After infinity rumorApple has finally revealed how it's improving iPhone with an AI shot.
apple, the biggest The US smartphone maker held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday and announced Apple Intelligence at the event, or AI for the iPhone.
It is also partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to Apple products, starting with OpenAI's newest GPT-4o model.
Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 10, 2024 in Cupertino, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Apple's new AI improves on Siri and allows the voice assistant to work within apps to get things done. For example, Siri will soon be able to search through your photos, find a photo of your driver's license, extract the numbers and put it into a web form for you.
Another new feature, Genmoji, means iPhone users can generate emoji from a prompt written on their phone's keyboard.
“What's really unique” about Apple Intelligence “is understanding your personal context,” said Apple's senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi.
In one example, Apple's new AI will be able to rank notifications on the lock screen to minimize distractions and put the highest priority notifications first.
ChatGPT on your iPhone will be able to answer requests that Siri can't, while keeping user information and questions private, according to Apple.
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According to Federighi, Apple's new private cloud computing protection for its AI “sets a whole new standard for privacy.”
By default, Apple processes AI requests locally, on the device, as much as it can; it only sends relevant data to servers established by the company.
Apple says it never stores data.
This is the first time Apple has announced “new deep intelligence capabilities,” as CEO Tim Cook called it. However, Apple has already made internal improvements to a line of products to support AI.
In May, Apple announced a brand new M4 chipwhich Apple's vice president of platform architecture Tim Millet called an “incredibly powerful chip for AI.”
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The chip powers Apple's new lineup iPad Pro.
iPads will also get a calculator app for the first time in 14 years with Apple Pencil support, Apple announced at WWDC. Users can type or sketch math problems on the calculator and solve them from the app.
Schedule texts, hide apps
iPhone users will also soon be able to take advantage of a new software update, iOS 18.
The new iOS 18 will let users lock an app with FaceID on their iPhone and hide apps entirely from the home screen — plus schedule text messages to send later and add any emoji or sticker on a text to answer.
iOS 18 also means iPhone users can customize the Home screen with new colors and place apps in new places across the screen.
Apple is officially endorsing RCS (Rich Communication Services) on its iPhones, which means Android phones will be able to send high-quality photos and videos to iPhones.
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A public beta of iOS 18 will come out in July, and the general public will use it starting in September.