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Apple Says iOS 18's ChatGPT Integration on Track for Later This Year

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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday said that ChatGPT will be integrated across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia "by the end of the calendar year." He shared this timeframe during Apple's quarterly earnings call with analysts.

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Apple first said that ChatGPT integration was coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac later this year during its WWDC keynote in June, and Cook's comment indicates that this timeframe remains on track as of the first week of August.

"ChatGPT is integrated by the end of the calendar year," said Cook, in response to a question about the timing of Apple Intelligence features.

With user permission, Siri will be able to show ChatGPT answers directly in response to questions and other prompts. ChatGPT will also be an option for Apple's system-wide Writing Tools feature, allowing users to generate text and images. Apple said ChatGPT will be powered by OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model on its platforms.

iPhone, iPad, and Mac users will be able to use ChatGPT for free, without creating an account, and ChatGPT Plus subscribers will be able to connect their accounts to access paid features on these devices. Apple said OpenAI will not store ChatGPT requests made from its devices, and it said users' IP addresses will be obscured.

Apple Intelligence features started rolling out to developers for testing in the iOS 18.1 beta earlier this week, but ChatGPT integration is not available yet.

Apple Intelligence features require an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, or a Mac or iPad equipped with an M1 chip or newer. The device's language must be set to U.S. English, with support for additional languages to roll out over the next year.

The full suite of Apple Intelligence features is expected to be available by time iOS 18.4 is released to the public around March 2025. These features will enable users to summarize text, prioritize notifications and emails, generate custom emoji and images, and more. The technology will also power a smarter version of Siri with richer language understanding, deeper per-app controls, on-screen awareness, and personalized context.

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I wonder if they allow beta access to chatGPT during the 18.1 beta. I imagine they would want to first test this integration before shipping as soon as possible. Also, I’d be interested in the integration part, where they say that paid chatGPT subscribers will be able to access the paid functionality of chatGPT 🤔 How will this work? What features? Will we be able to have the Memory feature enabled? Maybe access personal data as part of the Apple Intelligence framework through some kind of chatGPT knowledgebase?
 
That first phrase in the screenshot sounds like disgusting Disneyified zaccharine...

Also, what chatgpt? The online one that sends your data away? I thought they promised on device functions...
 
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vertsix said:
I am unsure why Apple just lets things get delayed so willy nilly. Seems like they’re very laissez-faire with deadlines in engineering.
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They started working on AI late

Originally the plan was to just do the usual iPhone/iOS release of: "tweak some emojis, add a widget shape, spec bump the camera and change one of the dimensions by 0.01"" (enough to require new case and accessory sales)

They apparently realized that more than the usual Tim Cooking was required based upon the competitive landscape
 
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Prediciton: in 2025, EU and DoJ will require any AI to be able to be just as integrated into iOS as AppleI (and same on Android) and it will just wither away like Siri since noone will bother.
 
nottorp said:
That first phrase in the screenshot sounds like disgusting Disneyified zaccharine...

Also, what chatgpt? The online one that sends your data away? I thought they promised on device functions...
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Apple Intelligence is Apple's LLM. It runs on device for some requests. For more advanced requests, it may send it to Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers. That is end to end encrypted and those servers don't have the ability to store any data. They work in RAM and then wipe it when the request is done.

Apple setup a contract with OpenAI to service some more advanced request as we all "world knowledge" requests. That contract blocks OpenAI from storing your data or using it for training. It also gives Apple the right to audit OpenAI's systems to confirm compliance. BTW before Siri hands off to ChatGPT, it pops up a notice telling you that the request would go to ChatGPT and if you want to continue or cancel. No surprises.
 
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Though, I'm still unhappy about Apple excluding the iPhone 15 (non-Pro).
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I'm sure that Apple is too as it limits the number of people who can use their new system. Those phones were design finalized 2-3 years ago. At that time no one knew you might be able to run an AI on a phone or what the requirements would end up being. They were able to get it to work on devices with 8GB of RAM but not on devices with less. The base 15 has 6GB.
 
I wonder how much these announcements align with recent findings that consumers think less of, and trust less, brands that are using AI. I can imagine that given the current sea-change towards the technologies maybe Apple is wanting to distance themselves from these things a little.

Anyone else remember the 2014 3D TVs, the 2022 NFT Display Modes. Anyone else use them any more?
 
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vertsix said:
I work in engineering and I have very tight and stringent deadlines. I am unsure why Apple just lets things get delayed so willy nilly. Seems like they’re very laissez-faire with deadlines in engineering.
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Delayed? Where did you read that it was delayed?

Apple never gave a time frame for when Apple Intelligence was debuting, they just said it would be part of the next version of the OS.
 
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vertsix said:
I work in engineering and I have very tight and stringent deadlines. I am unsure why Apple just lets things get delayed so willy nilly. Seems like they’re very laissez-faire with deadlines in engineering.
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  1. Apple is still on its publicly announced timeline.
  2. If you were developing software at Apple's scale you probably would've told us. :)
  3. Releasing features as they're ready instead of trying to prepare everything at one is responsible modern software development at large scale.
Apple doesn't release numbers, but I think a conservative guess is 100,000,000 lines of code (not counting Xcode and related tools) at 3,500 developers.
 
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