3 Apple Intelligence Features You’ll Get in iOS 18.1

Apple has been teasing and promising many Apple Intelligence features since the advent of artificial intelligence technology. first introduced earlier this year, but now that iOS 18.1 is available, we’re finally getting a taste of Apple’s AI ambitions.

And although the first set of functions modest in volumeyou’re sure to find at least some of them useful. After running beta versions of iOS with access to Apple Intelligence for a few weeks, I think these are the three features you’ll really use day-to-day.

Do you need iPhone 15 pro, iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 pro (or their Plus and Max variants) running iOS 18.1 and, most importantly, you must request access to Apple Intelligence take advantage of these new technologies.

Once you’re inside, here’s what you can realistically expect. New features will be added over time—and keep in mind that Apple Intelligence is still officially beta software—but this is where Apple begins its AI era.

Resumes bring TL;DR to your correspondence.

In an era where there are so many demands on our attention and seemingly less time to delve into longer topics… Sorry, what did I say?

Oh yes: how often have you wished for the “too long, unread” version of not just long emails, but a firehose of communication that comes crashing down on you? The ability to summarize notifications, emails, and web pages is perhaps the most common and least intrusive feature of Apple Intelligence right now.

When a notification arrives, such as a message from a friend or group in Messages, iPhone creates a short, one-sentence description.

Sometimes resumes are vague, and sometimes unintentionally funnybut for now I think they are more useful than not. Summaries can also be generated from alerts from third-party apps such as news or social media apps, although I suspect my outdoor security camera picks up multiple passersby over time and doesn’t tell me that 10 people are stacked at the door.

However, Apple Intelligence definitely doesn’t understand sarcasm and colloquialisms. you can turn off summaries if you want.

You can also create a more detailed overview of emails in the Mail app. Tap Summarize The button at the top of the message allows you to view a summary of the content in a few dozen words.

In Safari, when viewing a page where the Reader feature is available, tap Page menu button in the address bar, click Show reader and then tap Summary button at the top of the page.

Siri gets lighter and improves interaction

During the releases of iOS 18 and iPhone 16, I was amused that Apple Intelligence’s main visual indicator—a full-screen Siri animation with colored edges—was noticeably absent. Apple even lit up the edges of the massive glass cube of its Apple Fifth Avenue Store in New York City, like a Siri search.

Instead of, iOS 18 used the same old Siri sphere.

Now, the modern look and feel of Siri has arrived in iOS 18.1, but only on devices that support Apple Intelligence. If you’re still tapping your fingers Apple Intelligence Waitlist turn, you will also see the Siri sphere.

The new interface includes several improvements to the Siri experience, making it easier if you stumble while completing a request, such as saying the wrong word or interrupting yourself mid-thought. It’s also best to listen after receiving the results so you can ask appropriate follow-up questions.

However, the ability to personalize responses based on what Apple Intelligence knows about you is still in development. iOS 18.1 also does not yet support ChatGPT as an alternative source of information – this interaction only began in iOS 18.2 beta for developers.

Remove distractions from your photos using the Cleanup feature in the Photos app.

Before iOS 18.1, the Photos app on iPhone and iPad lacked a simple retouching feature. Dust on the camera lens? Garbage on the ground? Sorry, you’ll have to deal with these and other distractions in the Photos app on macOS or using a third-party app.

Apple Intelligence now includes an AI-enhanced Clean Up tool in the Photos app. When you edit an image and click the icon Clear The iPhone button analyzes the photo and suggests possible objects to remove, highlighting them. Tap one of them, or draw a circle around an area, and the app erases those areas and uses generative AI to fill in the believable pixels.

In its first incarnation, Clean Up isn’t perfect, and you’ll often get better results in other dedicated image editors. But for quickly removing troubles from photos, it’s quite suitable.