Here Are All of the Apple Intelligence Features in iOS 18.1

[NightFox]

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.

Sure, take your pick, this has hardly been a secret:

Meta, Apple snub EU’s AI Pact

Pledge loses steam ahead of launch as some firms turn to denouncing Europe’s regulatory hurdles on AI.

www.politico.eu

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/21/apple-ai-europe-dma-macos.html

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/apple-delay-launch-ai-powered-features-europe-blames-eu-tech-rules-2024-06-21/

Apple Intelligence rules out 2024 EU launch over antitrust laws

The decision is due to the EU's Digital Markets Act which requires devices to be able to work across all platforms, including competing producers.

www.euronews.com

Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

Apple says competition rules that require functionality with rival products would compromise privacy and security

www.theguardian.com

Apple rejects new AI pact in EU, despite support from OpenAI, Google, more - 9to5Mac

Apple has refused to sign a new AI pact in the EU, despite it receiving support from several other major AI players like Google and OpenAI.

9to5mac.com

In fact, just type 'Apple AI EU' into your search engine of choice. Even from the horse's mouth if you scroll down to the section on the EU:

How to get Apple Intelligence - Apple Support (BW)

Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that helps you communicate, work, and express yourself. It combines generative models with your personal context to deliver intelligence that is most useful and relevant to you, while protecting your privacy.

support.apple.com

 

[Laggy]

for me its enough to have AI on my Mac. Apple please bring polish and other slavic languages, AI breaks language barriers please

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Then why is this not rolling out in the EU? They reference DMA and GDPR as standing obstacles, but that can hardly be a problem if all on device. Then that is one weak argument from them that is truly hollow (might be like that ofc).

That argument of theirs, true or not, is hollow anyway, as Siri requests has been sent to their servers for others to listen in on them to improve the service, and that didn't seem to be any problem to keep when DMA came into action.

That's a decision Apple made. There's no technical reason they would not be able to release this in the European Union.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

True. But once you connect the analytics and interactions will send to Apple anyway.

Then don't turn it on. Life is about compromise - if that's where you're willing to, then so be it.

 

[jicon]

Appreciated, but I've got a buddy that somehow writes in particular ways that throws AI.
Summarize a really lengthy email of his, and AI simply suggested 'I can't summarize this...'

He messaged me about his frustration about blood levels (In this case implied and I know what it was about), but AI took the incorrect guess that it was blood pressure.

Kind of taking the convenience and inserting a second hand person in to a conversation repeating back what they think they heard. He's gonna suggest I fire my digital secretary.

 

[Hi Tek]

Wonder why Apple Intelligence requires newer devices. I don't see reasons for that. Would it be a way to force people to upgrade their iPhones? I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Clean Up is available on third party Apps for years. Advanced photos search is available on Google Photos App on any iPhone. Summarize and other writing tools need more processing power? I don't get it. Hope somebody could help me understand. Honestly.

The demand required (hardware) is what they say is the reason...

 

[NightFox]

Wonder why Apple Intelligence requires newer devices. I don't see reasons for that. Would it be a way to force people to upgrade their iPhones? I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Clean Up is available on third party Apps for years. Advanced photos search is available on Google Photos App on any iPhone. Summarize and other writing tools need more processing power? I don't get it. Hope somebody could help me understand. Honestly.

One of the claimed differences, and therefore possible reasons, is that Apple is processing at least some AI functionality on-device that other platforms typically offload onto a server to process.

 

[ForkHandles]

Sure, take your pick, this has hardly been a secret:

Meta, Apple snub EU’s AI Pact

Pledge loses steam ahead of launch as some firms turn to denouncing Europe’s regulatory hurdles on AI.

www.politico.eu

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/21/apple-ai-europe-dma-macos.html

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/apple-delay-launch-ai-powered-features-europe-blames-eu-tech-rules-2024-06-21/

Apple Intelligence rules out 2024 EU launch over antitrust laws

The decision is due to the EU's Digital Markets Act which requires devices to be able to work across all platforms, including competing producers.

www.euronews.com

Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

Apple says competition rules that require functionality with rival products would compromise privacy and security

www.theguardian.com

Apple rejects new AI pact in EU, despite support from OpenAI, Google, more - 9to5Mac

Apple has refused to sign a new AI pact in the EU, despite it receiving support from several other major AI players like Google and OpenAI.

