Three months with Apple Intelligence
At Appleâs September 2024 hardware event, the company announced its iPhone 16 lineup, which was âbuilt for Apple intelligenceâ â but Appleâs leap into AI has had a soft landing. The phones arrived without Apple Intelligence and, over the course of four months, Apple has been slowly rolling out some of the promised features through iterations of iOS 18. Â
Apple Intelligenceâs first set of features included tools weâre pretty familiar with, like glowing gradients to indicate the presence of AI, the ability to change the tone of an email, and a photo clean-up tool that lets AI eliminate distractions. Now, weâre up to iOS 18.3 with updates that include Visual Intelligence, Image Playground, AI image generation, Genmoji, and a ChatGPT extension for Siri. Â
This isnât the end of AI for iOS; there are even more updates coming with iOS 18.4 that might allow Siri to understand whatâs on your screen and take action in apps for you. But right now, is Apple Intelligence even close to delivering on what was announced in September? Check out our recap to see where we are now.