3 Apple Intelligence Features You’ll Embrace in iOS 18.1

James Martin/CNET Apple has teased and promised many features of Apple Intelligence since the AI technology was first introduced earlier this year, but now that iOS 18.1 is available we finally get a taste of Apple’s AI ambitions. And although the first suite of features is modest in scope , you’re sure to find at least some of them to be helpful. After running the iOS betas with access to Apple Intelligence for several weeks, I think these are the three features you’ll actually use on a day-to-day basis. You need an iPhone 15 Pro , iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro (or their Plus and Max variants) running iOS 18.1 and, crucially, you must request access to Apple Intelligence to take advantage of these new technologies. Once you’re in, here’s what you can realistically expect. More features will be added as time goes on — and keep in mind that Apple Intelligence is still officially beta software — but this is where Apple is starting its AI age. Summaries bring TL;DR to your correspondence In an era when there are so many demands on our attention and seemingly less time to dig into longer topics…Sorry, what was I saying? Oh, right: How often have you wanted a “too long; didn’t read” version of not just long emails but the fire hose of communication that blasts your way? The ability to summarize notifications, Mail messages and web pages is perhaps the most pervasive and least intrusive feature of Apple Intelligence so far. When a notification arrives, such as a text from a friend or group in Messages, the iPhone creates a short, single-sentence summary. Apple Intelligence summarized two text messages. Sometimes summaries are vague, and sometimes they’re unintentionally funny , but so far I’ve found them to be more helpful than not. Summaries can also be generated from alerts by third-party apps like news or social media apps — although I suspect that my outdoor security camera is picking up multiple passersby over time and not telling me that 10 people are stacked by the door. Nobody told me […]

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