Apple Intelligence is officially here

Apple Intelligence, the corporate’s all-encompassing branding for its AI instruments, options and curios, is lastly right here. Did you assume Apple launched this ages in the past? It was introduced in June, and drip fed to beta testers, first within the developer preview, then the open preview.

It was even an enormous a part of the iPhone 16 gross sales pitch at launch, however Apple’s latest telephones lacked these AI options — until now. Arriving as a part of Apple’s updates to iOS, iPadOS and macOS, it’s not all the pieces teased at WWDC (no making your individual emojis for now), however it’s a tract of latest options displaying how the corporate is tackling AI in its software program.

In addition to new proofreading and rewriting instruments, there’s dwell transcription for telephone calls and Notes’ audio recordings. Apple Intelligence additionally provides textual content summaries for web sites, emails and all these transcriptions. There’s additionally my private favourite: notification summaries.

We’ll be taking a more in-depth have a look at what Apple Intelligence is able to, however broadly (and from our expertise testing the preview builds), the additions gained’t change your smartphone life. A few of them are very helpful, whereas others, like picture enhancing, fall behind rivals like Google and Samsung.

— Mat Smith

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