Rogue01

It is not the same A18 chip.  The iPhone 16e has a binned chip with less GPU cores.

Does TikTok remain installed and functional after updating to 18.3.x and iPadOS 18.3.x?

DAalseth said:

Updated my iPad and found that, in an incredibly bad move for security, on restart it tries to activate Apple Intelligence EVEN IF YOU HAVE IT DISABLED. I don’t knoiw of a better way to dissuade a chunk of your users from applying a critical security patch than this. 

This is not news.  The .3 updates changes the 'opt-in' to now 'on' by default.  So go into settings and turn it off.  Apple loves to default things on without your knowledge, such as iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, etc. when you install macOS, and you have to turn those features back off if you don't want them.

ApplePoor said:

Updated to the *.1 v versions of the various operating systems and my M1 Ultra, M4 Max Laptop, M4 Pro Mini, iPhone 16 Pro Max, M4 iPad, iPad mini v7 Ultra 2 watch and none turned Apple Intelligence back on from the process.

That is because the .3 update of 18.3 and 15.3 turns on Apple Intelligence by default, so you have to turn it back off after updating.

apple4thewin said:

I forgot already, is carplay 2.0 standalone in car system or an updated tether experience?

It still requires the phone, either wired, or wireless, if the vehicle supports wireless CarPlay.  This is more on the vehicle manufacturers to decide if they even want to implement this CarPlay 2.0.  When Apple first introduced CarPlay, originally called iOS in the Car, it took almost 4 years before vehicles actually offered the feature.  So I would imagine this would take even longer since it takes over the entire vehicle, including the gauge cluster.  Something I would not want.  CarPlay has enough bugs with connectivity and UI issues.  I had to do a full factory radio reset/reboot to fix the connection issues, the phone constantly disconnected every few minutes.  The UI issues remain.  Listening to music, the next song won't appear on the display unless I track skip.  Now if you tap on the album name, you no longer get the list of songs on the album.  So that is now broken.  So imagine that with your gauge cluster going crazy.  No thanks.