Apple Intelligence It’s still an early technique, but after activating it on me a few months later iPhone, iPad and MacI definitely rely on some tools and ignore the others.
You need it iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro You are running iOS 18.3 (or their plus and maximum variants). This latest update will automatically enable Apple Intelligence.
Over time, more features will be added — and keep in mind that Apple Intelligence is still officially beta software — but this is where Apple is starting its AI era.
On the other hand, are you not impressed with Apple Intelligence, or do you want to wait until the tools go further? It’s easy to do Turn off Apple Intelligence Use a small subset of functions, either completely or a complete one.
Summary brings TL;DR to your communication
In an age where there is so much demand for our attention and it seems like there is little time to dig into long topics… sorry, what were I saying?
Ah, yes: how long did you want a “too long, unread” version of the fire hose of communication that blows up your path, as well as a long email? The ability to summarise notifications, email messages and web pages is probably Apple Intelligence’s most extensive and uninterrupted feature so far.
When you receive notifications such as text from friends and groups to message, your iPhone will create a short, single sentence summary.
Apple Intelligence summarises two text messages.
The summary is vague and sometimes unintentionally entertaining, but so far I have found them more useful than they are. The summary can also be generated from alerts from third-party apps such as news and social media apps, but outdoor security cameras are picking up multiple passersby over time, with 10 people piling up at the door I don’t think so.
No one told me there was a party in my house.
That said, Apple Intelligence definitely doesn’t understand irony or colloquialism. You can turn off summary if necessary.
You can also generate long summary of your emails in the email app. Tap the summary button at the top of the message to view a summary of the content in dozens of words.
In Safari, when viewing pages with the Reader feature available, tap the Page menu button in the address bar, tap the viewer, and then tap the Summary button at the top of the page.
Summary of Safari’s long article in the reader interface.
Siri gets better interaction with sparkle
I was amused during iOS 18, but the iPhone 16 releases that Apple Intelligence’s main visual indicators (full screen, edge color sili-animation) are significantly missing. Apple illuminated the edges of a giant glass cubes at the Apple Fifth Avenue Store in New York City, like a Siri search.
Instead, iOS 18 used the same old Siri ball.
Currently, the modern Siri appearance arrived as of iOS 18.1, but only on devices that support Apple Intelligence.
Siri under Apple Intelligence looks like a multi-colored halo around the edge.
The new look has some improvements in Siri interaction. It’s more tolerant if you stumble through questions, such as saying the wrong words or interrupting yourself along the way. It is also better to listen after providing results, so you can ask related follow-up questions.
However, the ability to personalize answers based on what Apple Intelligence knows about you is still on the way. As of iOS 18.2, what was displayed was integration of chatgptit can now be used as an alternative source. For some queries, if Siri doesn’t have an answer right away, you’ll be asked if you want to use ChatGpt instead. You do not need a ChatGPT account to take advantage of this (but you can sign in).
Quietly call Siri without triggering all other devices
Speaking of Siri, perhaps my favorite new feature is that you can develop an assistant without saying the word “Hey Siri” out loud. I have a home pod in my house and my family uses their iPhone and iPad so I don’t know which devices will answer my phone (I think it’s smart enough to solve that but).
Plus, honestly, even after this time, I’m not always comfortable talking to my phone, especially in public. It’s annoying enough when people continue their conversation over the phone on the speaker. I don’t want to add it to Hubbub by making Siri requests.
Instead, we look at a new feature called Tap to Siri. Double-tap the bottom edge of your iPhone or iPad screen to display the Siri search bar and on-screen keyboard.
Double-tap the bar at the bottom of the screen to view voice-free Siri searches.
On your Mac, go to System Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri and select a key combination under keyboard shortcuts.
Yes, this involves more typing work than speaking a conversation, but I can enter more specific queries and my robot friend understands what I’m saying I don’t think there’s one there.
Use Cleanup in the Photos app to remove distractions from photos
Until iOS 18.1, the iPhone and iPad photo apps didn’t have simple retouching features. Dust in the camera lens? Garbage on the ground? Sorry, you should deal with those and other distractions in the Photos app on MacOS or using third-party apps.
Now, Apple Intelligence includes Clean Up, an AI-enhanced removal tool in the Photos app. Edit the image and tap the cleanup button and your iPhone will analyze the photos and suggest potential items to highlight and remove them. Tap one or draw a circle around the area. The app erases those areas and fills in plausible pixels using the generated AI.
Use Cleanup to remove distractions in the Photos app.
In this first incarnation, the cleanup is not perfect and often results in better results with other dedicated image editors. However, it’s okay to quickly remove any annoying things from your photos.
AI-Boosted Reduction Keep Tasks in Disruption Focus Mode
Focus mode on your iPhone can be very useful. Don’t prevent yourself from isolating yourself from external distractions, for example by turning it on. You can also create a personalized focus mode. For example, my podcast recording mode blocks external to notifications except for a small number of people during scheduled recording times.
When you enable Apple Intelligence, a new Reduced Suspension Focus Mode is available. If active, it becomes a smarter filter of passing the wall that refrains from extra notifications. Even those that are not specified in the criteria for permitted notifications, such as specific people, can pop up. For example, on my iPhone, I can include weather warnings and texts from the bank when a large purchase or fund transfer occurs.
To enable it, open Control Center, tap the Focus button, and choose to reduce interruptions.
Reduced interrupt focus mode (left) intelligently filters possible distractions. Turn it on in the Control Center (center). When something comes in, you may need your attention, but it probably shows up as a notification marked important (right).
For more information about Apple Intelligence features, see How to Create genmojihow to use it Image Wand And how if you want to get things back Disables the selected Apple Intelligence feature.
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