Apple finally jumped into the AI game with Apple Intelligence, a new feature announced at WWDC 2024. The company promises a powerful and personal AI assistant that integrates across iPhones, iPads and Macs. Here’s a quick breakdown of the key features.
Overview
Siri gets a major upgrade with natural conversations, text input, and on-device intelligence.
A powerful writing assistant rewrites, proofreads, and summarizes text across various apps.
Say goodbye to email clutter with priority messages, summaries, and smart replies powered by AI.
Smarter notifications prioritize what matters and reduce distractions with Focus modes.
Notes and Phone apps gain AI-powered transcription and summarization for calls.
Enhance your creativity with Image Playground to design fun images and personalized Genmoji.
Search and edit photos with ease using natural language and a new Clean Up tool.
Apple prioritizes user privacy with on-device processing and secure cloud computing.
Apple is integrating ChatGPT access directly into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.
Apple Intelligence brings a significant upgrade to Siri. Gone are the days of simple voice commands. Siri can now understand and respond to complex requests, even generating images based on your descriptions. Activating Siri now comes with a new visual flair – a glowing border that wraps around the screen. Here’s how new Siri can help you:
More natural conversations: Siri can follow your train of thought, understand if you stumble, and remember context between requests.
Type to Siri: You can choose to communicate with Siri by voice or text, whichever you prefer.
Device guidance: Siri can answer your questions on how to use various features on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Onscreen awareness: Siri can understand and act on information displayed on your screen, like adding an address from a message to a contact card.
Take actions across apps: Siri can perform hundreds of new actions within and between apps, like finding book recommendations mentioned in emails or messages.
Personalized intelligence: Siri can access your on-device information to deliver tailored responses, like playing a podcast recommended by a friend or finding flight details for an upcoming trip.
All New Writing Assistant
Apple Intelligence goes beyond simple voice commands. It boasts a robust writing assistant with “Writing Tools” built directly into various Apple applications, including Mail, Notes, Pages, and even third-party apps. This empowers users to:
Rewrite: Craft emails, cover letters, and resumes with finesse. Apple Intelligence suggests different versions of your writing, adjusting the tone based on the audience and task.
Proofread: Ensure grammatical accuracy, proper word choice, and sentence structure. It even proposes edits with explanations, allowing users to learn and improve their writing skills.
Summarize: Quickly grasp the key points of long texts. Choose to have text summarized as a paragraph, bulleted points, a table, or a list.
Email Management with Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence simplifies email management in Mail with several features:
Priority Messages: A dedicated section at the top of the inbox highlights urgent emails like dinner invitations or boarding passes.
Email Summaries: Preview summaries instead of just the first few lines, allowing users to quickly decide which emails require opening.
Smart Reply: Generate quick responses and identify questions within emails to ensure a comprehensive reply.
Smarter Notifications
Priority Notifications: Surface the most important notifications at the top of the stack, saving users time by prioritizing what matters most.
Notification Summaries: Scan long or stacked notifications to view key details directly on the Lock Screen, like when a group chat is particularly active.
Reduce Interruptions: A new Focus mode that displays only notifications requiring immediate attention, like a daycare pick-up reminder.
AI-powered Transcription and Summarization
Notes and Phone apps now offer recording, transcription, and summarization of audio:
Call Recordings: Participants are automatically notified when a call is recorded, and summaries are generated to recall key points after the call ends.
Image Playground
Create Fun Images: Apple Intelligence fuels Image Playground, allowing users to design unique images in seconds. Choose from Animation, Illustration, or Sketch styles.
Built-in Accessibility: Image Playground is readily available within Messages and as a standalone app for maximum convenience. Experiment with various concepts and styles without limitations.
Personalized Suggestions: In Messages, generate fun images relevant to your conversations. For example, if planning a hiking trip with friends, Image Playground suggests concepts related to your destination and activity.
Enhanced Notes: Integrate Image Playground with the Notes app using the Image Wand in the Apple Pencil tool palette. Transform rough sketches into delightful images or use context from surrounding notes to create an image.
Third-Party Integration: Image Playground extends its reach to other applications via a dedicated API, allowing developers to integrate it into their apps.
Genmoji: Express Yourself in a Whole New Way
Take emojis a step further with Genmoji. Simply type a description and a personalized Genmoji appears, along with additional options. Create Genmoji based on your photos or your friends’ and families’ pictures. Use Genmoji inline within messages or share them as stickers or reactions in a Tapback.
Enhanced Search and Editing of Photos
Natural Language Search: Effortlessly search for photos and videos using natural language. Find specific moments by describing the content, like “Maya skateboarding in a tie-dye shirt” or “Katie with stickers on her face.”
Search within Videos: Locate specific moments in video clips, enabling you to jump right to the relevant section.
Clean Up Tool: Identify and remove unwanted background objects in photos with precision, ensuring your subject remains unaltered.
Memories with AI Assistance: Craft a compelling narrative from your photos and videos. Simply provide a description, and Apple Intelligence selects the best content, creates a storyline based on identified themes, and arranges them into a movie with its own narrative arc. Apple Music even suggests songs to complement your memories. All photo and video processing is done on-device, ensuring privacy.
Keeping Privacy at the Forefront
Apple is emphasizing privacy with Apple Intelligence. The company says that user data will be processed on-device whenever possible, and that any cloud processing will be done using Apple’s secure “Private Cloud Compute” system. Users will also have complete control over who can access their data.
ChatGPT + Apple: A Powerful Partnership
Apple is integrating ChatGPT access directly into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, allowing users to utilize its expertise, including image- and document-understanding capabilities, without switching between tools. Siri can now tap into ChatGPT’s broad knowledge for more accurate and detailed responses. Users are asked for permission before any questions, documents, or photos are sent to ChatGPT, ensuring privacy and control.
For instance, an iPhone 15 Pro user can ask Siri for help planning a 5-course meal with specific ingredients. Siri will confirm if ChatGPT should be used, and upon approval, will provide detailed suggestions like a tomato and basil bruschetta recipe, presented seamlessly through Siri. This integration enhances user experience by offering practical and immediate solutions directly within Apple’s ecosystem.
Apple Intelligence Availability
Apple Intelligence will be available as a free beta this fall in U.S. English.
Additional features, software platforms, and languages will be introduced throughout the next year.
Initially available on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad and Mac devices with M1 chip or later.
Requires Siri and device language to be set to U.S. English for now.
End Note
So, what do I think about Apple stepping into the AI world? Let me know in the comment section below!
It’s definitely interesting to see Apple enter the AI race. Apple Intelligence has the potential to be a powerful tool that can make our lives easier. It will be interesting to see how Apple Intelligence develops and how it compares to other AI assistants on the market.
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