Apple announced today that iOS 18.2 is coming today, including the next round of Apple Intelligence-powered features. Meanwhile, there are still plenty of major Apple Intelligence features announced at Apple’s developer conference last summer to come. A few smaller features, however, have only been partially released. So where are the missing components of Apple Intelligence?
As part of the latest Apple Intelligence press release, Apple provided three interesting notes on feature timing.
First, Apple teased out Priority Notifications as a feature that’s still coming soon. That feature not shipping yet is somewhat curious since Apple Intelligence already includes a Focus mode called Reduce Interruptions that limits interruptions to what Apple Intelligence considers important. Apple is partially there, but the wider Priority Notifications feature is still to come.
Then there’s Genmoji. This Apple Intelligence feature lets you describe an emoji that you want to create, then saves it for future use. No years between emoji releases required. iOS 18.2 brings Genmoji to iPhone and iPad, but macOS Sequoia 15.2 doesn’t get the feature … yet. In a footnote in today’s press release, Apple explains that Genmoji creation “will be available on Mac in the coming months.” Presumably Apple is still perfecting the user interface for Genmoji on the Mac. The feature is part of the software keyboard on the iPhone and iPad. On the Mac, Genmoji will probably be part of the emoji picker UI or behind a secondary click. We’ll see!
Lastly, there’s the curious case of the missing image style in Image Playground. Some have even suggested that this image style may be canned. Fortunately, Apple spent a portion of today’s press release detailing the Sketch style previously announced for Image Playground:
In addition, users will be able to create images in Image Playground in a Sketch style, an academic and highly detailed style that uses a vibrant color palette combined with technical lines to produce realistic drawings.
Academic and highly detailed, you say? Apple Intelligence is still perfecting its drawing skills for now.
And as previously confirmed by Apple, a software update in April will vastly expand the number of languages supported by Apple Intelligence. Don’t cancel that Duolingo subscription just yet, Apple Intelligence. All other confirmed features are coming “soon” or “in the coming months.” In the meantime, fingers crossed for the next round of beta releases that give us the first look at the third round of Apple Intelligence features!
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