Apple will start rolling out its game-changing Apple Intelligence system next month with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 updates. This new personal intelligence system combines generative models with personal context to deliver highly relevant and useful intelligence. The new iPhone 16 lineup, including those with the A18 and A18 Pro chip, is engineered to take complete and full advantage of Apple Intelligence, making these the most advanced iPhones yet.
Apple Intelligence will be available first in US English, though other localized English varieties, for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK will come in December. Other languages – Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish – will arrive next year.
Getting Started with Apple Intelligence
Deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, Apple Intelligence leverages the capabilities of Apple silicon to comprehend and generate text and images, act between apps, and by pulling from personal context, drive daily tasks with more speed and fluidity. And it does this while setting and maintaining high bars for privacy and security: many models execute fully on-device, and Private Cloud Compute balances computational capacity between on-device processing and server-based models running on dedicated Apple silicon servers.
Key Features
- Writing Tools: Enhanced writing through paraphrasing, proofreading, and summarizing text in Mail, Notes, Pages and third-party apps.
- Photos: Create movies using only typed descriptions of what happened with Memories; search photos using natural language; tap on subjects or objects within video content to view a specific moment. Clean Up can remove distracting objects from a photo without affecting the main picture.
- Note and Phone Apps: Record audio and have it transcribed with the ability to summarize. Even on a phone call, the recording automatically notifies participants and creates summaries after the calls so that key points are underlined.
Apple Intelligence promises the delivery of delightful, intuitive, and easy-to-use experiences to users to help them achieve what is most important for them. More features are coming back in the following months.
Apple Intelligence: Revolutionizing User Experience Across Devices
Apple will introduce its new Apple Intelligence system next month, which will most definitely help users stay on track by prioritizing what is important. New notifications with a summary and the new Focus mode called Reduce Interruptions will show only the most urgent notifications. It appears in iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. Also, with Priority Messages in Mail, time-sensitive emails will be identified and surfaced, providing quick summaries of the most important information, rather than just previewing the first few lines. Smart Reply in Mail offers quick response suggestions and lets you know if questions in an email are not being addressed.
Enhanced Siri Experience
With an all-new design that features a beautiful glowing light appearing around the edge of the screen when active on iPhone, iPad, or CarPlay, and with the ability to live anywhere on Mac desktop, Siri is gaining an even more natural tone and flexibility. Users can switch seamlessly between typing and talking to Siri upon improved language-understanding capabilities. Siri can also keep up if the user stammers and mispronounces words. Using broad context, Siri can retain context from one request to the next. With deep knowledge of many Apple products, Siri can answer thousands of questions about features and settings on Apple devices.
Upcoming Features
Later this year and into the next several months, even more features of Apple Intelligence will be added. Image Playground will let users create playful images with only a few taps of their fingers, while Image Wand will make notes richer by changing rough sketches into perfect images. Users will be able to create their own, original Genmoji by typing a description or with just a photo of a friend or family member. Siri is going to be even more capable by leveraging personal context to offer tailored intelligence and perform hundreds of new actions across Apple and third-party applications. iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia will let users tap into ChatGPT’s vast knowledge base without requiring context switching between tools.
Privacy and Security
Apple Intelligence has been designed, from inception, with privacy at the core. While many models run completely on-device, Private Cloud Compute extends the privacy and security of Apple devices into the cloud for more complex requests. All of that keeps users’ data never stored or shared with Apple-just to finish their requests. Independent experts regularly verify that this promise of privacy is kept by examining the code running on the Apple silicon servers.
For those using Siri or Writing Tools to access ChatGPT, it has some baked-in privacy protections. The IP addresses are masked, and OpenAI does not store the requests. Users have no requirement to create an account to access ChatGPT for free. OpenAI’s data-use policies apply to users who choose to connect their account.
Availability
Apple Intelligence will be delivered as a free software update. The initial set of capabilities will be available in beta next month as part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, with more rolling out in stages over the coming months. More to come in Apple’s continued effort to upgrade the user experience with state-of-the-art technology.
