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Apple Intelligence
Writing Tools
Rewrite
Create multiple versions of your text that
maintain your tone. Easily swap in an
option you prefer and continue writing or
refining, or go right back toyour original.
Style
Rewrite your text in a new style, suchas
“professional,” “concise,” or “friendly.
Proofread
View suggested improvements to what
you’re writing, like grammar fixesand
language refinements. Quickly accept
all suggestions with aclick or view the
explanations to better understand the
changes and accept the ones you want.
Summarize
Select text wherever you’re writing and
generate a high-quality summary.
Summarize content of all kinds like
documents, articles, or communications to
quickly understand the important points.
Describe
The text field in Writing Tools lets you
describe a more specific change you want
to make to your text. Make itread like a
poem, simplify the vocabulary, or even
turn it into a formalletter.
Compose
Ask ChatGPT to create original content
from scratch. You can also use ChatGPT’s
image generation capabilities to add
images alongside your written content.
Image Playground
Image Playground app
Have fun and experiment with all the
features of Image Playground in a new
app. You can easily create new images,
access all the images you’ve previously
created, remix previous images, and share
your creations with friends and family
using your favorite social and
communication apps.
Create Images with Concepts
Choose from a range of concepts to
addthem to your playground from
categories like themes, costumes,
accessories, and places.
Create Images with People YouKnow
Create an image of your friend on the
moon or a family member on a surfboard
with Image Playground thanks to Apple
Intelligences understanding of people in
your photo library.
Create Images with Characters
Easily define a character to add to your
images in Image Playground by choosing
their gender and skin tone, and by
providing a short description.
Create Images with Photos
Create images inspired by a photo by
taking one, selecting one from your
photo library, or dragging one into Image
Playground.
Create Images with Text
When you want to create a more specific
image, you can add descriptions to your
playground toshape the images you
create.
Suggested Concepts
Image Playground offers intelligent
suggestions to add to your image that
are related to previous concepts you
selected, the context of a messages
thread in Messages, or yournotes in
the Notes app.
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Quick Previews
Quickly see a selection of previews as
you add concepts, and choose the one
you like to create it with more detail and
at a higher resolution and save it to your
Image Lab library.
Preview history
Freely experiment with different concepts
without worrying about losing any previous
previews you liked. When you remove a
concept you previously added, Image
Playground remembers what previews
were created before you added it and
canquickly bring them back for you.
Image Playground library
When you create an image, it’s saved to
your Image Playground library and synced
across your devices with iCloud. You can
access your library from Messages to
easily share your creations, and you can
revisit and remix your images in Image
Playground as well.
Animation style
Create fantastical creatures, expressive
animals, exaggerated human figures, and
more, all against immersive and detailed
environments with rich textures using a
modern, 3D-animated style.
Illustration style
Create uplifting and playful compositions
with stylized and exaggerated characters
against minimal backgrounds using a
contemporary illustration style definedby
simple shapes, clean lines,and flat color
blocking with adiverse color palette.
Sketch style
Produce delightful drawings perfect for
Notes using an academic and highly
detailed sketch style with vibrant colors
and a technical linestyle.
Messages experience
Create a fun image to share with friends
using the new experience in Messages.
When you first open Image Playground in
Messages, it will suggest concepts related
toyour most recent conversation. Youcan
also create a new image from scratch, or
just select one of your previously created
images from your Image Playground library.
Deep integrations
Create images in Notes, Pages, Numbers,
Keynote, and Freeform toelevate your
documents, spreadsheets, presentations,
or boardswith delightful images.
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Siri
Personal context understanding
With the on-device semantic index
provided by Apple Intelligence, Siri can
understand emails, messages, photos,
calendar events, files, and more, and can
provide answers to questions that are
personal to you. Forexample, when you
say “What wasthat movie that Jamie
told me I should check out?” Siri will dig
up the message from last week. And
when you’re filling out a form and say
Add my passport number here,” Siri
can extract the number from a saved
photo of your passport and drop it in.
In-app actions
Siri can take hundreds of new actionson
your behalf, in both first- and third-party
apps. The next time you’re editing photos,
you’ll be able to say “Make this photo
warmer,” and Siriwill make adjustments
using the Photos app. Siri can take actions
across apps too, so after you’re done
editing that photo, say “Add this to my
ratatouille recipe note” and Siri will jump
from the Photos app to the Notes app to
take care of it.
Onscreen awareness
Siri will be able to understand and take
action with things on your screen, so
when a friend texts you recommending
a new coffee shop in the neighborhood,
you can simply say “How long would it
take me to walk there from home?” and
Siri will understand just what you mean.
More resilient request handling
If you stumble over your words or change
your mind mid-sentence, Siri will still follow
along. For example, you might say “Siri,
set an alarm—wait no, sorry, I meant
atimer for 10 minutes—actually, let’s
make that 15.
