Apple Intelligence receives ChatGPT integration
On December 11, 2024, Apple announced Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration, opening new AI features for your devices.
The upgrade lets AI create high-quality images and write expressive text on your behalf. Also, it improves your devices’ visual intelligence, letting them search for info regarding your surroundings.
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Article continues after this advertisementThese new features are available once you upgrade to iOS 18.2, iPad OS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2.
What are Apple Intelligence’s new features?
New Apple Intelligence features for iPhone, iPad, and Mac are here: Image Playground and Genmoji, more dynamic Writing Tools, integration to ChatGPT, and Visual Intelligence for iPhone 16! It's personal, integrated, and built to protect user privacy at every step.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) December 11, 2024
Millions worldwide use ChatGPT for daily tasks, so Apple fans were excited to get a much-needed AI upgrade.
Siri and Writing Tools now have ChatGPT access within iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, allowing users to use the bot without jumping between apps.
Article continues after this advertisementSiri can suggest a user check ChatGPT for specific requests, and then Siri can provide that response directly.
Compose lets users ask OpenAI’s bot to generate content for any text. Specifically, ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities can add images, adding more detail to their content.
More importantly, the ChatGPT integration features are available even if you don’t have an OpenAI account.
At the time of writing, ChatGPT is experiencing a global outage, interrupting the integration’s release.
Apple Intelligence also brings non-ChatGPT-related upgrades, such as Image Playground.
It enables users to generate unique images based on themes, costumes, and even themselves and family members.
Genmoji lets you express yourself beyond the usual emoji list. Type a description into the emoji keyboard, and Genmoji will create multiple versions of your request.
Then, you may add the Genmoji result as an inline to messages, share it as a sticker, or send it as a Tapback reaction.
The Image Wand brings your Notes app scribbles to life by generating related images. Also, it can turn your rough sketch into a polished image after you encircle it.
Circle a space, and Image Wand will get information from surrounding text and other assets to produce a relevant image.
Writing Tools go beyond the Rewrite, Proofread, and Summarize options with Describe Your Change.
It lets you edit your text by describing what you want to the feature. Moreover, Describe Your Change is available across other Apple and some third-party apps.
