Sept 2025 Apple iPhone Event

[Alli]

Texted my son earlier and reminded him too update to iOS 26. He said, eh...my new phone comes on Friday. LOL This will be the first time in years that we've had the same generation.

Oh, and he got the orange pro.

 

[Eric]

Texted my son earlier and reminded him too update to iOS 26. He said, eh...my new phone comes on Friday. LOL This will be the first time in years that we've had the same generation.

Oh, and he got the orange pro.

It's out? My iPhone 15 Pro Max only shows an available update to iOS 18.7. Also, if 26 is the latest update WTF happened to 19 through 25?

Edit: See it at the very bottom now but had to scroll down all the way down.

 

[Cmaier]

It's out? My iPhone 15 Pro Max only shows an available update to iOS 18.7. Also, if 26 is the latest update WTF happened to 19 through 25?

Edit: See it at the very bottom now but had to scroll down all the way down.

They switched to “years” for all apple operating systems. So MacOS 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, etc.

 

[leman]

I think I have found the “unified image compression” patent. Seems to be around image data deduplication to improve caching? The details seem quite complex, but it sounds like a new imageblock API is incoming.

WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections

 

[DT]

Holy hell, love iOS26 in the variants I've seen so far: my iPhone 15PM, my Watch 10, the two AppleTVs (not sure if the ladies will even bother with new phones inbound, or if it's needed for a smooth transfer).

And the updates to Car Play are outstanding.

Hahahaha, I updated in the hotel, we were down in Orlando seeing Layfey (and Suki), incredible show.

 

[Altaic]

They were quite useful as it’s impossible to achieve perfect ALU utilization for matrix multiplication without using the matmul intrinsics. So id be surprised if GB6 does not use them.

MLX will require code changes to make use of the neural accelerators, so I doubt GB is using them, or otherwise not optimally.

 

[dada_dave]

MLX will require code changes to make use of the neural accelerators, so I doubt GB is using them, or otherwise not optimally.

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I’m not sure, GB should be using CoreML, is CoreML using MLX under the hood?

 

[leman]

I’m not sure, GB should be using CoreML, is CoreML using MLX under the hood?

CoreML does not use MLX. One reason I can imagine why a recompile is needed for CoreML to use the MXU units is if there is a subtle behavior change. Maybe they operate using a different precision or something like that? It’s really hard to say. But Apple is known to select different behavior based on the linked SDK.

 

[Altaic]

I’m not sure, GB should be using CoreML, is CoreML using MLX under the hood?

Oh right GB uses CoreML

No, it doesn’t use MLX, though my point was that a Metal kernel would require changes. Not sure if CoreML JiT compiles the kernels or not. If not, a recompile would be necessary, and if so, a recompile might still be needed.