Maintains conversational context
Siri remembers what you talked about in
recent requests, so if you ask when the
Warriors are playing next and then say
Add that to my calendar,” Siri will know
just what you mean.
Product knowledge
Siri can answer thousands of questions
about the features and settings on your
Apple products by drawing on large
language models that are trained on
Applesupport documentation.
Type to Siri
You now have the option to type to Siri
at any time, and you can ask Siri all
thesame things by text as you can ask
by voice. You can switch fluidly between
text and voice, so you can communicate
in whatever way feels right for the
moment.
Predictive text in Siri keyboard
As you type a request to Siri, you’ll
seepredictive text that helps you complete
your request faster. This predictive text
model is designed specifically to help
accelerate Siri requests.
Suggestions in Siri keyboard
Suggested requests appear below
thekeyboard as you type, giving you
ultrafast access to actions that Siri
canhelp you with.
More natural voice
Siri sounds more natural, expressive, and
clear, and is now synthesized entirely on
device by Apple Intelligence new language
models.
ChatGPT integration
Siri can tap into ChatGPT to help you with
certain requests when it determines
ChatGPT can provide a helpful answer.
You can also ask questions about photos
and documents including PDFs and
presentations. You will be asked before
requests or information are sent to
ChatGPT. Siri then presents you the
answer directly.
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Focus
Reduce interruptions
Focus understands the contentof your
notifications and selectively surfaces
only the ones that might need immediate
attention, like a text about today’s daycare
pickup or a last-minute invite to dinner
tonight.
Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing
Your Mac will determine if a notification is
important enough to break through with
the Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing
option. It can be turned on for any Focus
mode, so you don’t miss your food delivery
when you’re in Do Not Disturb.
Genmoji
Genmoji
Generate unique, emoji-style stickers right
from the keyboard. In the sticker creator,
just type what you want to create, like “dog
on a surfboard,” and see your creation
appear in seconds.
Mail
Priority messages
Know what to prioritize as soon as you
open Mail with priority messages at
the top of your inbox that are based on
what’s most urgent.
Preview summaries
Know the key information before you even
open the thread with brief summaries that
appear in the email preview instead of the
first few lines of that email.
Thread summaries
When you open an email thread, click to
see a detailed summary that helps you
get the gist of a lengthy email or several
emails in the same thread.
Smart Reply
Based on the content of the email you
received, Mail will show you smart options
to quickly choose from that add detail to
the reply, like answering specific questions
you were asked. When you make your
selections, your Smart Reply incorporates
your choices into the generated draft so
it’s ready to send.
Messages
Smart Reply
Quickly respond to messages with
generated options that appear right in the
prediction bar when you click the text field
to respond. Messages will understand the
content of the conversation and offer
options that are relevant to the context.
Summaries
Previews of messages in your
conversation list will show brief summaries
instead of the beginning ofyour most
recent messages, so at a glance you know
the key information before you even open
the chat.
Notes
Transcription summaries
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Get an intelligently created summary of
key points from your audio recording, so
you can review what happened without
going through the entire transcript.
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Notifications
Priority notifications
Immediately see the things that may
require your attention, like a work
message about a deliverable due that
day, with priority notifications that are
based on what’s most urgent and appear
at the topof your notifications.
Notification summaries
Multiple notifications from a single app
aregrouped in a stack with a glanceable
summary on top that lets you know the
most important information. For many
communication apps like Mail and
Messages, the content of your
notifications will be summarized so you
can get all the key information without
clicking the notification to open the app.
Announce Notifications support
Announce Notifications can read aloud
your notification summaries when using
AirPods or CarPlay.
Photos
Natural language photo and
videosearch
Search now supports natural language
queries and expanded understanding,
so you can search for just what you
mean, like “fluffy white dog on a green
couch.” You can also search for an action
that happened within a video, and Photos
will take you to the correctsegment.
Create your own Memories
Create a memory about the specific
story you want to see, just by typing a
description. Photos writes a storyline,
complete with unique chapters, and
selects a great set of photos and videos
to create your movie, complete with a
perfectly paired song.
Clean Up tool
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Remove distracting elements from your
photos with the Clean Up tool for those
times when an unwanted object spoiled
the moment.
Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on Mac computers with Apple silicon, with Siri and device language
set to U.S. English. It is coming to macOS Sequoia as a free software update this fall. Some features,
additional languages, and platforms will be coming over the course of the next year.
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Key features
Continuity
iPhone Mirroring
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Control and interact with your iPhone by
mirroring it’s screen to your Mac using the
new iPhone Mirroring app. Fully engage
with your iPhone and its apps, all
wirelessly. You can browse your iPhone
Home Screen, launch apps, and interact
with them, as if you had your phone in your
hand.
