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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Not that you aren't correct, but Tahoe is a MacOS release, not iOS. I assume you mean iOS 18 (the version before iOS 26)?

Tahoe is macOS 26. The corresponding iOS version is iOS 26 iOS 18 corresponds to macOS 15 (Sequoia)

iOS and macOS don’t “correspond” in any way, shape, or form. Completely different releases. Their release windows tend to be close (by design) but there ‘s no “correspondence” here.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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You want to do all that, then still can prove the picture is authentic. The editing history show what had been changed compare to the previous version, from the color adjustment to blur areas... it's not about preventing editing, it's about proving the authenticity when needed.

> The editing history show what had been changed compare to the previous version, from the color adjustment to blur areas... That's not a thing. Straight from Apple: "When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image. Reference images can be viewed in the Photos app alongside the main image" So this only help…

You don't need to share the original image with everyone, just like how journalists don't share their audio recordings from interviews with everyone. You share with an editor. Or a court.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world: > Users can now prove the authenticity of a photo taken on iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple Reference Image, powered by the new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image.5…

This feature is not enabled in the eu

Yeah, because GDPR and AI laws in the EU conflict with each other and they haven't resolved it yet.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world: > Users can now prove the authenticity of a photo taken on iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple Reference Image, powered by the new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image.5…

So does that mean only the main sensor can do this ?

Yes.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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>With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane. Sure. Right along with Intel Core 2 Duo and Windows Vista.

Modern CPUs and memory, just less ram

Modern operating systems too. Windows xp only used a few hundred megs of ram. Windows 11 is more complex, but none of its features justifies windows 11 needing 100x as much memory to run.

Slim the fat!

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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> Or feature Thunderbolt rather than normie USB-C so you can record 4/8K ProRes to an SSD, The old iPhone 17 Pro has USB 3.2 Gen 2, which is good for 10Gb/s. You can already record 4K60 ProRes to an external SSD. This feature already existed for a year, so I assume you didn't actually need it? > and power a multi monitor setup with your iPhone Pro. macOS would be sick. I think you're looking for a MacBook Pro the siz…

The MacBook Neo runs an A18 Pro phone chip. It's appears to be all there and somewhat ready to give us something like DeX [1]. [1] https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/app/samsung-dex

Something like DeX is already lying dormant on iOS and it's already enabled on iPadOS.

But, if you modify the MobileGestalt plist on the iPhone, you can enable the "Stage Manager" desktop mode and connect a mouse, keyboard, and monitor and you get a desktop from your iPhone.

Caveat: due to artificial reasons, it's not really usable for daily driving due to the way the hacks work, but Apple could certainly make some trivial changes and get it going.

https://github.com/frs0n/GestaltEdit

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

I think an honest answer would be to account for software bloat over time. I'm one of those luddites who likes to keep a phone for a minimum of five years. in order to accomplish this, I select phones that have higher-than-average in-class RAM so that things I care the most about (snappy feeling, app loadtimes) stay good for longer especially for Apple, I imagine if I were buying a phone knowing they historically thr…

Hmm, yeah, that’s a good reason

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Maybe you need a new phone. Or a faster internet connection?

The bigger question is what are these apps doing that they aren't doing 10 years ago that they now need all this extra compute for to serve the same basic functionality? It always amazes me how stuff like instagram just tanks my battery life. It is instagram its basically wgetting image urls same as its always done but it is taking over system resources for reasons...

Because the app tracks every movement, every scroll and tap, how long you look at things, and reports back with data on all of your activity.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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You can almost achieve this by setting a reminder to turn on "sync immediately" manually every single day (because Apple decided there should be no permanent or indefinite option, and went through the extra effort of making it timed simply for the sake of inconvenience). I actually do this because it's the behavior I've wanted for years, and I care about it enough to go through the relentless annoyance.

I just don't understand why they wouldn't enable something p2p. We have handoff, screen mirroring, etc, but simple photo sync is impossible scientifically.

Fair. I usually just manually share with AirDrop when I need to have something on one of my other devices quickly, but I don't see the reason why the regular photo sync can't take advantage of the LAN
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