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Apple Intelligence: Here’s When New AI Features Come to iPhone and iPad

Author: Joanna Stern Follow Source: WSJ:

July 29, 2024 at 15:48

Illustration: The Wall Street Journal, Apple

The new Siri and other tools won’t be available until iOS 18.1 is released later this fall. This is the timeline.

All good AI things come to those who wait.

Yep, that’s how the saying goes. Just ask Apple’s AAPL 0.24%increase; green up pointing triangle new Siri chatbot…when it finally arrives later this fall.

The first wave of Apple Intelligence tools won’t be in the initial iOS 18 release this fall. Instead, they’ll be a part of iOS 18.1, which is expected a few weeks later. In the past, Apple has released the new iOS in mid-September, followed by the first big update in October. Microsoft, Google, Samsung and Meta have already released generative-AI tools to users.

An Apple spokeswoman wouldn’t comment on the exact timing.

On Monday the company released a developer-only beta version of iOS and iPadOS 18.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, which include some of those Apple Intelligence tools. Keyword: some. Text summarization tools and some Siri enhancements are there but the promised visual tools and ChatGPT integration aren’t coming until later in the year.