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Apple Intelligence is what Apple calls its artificial intelligence feature set, previewed at WWDC in June 2024. The first Apple Intelligence features launched with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, and additional features came in iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2. There's still more to come, though, and the rest of the Apple Intelligence features are set to come later in 2025.



Writing Tools


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  • Proofread text checks for spelling and grammar errors, including word choice and sentence structure. You can accept all suggestions with a tap or go through them one by one with explanations.
  • Rewrite cleans up what you've written and shifts the tone without impacting your content. Options include Friendly, Professional, and Concise.
  • You can select text and get a summary of it with Apple Intelligence. You can choose to create a paragraph, pull out key points, make a list, or create a table. Summaries are available in Mail, Messages, and more.
  • There is an open-ended Writing Tools option that lets you describe a change you want to make to something you've written. You can choose any mood or writing style that you want, with varying degrees of success. If you want something to be more flowery or elaborate, Writing Tools can make it happen. You can also ask for your text to be converted into a different format, like a poem.
  • Writing Tools has a "Compose" feature that uses Siri ChatGPT integration. With this option, Siri can leverage ChatGPT to compose writing from scratch rather than just rewriting text.
You can select any text on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac and use Apple Intelligence to access Writing Tools for summaries and other features.


Siri

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  • There's a glow around the edges of the display when Siri is activated, applicable to iPhone, iPad, and CarPlay. On Mac, the Siri window can be placed anywhere. The glow animates responsively to the sound of your voice so you can tell when Siri is listening without interrupting other things you're doing.
  • A double tap at the bottom of the display brings up the Type to Siri interface so you can type requests instead of speaking them. On Mac, you need to press the Command key twice to bring up Type to Siri. Type to Siri includes suggested requests so you can get your questions answered faster.
  • Siri can maintain context between requests so you can ask a question and then reference it in a second reply. If you ask about the temperature in Raleigh, for example, and then follow up with "what's the humidity?" Siri should know you mean in Raleigh.
  • If you stumble over your words when speaking to Siri, or change what you're saying mid-sentence, Siri will follow along.
  • Siri has Apple's product knowledge and support base for answering questions about your device's features and settings, and can even find settings when you don't know the exact name by using natural language search.
Mail

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  • There is a summarize button for summarizing any of your incoming emails, plus you will see a brief summary of an email in your inbox list rather than the first few lines of the email.
  • Mail surfaces time sensitive messages first when applicable, putting them at the top of your inbox so you see what's important right away.
  • Smart Reply provides quick-tap responses to emails that you've been sent, with contextual options based on what's in the email.
  • Multiple notifications from Mail will be summarized on your Lock Screen so you can see what's in an email without opening the app.
Messages

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  • Messages has Smart Reply options for incoming texts, which analyze the content of messages to offer suggestions of what you might want to say.
  • Multiple Messages notifications are summarized on your Lock Screen.
  • You can use all of the Writing Tools features in the Messages app for proofreading and refining what you're planning to send.
Photos

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  • You can create a Memory Movie with just a description, such as "My cat in 2024," or "Orlando in the summer." The feature automatically picks relevant photos and chooses songs, but you can tweak through the Memory Mixes feature or choose a mood to guide the direction of the audio. You can also add in specific scenes and images you want to see throughout the memory when you're creating the prompt.
  • Natural language search is available in Photos, so you can just describe what you're looking for, such as "Eric rollerskating while wearing green."
  • Search can also find specific moments in video clips.
  • Search offers up smart complete suggestions for narrowing down what you might want to find.
Clean Up

The Photos app also includes "Clean Up," a feature that lets you remove unwanted objects from your photos. The Clean Up tool in the ‌Photos‌ app is able to automatically detect objects in an image that might not be wanted, but you can also tap, circle, or brush over an unwanted object to remove it.

Zooming in on an image can help with using a finger as a brush to remove smaller blemishes and issues with an image, and it is intelligent enough not to remove part of a person even if a person or main subject is selected.

