iOS 18 is approaching September 16, Apple has revealed as we speak. That is in precisely one week from as we speak, and forward of the discharge date of the brand new iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, and iPhone 16 Professional Max, that are all going to develop into obtainable on September 20 and ship with iOS 18 preinstalled. The replace will roll out to all supported iPhones and will develop into obtainable to all who need it on that day – no multi-week rollout shenanigans with Apple (see that, Google?).
Apple Intelligence won’t be a part of iOS 18. The primary batch of options will arrive as a part of iOS 18.1 (and iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1), which can be touchdown in October. The primary batch of options will solely be obtainable in US English, with an growth in December promised to incorporate localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK. Subsequent yr, Chinese language, French, Japanese, and Spanish can be supported too.
So what AI options are you really getting in October? Writing Instruments, creating motion pictures based mostly off an outline within the Recollections function in Images, looking for particular images utilizing pure language, looking for particular moments in movies, Clear Up which removes issues or folks from images, recording, transcribing, and summarizing audio within the Notes and Cellphone apps, summarized notifications, Precedence Messages in Mail, summaries of emails, Sensible Reply in Mail, and a redesigned Siri which helps typing to it and is extra “pure” and “versatile”. Siri can even reply “hundreds of questions” in regards to the options and settings of Apple gadgets.
Then, “later this yr and within the months following”, you will get Picture Playground to generate photographs and emoji, Picture Wand to generate photographs from sketches, and Siri will use your personal private context to ship intelligence tailor-made to you. It is going to even have onscreen consciousness and have the ability to take a whole lot of latest actions in and throughout Apple and third-party apps. ChatGPT is coming on this wave too.
Apple Intelligence will solely be obtainable for the newly launched iPhone 16 household, the iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPads and Macs with M1 or later chips.