Works with StandBy
Access your iPhone’s apps and
notifications while your phone continues
to give you glanceable information with
StandBy.
Control your iPhone with yourtrackpad
Two-finger gestures on the trackpad of
your Mac let you control your iPhone, so
it’s easy to swipe on your Home Screen,
pinch to zoom on a photo, or scroll through
your social media feed.
Drag and drop files*
Quickly transfer files between your Mac
and iPhone just by dragging photos and
other files using iPhone Mirroring.
iPhone Notifications on Mac
View and interact with your iPhone
notifications, without needing to reach
for your phone. iOS notifications appear
on your Mac desktop and in Notification
Center. Interact with them using quick
replies, or launch into the app using
iPhone Mirroring.
Edit Home Screen
Access Jiggle mode on the Home Screen
to re-arrange app icons, delete apps, or
add and edit Widgets.
Easier Window Tiling
Tiling and resizing
Arrange your windows even more easily.
Drag them to the edge of the screen and
macOS automatically suggests a tiled
position on your desktop. Quickly place
tiles side-by-side, or place them into
corners to keep even more apps in your
view. It’s easy to resize two adjacent tiles
as you create your ideal arrangement.
Tiled window menu options
Arrange your windows quickly by selecting
from various tiling options using the green
button at the top left of each window, or
from the menu bar.
Keyboard shortcuts
Arrange your tiled windows even faster
with keyboard shortcuts. You can also
hold down the Option key while dragging
a window to preview various tiling
positions.
Supports multiple displays
Move window tiles freely between multiple
displays. macOS will suggest a tiled
position when you drag a window and
pause next to the edge between both
displays.
Video conferencing
Presenter preview
Know exactly what you are going to share
before displaying it for everyone. The
presenter preview appears when you
share your screen on a video conference
or connect to an external monitor or
display.*
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It lets you pick just an app to
share oryour whole screen. Picking just
an appmeans things like notifications or
background windows from other apps
won’t be seen.
Play preview
Clicking Play in Keynote (or supported
third-party apps) gives you a preview of
where your content and presenter notes
will be, ensuring you get the right content
on the right screen.
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Safari
Passwords
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Gaming
Messages
Maps
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Notes
AirPods
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Even More
Accessibility
Apple Account
Apple TV app
Calculator
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Family Sharing
Finder
Freeform
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Home
iCloud
Keyboard
Photos
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Podcasts
Privacy & Security
Reminders
Tips
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Translate
AirPods in conversations
Get in-ear translations that come through
your device microphone and respond with
your AirPods microphones so the other
person can hear the translated output
from the device speaker.
New language
Support for Hindi in Translate, systemwide
translation, and Safari web page
translation.
Wallet
Apple Pay on Chrome and Windows
Enable Apple Pay as a payment option
foronline transactions on third-party
browsers and Windows PCs.
Weather
Easier-to-find Feels Like temperature
Prepare for outdoor conditions more
efficiently with a more prominently
displayed Feels Like temperature. Feels
Like appears near the actual temperature
when they differ significantly, and their
detail views are merged so you can
compare them more easily.
Home and work locations
Your home and work locations from
Contacts are brought into Weather.
Youcan search for them and add
themtoyourlist.
Prominent wind gusts and direction
Conveniently learn about windy conditions
with wind speed, gusts, and direction.
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* Coming in an update later this year.
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Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon in English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New
Zealand), English (South Africa), English (United Kingdom), and English (United States).
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Clean Up will be available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro and later models, iPad with M1 and later, and Mac computers with
Apple silicon as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall.
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Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon or Intel Mac computers with a T2 Security Chip when your iPhone and Mac
aresigned in with the same Apple IDusingtwo-factor authentication, your iPhone and Mac are near to each other and
have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and your Mac is not usingAirPlayorSidecar. Not currently available in the European
Union.
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Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
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Available in English (United States).
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Available in the United States.
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Available in the United States and Japan.
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Available on AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max.
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Available on AirPods Pro (2nd generation and later).
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Available with an Apple TV+ subscription. Title support subject to change.
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Available with compatible content in supported apps.
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Available for math written using Western Arabic numerals and common mathematical symbols, or typed using Arabic
(Eastern and Western) and Devanagari numerals and common mathematical symbols.
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Available with variables created using the Latin alphabet.
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Available with a home hub, such as Apple TV or HomePod. Setting a schedule for guest access via hands-free unlock
withhome keys, tap-to-unlock with home keys, or PIN codes requires a Matter lock that support schedules.
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Available on a Thread-enabled home hub such as Apple TV 4K, HomePod (2nd generation), HomePod mini, or a
compatible third-party Thread border router. Thread-enabled devices are able to locally pair and manage Thread
accessories, which may require an update from the accessory manufacturer.
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Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including
areasserved by community choice aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the
utilityaccount.