New AI features, mostly on–device, coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac
LAUNCHING THIS YEAR’S Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced its own take on AI, dubbed Apple Intelligence, coming later this year in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. It requires the computational power of Apple silicon, however, so will run only on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac models with Apple M–series processors.
Apple Intelligence will deliver new system–wide Writing Tools to rewrite, proofread, and summarize text nearly everywhere you write, including Mail, Notes, Pages, and third–party apps.
Mail gains Priority Messages at the top of your inbox, surfacing emails it recognizes as most urgent, such as a same–day invitation or boarding pass. Across your inbox, Mail displays useful summaries of messages instead of just their first lines. Smart Reply offers suggestions for a quick response, identifying questions in the message and prompting you to ensure you cover off everything asked for.
Priority Notifications surface what’s most important, and summaries help you scan long or stacked notifications right on the Lock Screen. A new Focus, Reduce Interruptions, presents only the notifications it recognizes as requiring immediate attention.
The Notes and Phones apps can record, transcribe, and summarize audio. Siri gains better understanding of spoken queries, maintains context from one request to the next, and can take actions in more apps over time. For example, you can ask it “Play the podcast Mom mentioned,” without having to recall whether this was in a text or a mail. You can switch between spoken and typed queries as you like. Image Playground can create fun images in a standalone app or within apps. You type a description or use parameters such as themes, costumes, places, and occasions; select someone from your photo library to include in the image; and choose from sketch, illustration, or animation style.
In Notes, a new Image Wand tool in the Apple Pencil tool palette can turn rough sketches into finished images, and you can even select empty s
