Apple Intelligence officially launched three months ago in iOS 18.1, and new features have steadily rolled out ever since. But the next iPhone update, iOS 18.4, is going to be especially big for new Apple Intelligence capabilities. Here are seven features and changes expected to arrive soon.
One of the special ‘wow’ moments of using a Vision Pro is realizing that visionOS always knows what you’re looking at. As of iOS 18.4, Siri in a sense will gain a similar power on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Onscreen awareness means you’ll be able to make Siri requests that reference things you’re looking at, and the assistant will know how to make sense of your words. So for example, if your sister sends you her new address in an iMessage, you can simply say, “Add this address to her contact,” and Siri will do it with no further clarifying instructions.
Using a formula called Intentants Applications, iOS 18. 4 will allow Siri to get a lot of new application actions, having to open the programs themselves.
What’ll be even more impressive is Siri’s ability to pull off those moves in other apps. For example, you can ask Siri to locate an Express photo, apply adjustments, and then send this photo to an Express folder in the File app, while just your voice.
Siri will also perceive much more about you as an individual, explaining your key wisdom than a genuine assistant would know.
For example, you’ll be able to reference a recipe a friend sent you—even though you can’t remember whether it was in an email, text, or note—and Siri will find it for you. Apple’s assistant will also be able to find and share info like your passport number, your calendar history, and more.
Similar to the existing “priority” serves as in the application of redesigned messaging, the AI will soon be overcome the maximum vital notifications directly with the sensitive maximum of its notification battery.
Priority notifications use Apple Intelligence’s language understanding to determine what constitutes an especially important alert. This will enable users to do less notification management themselves, while never missing the most important updates.
Apple originally demoed the Image Playground app with three distinct style options for images: Animation, Illustration, and Sketch.
Currently, the sketch option is missing from iOS 18. 3. Expect to see it added in iOS 18. 4, offering a new one to test your original AI symbol creations.
Apple said this brings appropriate to Apple’s intelligence from April with iOS 18. 4.
Currently, AI features are only available on the Mac inside the EU, but soon both the iPhone and iPad will benefit from the Apple Intelligence feature suite too.
I am very excited about the consciousness of the screen. On the other hand, I believe that the categorization of symbol styles is not well communicated and is worrying. Art seems from the rainy tip or dry to paper. Many more erasable ghosts. The animations are about the content. The content of an animation implies action.
Finally, Apple plans to introduce new supported languages for Apple intelligence in iOS 18. 4.
The next languages held will be French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese, as well as English for Singapore and India.
After the arrival of iOS 18. 4, if all the expected features of ships, Apple will have released its full list of initial Apple Intelligence features. Everything that is a demo for WWDC last year will be in the hands of users. And not for a moment too early, because the April release date of iOS 18. 4 won’t be June, and the next big wave of AI in iOS 19.
Which of these Apple Intelligence additions are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.
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Ryan got his start in journalism as an Editor at MacStories, where he worked for four years covering Apple news, writing app reviews, and more. For two years he co-hosted the Adapt podcast on Relay FM, which focused entirely on the iPad. As a result, it should come as no surprise that his favorite Apple device is the iPad Pro.