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Apple unveiled its suite of AI features back at WWDC24 back in June, dubbed Apple Intelligence. The feature set requires an iPhone 15 Pro or later for iPhone, and an M1 chip or later for iPad and Mac. The great thing about Apple Intelligence is that most of these features run on device, prioritizing privacy.

The features below are currently available in iOS 18.1 beta, which should release to the public in October. Additional features will be coming later.

Writing Tools

One of the top Apple Intelligence features is Writing Tools, allowing you to quickly proofread, rewrite, or change the tone of your writing. It isn’t intended to generate completely new text, and it instead focuses on improving your writing.

This feature is available practically anywhere you’re able to write. Just select some text, and you should see Writing Tools in a context menu.

Apple Intelligence writing tools in iPadOS 18.1

Apple Intelligence Summaries

Apple Intelligence aims to help you out by providing summaries in everyday places, such as Notifications, Mail, and Safari. If you have a stack of notifications from one app, Apple Intelligence will try to summarize all of them into a one liner, that way you can keep up with everything going on with a quick glance, which is particularly helpful in group chats.

In Mail, it’ll also summarize emails from the Mail list view, which is far more useful than just seeing the first two lines of the email. If you tap into the email, you can also see a more detailed summary, still saving you time if you don’t want to read a whole email.

You can also use it to summarize articles in Reader Mode while in Safari.

Apple Intelligence notification summaries

New Focus Mode option

With Apple Intelligence, you can enable a new setting called “Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing” on any focus mode, which will allow any app to break through your Focus Mode, if Apple Intelligence determines that it might be important.

For example, you might have iMessage notifications disabled from non co-workers while in your Work focus. However, if a family member texts you with something urgent, you should get notified still.

Memory Creation

In the Photos app, you can create a Memory Movie with just a short description. You could write something like “hanging with friends in Los Angeles in June”, and it’ll gather a bunch of photos and create a movie for you, containing all of those memories.

Photos with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1

Clean Up

With the new Photos app, you can use Apple Intelligence to clean up your photos. If someone’s in the background and you’d like to remove them, you can simply draw a line around them, and the system will intelligently remove them from the photo and replace the background.

You can also remove random background objects that seem out of place, to make your photo look less cluttered.

Coming later

This is just the beginning of Apple Intelligence, and more features should come later. Later this year, we should get support for ChatGPT within Siri. And next year, the all new Siri should begin rolling out, allowing you to ask Siri more complex questions and actually get proper answers, thanks to Apple Intelligence. The new Siri will also have personal context, and should be able to properly assist you with your day.

Apple’s image generation features, such as Genmoji and Image Playground, are also on the roadmap, but not yet available in beta.

Apple Intelligence ChatGPT iOS 18

iOS 18.3 beta 3 changes and features – the Notification Summary update [Video]

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Yesterday Apple dropped iOS 18.3 beta 3, two days after similar betas for watchOS and tvOS were released. We now have a likely explanation for the delay. Apple has been working to refine the Notification Summary feature, on platforms like iOS, which support Apple Intelligence. This update comes after more than one high-profile botched AI-generated summary, which resulted in what appeared to be false and/or misleading headlines from organizations like BBC News.

In a testament to how egregious these notifications were, Apple has made some significant changes to the way that these summaries work and how they are presented to the user. Watch our full explainer video, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more.

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When will Apple Intelligence arrive on Apple TV and Apple Watch?

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Google recently announced that it’s bringing the Gemini AI assistant to Google TV. At the same time, our sister site 9to5Google found evidence of Gemini coming soon to Wear OS – Google’s operating system for smartwatches. On the Apple side, devices like Apple TV and Apple Watch don’t have Apple Intelligence support, and some people are starting to wonder when that will change.

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The post follows a series of embarrassing mistakes in attempted summaries of news stories, which have variously claimed that Luigi Mangione shot himself, announced the winner of a competition which hadn’t even taken place, and reported the non-existent coming out of a tennis player …

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Apple Intelligence Chinese launch remains problematic as talks continue

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Call to ban Apple Intelligence summary feature after Luigi Mangione error

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