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Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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- abe94 2y agohonestly making siri event a little bit better (which as far as I can tell has stubbornly refused to improve over the last few years) would make me more exicted about apple intelligence than all the text summarization and rewriting features
- mfro 2y agoI've been using the 18.1 beta for a month now and Siri is noticable better at recognizing your speech and working around less explicit requests e.g. "set a timer for 15 minutes... uh make that 10"
- gwervc 2y agoThe only ML improvements I noticed and use in my Apple products in year is Chinese text OCR in images, and Chinese handwritten recognition on ipad with pencil. Nothing in Apple Intelligence is making me bat an eye.
- furyofantares 2y agoOkay well it says that's a part of the update
- solardev 2y agoWow, this is... underwhelming. Some text summaries for apps nobody use, and minor Siri improvements that bring it up to par where Google Assistant was 5-10 years ago? Even the "do you want to change it, or send it?" prompt is straight outta Android. It also seems like they copied Google Photos and Gmail features. And the place a better Siri would be really useful, Apple TV, isn't included at all :( All that marketing for this...? None of these things require a dramatic new AI chip or months of announcements. They're minor improvements at best.
- linotype 2y agoFortunately for users the features cost them nothing.
- CubsFan1060 2y agoFWIW, the more major things aren't included yet. Image generation, emoji, Siri improvements haven't arrived yet.
- XzAeRosho 2y agoI know this is an honest response, but it's a bit funny that most (if not all) of those features are not useful at all in daily applications. And they will be added in the future™!
- outcoldman 2y agoI am with you on that. I am an Apple user for sure (TV, macbook, macpro, iphones, ipads, avp), but this whole Apple AI is just ridiculous, they are so behind. Even integration with ChatGPT is laughable, with very questionable interface, no history through that interface. I just don't understand why we are protecting so much Apple in that case. They have ability to do better, and the company is not going to the right route in the last few years.
- tensor 2y agoBehind what? Windows chatgpt interface? Apple has been quietly adding AI features, sometimes with no equal. For example, having OCR being built in everywhere in the OS is amazing. I've used it many times already, but it's a quiet seamless addition so I guess people don't notice. Their photos improvements are pretty solid, bringing closer to par with Google photos. Their translation and voice recognition/dictation are state of the art. Their photo processing is equal or better than Googles. Not really seeing where they are "so behind" to be honest.
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- garyclarke27 2y agoI have zero interest in Ai helping me to write or rewrite email or other text. Siri maybe, lets hope it finally becomes somewhat useful, considering how useless and stupid the current version is.
- mulderc 2y agoFor me, AI helping with writing email has been wonderful. I do a lot of email that is fairly generic and really just needs a basic template for replying or informing people. For those tasks it works great. I also had a more serious email that I wasn't sure how to respond to and needed to make sure the tone was appropriate and AI helped me get a good draft to work from. Email is one of those things that I would put off as I just found it hard to get started and would worry about grammatical error and trivial mistakes that people seem to focus on more than they should. AI has helped me just be better at email.
- ethbr1 2y agoOut of curiosity, as a user, have you tried to get it to format an executive email? My impression of LLM-generated emails has been they tend towards verbosity. At least relative to the minimal-characters some higher-role folks prefer. I haven't spent much time trying to get them to exec memo edit/format information.
- mulderc 2y agoI usually give it a short draft or points to use and my experience is it usually gives a clear and concise email for me to then work with. You can always ask it to be shorter and see if it gets what you are looking for.
- simonw 2y agoI imagine the value of this feature varies depending on how much email you send. If you only send one or two emails a day the value may not be obvious - if most of your job is email communication this could be a whole lot more impactful.
- amelius 2y agoQuestion. Is this phoning home all the time?
- tgv 2y agoTo give you a preliminary answer: IIRC, these models could run locally, and therefor aren't supported by older hardware. But what "... it’s all built on a foundation of privacy with on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute" exactly entails, I'm not sure. Edit: from what I gather, "Private Cloud Compute" is indeed phoning home, but (supposedly) secure/private.
- justusthane 2y agoI'd recommend reading up on Private Cloud Compute, the system that Apple designed to implement this: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/ https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/ It's pretty impressive. I read it back in June when this came out, but the basic gist of it is that everything that _can_ be done on device _is_ done on device, and everything else is run in a _provably_ secure and private cloud environment.
