Apple Intelligence, the iPhone manufacturer’s suite of AI-powered tools and features, has gained new features. Most notably, the company announced on Monday that Apple device owners will be able to take advantage of priority notifications. This allows Apple’s AI to highlight the most time-sensitive notifications in a new format. Other updates will arrive on the Image Playground app and on the Mac. Additionally, Apple Intelligence is now available for iPhone and iPad users in the EU, as well as for Apple Vision Pro headsets in US English.
With the releases of Apple Software, iOS 18.4, iPados 18.4, and Macos Sequoia 15.4, changes have been unfolded.
Apple says that AI features are also available in many newer languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified). Localized English has also been added to both Singapore and India.
Apple Intelligence was introduced last year at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference as a new generation AI offering, but Apple is not ready to release all the AI-powered features at once. This has led to a slow and steady rollout of numerous AI updates since the release of iOS 18.1, when Apple Intelligence first appeared. For example, features like ChatGpt Integration, Image Playground, and others did not arrive in iOS 18.2 (and iPads 18.2, Macos Sequoia 15.2) after a few months.
Among the new additions coming on Monday, priority notifications may be most useful if implemented successfully. Now, rather than digging into important updates in every notification, you will see that in many cases it often contains non-essential updates and other marketing messages from the app, and that something worthy of attention will be displayed at the top of the stack.
Other Apple Intelligence improvements that arrived today include the ability to create a “memory movie” on your Mac by entering a description, as well as an additional sketch style for Apple’s AI image generation app and Image Playground, creating academic and detailed sketches.
Apple previously announced that the AI suite will arrive in the EU in April 2025. Delay Apple criticized the EU Technical regulations, such as the Digital Market Act.
Meanwhile, Vision Pro users can use AI features such as writing tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji.
The update includes just a handful New Emojipaint splatters, faces with bags under their eyes, fingerprints, root vegetables, shovels, and more. Recently announced recipe companion Apple News+ Food arrived Monday along with the Revamped Apple Photos app and other adjustments to the other Apple services.
