Apple Expanding AI Writing Tools With Grammar Checker in iOS 27

[MacRumors]

iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 will include a revamped AI chatbot version of Siri with new capabilities, but Apple is also planning to introduce new Apple Intelligence features across the operating system, reports Bloomberg.

Apple is testing an expanded version of Writing Tools that will do more rewriting and text generation than the current version. There is a "Write With Siri" toggle at the top of the keyboard, along with a "Help Me Write" option that comes up when Siri is activated while a text field is open.

Apple is planning to introduce a dedicated AI grammar checker for Writing Tools that will work like Grammarly. When writing in Messages, Mail, and other apps there will be a translucent menu that slides up from the bottom of the iPhone's screen, and it will show suggested revisions next to the original written text.

Users can go through the suggestions and accept or reject them one by one, approve all of the changes at once, or ignore all of the changes. Apple has an option for pausing grammar checking and for moving between different flagged sections of text. Apple already has a spellchecking feature, but the new feature will add grammar suggestions.

The updates to Writing Tools will be unveiled at Apple's June 8 WWDC keynote. Apple is also planning AI updates for the Photos app, Camera app, and more, with details available in our iOS 27 roundup.

Article Link: Apple Expanding AI Writing Tools With Grammar Checker in iOS 27

 

[TwoBytes]

I always felt the AI 'proofread' wasn't very 'Apple/just works' and something I don't use as it required clicks, so it would be nice to have something visual you could see as you type, like Word or Grammarly (which has gone downhill with price hikes and poor service).

 

[locovaca]

Just missing the “pause forever” option it sounds like.

 

[contacos]

All the AI stuff is too hidden on iOS. I bet you 80% of people don't even know it exists. At least on Samsung OneUI, they have a dedicated section with easy to understand explanations of each functionality and short cuts in a dedicated section within settings AND you can enable and disable each individually, it's not all or nothing like with Apple Intelligence

 

[BeatsByTim]

All the AI stuff is too hidden on iOS. I bet you 80% of people don't even know it exists. At least on Samsung OneUI, they have a dedicated section with easy to understand explanations of each functionality and short cuts in a dedicated section within settings AND you can enable and disable each individually, it's not all or nothing like with Apple Intelligence

I know it exists. I simply refuse to use it.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

They need to improve that AI logo, it’s awful.

 

[bluecoast]

I'd settle for them just fixing the iOS keyboard.

 

[dominiongamma]

I'd settle for them just fixing the iOS keyboard.

iOS keyboard really does suck, when I was using the pixel one time I barely had any errors, it was amazing and accurate

 

[dredlew]

I know it exists. I simply refuse to use it.

Why? It’s genuinely useful in rewriting emails or wherever else you may use it. And it’s free. Unlike Grammarly.

 

[dredlew]

They need to improve that AI logo, it’s awful.

Indeed. It’s not recognizable as an AI logo. The 4-pointed star(s) has become the industry standard, but Apple likes to be “different”…

 

[turbineseaplane]

Haven’t we been checking grammar in software for well over a decade?

 

[Falco McGregor]

Haven’t we been checking grammar in software for well over a decade?

You wouldn't know it by reading most of the internet.

 

[turbineseaplane]

You wouldn't know it by reading most of the internet.

I’m not really sure AI grammar checking will help that. Lol

Joking aside, Internet discourse just kinda has its own informal style.

I honestly wonder how much that is even getting graded in schools.
Hell, we have people submitting partially (or fully) AI generated papers now!

 

[Kar98]

Can we like just start with making the damn return key smaller again
So
Don’t type like
This all the time?
And a numpad keyboard for typing in a bunch of numbers like when typing in a field that expects numbers I want a square number block. Can’t be too hard.

 

[Wx_Man]

“Apple already has spell checking”…..said nobody ever that has used iMessages

 

[bLackjackj]

All of these “new” features appear to be all the Android announcements..yet no mention of Gemini in these articles as the backbone?

