See Apple Intelligence in Action

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Apple released iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 betas for developers yesterday, introducing an early version of Apple Intelligence. Not all of the Apple Intelligence features are implemented yet, but we thought we'd go through what's available and see just what kind of changes AI will bring to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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With Apple Intelligence, you can use Writing Tools to proofread text for spelling and grammar errors, or rewrite what you've written to change the tone. There are also options for summarizing any text, and Writing Tools are available across the operating system. You can use them anywhere you can write text.

Siri has a new design with a glow around the edges of the display when active, and there is a Type to Siri option so you don't need to talk to Siri. Siri is able to maintain context between requests and follow along if you stumble over words, plus Siri can answer all kinds of questions about your devices thanks to the integration of Apple's product knowledge and support database.

Phone calls can be recorded, transcribed, and summarized, there are Smart Replies for Mail and Messages, Photos has a Memory Maker feature, and there's a Reduce Interruptions Focus Mode that intelligently filters out notifications you don't need to see right away.

If you want a more in-depth rundown of all of the features that are available, we have a dedicated guide that highlights what's in the beta now. There are several Apple Intelligence features coming later, including Image Playground, Genmoji, ChatGPT integration, and the smarter version of Siri that has onscreen awareness and can do more in and across apps. You won't find these features in the current iOS 18.1 beta, but Apple plans to roll them out across 2024 and 2025.

Apple Intelligence is limited to developers at the current time, with Apple working to refine the Apple Intelligence features and eliminate bugs. A beta version of Apple Intelligence will be available for all users later this fall, after iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia launch. You will need an iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max or later or an Apple silicon Mac or iPad to use Apple Intelligence due to the processor requirements.

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[Stenik]

Solution is search of a use case

 

[jz0309]

what kind of changes AI will bring to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

If you have a compatible phone and if one chooses to enable it

 

[jmh600cbr]

this is awesome. i guess i'll buy a 16 pro max ultra plus!

 

[dugbug]

Solution is search of a use case

I find using email summaries instead of the first line of the email to be an excellent use case.

 

[and 1989 others]

Is there anybody out there who is completely disinterest in anything relates to AI?

Just cannot seem to get my head around why? its seems great on the surface, but to me its adding layers of complexity to things that are pretty simple to achieve with your own intelligence.

 

[spazzcat]

Is there anybody out there who is completely disinterest in anything relates to AI?

Just cannot seem to get my head around why? its seems great on the surface, but to me its adding layers of complexity to things that are pretty simple to achieve with your own intelligence.

AI saves me a lot of time.

 

[and 1989 others]

AI saves me a lot of time.

Saves you time to do what with?

 

[aorr]

So glad they are prioritizing the more useful features instead of the dumb image AI playground stuff etc.

 

[GrayFlannel]

So these examples are only possible due to AI?

 

[spazzcat]

Saves you time to do what with?

Writing articles, cleaning up my grammar and errors in my writing, spending less time looking for stock photos that are really royally free, and just creating images, etc.

Edit: I'm a member of a few non-profits. I’ve been able to improve our marking items with AI, this includes websites, flyers, posters, ads, etc.

 

[chfilm]

How is future Siri with openai capabilities gonna handle voice requests that need web access?

 

[iGeek2019]

Is there anybody out there who is completely disinterest in anything relates to AI?

Just cannot seem to get my head around why? its seems great on the surface, but to me its adding layers of complexity to things that are pretty simple to achieve with your own intelligence.

I think it'll come in handy for TL;DR circumstances - can't speak for other people but sometimes I can waffle on a bit too much when being concise is key.

However I did have to laugh recently. A well known confectionery company are running a competition alongside AI to use your image as part of their bi-centenary celebrations.

Despite following the steps whichever AI model they are using decided I looked like a celebrity and refused my image several times.

Needless to say I don't look like anyone famous, past or present 🤪

 

[name99]

How good is the integration with Safari?

The use case I really care about is having to re-enter stuff like my name, address, phone number, known traveller ID, etc etc EVERY DAMN TIME I interact with an airline or hotel or whatever. The semantic web was supposed to do this for us but that crashed and burned (I still haven't seen a good post-mortem as to quite why). So for twenty years we've had this pathetic half-solution that can usually fill in your name or email address, can do your phone number about half the time, and fails at everything else, like your address (presumably, at least in part, because every damn web page formats and labels their forms differently?)

