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Here Are All of the Apple Intelligence Features in iOS 18.1

There have been many requests to summarize the AppleAI Features for EU Citizens, so ill take the burden to do it for you.

AppleAI Features in EU:
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I have like the summaries of some of the messages I receive whilst using CarPlay. I like that it also advises it is a summary. Clean Up needs work. But on the whole I still think it they get it to all come together they will being doing better than the other rushed options out there. And if they can stick to the privacy. That is a huge win. I’m not looking for massive change just quality of technological life improvements.
 
Unami said:
Maybe because of the regulation. Or maybe it's just apple using this as an excuse because it already regularly takes them years to roll out features like this internationally - if they ever do. (Still no apple news/sports/siri without "hey")/... over here)
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News / sports is because of licenses. Which can get extremely expensive here in the EU. And also because of legislation on those markets. So also because of the EU.

The "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri" I don't really understand, but is such a minor feature that I don't care either way.

Plus, Apple clearly stated that they kept the features out of the EU because of the EU. I am perfectly fine with some features coming later because of localisation. But this is not that.
 
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More so than even in previous years, it's a case of wait, watch and postpone an upgrade until the next year. 2 factors - Apple Intelligence, real value as yet debatable, Camera Control - not thought through and likely to be improved on iPhone 17
 
Unami said:
Maybe because of the regulation. Or maybe it's just apple using this as an excuse because it already regularly takes them years to roll out features like this internationally - if they ever do. (Still no apple news/sports/siri without "hey")/... over here)
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Exactly. It will take them years to rollout support for all EU languages. If they ever get to it.

There are so many features and services missing for several languages for years, even decades. Some for no apparent reason. Why can’t I use scribble in Dutch??

So they’re now using the EU legislation as an excuse. If everything they do is on device and private, the EU will not have an issue.

And banning iPhone Mirroring is even more ludicrous.
 
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hagar said:
Exactly. It will take them years to rollout support for all EU languages. If they ever get to it.

There are so many features and services missing for several languages for years, even decades. Some for no apparent reason. Why can’t I use scribble in Dutch??

So they’re now using the EU legislation as an excuse. If everything they do is on device and private, the EU will not have an issue.

And banning iPhone Mirroring is even more ludicrous.
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1. That's not the issue.

2. Scribble isn't in Dutch because that would require them to make quite a difficult system for a language of approx 20 million people. (globally) Not really worth it. You are still able to use scribble in English by setting your language to English. If I set my language to English on my phone I can't access iPhone Mirroring or Apple Intelligence.

3. The DMA is not about privacy. But about allowing competing companies to profit on your platform. Which is a valid reason (at least to me) to at least delay functions for the EU.
 
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jchap said:
The update for people who don't want to, can't or who are too lazy to learn to read or write, or who are too bothered to actually skim information to find their own takeaways from the content they peruse.

When you're depending on AI to summarize your e-mails and content, isn't that the same as ceding your decision-making, interpretive and cognitive processes to someone or something else?

I really don't see how this is going to improve society. If anything, it makes us more dependent on our tech to glean information and facts out of the content we consume. It seems like we should try to improve general literacy and reading comprehension, rather than coming up with brilliant ways and clever tech integrations on our devices to get large language models to do the thinking for us.

Of course, I certainly don't speak for the masses, and just because I say something doesn't mean it's useless for everyone. Maybe I'm missing something and this really is the bee's knees for human progress.
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Much of what you say I agree with however AI search engines provide a counter factual to your argument.

Arc search allows you to ask a question, it trawls through the top hits in google, then summarises what it’s found.

This saves a great deal of time and fruitless clicking, skim reading and back buttoning.
 
SanderEvers said:
UK access will be added this year. EU access is not coming. THAT'S the difference. Later != Not.
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It’s a factor of language not politics. Dutch-last, together with Lithuanian etc. Spanish- probably next, huge demographic, however many speakers are in porer countries out of apples market range
 
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ForkHandles said:
It’s a factor of language not politics. Dutch-last, together with Lithuanian etc. Spanish- probably next, huge demographic, however many speakers are in porer countries out of apples market range
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Spanish is coming next year. (Announced by apple) Lithuanian, how big is that demographic? According to Wikipedia Lithuania is a country of about 3 million people. That's a small demographic, not a big one.
 
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MacRumors said:

Apple Intelligence Availability​

Apple Intelligence is only available in U.S. English at this time, and it is not available to developers in the European Union or China. Device region and language need to be set to the United States.
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This was true for earlier betas, but I think it's only Language that needs to be set to US English now. AI is working on my iPhone 16 Pro running latest 18.1 beta with Region set to United Kingdom, Language set to US English.

