New: 'Apple Intelligence' AI Service for iOS 18 Will Have These Features

[MacRumors]

Apple will announce its new AI feature set for Apple devices at WWDC on June 10, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that it will be officially called "Apple Intelligence."

The AI capabilities will be coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15. The features will be opt-in, meaning Apple won't make users adopt them if they don't want to.

The processing requirements of AI will mean that users need an iPhone 15 Pro or one of the iPhone 16 models coming out this year to use it. For those using iPads or Macs, models will need an M1 chip at least. Apple's AI features will be powered by its own technology and tools from OpenAI, but there will also be a partnership with OpenAI that powers a ChatGPT-like chatbot.

Apple Intelligence is expected to handle basic AI tasks, and it will work mostly on-device. In other words, the model is powered by the device's onboard processor, rather than in the cloud. It's not clear what the criteria for a basic task will be, but Apple Intelligence is said to include code that determines if a request can be processed on device or requires Apple's servers.

Here are some of the key new AI-related features and changes rumored or previewed for iPhones, iPads, and Macs that we've covered so far:

• Apple Music: Auto-generated playlists and smarter song transitions.
• Apple News: AI-generated news article summaries.
• Health: New features powered by AI, but no specific details are known yet.
• Keynote and Pages: AI-powered features for auto-generating slides in Keynote, writing faster in Pages, and more.
• Mail: Incoming email categorization, and suggested replies to emails, as well as email thread summaries and text composition assistance.
• Messages: Suggested replies, custom emoji, message recaps.
• Notes: A built-in audio recording tool and audio transcriptions.
• Notifications: AI-generated notification summaries.
• Photos: AI-powered photo retouching.
• Safari: Browsing assistant that can summarize web pages.
• Siri: A smarter ChatGPT-inspired version of Siri with more per-app controls (in 2025).
• Spotlight: More intelligent search results and improved sorting.
• Voice Memos: Audio transcriptions.

Gurman says that The AI features will account for about half of Apple’s WWDC keynote presentation, which starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time on June 10.

For those unable to watch the live stream, or who prefer to read a text version of the announcements, we'll have live coverage both here on MacRumors.com and through our MacRumorsLive X (Twitter) account, so make sure to follow.

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[MacBird]

Apple Intelligence sounds like a spy service.

 

[dmr727]

I certainly like hearing that it's opt-in.

 

[MacUser16.]

iPadOS 15?

 

[backstreetboy]

Not iIntelligence? Weird. Missed opportunity.

 

[backstreetboy]

iPadOS 15?

Yeah they're merging it with MacOS 15.

 

[vegetassj4]

Aye Aye, let's hear it for AIAI that I spied with my eye.

Arrrghh matey. Apple is trying to highjack the acronym AI?

 

[iMatt.]

Should have called it iAi

 

[Warped9]

I certainly like hearing that it's opt-in.

Yeah. I can’t see myself using any of these options. I’ll do things myself, thank you.

 

[nt5672]

I think history has shown that anytime "Intelligence" is in a name that it is pure propaganda, or at least not very intelligent.

 

[constantsnags!]

Hoping to finally see some native recovery metrics and training prescription - they’re the big pieces missing from AW Ultra 2 at the moment. Mapping will come but I want the other stuff asap.

 

[jayducharme]

I too am glad it’s opt-in. I’ll pass on this and wait for long-term feedback on its behavior.

 

[icanhazmac]

Not iIntelligence? Weird. Missed opportunity.

Not really.

Apple Intelligence = AI

 

[vegetassj4]

Apple Intelligence sounds like a spy service.

They had already teased that they were going into the spy business:

 

[il_teo77]

An interesting thing will be which languages are supported...

 

[Velli]

Don’t see any killer features here. Is this where the competition is at?

All I want is for Siri to work.

 

[agsystems]

That’s a nice set of real world features. Nothing mind blowing for those that say Apple is behind but I think most people will find 3-5 features they will use every day to make it worth it to turn on.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Wonder if those of us with older phones will get at least something out of this. Or if they’re going to lock all features down for everything but the newest devices.

 

[abatabia]

So only 15 pro and up? Yeah I’m going to run out to upgrade for this. Nope.

 

[Ctrlos]

I'd be amazed is such a huge update was iPhone 15+ exclusive. I imagine it will be more like the 15/16 can perform these tasks on-device whereas the 12-14 will require a server connection to process commands.

There would be a huge business opportunity to allow M-series devices that are nearby (Mac, iPad, new Apple TV, Homepod?) to process commands from an iPhone locally creating a kind of Personal Area Network-GPT. This would allow for off-device ecosystem processing without anything being sent to a 3rd party server or an internet connection. Imagine an M1 iPad facilitating commands between an iPhone 12-14 and an Apple Watch without needing the web.

 

[Paddle1]

iPhone 15 Pro only? I personally don't mind too much since I already intended on upgrading next year but a bit disappointing.

 

[abatabia]

iPhone 15 Pro only? I personally don't mind too much since I already intended on upgrading next year but a bit disappointing.

Typical. Want this new service? Go drop a grand on the newest model and spend $29.99 a month for this service. No reason my 14Pro can’t handle this.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Opt-in is a good offering. If something goes wrong, Apple will deny responsibility to any who do opt-in. This could be a real privacy / security nightmare waiting to happen.

 

[swiftapplefan]

Artificial intelligence = AI.
Apple Intelligence = AI.
Love the wordplay. Or maybe, letter play?

 

[boss.king]

I could see myself using the playlist thing and notification summaries if they're good. No interest in any of the other stuff.