What is Apple Intelligence? Everything you need to know
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is Apple's personal intelligence system that utilizes Apple silicon to understand and generate text and images, execute actions within and across applications, and learn from your personal context to make everyday tasks easier and faster while maintaining user privacy. It was released on October 28, 2024, with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 as a free software update.
Key Features of Apple Intelligence?
1) Systemwide Writing Tools
Apple Intelligence powers new Writing Tools that help users refine their writing by rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text nearly everywhere they write, including apps like Mail, Messages, Notes, and Pages, as well as third-party apps.
2) Enhanced Siri Experience:
Apple Intelligence makes Siri more natural and conversational, with a new design and the ability to type to Siri. It enables Siri to understand richer language, maintain context from one request to the next, and access extensive product knowledge to answer user questions about Apple device features and settings.
3) Smarter Photos App
Apple Intelligence enables natural language search in the Photos app, allowing users to search for images and videos by describing what they are looking for. It also powers the Clean Up tool, which helps users remove distracting objects from their photos. Additionally, it enhances the Memories feature, allowing users to create custom memory movies by providing a description.
4) Improved Focus and Prioritization
Apple Intelligence introduces features to help users prioritize and stay focused, including:
- Priority Messages in Mail: This feature elevates time-sensitive emails to the top of the inbox.
- Notification Summaries: These allow users to quickly scan notifications for key details.
- Reduce Interruptions Focus: This focus mode surfaces only the most urgent notifications.
- Audio Recording, Transcription, and Summarization in Notes and Phone Apps: These features help users capture and review important information from audio recordings.
Privacy Protections
Availability
- iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro series
- iPhone 15 Pro series
- iPad Pro (M1 and later)
- iPad Air (M1 and later)
- iPad mini (A17 Pro)
- Macs with M1 and later chips
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