These Apple Intelligence Features Aren't Coming Until 2025

[MacRumors]

With iOS 18.2, Apple introduced several new Apple Intelligence features, like Genmoji, ChatGPT Siri integration, and Image Playground, so many of the capabilities that Apple introduced at WWDC 2024 have gone live.

We are still waiting on new Siri functionality that will make Siri smarter than before, plus Apple is still working to expand Apple Intelligence to more countries. Below, we've highlighted the Apple Intelligence features we know are still in development and that are slated for iOS 18.3 and iOS 18.4, updates coming in 2025.

More Siri Features

Apple is making some major changes to Siri, and has outlined new functionality that will make Siri much more helpful. Siri will be able to learn more about you through your communications and actions on your iPhone, but this personal context won't be coming until sometime in 2025.

Personal context will incorporate texts, emails, notes, and more, so you'll be able to ask Siri for things like a flight number buried in an email, or a recipe that a friend once texted you.

Siri will also be able to do more in apps, both first and third-party, with in-app actions. Siri will be able to do things like edit a photo for you and then send it to someone in the Messages app, or pull a PDF from an email and save it to the Files app.

Siri will also be able to get information and take action in third-party apps, doing things like getting a weather readout from Carrot Weather or scheduling an event in Fantastical.

New Siri capabilities will either come in iOS 18.3 or iOS 18.4 in 2025.

Sketch Style for Image Playground

As of right now, Image Playground has two different styles to choose from, animation and illustration. There is a third, though, that Apple plans to add in the future. Sketch is described as a "highly detailed and academic" style that "produces gorgeous drawings on stark backgrounds." It is distinct from the illustration style that has strong outlines, bold colors, and simple shapes, and the animation style that has a "whimsical, 3D cartoon look."

The animation, illustration, and sketch styles, respectively​

If you want to see what the sketch style looks like, you can check it out in the Image Wand feature in the Notes app, where it is available now.

Genmoji on macOS

macOS Sequoia 15.2 includes support for Image Playground, but it does not have Genmoji integration as of yet. You can create Genmoji with iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, but there is no Mac feature for making custom emoji characters. Apple plans to add it in a later update.

Memory Movies on macOS

The Memory Movie feature that lets you create slideshows from your photos using text descriptions is limited to the iPhone and iPad in iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and later. It will come to macOS Sequoia in the future.

Priority Notifications

Apple is working on a feature that will show you your most important notifications first. Priority Notifications will show up at the top of your notification stack, but this option isn't live yet.

More Languages

Apple plans to add support for more languages in 2025, including Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Apple says that the first "set" of new languages will come in a software update in April (likely iOS 18.4), while more will come throughout the year.

Apple Intelligence Support in the European Union

Apple plans to start rolling out Apple Intelligence features to iPhone and iPad users in the European Union in April. EU users will officially get access to Writing Tools, Genmoji, the updated Siri with better language understanding, Siri ChatGPT integration, and more.

Apple Intelligence Release Timing

Writing Tools, the new Siri design, Type to Siri, notification summaries, smart replies, Clean Up in Photos, and several other features launched in iOS 18.1, which was released on Monday, October 28.

Image Playground, Genmoji, Siri ChatGPT integration, and other features were released in iOS 18.2, which launched on Wednesday, December 11. iOS 18.2 will be the last public iOS update of 2024.

All other Apple Intelligence features are expected in iOS 18.3 and iOS 18.4, which will be released in 2025. iOS 18.3 could come as soon as late January, while iOS 18.4 will likely be an April update.

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[sinsin07]

Apple has been promising to make Siri smarter for years. It’s currently the dumbest B on the planet.

It's 2024 and it took 14 years and ChatGPT for Apple Exec's to realize this?

Apple's software chiefs decided they needed to upgrade Siri after spending weeks testing out ChatGPT themselves

The tech giant is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT in the next version of iOS.

www.yahoo.com

A conclusion can be drawn that Apple Execs weren't using Siri if in 2024 they just realize how useless it is.

Timmy said earlier this year he uses Vision Pro everyday.

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wccftech.com

Maybe he should of also used Siri everyday.

 

[bmark]

Apple AI is unimpressive like usual.

 

[seatton]

It is the end of 2024 and Siri still cannot turn on the lights for me properly at home. How hard is that?

 

[rchaser]

The soul of Apple is dead. There is no one at the company who can bring it back to life. Cook is the Denithors of Aragorns.

 

[TigerNike23]

So can we stop those obnoxious “I am geniuuuus….” singing ads for Apple Intelligence?

 

[airwalk331]

Am I going to be able to ask my phone to do things like "Siri, turn off my TV in 10 mins." Siri, turn notifications off for WhatsAPP until 1pm tomorrow" etc?

THIS is the kind of stuff I expect Apple Intelligence to do and it makes sense. If Apple is adding AI to the iPhone, I should be able to ask it about and to do anything on the iPhone and have it do it.

Also, with this update, I don't want to ever hear "This is what I found on the web for [insert siri request here]". This should be gone unless I actually ask it to search on the web for something.

 

[TigerNike23]

Am I going to be able to ask my phone to do things like "Siri, turn off my TV in 10 mins." Siri, turn notifications off for WhatsAPP until 1pm tomorrow" etc?

THIS is the kind of stuff I expect Apple Intelligence to do and it makes sense. If Apple is adding AI to the iPhone, I should be able to ask it about and to do anything on the iPhone and have it do it.

Also, with this update, I don't want to ever hear "This is what I found on the web for [insert siri request here]". This should be gone unless I actually ask it to search on the web for something.

Siri, how long is a flight from Miami to New York City?

