After months of slow updates, the Apple Intelligence picture is starting to clear up.
We are nowhere near the watch-as-Siri-does-things-for-you future that we were promised in June last year.
But a lot of the fundamentals are now in place.
You’ll find the Clean Up feature in the Photos app.
Choose a photo, tap the Edit button and go to the Clean Up tab.
Here, you might circle, highlight or color over any object you want to remove.
For more, check out ourdetailed guide on using the Clean Up feature.
You tap the Home bar twice and up pops Siri with a keyboard.
it’s possible for you to now write any command and send it along.
This becomes even better when you integrate ChatGPT.
(Parents might want to look intoblocking Writing Toolson their kids' computers, though.)
Summarize all the things
Apple Intelligence can summarize all kinds of things.
But the most in-your-face part of this feature are the Notification Summaries.
The jury is out on just how useful Notification Summaries are, though.
Because these are generated using LLMs, there is the potential for hallucinations andmisinterpretation.
Like with all things AI, my suggestion is that you stay vigilant.
And I suggest you disable Notification Summaries feature for things like the news app and banking apps.
it’s possible for you to do this by going toSettings>Notifications>Summarize Notifications.
Here’s a hidden one: Apple Intelligence extends thenew call recording featurein an interesting way.
The feature is available to all phones running iOS 18.1.
Like a regular Focus mode, this feature isalso fully customizable: Go toSettings>Focus>Reduce Interruptions.
That’s because those features, while live in Beta, are still very much works in progress.
