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Crucial AI upgrade may be coming to the iPhone 18

Macworld In its WWDC26 keynote last week, Apple announced that several of Siri AI‘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 hear that this segregation won’t apply in the next generation. As well as the iPhone Ultra and 18 Pro/18 Pro Max, the vanilla iPhone 18 is expected to get an upgrade to 12GB as well. In a new report, KB Securities (via DigiTimes Asia) predicts that the entire iPhone 18 lineup will feature 12GB of RAM, and thus be able to run the full range of Siri AI features. The company will do this, analysts say, to increase adoption of Siri AI and encourage customers to buy new

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