{"id":274388,"date":"2026-06-16T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:05:31","slug":"crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial AI upgrade may be coming to the iPhone 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3166945\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18.html\">Crucial AI upgrade may be coming to the iPhone 18<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3166945\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18.html\">https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3166945\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 09:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.macworld.com\">www.macworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"miso-summary-title\" id=\"in-summary\">In summary:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Macworld reports that the iPhone 18, expected in spring 2027, may feature 12GB RAM to support advanced Siri AI capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>This upgrade matters because current Siri AI features require 12GB RAM, which excludes the iPhone 17 from accessing these functions.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the significant RAM increase enabling full AI access, analysts predict the iPhone 18 will maintain its $799 starting price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In its WWDC26 keynote last week, Apple announced that several of Siri AI\u2018s most advanced features, including new, more expressive voices, would only be available on iPhones with at least 12GB of RAM. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Apple fans who don\u2019t relish the prospect of spending $999 on their next phone will be pleased to hear that this segregation won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 iPhones. Those who might not be prepared to buy an iPhone 18 Pro are more likely to stomach the cost of an iPhone 18. The report doesn\u2019t mention whether the 18e will get the same RAM upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The price tag of that device, incidentally, is the subject of some more good news. Analysts further predict that the iPhone 18, despite the major spec bump and rising component costs thanks to the RAM shortage, will start at the same price point as its predecessor: $799. As with the compromises made by Apple to make the iPhone 16e Apple Intelligence-ready, the company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3166945\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crucial AI upgrade may be coming to the iPhone 18 https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3166945\/crucial-ai-upgrade-may-be-coming-to-the-iphone-18.html Publish Date: 2026-06-16 09:01:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Apple-iPhone-17e-review-16.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-274388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17","tag-iphone-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274390,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274388\/revisions\/274390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}