I found this on the web for “how long is a flight from Miami to New York City”

 

[Koni17]

All those people justifying their iPhone 16 purchases with "OMG but what about being ready for Apple AI!!", just chill and wait to see what happens with this product, by the time it's ironed out the iPhone 17 will be right around the corner.

 

[FineWoven]

It is the end of 2024 and Siri still cannot turn on the lights for me properly at home. How hard is that?

You’re talking about the same company that delayed a Snoopy wallpaper by nearly six months for God knows what reason… So, apparently pretty hard.

 

[airwalk331]

Siri, how long is a flight from Miami to New York City?

I found this on the web for “how long is a flight from Miami to New York City”

It’s pathetic! This is definitely NOT the Steve Jobs Apple.

 

[Dulcimer]

Apple Intelligence has seriously been one of the most underwhelming and confused Apple software launches ever.

The release is so delayed and staggered. Things like notification summaries produce such nonsensical results. Image Playground can conjure up 70% of the desired result assuming you’re okay with its whiney limits on usage. Mail Categorization is all over the place. And Siri isn’t getting any real updates until 2025.

I think about the only thing that works well are the writing tools, but I’ve never used them outside of a demo because I don’t have a need in writing inauthentic messages and emails.

Apple was so clearly unprepared for the AI wave and jumped on with mediocre local models for their low-RAM phones. All so they can sell the iPhone 16 with the “Apple Intelligence” badge. Needs way more time to bake.

 

[FSMBP]

I'm having a tough time seeing significant distinction between the animation, illustration, and sketch styles.

 

[Naraxus]

Apple needs to go back to a schedule where they release a new OS when it's ready and not "because it's a new year". It just seems like the last few years they announce a new operating system and half of the new features don't come until just before the next operating system is announced.

 

[fumi2014]

When you look at OpenAi and all it offers, the Chinese video models like Minimax, you see that Apple is way behind here. Can anyone who looks at stuff outside the Apple ecosystem say that any of this is impressive?

Maybe if this had all shipped twelve months ago...

 

[Naraxus]

It’s pathetic! This is definitely NOT the Steve Jobs Apple.

Siri was introduced by the guy who Tim Cook took over for fyi

 

[votdfak]

Apple Intelligence dumb af compared to other AI offerings.

 

[uller6]

It is the end of 2024 and Siri still cannot turn on the lights for me properly at home. How hard is that?

This morning's interaction:

me: Siri, play the floor is lava

Siri: OK. *playing some totally innapropriate hip hop song*

me: Siri, I don't like this song

Siri: I can show you some results if you unlock your phone

me: 🤦‍♂️

 

[Algr]

Apple is too woke and frightened of their customers to actually allow the AI to do anything. So they are probably sinking tons of cash into this and getting nowhere.

That, and committed to selling stuff instead of giving you what you actually want.

 

[cateye]

It’s pathetic! This is definitely NOT the Steve Jobs Apple.

How long does the guy need to be dead before we stop digging up the corpse and parading it around like the dance of the macabre every time today's Apple burps a little too loudly?

Yeah, Image Playgrounds is stupid. It's also exactly the sort of needless window dressing Steve The Marketer loved to crow about at some kind of achievement unto itself, like when he kept calling the Aqua interface "lickable." He was capable of absolute greatness as a visionary and business leader. He was also equally mired by his own ridiculousness.

Kinda feels like the same ol' Apple, really.

 

[DelayedGratificationGene]

Just tried genmoji and mail AI. Genmoji is just unbelievable fun and mail is a game changer. Will try ChatGPT Siri and rest later.

 

[jmadara]

Apple has been promising to make Siri smarter for years. It’s currently the dumbest B on the planet.

We have Memoji, Animoji, and now Image Playground!

 

[guzhogi]

The soul of Apple is dead. There is no one at the company who can bring it back to life. Cook is the Denithors of Aragorns.

I miss Steve Jobs so much. Sure, Tim brought Apple Silicon and Swift, but that's pretty much behind the scenes stuff. Steve brought the iMac, iPod, and iPhone which were way more "Wow!" customer-oriented things. Plus, Steve was way more of a showman/marketeer, while Tim's… well, boring. I'll give Tim his credit due, it's amazing to go from what? a $300-some odd billion company to a $3 trillion one? That speaks a lot. Not gonna lie.

 

[inequals]

When they introduced Siri I assumed that they'd have you know, one or two people deep within the bowels of Apple HQ just constantly working on Sisi whose sole purpose would be to hard-code particular requests, maybe even "amount of requests per query" being based on actual user data, so that while their lofty claims about AI and all that (that they definitely were making at the launch of Siri) may not be coming true, eventually most common and a few esoteric use cases would have been coded in to Siri manually... resulting in, well, the feature being anything but an Android fanboy's ultimate gotcha clause.

I hope that the rumours I've seen about the EU forcing Apple to open up the platform to allow those who so desire to run their own code are actually factual, because being able to install an actual working voice assistant or being able to tweak Siri (maybe adding your own specific workflows) ...

I am really starting to worry, not exactly for Apple's financial position like in the days of yore, but maybe that's the problem. They feel invincible, so their relentless focus on not just being a pretty (expensive) alternative that suffers in terms of interoperability and advanced usage - which is how most people who have e.g. never used macOS would see the Apple prisosystem.

Being top dog is obviously harder than it seems when you start to believe your own hype. See: every top dog ever

 

[guzhogi]

More Languages

Apple plans to add support for more languages in 2025, including Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Apple says that the first "set" of new languages will come in a software update in April (likely iOS 18.4), while more will come throughout the year.

Just made me remember the old Monolingual app I used to use to save space on my Mac. Would remove whatever languages you didn't want in apps and the OS. Cleared up maybe 2-3 GB. Nowadays, that doesn't mean much when drives are in the TB range.