{"id":531665,"date":"2026-07-03T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531665\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:30:11","slug":"iphone-18-with-9gb-ram-still-wont-support-two-new-ios-27-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531665\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 18 With 9GB RAM Still Won&#8217;t Support Two New iOS 27 Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lower-end iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will be equipped with 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB in the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/iphone-17-ceramic-shield.jpg\"   alt=\"iphone 17 ceramic shield\" width=\"1950\" height=\"1097\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1018134\"\/><br \/>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mingchikuo\/status\/2070545159620809003\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media post<\/a>, Kuo said the 1GB increase in RAM will ensure that Apple Intelligence features continue to run smoothly on the pair of devices.<\/p>\n<p>The higher-end iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and foldable &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/27\/apple-planning-to-launch-two-new-ultra-products\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Ultra<\/a>&#8221; will each have the same 12GB of RAM as the iPhone 17 Pro models, added Kuo.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is expected to release the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the iPhone Ultra in September this year, while the iPhone 18, iPhone 18e, and a second-generation iPhone Air will reportedly be released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/08\/iphone-air-2-and-iphone-18e-early-next-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">around March 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even with an increased 9GB of RAM, two new Apple Intelligence features coming with iOS 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/10\/two-ios-27-features-iphone-17-pro-air-only\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will not be available on the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e<\/a>, including the ability to customize the expressiveness and pace of Siri&#8217;s voice and a &#8220;major boost in accuracy&#8221; for speech-to-text dictation. This is because the latest advanced on-device Apple Intelligence model powering those two features requires a minimum of 12GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"siri voice customization\" width=\"1600\" height=\"895\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1051254 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/siri-voice-customization.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1600\/895\"\/><br \/>Here are the confirmed RAM amounts for the iPhone 17 series:<\/p>\n<p>iPhone 17e: 8GB<br \/>\niPhone 17: 8GB<br \/>\niPhone 17 Pro: 12GB<br \/>\niPhone 17 Pro Max: 12GB<\/p>\n<p>The rumored RAM amounts for the iPhone 18 series and iPhone Ultra:<\/p>\n<p>iPhone 18e: 9GB<br \/>\niPhone 18: 9GB<br \/>\niPhone 18 Pro: 12GB<br \/>\niPhone 18 Pro Max: 12GB<br \/>\niPhone Ultra: 12GB<\/p>\n<p>The second-generation iPhone Air will presumably have 12GB of RAM, too.<\/p>\n<p>RAM and NAND storage chips are currently expensive due to a supply shortage, resulting in Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/29\/apple-raised-prices-on-14-products\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raising prices on more than a dozen products<\/a> last month. For now, iPhones avoided price increases, but analysts have estimated that the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e could cost $100 to $200 more than the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lower-end iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will be equipped with 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,87728,37492,60,80],"class_list":["post-531665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ios-27","tag-iphone-18","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}