Apple at WWDC today announced Apple Intelligence, a deeply integrated, personalized AI experience for Apple devices that uses cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence to enhance user experiences across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Apple says that Apple Intelligence "combines the power of generative models with personal context to deliver intelligence that's incredibly useful and relevant." Baked into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, it can create language and images, take action across apps, and draw from personal context to simplify and accelerate everyday tasks. And with Private Cloud Compute, Apple is focused on delivering AI based on privacy, with the ability to flex and scale computational capacity between on-device processing and larger, server-based models that run on dedicated Apple silicon servers.
Top of the features list are new ways for users to enhance their writing and communicate more effectively. Apple says that with brand-new systemwide Writing Tools built into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, users can rewrite, proofread, and summarize text nearly everywhere they write, including Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps.
For example, with Rewrite, Apple Intelligence allows users to choose from different versions of what they have written, and then adjust the tone "to suit the audience and task at hand." According to Apple, the Rewrite feature helps users deliver the right words to meet the occasion, whether that's finessing a cover letter, or adding humor and creativity to a party invitation. A new Proofread option checks grammar, word choice, and sentence structure while also suggesting edits — along with explanations of the edits — that users can review or quickly accept. And with Summarize, users can select text and have it recapped in the form of a digestible paragraph, bulleted key points, a table, or a list.
In Mail, a new section at the top of the inbox called Priority Messages shows your most urgent emails, like a same-day dinner invitation or boarding pass. But instead of previewing the first few lines of each email, you can see summaries without needing to open a message. Meanwhile, for long threads, you can view pertinent details with a tap. There's also a Smart Reply feature that offers suggestions for a quick response. The feature also identifies questions in an email to ensure everything is answered, according to Apple.
Elsewhere, a new Priority Notifications feature surfaces alerts at the top of the stack to show what's most important to you, and summaries help you scan long or stacked notifications to show key details right on the Lock Screen, such as when a group chat is particularly active. To help users stay present in what they are doing, there's also a new Focus called Reduce Interruptions that surfaces only the notifications that might need immediate attention, like a text about an early pickup from daycare.
In the Notes and Phone apps, Apple Intelligence allows users to record, transcribe, and summarize audio. When a recording is initiated while on a call, participants are automatically notified, and once the call ends, Apple Intelligence generates a summary to help recall key points. A new Image Playground feature also allows users to choose from a range of concepts from categories like themes, costumes, accessories, and places to create their own images for sharing in Messages, Notes, Keynote, Freeform, and Pages, and third-party apps that support the new Image Playground API.
Taking emoji to new places, users can also create an original Genmoji to express themselves. By simply typing a description, their Genmoji appears, along with additional options. Users can also create Genmoji of friends and family based on their photos. Just like emoji, Genmoji can be added inline to messages, or shared as a sticker or reaction in a Tapback.
Switching to the Photos app, natural language can be used to search for specific photos, such as "Maya skateboarding in a tie-dye shirt," or "Katie with stickers on her face." Search in videos also becomes more powerful with the ability to find specific moments in clips so users can go right to the relevant segment. Additionally, the new Clean Up tool can identify and remove distracting objects in the background of a photo, without accidentally altering the subject, according to Apple.
Apple is also emphasizing cross-platform enhancements to Siri, which is said to be "more natural, more contextually relevant, and more personal, with the ability to simplify and accelerate everyday tasks." For example, it can follow along if users stumble over words and maintain context from one request to the next. Additionally, users can type to Siri, and switch between text and voice to communicate with Siri however they like. Siri also has a brand-new design, suggestive of its new capabilities, with a glowing light that wraps around the edge of the screen when Siri is active.
Siri can answer queries about how to do something on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and with onscreen awareness, Siri will be able to understand and take action with users' content in more apps over time, according to Apple. For example, if a friend texts a user their new address in Messages, the receiver can say, "Add this address to his contact card," and Si... Click here to read rest of article
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