What is Apple Intelligence? Here are the features, capabilities, and devices supported

Perhaps the biggest highlight of the WWDC 2024 this time was the debut of Apple Intelligence. Yes, Apple never stops evolving, and with Apple intelligence, it seems that the company decided to go one step higher. Apple intelligence is a brand new suite of AI features that will be found in iOS18, macOS Sequoia, and iPadOS18 later this year.

The WWDC this time expressed a lot of details about the capabilities of Apple Intelligence. Here we cover everything that you need to know about Apple Intelligence.

First things first, What is Apple Intelligence?

Apple Intelligence is a novel branding for Apple for its suite of AI features. This will debut later this year across iPad, Mac, and iPhone.

Apple Intelligence is different from other AI tools in multiple ways. The five key pillars that make it stand out from the crowd are that the Apple Intelligence is Powerful, Intuitive, Integrated, Personal, and Private.

Powerful: Apple Intelligence is capable providing useful help in the truest sense.

Intuitive: Apple Intelligence is accessible and easy to use.

Integrated: Apple intelligence is embedded into the core of your devices

Personal: Apple Intelligence understands your personal context

Private: Built from the ground up for privacy

Apple has a firm view that nobody else holds an AI that offers all these qualities.

Tim Cook expressed the goal of Apple Intelligence as “to make your most personal products even more useful and delightful.”

Top capabilities of Apple Intelligence

There are a multitude of capabilities that Apple Intelligence holds. Once it ships to iPhone, iPad, and Mac later this year, the intelligence will be able to provide ease in multiple tasks. Here are the top capabilities of Apple Intelligence:

Image Tools

Apple Intelligence will make image creation easy and interesting like never before.

• Image creation: Apple Intelligence will be able to create completely original images, with just an easy typed request. The intelligence will be able to create images, even if they require featuring a loved one.
• Genmoji: The interesting creation of genmojis is what Apple users will enjoy with the help of Apple Intelligence. The intelligence will be able to create completely original emoji on demand by the user.
• Image Wand: The Apple users will be able to create new images with the help of Apple intelligence not only with types prompts, but also with simple drawings. Yes, one would easily be able to get a new image created automatically just by drawing a circle in a Note with the Apple Pencil.
• Memories movies: Through this feature, the user will be able to type a request in the Photos app , and voila, a new Memories video will be created with the most suitable images in the library.
• Robust Search: This feature will help the users find the photos exactly what he is looking for in the Photos app.

Language Tools

• Priority notifications: Apple Intelligence will be able to understand and classify from the context of the message as to which ones are important in nature. It will then be able to surface those messages on the top for the user.
• Writing Tools: For people who are usually in a hurry while writing anything on social media, Apple Intelligence will help in rewriting and proofreading the text. This will prove to be helpful especially when writing an article or sending an email.
• Smart Reply: AI will be able to generate email replies for the users. 
• The Focus Mode: Apple intelligence will be coming with the new focus mode. The regular Do Not Disturb will block all notifications from bothering the user, but the intelligence will permit essential notifications to reach the user.
• Content summaries: AI will be able to summarize the content of any transcript or email the user receives for a quick read.

Which devices will be supported?

The Apple Intelligence will be made available in only a limited number of modern devices.

These are:

• iPads with M1, M2, or M4 chip
• iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
• Macs with M1, M2, or M3 chip

This implies that only the highest-end phones of Apple will be able to support the strong AI features.

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