Apple Intelligence certainly, IN PRINCIPLE, can do this - has both the language knowledge to know what's asked for in each field, and the user knowledge to fill it in. But I don't know if they've yet hooked up this (obvious, but perhaps more complicated) use case.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Saves you time to do what with?

I’ll provide you with an example. I input messy data from a branch manager’s email into ChatGPT, instructing it to sanitize and format the data in a manner that I can utilize. In a matter of seconds, ChatGPT successfully performs these tasks. It would have taken me significantly longer to accomplish these tasks manually.

Say it takes me about 5 minutes to manually clean up that data. If I have 10 branch manager emails, that’s already almost an hour spent. AI can automate this process, allowing me to allocate that 50 minutes to more productive tasks.

 

[peneaux]

It looks nice. I'm not that sure about privacy implications. Let's hope Apple keeps e2ee for the most part. Sending most of my pictures to OpenAI would make me concern.

 

[madmin]

They must have an option to prevent someone phoning you and recording the conversation, right ? Or do they just expect you to hang up if you disagree ?

 

[testcard]

"Siri has a new design with a glow around the edges of the display when active..."
That's the dealbreaker for me.

 

[spazzcat]

They must have an option to prevent someone phoning you and recording the conversation, right ? Or do they just expect you to hang up if you disagree ?

They can record you now with an extra recording device, but I believe both sides have to agree?

 

[jclardy]

Email and messages summaries have been the biggest use for me so far (Only installed on an iPad.) If you have some Messages threads going crazy you can easily see what is going on without scrolling through all the messages to know if you want to reply, then you can look at them later. And for emails, the two line summary is now pretty useful compared to just the first two lines of the email, which usually just repeat the subject. Now you can get the gist of things without having to open each message.

Priority inbox has been a flop for me so far though - it did pick up on two deliveries, which is nice, but it also promoted a 10% off coupon from a random website i'm subscribed to...and I don't see a way to remove it - swiping does nothing, and long press gives you thumbs up/down, but thumbs down just sends feedback, and after sending feedback the message still sits there. Obviously, beta 1 bugs for sure, especially since this is basically two releases away.

 

[madmin]

They can record you now with an extra recording device, but I believe both sides have to agree?

Thanks for the reply. You may be surprised to hear that there are laws against that here in the ummm EU...

 

[NM08SRT8]

They must have an option to prevent someone phoning you and recording the conversation, right ? Or do they just expect you to hang up if you disagree ?

Download and see.

 

[bunty]

I find AI stuff totally 100% pointless at this time. Maybe one day it'll be actually useful, but who knows. For now what's funny is stuff I've seen like a senders AI generated email being summarized by the receivers AI who then uses AI to generate an email response and ridiculous other AI loops like that.

I see AI generated stuff and capabilities as just another way to remove people from being in touch with others, their own creativity, and therefore themselves. It's detachment technology. And don't give me this nonsense about "professional" prompters and whatnot.

There are AI generated prompt tools now which generate prompts to pass to AI generators to generate images, music, text, and video. Laughable, just laughable. AI feeding AI while we basically sit back in the audience and watch.

It seems to me that technology while helpful and even essential in many facets of today's life, AI has a serious risk of reducing talent, knowledge, and creativity in humanity. Everything feels too transactional to me. Don't remember something? You don't need to, just search online. Transactional memory.

One day, soon probably, we'll be able to prompt something like Netflix to generate a complete movie and alter it in real time, "Make her prettier." "Make it snowing here." "This needs more action, add in a car chase." Genflix maybe? AIflix?

People are already generating novels with AI. I've decided to no longer read any fiction published after 2024, and not assume that anything I see, hear, watch, or read was made by a human or at least untainted by AI. I don't assume any photo or any voice recording is actually in any way real anymore. The youtube series Two Minute Papers altered how I see the world these days. It's like we're not in the simulation, we're' just building it around us piece by piece until we're walled off from reality, or at least trusting and knowing what reality is.

 

[gatorvet96]

It's beta and a developing feature. Give it a few years to mature. AI will make life easier and also make us dumber.

 

[spazzcat]

Thanks for the reply. You may be surprised to hear that there are laws against that here in the ummm EU...

In the US, every state has different laws and rules around recording people. Some states are one-person states, meaning I can record you without your permission.