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Clean Up works on all images in the ‌Photos‌ library, including older images and... Click here to read rest of article

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I'm surprised that Apple would released this after all the marketing only for you to have to join a waitlist to use the features. I've never seen them so unconfident. Am I missing something? Have these features been turned on for you automatically?
 
One thing with Apple Intelligence that has impressed me - Siri’s “speaking” voice.

Currently trying out the dev. for 18.2 and she sounds far more natural in British English.
 
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Is there a wait list? I am in Canada. As soon as I changed the language in Settings to US, Intelligence was activated. I am also on 18.1 public beta.
 

Everything You Need to Know About Apple Intelligence​

Now that I know "everything - I am very happy with my 13PM, and have no plans to upgrade for "Apple Intelligence" as I have no use for those "features"
 
A GD waitlist after touting that 18.1 brings the first round of "Apple Intelligence" 🤯🤯🤯🤯???

This is ridiculous.

Interesting thing is I updated my 16 PM and MBP 16" M2 Max at the same time. iPhone finished first and joined the waitlist on the phone. MBP finished a minute or 2 later and when I went to check (and assumedly join the waitlist on the MBP, it was already checked or said "joined." So something there is connected.

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Siri is...well, mostly unchanged. It can't look up dogs in my photo library when told to do so, instead showing me dogs on the Internet...using Bing, a search engine I would never use.

I did have Siri read me a page from MR, and it almost sounded human, very few mistakes, and the voice was terrific.

But...

Clean Up is garbage. It can't remove a flag in front of a chimney while keeping the horizontal lines straight on the chimney...as those lines exist above and below the flag, all it had to do was copy them. Couldn't even do that, the lines are at weird angles and broken.

Clean Up can't remove something as simple as power lines. When I circle them, it removed a few of the power lines in some spots, but never the whole thing, and it merely fades the power lines above and below a little.

What an embarrassing piece of sh**. Steve fired MobileMe guys for less.
 
Siri is...well, mostly unchanged. It can't look up dogs in my photo library when told to do so, instead showing me dogs on the Internet...using Bing, a search engine I would never use.

I did have Siri read me a page from MR, and it almost sounded human, very few mistakes, and the voice was terrific.

But...

Clean Up is garbage. It can't remove a flag in front of a chimney while keeping the horizontal lines straight on the chimney...as those lines exist above and below the flag, all it had to do was copy them. Couldn't even do that, the lines are at weird angles and broken.

Clean Up can't remove something as simple as power lines. When I circle them, it removed a few of the power lines in some spots, but never the whole thing, and it merely fades the power lines above and below a little.

What an embarrassing piece of sh**. Steve fired MobileMe guys for less.
Ok that sounds pathetic and some years behind :/
 
If siri actually becomes smart, I would order it to disable EVERY SINGLE photo and camera post processing feature on iPhone and let me just take pure jpegs. But something tells me siri is still limited not to allow me do that
 
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I think the term waitlist was poorly chosen. I was on the waitlist for no more than 1 hour. My guess is that after you complete the update, some activity has to take place on Apple's end before AI can be turned on. All of my devices now have it working.
 
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I'm surprised that Apple would released this after all the marketing only for you to have to join a waitlist to use the features. I've never seen them so unconfident. Am I missing something?
1) It’s not clear which features are 100% on-device and which are using Apple PCC. If the latter, they need to make sure to ramp up computing capacity fast enough with usage.

2) There were various AI launches where the AI turned out to, well, not behave entirely appropriately when triggered in the right/wrong ways. Apple will want to catch this early before it’s in everyone’s hands.
 
I think the term waitlist was poorly chosen. I was on the waitlist for no more than 1 hour. My guess is that after you complete the update, some activity has to take place on Apple's end before AI can be turned on. All of my devices now have it working.
I’ve been on the waitlist for the last 5 hours. It’s a joke.
 
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