Apple gave an advance view of iOS 18 and its AI features, also called Apple Intelligence, during the company's WWDC event in June. The features included on-device image generation, ChatGPT-powered Siri, the ability to record calls automatically and transcribe them, among others.
While the update to iOS 18 is available for over 20 models of the iPhones, including iPhone 7 and above, the creamy layer of this update, Apple Intelligence, is only coming onboard the new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. That said, the iPhone 15 will be introducing the iPhone 15 Plus in tow with the iPhone 15 Pro series anyway, although it will lack Apple Intelligence.
Although Apple has not officially revealed based on what, a lot of reports mentioned it is due to hardware/computation limitations. To allow some of the Apple Intelligence features, a device needs to have a >processor, with a strong enough Neural Processing UnitNPU : and at least 8GB of RAM are missing from iPhone 15 and previous models.
However, that is something not set in stone for the upcoming iPhone 16 series, where the sources say all four models—iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and the iPhone 16 Pro Max—will have the A18 chip as their brainpower, alongside at least 8 GB of RAM to board Apple Intelligence.
These new generative AI features have been branded on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as Apple Intelligence; now it is available for users of the iPhone 15 Pro series. It is currently already available through the latest version of iOS 18 beta and does not come at the cost of privacy or user data, making use of private cloud computing technology.
Already, iPad and Mac devices powered both by the Apple Silicon M1 and the recently introduced M1 have the first in this row: the MacBook Air, which uses a rather affordable Mac mini, and the M1/M2 chip.
Besides iPads, most of the Apple Intelligence features will be powered by this iPhone 15 Pro series of tools that will be able to help use, besides other writing tools, to optimize, summarize, or create fresh content with the help of AI. Moreover, customers can turn a simple drawing into art and even make their own custom animated pictures through Genmoji.
Last but certainly not least is the new Siri, the pride of Apple Intelligence, powered by ChatGPT, with every answer imaginable at your disposal.
