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- Apple has made iOS 18.1 available.
- This provides new writing tools and notification summaries, among other Apple Intelligence capabilities.
- We’ll have to wait for ChatGPT and other capabilities.
With iOS 18.1’s official release, everyone will have access to the initial set of Apple Intelligence features. What to anticipate, including comparable improvements for the Mac and iPad, is as follows:.
Alongside the recently released update are iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.2, which share a number of Apple Intelligence features that are often useful but not particularly fascinating.
The Notes and Phone apps now compile your recorded audio, email threads, and notifications in iOS 18.1 and related version software. Cross-system writing tools that can summarize, edit, and rewrite content in various tones (e.g., professional or brief) are also to be expected.
Although Siri is still working on its full potential, you can now type instead of speaking. Additionally, it can help you finish tasks on Apple devices and is more adept at handling clumsy demands.
Photos now offers natural language searches based on basic photo and video descriptions. Similar to Google’s Magic Eraser, Clean Up may eliminate undesired things from pictures. Simply writing descriptions can also be used to make Memories movies.
The first version of these Apple Intelligence features is available in US English.
However, in December, iOS 18.2 will offer a lot more. You’ll also get important image generation tools like Image Playground (for creating pictures from scratch), Genmoji (description-based emoji), and Image Wand (which transforms sketches into high-quality images, similar to Samsung’s AI Drawing), in addition to extending Apple Intelligence to other English-speaking nations like Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the UK.
Additionally, the 18.2 release will expand upon iOS 18.1 by integrating ChatGPT with Siri and introducing the Visual Intelligence feature that promises to enable iPhone 16 owners to use Camera Control to learn about what’s in front of them. You can use writing tools to explain particular modifications.
Not every significant modification is due this year. Siri won’t be able to understand your specific context until later, and priority alerts also have to wait. But it’s evident that Apple’s generative AI era has officially begun, especially as buyers begin to purchase optimized systems like the original M4 Mac.
