iOS 18.4 brings Apple intelligence to India: From Genmoji to AI writing, here¡¯s what¡¯s new in your iPhone and iPad

Apple Intelligence is launched in India: Apple has finally flipped the switch and made it available in India. Apple Intelligence¡ªits eagerly anticipated AI-powered suite¡ªbrings a slew of clever updates to Macs, iPhones, and iPads.

Imagine having AI magic embedded into your device so you can edit photographs like a pro, create personalized emoticons (Genmoji), and write emails with ease. iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15 have significantly improved the intelligence of Apple's environment.

Apple Intelligence is here to revolutionize how we use our gadgets, whether it's by making Siri smarter, cleaning up sloppy photos, or proposing text rewrites. Prepare yourself for an entirely new level of AI-driven ease if you're an Apple user in India. Thrilled? You ought to be!

What is Apple Intelligence?

The company's artificial intelligence technology, Apple Intelligence, is made to provide useful and pertinent AI capabilities. These features are now available in more places worldwide, including India, thanks to the iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 updates.

Today, Apple's AI system is extensively integrated across its ecosystem, providing a variety of tools that improve daily activities, creativity, and productivity without sacrificing the company's privacy requirements.

Apple Intelligence features

In order to improve the way people interact with their iPhones, iPads, or Mac computers, the most recent updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS offer a full array of AI-powered features to compatible devices throughout India.

1. Writing tools

The Writing Tools offer users options like Rewrite, Proofread, and Summarise to improve their writing wherever they type. | Credit: Apple

Users can rewrite, edit, and condense text in a variety of programs, such as Mail, Messages, and Notes, using Apple's Writing Tools. Depending on the situation and target audience, these tools provide the ability to alter the tone from formal to succinct to approachable.

It goes a step further with the "Describe Your Change" option, which allows you to make particular changes to your writing style, like adding more energy to the words on your CV or turning a dinner invitation into a poem.

Natural language search is now available for both photographs and videos in the photographs app. The technology will find pertinent content if users just specify what they're looking for.

The Memories feature automatically constructs a narrative arc with thematic chapters based on user descriptions, while the Clean Up tool assists you in eliminating extraneous objects from photos.

2. Image playground

The Image Playground experience allows users to easily create fun and unique images, with concepts like themes, costumes, accessories, and places. | Credit: Apple

Image Playground comes next, allowing users to create creative images in sketch, animation, or illustration styles. Apple argues that by integrating this feature into Messages and programs like Freeform and Keynote, visual communication will become more captivating.

With the help of the Genmoji technology, users can make unique expressions from text descriptions or images in their collection.

Animation: A contemporary, three-dimensional style.

Illustrations: Pictures with color blocking, distinct lines, and basic shapes.

Sketch is an academic: Extremely precise drawing style that creates realistic pictures by combining technical lines with a vivid color scheme.

3. Priority Messages in the Mail

Priority Messages in Mail elevates a user¡¯s most urgent emails in a new section at the top of the inbox. | Credit: Apple

With the latest update, Apple also introduced Priority Messages in Mail, which places important emails at the top of the inbox, such as flight passes or same-day invitations.

By displaying important elements of lengthy conversations right on the lock screen, the notification summaries assist users in better managing their digital engagements.

4. Siri Upgrade

With the power of Apple Intelligence, Siri becomes more natural, flexible, and deeply integrated into the system experience. | Credit: Apple

Siri has also been significantly improved with deeper system integration and more organic interactions. With a bright light around the screen's edge, the voice assistant's interface has been overhauled.

Additionally, it has improved product expertise to respond to thousands of inquiries concerning the settings and functionalities of Apple devices and preserves context between queries.

Depending on their settings, users can also alternate between text and speech input while communicating with Siri.

5. Clean Up Photos

With Clean Up, users can remove distractions from photos while staying true to the original. | Credit: Apple

With so many new features, the Photos app is even smarter. Users can search for almost anything using natural language search by just stating what they're looking for, such as "Maya dancing in a red dress."