- amelius 2y ago> Security researchers need to be able to verify, with a high degree of confidence, that our privacy and security guarantees for Private Cloud Compute match our public promises. How is this possible if the software runs on Apple hardware? Do the security researchers get access to the VLSI designs?
- judofyr 2y agoFrom the article (emphasis mine): > Private Cloud Compute hardware security starts at manufacturing, where we inventory and perform high-resolution imaging of the components of the PCC node before each server is sealed and its tamper switch is activated. When they arrive in the data center, we perform extensive revalidation before the servers are allowed to be provisioned for PCC. The process involves multiple Apple teams that cross-check data from independent sources, and the process is further monitored by a third-party observer not affiliated with Apple. At the end, a certificate is issued for keys rooted in the Secure Enclave UID for each PCC node. The user’s device will not send data to any PCC nodes if it cannot validate their certificates.
- Y-bar 2y agoA not-so-fun footnote for those who looked forward to this: > The first set of Apple Intelligence features is available now as a free software update with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, and can be accessed in most regions around the world when the device and Siri language are set to U.S. English. More to come later: > Apple Intelligence is quickly adding support for more languages. In December, Apple Intelligence will be available for localized English in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.K., and in April, a software update will deliver expanded language support, with more coming throughout the year. Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages will be supported.
- drooopy 2y agoHow much of this can be disabled, either through the GUI or via other means (e.g. terminal commands, binary/library removal, hosts file / firewall network block) on Mac OS?
- pilif 2y agoAll of it is opt-in and even requires joining a waiting list.
- barryrandall 2y agoApple hasn't provided any documentation about how it works, beyond that there may be a waiting list.
- kstrauser 2y agoThere's a checkbox at Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri to turn it on.
- briandear 2y agoIt’s all opt-in. So nothing to disable.
- belfalas 2y agoI’m interested to see where this goes. That said, I am now planning to delay upgrading my iPhone 11 Pro until iPhone 18 comes out. IMHO Apple and everyone else is moving way too fast with adoption. The deployment surface of iPhone is huge - I’m interested to see how Apple handles their first really serious issue (like “diverse Nazis”). Also - current AI programs are complete and total pigs. iPhone 16 offers 8GB of memory and 1TB storage. I know the programs need the memory and so forth but still. I get it but I’m also going to wait now for the vendors to figure out the new future. In the meantime, I will watch and wait. Plus, if Apples history is any indicator, the first 2-3 versions will be lame but then around 4 or 5 it will take off.
- ethbr1 2y agoImho, one of the reasons Apple built out their hybrid security/privacy arch was so they could trade data transfer for cpu/mem, when it makes sense. The user sees some additional latency, but Apple can deliver equivalent functionality across hardware generations, with some calling out to servers and some doing on-device processing. Honestly, I'm mostly impressed that Apple is aiming to deliver OS-level, works-in-all-apps functionality. Imho, that's what users really want, but MS and Google's product org structures hamstring them from being able to deliver that quickly.
- underyx 2y agoI updated my macOS and iOS device as soon as I could because I was curious to finally see how these features will work. Turns out it's not even available today! The Apple Intelligence settings just showed a "Join waitlist" button, I clicked it and it says "You'll be notified when Apple Intelligence is available for [you]".
- cbhl 2y agoToday's release only supports English (US) and you appear to be in the UK. English (UK) support is slated for the end of this year.
- underyx 2y agoMy phone is on English (US) and I live in San Francisco.
- browningstreet 2y agoFor me it was a formality, I got the invite in a minute later.
- underyx 2y agoI also got it around 40 minutes later!
- purpleblue 2y agoI'm in the US and was asked to join a waitlist.
- daft_pink 2y agoUK English is available in the developer beta 18.2 if you have an Apple developer account.
- graeme 2y agoTry setting your language to US English. Might not be the issue, but only US English devices get it at the moment.
- superfamicom 2y agoI signed up for the iOS beta and haven't used any of the writing tools, but the AI summary of texts or emails has been really nice for glancing at the phone and getting a glance, especially for wall of text texters.
- moepstar 2y ago> Apple Intelligence allows users to stay on top of their inbox like never before with Priority Messages and message summaries. Ugh. I mean, really - my manager gets enough emails he doesn't read, fully understand, pipe through Copilot, still doesn't grok 'em, answer and delegate sh't he shouldn't (and wouldn't, if he'd read the email himself) already. Looking forward to this excuse of having even more overworked people /s
- jshreder 2y agoMy experience of this feature in the betas over the last few months (for Notifications) has been excellent. I used to have so many notifs I would just ignore them all, now I can quickly glance and see which groups of notifs I want to actually read. In most cases, the summary contains all the info I'd want.
