Apple Users Share Initial Thoughts on Apple's Intelligence Gathering Across Devices: iPhone, Mac, iPad
Apple has recently unveiled a suite of AI-powered features in its latest updates, iOS 18.1, macOS Sequoia, and iPadOS 18.1. This extensive set of tools is designed to enhance productivity, creativity, and user experience across Apple's ecosystem.
The key features of Apple Intelligence include:
Writing Tools
These tools allow users to proofread, rewrite content, and summarise selected text quickly. They are available across various apps like Mail, Notes, Pages, and even third-party applications. The AI can correct grammar, spelling, suggest missing words, and adjust tone while preserving the original message.
Image Playground
Users can generate playful images like animations, sketches, or illustrations within apps such as Messages or a dedicated app.
Genmoji
This feature lets users create custom emoji characters by describing them with text prompts.
Memories in Photos
Apple Intelligence helps create personalised stories by selecting the best photos and videos based on a typed description and organising them into thematic chapters with narrative arcs.
Clean Up tool
Available in Photos, it identifies and removes distracting background objects without altering the photo's main subject.
Siri Improvements
Siri now supports text input and voice interchangeably, maintaining context between requests, and can integrate with ChatGPT for more enhanced responses when Apple Intelligence alone isn’t sufficient.
Smart Replies and Notification Summaries
Apple Intelligence offers smart reply suggestions in Mail and helps prioritise notifications with intelligent filtering, reducing interruptions.
Apple Intelligence is built with a strong emphasis on privacy, running on-device for supported devices like iPhone 15 Pro and newer models, macOS Sequoia machines, and compatible iPads.
The Memories feature builds a cohesive narrative from the selected photos and videos. Siri is now more natural, flexible, and seamlessly integrated with a glowing edge light when active on iPhone, iPad, or CarPlay, and a movable desktop icon on Mac for easy access. Search in the Intelligent Photos App provides smart suggestions to help complete searches faster.
In the Notes and Phone apps, users can now record, transcribe, and summarise audio. Users can view message summaries without opening them and tap Summarise for quick insights on long threads.
Apple has stated that many more Apple Intelligence features will be rolled out in the coming months. iPad users appreciate the new writing and summary tools for increased productivity in apps like Notes and Mail. iMac users find the ability to customise Siri icons and organise the desktop refreshing and helpful.
With these updates, Apple continues to push the boundaries of AI-powered features, aiming to significantly augment user productivity and creativity across Apple devices.
Gadgets like smartphones and other Apple devices equipped with the latest iOS, macOS, and iPadOS updates can now leverage AI-powered tools from Apple Intelligence to boost productivity and enhance user experience. Some of these tools include smart replies, notification summaries, and powerful writing tools to rewrite, summarize, and proofread content across various apps.
