IBL News | New York
Apple announced yesterday that its Generative AI suite, Apple Intelligence, will start rolling out in beta in October 2024 in the U.S. with iO 18.1, iPad 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.
In addition, Apple introduced the new iPhone 16 lineup (iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max), built for Apple Intelligence and features more advanced A18 and A18 Pro chips.
This AI suite, available as a free software update, will include improved Siri, which will have a brand-new design and a glowing light that wraps around the edge of the screen when active on an iPhone, iPad, or CarPlay.
It will also include Writing Tools for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text nearly everywhere they write, including Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps.
In Photos, the Memories feature now enables users to create movies by simply typing a description. In addition, natural language can be used to search for specific photos and videos.
The new Clean Up tool can identify and remove distracting objects in a photo’s background without accidentally altering the subject.
Users can record, transcribe, and summarize audio in the Notes and Phone apps. The phone app automatically notifies participants when a recording is initiated while on a call. Once the call ends, Apple Intelligence generates a summary to help recall key points.
Across a user’s inbox, summaries convey the most important information of each email instead of simply previewing the first few lines.
Smart Reply in Mail provides users with suggestions for a quick response and identifies questions in an email to ensure everything is answered.
Priority Notifications surface what’s most important.
More Apple Intelligence features will roll out later this year and in the months following.
Users can access ChatGPT for free without creating an account, and ChatGPT’s data-use policies apply—for example, IP addresses are obscured, and requests are stored.