- moepstar 2y agoIf you glance at the notification to decide if something needs attention now or later, then read the mail(s) in full - that's something different entirely and not a problem I'd think.
- aaroninsf 2y agoObservation: the primary user base for this is not us (technology professionals already using Copilot, and dealing with management layers who do), it's "everyday" people doing everyday tasks.
- daft_pink 2y agoI can’t believe they didn’t update the USB location on the Magic Mouse. Still on the bottom. Unbelievable.
- avazhi 2y agoI’ll take ‘not relying on my computer to do tasks that are inherently and inextricably human, like actually reading a text message from my mother or daughter, or replying to them,’ for $5, Alex. I’ll stay on Sonoma for as long as I safely can.
- orionsbelt 2y agoThe Apple Intelligence features are opt in. I’d suggest upgrading to Sequoia and just keeping those off if that’s what you are concerned about.
- avazhi 2y agoI did upgrade to it after the first week and it was the worst MacOS upgrade I've ever done (since Leopard), so I went back to Sonoma. Firewall was broken, Wifi was broken, Contact key Verification was broken. It was the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen, even worse than Windows Vista or Windows 8 ever were for me, by comparison. And the second worst thing besides how buggy it was was how there was literally no benefit to using it - Sequoia is basically all AI nonsense, which I don't intend to use anyway. Yes it's my fault for upgrading, especially in a dot 0 release, but I was curious and had a free weekend day so I figured I'd give it the plunge. I ended up spending more time investigating just how long I can stay on Sonoma, especially once it gets end of lifed, because I have absolutely no faith in Apple's software going forward and I have 0 interest in having my OS do any kind of AI processing, whether on device or off. A few more random fuck ups I noticed: Bluetooth Codec quality can no longer be manually controlled or even seen by holding option and clicking the BT icon in the menu bar, nor can you use the Bluetooth Explorer tool to edit the codec and bitrate. Just gone. Sequoia also completely broke my Homebrew and Python3 installs, along with doing something to pip independently of the other two such that I couldn't run any programs that had pip dependencies. That was all on a fresh formatted USB install of Sequoia, too. That OS is genuinely an unbelievable pile of shit.
- the_snooze 2y agoI find the whole "summarize" use-case bizarre. The core problem with too many emails and messages isn't that I want to read all of it but it's too much. It's that most of it is stuff I fundamentally don't care about, from people who just invited themselves into my comms. I don't want a summary of random email blasts. I want my email inbox to only contain messages from people I actually want to hear from in full, and that's simple enough to do with filters, stars, and "high priority" tags.
- andiareso 2y agoDoes anyone else want to talk to Siri like a normal human? Like an actual assistant? It drives me nuts that Siri can't interact correctly when spoken to like this: 'Siri, could you text my wife that I will be home in 20 minutes' Converts to: Text Wife: That I will be home in 20 minutes Should be: I will be home in 20 minutes Drives me nuts. This is what I actually want. It's just so much more natural. This is my biggest grievance with virtual assistants. I want to talk to it like a real assistant. Hopefully after the LLM refactor of Siri this will happen, but on 18.2, still doesn't work with redesigned Siri. I don't know if they have added the LLM integration with her, but I thought they had in 18.2
- bjtitus 2y agoI just tried this and it sent "I will be home in 20 minutes". I am on 18.1 but I doubt that matters.
- throwaway314155 2y agoThis sort of misunderstanding w.r.t. Siri is actually an area where it historically does quite well. I can't replicate this issue on my phone and i almost suspect you pulled it out of thin air.
- anvil-on-my-toe 2y agoIs this the introduction of native call recording on iPhone? I've always had to use an app to record calls.
- kstrauser 2y agoYep, it's built in now.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 2y agoIn honor of election season, I hope I can use the 'priority messages' stuff to better filter the political spam I get.
- justusthane 2y agoRather disappointed that this isn't available on my 14 Pro.
- nharada 2y agoI updated MacOS to 15.1 but it turns out that I need to be on some kind of waitlist to access the actual new Siri features. Kinda false advertising to call this "available today"...
- waterTanuki 2y agoFWIW the good thing to come out of apple intelligence is their private cloud compute, which should open up the doors to more safe and secure processing of data on the cloud. I know there's a push to make everything run on the edge nowadays, but cloud computing still has it's strengths in some areas.