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I completely missed Apple's WWDC Keynote. You can watch it here in case you have missed it too.
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Sure. I just think this might be the first time that the current iPhone would be missing a feature on the next iOS update
I’d guess most iPhone 15 owners would have assumed their phone was new enough for the feature
Satellite sos was only available on 14 or newer on release, which is even less support for the prior gen than apples intelligence features (which at least supports the pro lineup from the prior gen, as well as every apple silicon Mac released)
I wouldn’t be surprised if they continued to gate it to the “pro” models and the “regular” iPhones never see these features no matter how new. That’s why the 15 pro has an “A17 Pro” chip so the iPhone 16 will have a non-pro chip that can’t do AI stuff
Starting with the iPhone 14, they put the last generation processor in the non-pro and the current generation processor in the pro
The weird thing here is that the 15 non-pro (the new processor from the 14 gen - A16) has a faster NPU than the M1 processor that does support the AI feature
The only possible technical reason is because they put such an anemic amount of RAM in their phones. Otherwise it’s entirely an artificial limitation
Running top of the line models does require a lot of RAM, so it’s not an entirely ridiculous theory.
The one I run on my desktop needs at least 12 gigs of VRAM