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You Won't Get These Apple Intelligence Features Until 2025

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Apple plans to introduce the first Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.1, debuting Writing Tools, notification summaries, smart replies, and more. iOS 18.1 will be followed by iOS 18.2, which Apple started testing this week.

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iOS 18.2 has Genmoji, Image Playground, and Siri ChatGPT integration, but there are still some Apple Intelligence features that won't be introduced until even later.

More Siri Features

Apple plans to make major updates 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 a later update.

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.

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.

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.

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, Vietnamese, 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 are available in iOS 18.1, which will be released on Monday, October 28.

Image Playground, Genmoji, Siri ChatGPT integration, and other features will be released in iOS 18.2, which will likely launch in December. iOS 18.2 will be the last 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 a March update.

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Sounds like Apple is playing catch up...still. They were late to the AI game, had to rush out this announcement, couldn't even have it out in time for the new iPhone release, and are still only dropping certain features at a time.

They are really behind the competition here. I also believe they are having issues with getting the features to work themselves (may not have the talented AI engineers) hence why they need way more time
 
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StoneJack said:
I think I won't need them anyway
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Same. Every time I read about all of these features I am realizing how boring my digital life seems to be 😅 like if I get an email, I just read and delete it unless it is something I might need for later like a booking confirmation. Same with app notification, I got them disabled for 70% of my apps anyway and for the rest I read and swipe them away or answer.

I also never take notes and just few reminders to cancel trials every once in a while.

Not much to be organized for me but I can see how this could be useful for a CEO or something with 100 of texts per day.
 
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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 a March update.
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And all the needed bug fixes that will be found in iOS 18.5 or 18.6 needed for Apple Intelligence features from iOS 18.3 and 18.4 will be released in June 2025 which means we might as well wait to see what iOS 19 brings at WWDC and for iPhone 17 launch three months later.

No real reason to get the iPhone 16.
 
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jdavid_rp said:
Not a Vision Pro tho. Also it has been ages since his departure, we can’t know if he would have done it better.
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The early macOS was awful. It didn't get good until 10.3 Panther, in my opinion. xD That being said, he envisioned the digital lifestyle and, unlike Microsoft, he managed to make it happen within a decade.
 
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And all the needed bug fixes that will be found in iOS 18.5 or 18.6 needed for Apple Intelligence features from iOS 18.3 and 18.4 will be released in June 2025 which means we might as well wait to see what iOS 19 brings at WWDC and for iPhone 17 launch three months later.

No real reason to get the iPhone 16.
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ooo, I hear iOS 20 will be even better. Just what I've heard. And I'll skip the iPhone 17 and 18 because I also heard iPhone 19 will be better.
 
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jonnysods said:
I’d rather have those Siri improvements than AI on my devices. I just hope the improvements are as good as they are suggesting.
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That is one of my top hopes. Though that IS AI. I gave up on using Siri for more than adding a quick reminder or reading/sending a message while out on a walk with my AirPods. I've had much better luck with Google smart speaker at home for getting good spoken answers (and not just a link to a web site).

I'm also looking forward to visual intelligence
 
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Honestly, I don't mind they will take time to release these features - what annoys the heck out of me is that Apple has been advertising this on all their ads since September 2024 - get a 'Verizon Phone with Apple Intelligence' and it is vaporware - nowhere to be found (yes, it is in BETA).

Stop advertising the Apple Intelligence until you actually release it. I see a class action coming soon.
 
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MacGod said:
Honestly, I don't mind they will take time to release these features - what annoys the heck out of me is that Apple has been advertising this on all their ads since September 2024 - get a 'Verizon Phone with Apple Intelligence' and it is vaporware - nowhere to be found (yes, it is in BETA).

Stop advertising the Apple Intelligence until you actually release it. I see a class action coming soon.
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Every time I’ve seen one of those commercials they have a disclaimer at the end that says Apple Intelligence coming soon or coming in the spring.

I don’t care anything about it.
 
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