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Your Mac, iPhone and iPad look set to change in fundamental Y ways later this year – and it’s all thanks to Apple take’s on artificial intelligence (AI), which the company’s renamed Apple Intelligence.
Making its debut in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this autumn, Apple Intelligence will give you whole new ways to do things easier and faster, all the while safeguarding your privacy. Or that’s the promise.
On iPhone, the most obvious change will be a revamped version of Siri, which now shimmers around the edge of your iPhone’s screen when you invoke it. Apple says Siri can glean facts about you, the things you like to do and your key relationships and combine them in useful ways. In its keynote Worldwide Developer Conference address in June, Apple gave one example, of someone needing to pick up their mum from the airport – Siri understood who the person was, which airport and which flight they were arriving on, and what the quickest route, using Maps, was to pick them up.
The AI-powered Siri can also be used to answer some of the hundreds of different questions you may have about doing something on your device – like finding where Wi-Fi settings are or quickly switching from Dark Mode to light appearance. You don’t even need
Image Playground can be used in apps across your devices and will also be available as a stand-alone app. to know what the precise terminology is, Siri will just know and understand what it is you want to do.
It’s a similar story in apps, where you’ll be able to do things like get Siri to automatically add an address shared to you in Messages to your Contacts, or perform relevant actions when you say something like “send photos of last week’s dinner party to Jenny”. And that’s just the start.
Pretty much every aspect of the way you interact with your Mac, iPhone or iPad can be enhanced and improved by Apple Intelligence, from prioritising your most important notifications (and displaying appropriate written summaries) to organising your inbox in Mail. You’ll also be able to use Apple Intelligence to help write or rewrite emails and text in documents, and get it to adjust tone – to write something more business-like, for example, or
Smarter Photos features
One of the biggest benefits of Apple Intelligence will be in the way it handles photos and videos in your Photos library. Searches for people, pets, events and places promise to be easier and much faster, while image editing – such as removing unwanted objects or even entire backgrounds – will become much simpler with the Clean Up tool.
It’ll also be much simpler to create Memories in Photos. Enter a prompt such as ‘Family holiday in Italy’ and Photos will serve up just the right images and videos, picki