So I still have to get adjust to 'Trash' instead of 'Bin', but at least I can work with measurements and date formats I'm used to.
 
ForkHandles said:
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Much of what you say I agree with however AI search engines provide a counter factual to your argument.

Arc search allows you to ask a question, it trawls through the top hits in google, then summarises what it’s found.

This saves a great deal of time and fruitless clicking, skim reading and back buttoning.
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Interesting, although really that is still using AI as a filter. The AI still summarizes and processes according to its own programming, and makes its own call to determine what you "want to know". This could save time for some people who don't care that a machine has made the decisions for them, but it might take the humanity and the human judgement out of the equation.

That said, traditional search engines already use a form of AI to select through the massive collection of spidered content on the Web, returning the content they think best matches your query, don't they.
 
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GtrDude said:
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Sounds like a lot of silly stuff crammed in tryin to make people interested.
In the meantime Apple won’t allow people to dismiss a simple calendar notification when we’re in another app.
Always have to to the notification screen.
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This might not be a solution to your problem but if I understand correctly you can go to Calendar notification settings and change the banner style to “Temporary” instead of “Persistent”
 
ignatius345 said:
I got excited for a moment because when I read "Clean Up" because I was hoping for a tool to help clean up my Photos library as a whole. I know there's duplicate detection now, which is great -- but I would LOVE a tool that walks me intelligently through big groups of largely similar photos, maybe tosses out the blurry ones automatically and then asks me to pick the best one. It's just so easy to fire off 20 photos of your kid on their bike and not get back around to picking the one or two you actually want. Would love a guided interface for that.
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Ohhh yes, I used to spend hours when I got back from family holidays sorting through the thousands of photos I'd invariably taken, with probably 10+ almost identical shots of every subject/framing. And then we'd go back to the same place a few years later and I'd take another few thousand photos of exactly the same things.

And the last few years, I've never even got round to it and without any AI assistance probably never will, if I'm going to be honest with myself.
 
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Apple Intelligence Waitlist PSA:

Apple Intelligence, at least as of now, will only download via Wi-Fi, and iOS currently doesn't inform you of this fact. This may change with the final release of iOS 18.1.
 
Has anyone with 18.1 beta seen any improvements to the Translate app? That is something that could really benefit from AI but I have not seen anything mentioned in regard to it.

ChatGPT is noticeably better at translation but it would be nice to have a dedicated interface so I don’t always have to prompt ChatGPT. And of course, realtime conversation translation is also something ChatGPT isn’t designed for.
 
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So far I’m underwhelmed, but to be fair the AI hype cycle has peaked and we are in free fall into the trough of disillusionment. That means that Apple has arrived in time to use this new tech wisely, subtly, and in a sneaky way that if it is taken away one would immediately notice and become upset. I think of other rather “boring” enhancements Apple made, cloud integration isn’t something we yearn for the next improvements added….. but if it went away…….
 
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ForkHandles said:
Wrong
If you’re in the UK you still don’t have access unless you change the native language to English (US).
It’s a language model thing not a political one.
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That's not the case. As you say, UK (and rest of the world outside of the EU and China) access is limited to English (US) language at this time, with English (UK) and other languages due to follow later this year/next year. That's your language model restriction.

However, Apple has very clearly stated that AI will not be available in the EU indefinitely for legislative reasons (in a thinly-veiled attempt to garner customer support in their ongoing spat with the EU). That's not going to change until Apple and the EU make-up, it's got nothing to do with language models and is entirely political, masked as legal complexity.
 
NightFox said:
That's not the case. UK (and rest of the world outside of the EU) access is limited to English (US) language at this time, with English (UK) and other languages due to follow later this year/next year. That's your language model restriction.

However, Apple has very clearly stated that AI will not be available in the EU indefinitely for legislative reasons (in a thinly-veiled attempt to garner customer support in their ongoing spat with the EU). That's not going to change until Apple and the EU make-up, it's got nothing to do with language models and is entirely political, masked as legal complexity.
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A source would be useful for this please.

There is no good reason for Apple to throw their toys out of the pram in such a rich large market.
 
Can't be intelligence. It is just tech... That's why Siri doesn't give shrink sessions.
 
mac-hummer said:
That's something..!
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Well for iPhone users yes.

For those of us on Samsung Galaxy (aka Galaxy AI) we've had ALL these features since February or March 2024. Including my 1yr old (by production) Galaxy S23.

There is nothing unique or knew here. Probably because Apple has partnered with Google and OpenAI (of which the former is being implemented first).

Royally sucks that too many companies are releasing the exact same features to all clients at the same time.
 
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