Apple Intelligence arrives with iOS 18.1 next week

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Apple Intelligence connected nan Apple iPhone 16 Plus.

Last month, Apple released iOS 18 right earlier nan launch of iPhone 16. This update introduced respective caller features, but it did not see nan astir important one, Apple Intelligence, which Apple had promised at nan Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) successful June. That will alteration adjacent week.

According to The Wall Street Journal and The Verge, which have examined Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 2’s hearing wellness features, iOS 18.1 will get sometime adjacent week. Apple had previously said it would motorboat earlier nan extremity of nan month, and this seems to corroborate that.

Updates, including iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, will each incorporate nan first of Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) features that were announced successful nan spring. Based connected nan existent iOS 18.1 beta, nan update will characteristic 3 Apple Intelligence features: penning enhancements, photograph cleanup capabilities, and notification summaries.

The first offers enhanced autocorrect, grammar and pronunciation checks, and predictive matter capabilities that study your penning style complete time. With Clean Up successful Photos, you tin now usage AI to place and propose removing copy photos, screenshots, and blurry images to free up retention space. With Apple Intelligence’s Notification Summaries, you get concise summaries of little important notifications, making it easier to negociate notification overload.

Apple showing nan different devices that Apple Intelligence useful connected astatine nan Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024.

Along pinch iOS 18.1, Apple will push retired a firmware update for nan AirPods Pro 2 adjacent week. Once installed, it will let nan earbuds to go clinical-grade proceeding immunodeficiency for those pinch mild to mean proceeding loss.

Other caller features apt to get adjacent week see sleep apnea detection for nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, Tiktok integration pinch Apple Music, bug fixes, and more.

Additional Apple Intelligence features are expected to motorboat successful upcoming package updates earlier nan extremity of nan twelvemonth and into 2025. These will see improvements to Siri, caller image creation capabilities, ChatGPT integration, improved security, and more.

The pursuing iPhones will support Apple Intelligence: nan full iPhone 16 series, nan iPhone 15 Pro, and nan iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Bryan M. Wolfe

Bryan M. Wolfe has complete a decade of acquisition arsenic a exertion writer. He writes astir mobile.

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The Apple iPad mini (A17 Pro).

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