Your shiny new iPhone won’t have all the bells and whistles until you update to a newer version of iOS later in the year.
Apple Intelligence is the name the company has given for its upcoming artificial intelligence features expected to impact various parts of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Image generation tools and a smarter version of Siri are some of the changes that are coming.
With iOS 18 coming in September and Apple’s announcement of the features covered at last month’s WWDC, the consensus was that these new features would arrive with the next iPhone. Now, citing “people with knowledge of the matter,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple Intelligence has been delayed until October.
This means the new AI features will not arrive on the iPhone 16 until a subsequent update is pushed out a few weeks after the phone’s initial launch.
Additionally, Gurman says that some Apple Intelligence features will still be missing with the launch of iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1. Specifically, two Siri features that help it answer questions: awareness of what’s on the screen and on-device data usage.
Apple plans to release all Apple Intelligence features via additional updates throughout the year and into 2025.
Despite general availability being pushed out by a few weeks, the company will include Apple Intelligence in the upcoming beta versions of iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1. Anyone can sign up for the Apple Beta software program, but the idea is to give developers more time to work out bugs before the new features hit everyone else’s devices. Version 18.1 will go into beta starting this week.
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