9to5mac.com

In fact, just type 'Apple AI EU' into your search engine of choice. Even from the horse's mouth if you scroll down to the section on the EU:

How to get Apple Intelligence - Apple Support (BW)

Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that helps you communicate, work, and express yourself. It combines generative models with your personal context to deliver intelligence that is most useful and relevant to you, while protecting your privacy.

support.apple.com

That’s grand

Thanks for taking the time to link to these articles.

 

[Hi Tek]

I'm looking forward to Siri improvements in general and especially linked to chatgpt. My wife and I got used to asking our Google speaker questions (often related to a movie we're watching) and getting clear, relevant answers spoken back. Siri more often than not just refers me to some webpage I'd have to read.

I can see this also being useful while driving on a road trip to get information about places and then maybe tie that in with maps to include side trips as we go. Doing a lot of that hands free and eyes free would be nice.

I'm with this. I enjoy using Siri for when it works but don't use often. I have a iPhone 14 PM though.. so I wont have access to these... does this include search results. That's really unfortunate and does not make me want to upgrade. It makes me not want to buy another iPhone but I probably will when my contract ends lol

 

[antiprotest]

Oh Apple has courage all right. We see ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, several others in China and other places, and Apple shows up to the party with...this. It takes guts to ride up to a Ferrari festival on a rusted one-gear children's tricycle and think you belong.

 

[karranz]

Oh Apple has courage all right. We see ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, several others in China and other places, and Apple shows up to the party with...this. It takes guts to ride up with a Ferrari festival on a rusted one-gear children's tricycle and think you belong.

hahahah just perfect example!

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Might want to update that "requirements" say "iPads with M-series processors" instead of "Apple Silicon". Apple considers *ALL* of the iPads to have come with "Apple Silicon" since the first iPad came with the "Apple A4" chip, which Apple considers the first Apple Silicon chip.

Although even "M1 minimum" seems to be somewhat arbitrary, since the A14 is nearly identical to M1 (just 2 more "performance" cores,) and has the exact same Neural Engine. In fact, the M1 has less than 1/3 the Neural Engine processing power than the A17 Pro that is the "minimum required phone CPU".

 

[hagar]

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.

2. I’m pretty sure Apple is able to make a generic system that can be trained for several languages. It needs to recognise the same letters of the alphabet for English and match it with a Dutch dictionary. Hardly a “difficult system”.

I don’t know what you mean with: if you set your language to English, you lose access to iPhone mirroring. why is that the case?

3. True. It’s about competition. And there’s zero reason why iPhone mirroring would be affected.

 

[hans1972]

Then why is this not rolling out in the EU? They reference DMA and GDPR as standing obstacles, but that can hardly be a problem if all on device. Then that is one weak argument from them that is truly hollow (might be like that ofc).

That argument of theirs, true or not, is hollow anyway, as Siri requests has been sent to their servers for others to listen in on them to improve the service, and that didn't seem to be any problem to keep when DMA came into action.

It's not that Apple Intelligence violates the DMA and GDPR. Apple is worried about EU demanding Apple opening up Apple Intelligence due to the DMA.

 

[Skimac]

It’s just getting more and more disappointing

 

[jchap]

Oh Apple has courage all right. We see ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, several others in China and other places, and Apple shows up to the party with...this. It takes guts to ride up to a Ferrari festival on a rusted one-gear children's tricycle and think you belong.

At least Apple is being very intentional about their rusted one-gear children's tricycle. 😉

 

[ignatius345]

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.

The cynic in me suspects Apple doesn’t have such a tool because overnight everyone’s iCloud storage would get a lot lighter….

 

[R3k]

My experiences so far:

Turned off AI Summaries for Messages, Notifications, and Mail because the subject line, message or notification itself usually gives me a better summary.

Dont use AI auto message replies but I dont like sending canned replies. If I dont have anything to say, a thumbs up emoji or such is fine.

AI writing tools- A rarely need help in this regard and for large texts would just go visit chat GPT. Prefer my own personality to come through while writing normally, dont need help shifting tones.

Photo removal tools- tried it out. Something id probably use once or twice.

Can't recall what else Apple Intelligence is doing currently that matters to me.

That said, Siri improvements are better late than never, but its going to take a while for me give it a chance again.

 

[GermanSuplex]

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.

“Siri, what’s new with iOS?”

Not really what I’d expect to see. I mean, not entirely irrelevant, but hardly intelligent. So far, nothing I’ve tried has worked well. Writing tools tell me it “cant work with this content”. Uh, ok?

I also tried “Go to Apple Intelligence settings” and it just opens the settings app in whatever screen it was last on, or the main settings page if it’s a re-launch.