Apple has announced their new iOS.18 update with a number of highly anticipated features.
Tim Cook did nothing but hype up the tech giant’s new AI features with ‘Apple Intelligence’ at the September event, whilst displaying their new iPhone 16 range.
Despite showing off some cool stuff – including ChatGPT integration, Image Playground and the rather bizarre Genmoji – Apple told us that we have to wait months to actually use them.
Apple Intelligence has arrived, sort of (Apple)
“With ChatGPT from OpenAI integrated into Siri and Writing Tools, you get even more expertise when it might be helpful for you — no need to jump between tools. Siri can tap into ChatGPT for certain requests, including questions about photos or documents,” Apple said.
“With enhanced language capabilities, you can summarise an entire lecture in seconds, get the short version of a long group thread, and minimise unnecessary distractions with prioritised notifications.”
Finally, on Monday (28 October), they launched the well overdue iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence, but not without a catch.
Now, if you live in the UK, you won’t have access unless you have two things.
You will need an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max or later to use Apple Intelligence.
Apple Intelligence is only available on certain Apple devices (Apple)
And because, officially, Apple Intelligence is not coming to the UK until December, you can only use it if you switch your device language and Siri language to English (United States).
This is where it gets (even more) confusing.
Every single iPhone with an A12 Bionic chip or later can download iOS 18.1, though only iPhone 15 Pros or later can test out Apple Intelligence.
Apple iOS 18.1-supported iPhones
iPhone SE, 2nd geniPhone XS, XS Max and XRiPhone 11 seriesiPhone 12 seriesiPhone 13 seriesiPhone 14 seriesiPhone 15 seriesiPhone 16 seriesiPad and MacBook can use Apple Intelligence if the device is fitted with an Apple silicon chip (Apple)
Apple Intelligence-supported iPhones
(Not officially available in the UK until December)
iPhone 16 seriesiPhone 15 ProiPhone 15 Pro Max
Apple Intelligence will also be rolled out across all of their ‘M’ powered devices, which use Apple’s own silicon chip.
This includes, all M1 and later powered iPads, MacBooks, iMacs and so on.
With the addition of all these new features, the tech company is promising ‘great privacy’.
“Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of your iPhone, iPad and Mac through on-device processing. So it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy,” they added.