Users can search for something that occurred in a certain video segment and get directly to it because this feature works across videos as well. To assist users in finishing a search quickly, Search also provides smart completion suggestions.

The Clean Up tool allows users to eliminate distracting aspects from photos when an unwanted person or object is up in the frame while maintaining the authenticity of the scene as intended. Users may now make the movies they want to watch by only adding a description to the Memories function.

Based on a user's description, Apple Intelligence will identify images and videos using language and picture recognition. It will then create a screenplay with chapters based on themes found in the images and organize them into a movie with a distinct narrative arc.

6. Create Genmoji

With the power of Apple Intelligence, emoji is taken to the next level with Genmoji. | Credit: Apple

Genmoji, which takes emoji to the next level thanks to Apple Intelligence, opens up completely new communication channels and makes talks with friends and family more enjoyable. A Genmoji with several different forms will display when you simply type a description into the emoji keyboard.

Users can further develop Genmoji by making one that is modeled after a friend or relative using pictures from their photo collection. To make them even more distinctive and personal, personalized Genmoji can be paired with accessories like a hat or sunglasses and can represent themes or activities.

Similar to emojis, genmojis can be shared as a sticker or response in a tapback, or they can be put in line with messages.

7. Take Notes with Image Wand

By using Image Wand, users can quickly create images in their notes using the written or visual context already present. | Credit: Apple

New capabilities are added to the Notes app to make note-taking more dynamic and attractive. Utilizing the written or visual context that is already recorded in the note, users can easily create images in their note by utilizing the Image Wand tool in the tool palette.

By just circling a crude sketch, Image Wand turns it into a refined image. In order to generate an appropriate image that enhances the note's visual appeal and complements it, users can even circle blank spaces inside notes.

Image Wand will use on-device generative models to analyze the handwritten or typed content and acquire context from the surrounding environment. The Animation, Illustration, and Sketch styles are available for users to use while creating images.

8. ChatGPT Integration

Compose with ChatGPT helps users generate content for anything they are writing about. | Credit: Apple

By integrating ChatGPT into the Siri and Writing Tools experiences in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, Apple is enabling people to access its knowledge and its ability to comprehend images and documents without switching between apps.

With the ChatGPT connection, Siri may directly respond to user inquiries and recommend that they visit ChatGPT. Using the system-wide Writing Tools in Compose, users can request that ChatGPT create material for any topic they are writing about.

They can also include photos with their written content by using ChatGPT's image-generation features. Users have complete choice over when to use ChatGPT, what data is exchanged with ChatGPT, and whether to enable integration.2.

By default, using this integration does not require a ChatGPT account. OpenAI won't save requests when you use ChatGPT without an account, and it won't utilize the information to train models.

In order to keep users' sessions from being connected, their IP addresses are also hidden. The data-use policies of OpenAI are applicable to users who decide to connect their accounts.

How to download Apple Intelligence in India?

Indian Apple users must update their devices to the most recent versions of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 in order to utilize Apple Intelligence capabilities. This procedure is simple:

• On your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, go to Settings > General > Software Update.
• Install iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, or macOS Sequoia 15.4 after downloading and installing them.
• All you need to do is restart your device.
• The update can be downloaded over the air, and devices that qualify should get it automatically.

Apple Intelligence device compatibility

Apple Intelligence to have many languages and will be available in iPhone, iPad, and Macs | Credit: Apple

Not every Apple product has support for every Apple Intelligence capability. For example, iOS 18.4 or later is required for the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and all iPhone 16 models to have visual intelligence capabilities.

After launching last year and being restricted to a few locations, Apple Intelligence now offers localized English for Indian users in addition to Singapore, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese.

A major turning point in Apple's global AI strategy has been the company's introduction of its Apple Intelligence features to one of the biggest smartphone markets in the world.

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