iOS 18.1: Apple Intelligence Features and Rollout Date

Apple is ready to rollout the first batch of Apple Intelligence features with iOS 18.1 and you can check them all as well as the rollout date.

Apple Intelligence was announced at the WWDC24 conference and represents Apple’s entry in generative AI and large language model (LLM) competition.

It’s not purely a competition due to partnerships with existing top AI companies including OpenAI and Google for generative AI services for Apple Intelligence users.

Unfortunately, this suite of AI capabilities will only be available for the iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone 16 series. All of the previously released models cannot make it up to Apple’s list of eligibility due to AI processing limitations.

iOS 18.1 Features

Writing Tools

• Writing Tools are available nearly everywhere you type, allowing you to rewrite, proofread, and summarize text right in the app you’re working in.
• Rewrite suggests different versions of your text so you can choose which combination of flow and wording you like best.
• Proofread lets you view suggested improvements to what you’re writing, like grammar fixes and language refinements.
• Summarize allows you to select text wherever you’re writing and generate a high-quality summary.

Siri

• A new look and feel includes a glowing light that wraps around the edge of your screen, animates responsively to the sound of your voice, and lets you keep scrolling or typing while you talk to Siri.
• Type to Siri when you don’t want to speak a request out loud by double tapping at the bottom of the screen.
• Richer language understanding enables Siri to follow along if you stumble over your words or change your mind mid-sentence.
• Conversational context is maintained over the course of a session, so you can refer more naturally to something you said in a recent request or something Siri mentioned in a recent response.
• Product knowledge helps you get answers to thousands of questions about the features and settings on your Apple products.
• Voice enhancements make Siri sound more natural, expressive, and clear.

Photos

• Photos search lets you find photos and videos simply by describing what you’re looking for
• Clean Up removes distractions in your photos.
• Memory movies can be created by describing the story you want to see.

Notifications

• Notification summaries make it easy to catch up on your notifications with a glanceable summary of the most important information.
• Reduce Interruptions is a new Focus that ensures the most urgent notifications get through to you while silencing potential distractions.

Others

• Smart Reply in Mail and Messages helps you quickly respond to messages with suggested responses.
• Priority messages in Mail understand the content of your messages and prioritize those that require your attention, displaying them at the top of your inbox.
• Transcription summaries in Notes give you an intelligently created summary of the transcript from your audio recording or call recording.

Phone

• Call recordings and transcriptions let you record live calls and transcribe them in the Notes app, with an automatic announcement that the call is being recorded.

Camera

• Camera Control can quickly switch to the front TrueDepth Camera (iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max)
• Spatial photo capture, along with spatial video capture, is available in a new Spatial camera mode (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)

iOS 18.1 Release Date

Appel is announced to rollout iOS 18.1 next week with an over-the-air (OTA) software update. The earliest rollout date would be Monday, October 28 or any day prior to November 2nd.