the time.

kergonath2y ago

The combination of automatic OCR and translation almost everywhere in the OS is great.

pkage2y ago· 2 in thread

I just wish you could turn the multilingual keyboard off—I find that I usually only type in one language at a time and having the autocomplete recommend the wrong languages is quite frustrating

shrimpxOP2y ago

That's true, I have found that mildly annoying sometimes. But most of the time it's a win. It was really annoying manually switching modes over and over when typing in mixed-language, which I do fairly often. It'd be great if there was a setting though.

cezart2y ago

I had the opposite problem, the languages I usually typed in(Romanian + English) didn't have a multi language mode on iOS. So it was a constant pain to switch btw them when I needed to insert some English terms in Romanian sentences. IOS didn't support multi language for this language pair. On Android it always worked like a charm.

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hansoolo2y ago· 2 in thread

To be honest I distrust Microsoft with swift key, but the it recognizes the change in language just smooth. I could switch languages in one sentence and it would understand what I am writing just fine, no Sill suggestions

Aerbil3132y ago

Apple recommending wrong words when you write in mixed-language was the case in iOS 15, so much I always needed to manually change my keyboard language. But it’s no more in iOS 17. As an example I just typed this entire comment in Turkish keyboard with English autocorrect and suggestions working.

Maybe the (most likely) AI-based thing requires some training though. I got my new iPhone a month or so ago.

fennecbutt2y ago

SwiftKey is great and if someone distrusts Microsoft for it...then fine, but various different companies "control" various different parts of my phone.

With an iPhone, it's only one company, that controls every little thing, and we have no insight into Apple at all. They can basically do whatever the hell they want.

fennecbutt2y ago· 1 in thread

Yeah face id is pretty good, no android phones seem to use the ir dot camera which makes me think Apple has a "patent" on it ...lame considering the dot projector is ripped straight out of kinekt.

Google does the memory photo thing too, but only if you use their app which I don't.

Android has had multi language keyboard support for the longest time, in addition to being able to install whatever keyboard I like (I use SwiftKey, it's brilliant) I can also install an llm based one as I please.

Android/my keyboard already does event detection/suggestion in text and has been doing for as long as I remember.

None of these are reasons to buy an iPhone...just reasons to buy a phone, lmao.

jmisavage2y ago

FYI Apple bought the company that made the kinect sensors. The Face ID module on iPhones is a mini kinect.

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11 comments · 4 top-level

pants22y ago· 2 in thread

The iPhone's built in text OCR and image subject cutouts are also extremely good, just in the photos app.

shrimpxOP2y ago

Yeah totally, I copy text from images all the time.

kergonath2y ago

The combination of automatic OCR and translation almost everywhere in the OS is great.

pkage2y ago· 2 in thread

I just wish you could turn the multilingual keyboard off—I find that I usually only type in one language at a time and having the autocomplete recommend the wrong languages is quite frustrating

shrimpxOP2y ago

cezart2y ago

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hansoolo2y ago· 2 in thread

Aerbil3132y ago

Maybe the (most likely) AI-based thing requires some training though. I got my new iPhone a month or so ago.

fennecbutt2y ago

SwiftKey is great and if someone distrusts Microsoft for it...then fine, but various different companies "control" various different parts of my phone.

With an iPhone, it's only one company, that controls every little thing, and we have no insight into Apple at all. They can basically do whatever the hell they want.

fennecbutt2y ago· 1 in thread

Yeah face id is pretty good, no android phones seem to use the ir dot camera which makes me think Apple has a "patent" on it ...lame considering the dot projector is ripped straight out of kinekt.

Google does the memory photo thing too, but only if you use their app which I don't.

Android/my keyboard already does event detection/suggestion in text and has been doing for as long as I remember.

None of these are reasons to buy an iPhone...just reasons to buy a phone, lmao.

jmisavage2y ago

FYI Apple bought the company that made the kinect sensors. The Face ID module on iPhones is a mini kinect.

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