Crucial AI upgrade may be coming to the iPhone 18 (opens in new tab)

In its WWDC26 keynote last week, Apple announced that several of ‘s most advanced features, including new, more expressive voices, would only be available on iPhones with at least 12GB of RAM. That’s a requirement which includes the iPhone Air, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, but excludes (perhaps conveniently, from an upsell point of view) the extremely popular baseline iPhone 17, which only has 8GB. Apple fans who don’t relish the prospect of spending $999 on their next phone will be pleased to hea...