Apple heavily sprinkled mentions of AI throughout its iphone16 events. However generative apple intelligence won’t be ready for the public launch on September 16th or the new iPhones when they’re released on September 20th.
The first set of Apple’s AI features is scheduled for public availability next month in most regions — except the EU — as part of a beta test for iPhone 15 Pro and all iPhone 16s, plus Macs and iPads with M1 or higher Apple Silicon chips. At launch, they’ll be available in US English only.
Improved Text Editing Tools for Apple Intelligence in October
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Apple Intelligence is set to receive a significant upgrade in October with the addition of powerful text editing tools. Text Rewrite will help you refine your email drafts, transforming them into more professional and polished messages. You'll also have the option to adjust the tone to be more friendly or concise. Proofread will act as a virtual editor, correcting grammar, sentence structure, and suggesting more suitable words. Finally, Summarize Text will streamline your writing by condensing it to its essential points or creating concise bullet lists or tables.
- Smart Reply: We’ve seen this AI feature shown off quite a bit. Smart Reply will give you a few contextual suggestions to get you started on a reply in Mail or elsewhere.
- Smart Reply: We’ve seen this AI feature shown off quite a bit. Smart Reply will give you a few contextual suggestions to get you started on a reply in Mail or elsewhere.
New Siri:
- New look: On iPhone, iPad, or CarPlay, Siri will appear as a rainbow ring around the edges of the screen, and on Mac, Siri can float and be placed anywhere on your desktop.
- Apple’s new language model: Siri should also get a bit smarter and thanks to Apple’s on-device language model. Meanwhile, more complex questions will be sent to Apple’s “Private Cloud Compute” server, which Apple claims acts as a computational extension to your device,
- Type to Siri: Instead of talking, you’ll be able to type questions to the assistant anytime.
Visual Changes:
- iPhone, iPad, and CarPlay: Siri will appear as a colorful rainbow ring around the edges of your screen. This is a new visual cue to indicate Siri is listening.
- Mac: Siri will be able to float and be placed anywhere on your desktop. This gives you more flexibility in how you interact with her.
Improved Intelligence:
- Natural Language Understanding: Siri's on-device language model will make her better at understanding your questions and commands, even when they are complex or phrased in a natural way.
Photos
- Clean Up: Similar to google magic changer Clean Up will remove unwanted objects in your photos.
- Search: You’ll be able to search for photos using natural language to find specific subjects you’re looking for but can’t find scrolling through your library.
- Memories: You’ll be able to make a movie using media from your Photos library by writing out a prompt, and it should create a narratively driven story with chapters.
Transcription
- Phone call recording and transcription: You’ll be able to record phone calls and get a transcription of the whole call. Activating this feature will tell all parties that the call is being recorded.
- Voice recordings in Notes: You’ll be able to record audio within the actual Notes app, and it will transcribe speech into text. You can also use Apple’s other writing tools to help summarize the whole session.
- Visual Intelligence: Apple’s new Visual Intelligence introduced during the iPhone 16 presentation can search for things by just snapping a photo. You could, for instance, take a picture of a cafe storefront and get information about it, like hours and its menu, or take a photo of a concert poster and add it to your calendar. Visual Intelligence, when it arrives, will be activated using the Camera Control side button on iPhone 16 and 16 Pro.
- Genmoji: You’ll be able to create your own emoji by entering a text prompt, and apple image generator will make you a new emoji you can send to friends.
These Apple Intelligence features are arriving later
Apple says other AI features will “roll out later this year and in the months following.” That means these features could arrive as soon as October, or they could arrive next summer or fall. Unfortunately, these are also some of the most eye-catching features coming to Apple Intelligence.
- Image Playground: In addition to making custom emoji, Apple Intelligence will also eventually create custom images. Enter a text prompt for whatever image you’d like (assume some actual restrictions will apply), and Apple’s models will conjure up a picture for you.
- Siri Personal Context: Siri’s usefulness will evolve later by contextually helping you with onscreen information on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
- OpenAI connection: Anywhere there are Apple Intelligence writing tools, you will also have the option to use Chat GPT for additional generative AI options. ChatGPT should also be able to process your Siri requests for more advanced answers to questions.
- Third-party app connections with Siri: Apple’s also promising Siri will, one day, complete in-app requests, like making photo edits in an image editing app using pictures in your Photos app.