Mark Gurman reports today Bloomberg Apple has detailed the AI-powered iOS 18 features it'll be showcasing at its WWDC keynote on Monday, with the tech giant grouping all of the features under the umbrella of “Apple Intelligence,” a clever play on the AI acronym.
Apple's main focus for these apps will be on productivity and helping with everyday tasks, so AI will be built into many of Apple's system apps. For example, AI can generate summaries of web pages in Safari and provide rich replies in Messages and Mail. Mail will use AI-powered algorithms to categorize emails for a more organized inbox, and Messages will also provide a summary of notifications.
The Photos app will have some advanced editing tools, including Apple's version of the Smart Eraser tool in the Google Photos app.
Major improvements to Siri and Xcode for code compilation are also planned, but these features will probably not be generally available until next year.
But Apple isn't being too serious about nothing: Generative AI will generate emojis on the fly based on what you're writing, and you'll be able to use emojis that aren't even on the Unicode Consortium's emoji list.
Apple will reportedly use on-device and cloud computing for some of its AI features, and Gurman also acknowledged the involvement of OpenAI in some of iOS 18's AI tools.
But cloud computing can mean privacy violations, which is why Apple is addressing the issue in multiple ways: by using a confidential computing design for data processing, by not creating user profiles based on customer data, and by informing users how their data is being used.
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