Apple Intelligence is an umbrella term for Apple’s vast suite of AI-powered features across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and soon Vision Pro. New features have rolled out across several releases of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS and changed many aspects of how our devices work. Here is a full list of every current Apple Intelligence feature, plus a look at what’s coming next.
The start: iOS 18.1’s writing tools, Photos features, notification summaries, and more

- Writing Tools: Use systemwide tools to proofread, rewrite, or reformat your text.
- Clean Up in Photos: Remove unwanted objects from your photos with ease.
- Create a Memory movie in Photos: Type a description, and AI will create a new Memory movie on demand.
- Natural language search in Photos: Find just the right photos and videos with search that actually works.
- Notification summaries: Receive more actionable and helpful notifications thanks to AI summaries.
- Siri enhancements: Enjoy the first version of Apple’s new and improved Siri, with new product knowledge, more resilient request handling, new look and feel, more natural voice, the ability to type to Siri, and more.
- Priority messages in Mail: AI will put the most important email front and center.
- Smart Reply in Mail and Messages: Use suggested replies that are better than ever.
- Summaries in Mail and Messages: Get thread summaries that are more informative than a simple excerpt.
- Reduce Interruptions Focus: Stay undistracted, except when something’s actually important.
- Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing in Focus: Get the benefit of your existing Focus modes, but with AI that only allows important alerts through.
iOS 18.2: Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT, visual intelligence

- Genmoji: Make your own custom emoji for use in any app.
- ChatGPT in Siri: Siri can tap into ChatGPT’s knowledge, and you can even query ChatGPT directly.
- Image Playground: Create original AI images in animation or illustration styles.
- Visual intelligence: Use the iPhone’s Camera Control or Action button to get relevant info from your physical environment.
- Image Wand: Turn your sketches or notes into beautiful illustrations in the Notes app.
- Compose with ChatGPT: OpenAI’s assistant can draft original text from scratch inside any app.
- Custom rewrites: Apple’s writing tools let you ‘Describe your change’ for custom AI rewrites.
iOS 18.3: Visual intelligence upgrades

- Visual intelligence: Add an event to Calendar from a poster or flyer
- Visual intelligence: Easily identify plants and animals
Coming soon in iOS 18.4 and more
iOS 18.4 is currently in beta, so its Apple Intelligence features could be removed or changed before the public launch in April.
However, right now the update includes:
- Priority Notifications: Notifications that may be especially important are shown in a separate, more prominent section on the Lock Screen.
- Image Playground: Sketch style offers a third way to visualize your original image creations, joining Animation and Illustration.
- Vision Pro support: visionOS 2.4, which will release alongside iOS 18.4 in April, brings Apple Intelligence support to Vision Pro for the first time.
Apple Intelligence features: wrap-up
Apple is just getting started with its Apple Intelligence rollout. The company is expected to announce many new AI features at WWDC in June ahead of their arrival in iOS 19 and beyond.
Whether you’re a fan of the current AI features or couldn’t care less, Apple Intelligence is sure to change your device use over time as more capabilities debut and integrate deeply with the iPhone’s core functionality.
Which Apple Intelligence features are your favorites? Let us know in the comments.
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