Apple recently announced that its latest artificial intelligence serviceApple Intelligenceis now officially live on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with the first features coming along with theiOS18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 software updates are rolling out to users. apple Intelligence leverages Apple's powerful chip technology to deliver language and image understanding, enable cross-application operations and simplify everyday tasks, while making significant advances in privacy protection.
Apple Intelligence's core features include system-wide Writing Tools, which are integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to help users optimize text in Mail, Messages, Memos, Pages manuscripts, and third-party apps.Writing Tools provide text rewrites, proofreading and summaries to help users adjust the tone of text and check grammar and wording.
Siri has also been upgraded with the introduction of Apple Intelligence, making interactions more natural and fluid, and integrating more deeply with the system experience.Siri now understands richer language, and even if the user's expression is not coherent enough, Siri understands it smoothly and uses contextualized scenarios along the way for successive requests.
The Photos app has become smarter with the addition of a natural language search feature that allows users to search for content within photos and videos by describing the text. Additionally, the Clean Up tool in Photos allows users to remove unwanted elements from photos while preserving the mood of the shot. The "Memories" feature selects the most suitable photos and videos based on the user's description text and edits them into a movie with a complete narrative.
In terms of email management, Apple Intelligence gives users proactive control of their inboxes with the Priority Messages feature, which displays the most urgent emails and provides email summaries to help users prioritize. Users can also record audio in the Memo and Phone apps and transcribe the audio into text and generate summaries.
Apple plans to introduce more AI features in December, including new upgrades to emojis, the Tulipland image generation tool, the Image Wand hand-drawn sketch conversion tool, and the Priority Notifications feature.Siri's functionality will also be further evolved with exclusive smart services and screen-awareness capabilities to perform more in-app or cross-app actions. Siri will also evolve to offer proprietary smart services and screen-aware capabilities to perform more in-app and cross-app actions.
The first features of Apple Intelligence, available as a free software update, currently support U.S. English and will add language support for additional countries and regions in the coming months, including Chinese, Indian English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese and more.Apple Intelligence now supports iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16Pro, iPhone 16Pro Max, iPhone 15Pro, iPhone 15Pro Max, and iPad and Mac devices powered by the A17Pro, M1, or successor chip.