Apple was clearly spooked by Google and ran to Gurman Lol

 

[Abydos]

Gott im Himmel

 

[Wx_Man]

Indeed. It’s not recognizable as an AI logo. The 4-pointed star(s) has become the industry standard, but Apple likes to be “different”…

The Apple Intelligence logo is an “interesting” take on a heptogram or seven pointed star. The seven pointed star is very significant in the occult. It is a symbol found in Kabbalah. It’s been used by Catholics in history as a ward against evil. But Aleister Crowley used it to symbolize Babalon in his occult system of Thelema. And Neopagans call the seven pointed star the “The Elven Star”.

But I think Apple looked at the heptagram from a network topology perspective. If you apply Complete Graph theory onto a heptagram you find a complete network topology as found in computer networks between switches connecting either CPUs or GPUs. In other words, nodes. Or neural nets.

But more likely, from an aesthetic viewpoint, the logo designers took the heptagram and applied Knot Theory to it which you get a 7 Knot. I think one can see the similarities.

You can also see the fractal nature of a heptagram from the Complete Graph example or the 7 Knot example. Either way you draw it, either as a seven sided polygon or a seven pointed star, the center is also either a seven sided polygon or a seven pointed star.

 

[shadowself]

Apple AI grammar checker? What standard? Strunk & White -- sucks. AP -- sucks. Chicago Manual of Style -- OK.

As for MS Word's grammar checker: it sucks badly. It wouldn't know an appositive from a subordinate clause if you made each painfully obvious. It has zero understanding of how to punctuate an interjection at the start of a sentence. That list goes on and on and on.

The fact is the vast majority of people in the U.S. *NEVER* learn proper grammar in the first place. I'd bet a lot of money that the vast majority of high school English teachers could not tell you the difference between a gerund and a gerundive without looking it up!

I don't expect Apple's AI grammar checker to be any real help to anyone with a decent ability to write.

 

[Wx_Man]

Just to drive the point home a bit more explicitly concerning Apple’s usage of Knot Theory in designing the Apple Intelligence logo. AI Logo vs 7 Knot

 

[EU-Regulations]

nobody has a problem with Google on board? this forum must be a marketing tool then.

 

[clickerclacker]

All I want is for Siri to stop telling me "I don't see a Groceries list"

 

[Dark_Omen]

iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 will include a revamped AI chatbot version of Siri with new capabilities, but Apple is also planning to introduce new Apple Intelligence features across the operating system, reports Bloomberg.

Apple is testing an expanded version of Writing Tools that will do more rewriting and text generation than the current version. There is a "Write With Siri" toggle at the top of the keyboard, along with a "Help Me Write" option that comes up when Siri is activated while a text field is open.

Apple is planning to introduce a dedicated AI grammar checker for Writing Tools that will work like Grammarly. When writing in Messages, Mail, and other apps there will be a translucent menu that slides up from the bottom of the iPhone's screen, and it will show suggested revisions next to the original written text.

Users can go through the suggestions and accept or reject them one by one, approve all of the changes at once, or ignore all of the changes. Apple has an option for pausing grammar checking and for moving between different flagged sections of text. Apple already has a spellchecking feature, but the new feature will add grammar suggestions.

The updates to Writing Tools will be unveiled at Apple's June 8 WWDC keynote. Apple is also planning AI updates for the Photos app, Camera app, and more, with details available in our iOS 27 roundup.

Article Link: Apple Expanding AI Writing Tools With Grammar Checker in iOS 27

I think associating Siri with anything that should make a feature more intelligent is a poor move on Apple's part. Siri is such a disaster and has been for the better part of a decade and a half now.

 

[indefinite]

A real timesaver would be Proofread automatically fixing your email right when you hit "send."

 

[BeatsByTim]

Why? It’s genuinely useful in rewriting emails or wherever else you may use it. And it’s free. Unlike Grammarly.

My grammar mistakes are what make me me.