- Shubham Agarwal had Fomo on Apple Intelligence, so tested recent updates on an iPhone 16.
- The technological writer was impressed by the way in which the notification summaries and the adjustment of the development have reduced the screen time.
- Agarwal said Siri’s integration with Chatgpt was by far the most useful update.
For years, I had a hard time going back on my phone as soon as I wake up and I scroll through the notifications that I missed overnight. Lately, this bad habit early in the morning became a quick glance on the screen, thanks to the new notification summaries of my iPhone.
A few months ago, I went to An Android phoneBut when Apple deployed its Apple Intelligence features earlier this year, I was tried to try them.
As I could not install them on my old iPhone 15, I borrowed an iPhone 16 Plus from my partner, which is delivered with an improved neutral engine designed to execute the latest generative AI models. I had to manually activate the Apple Intelligence on iOS 18.1, while iOS 18.3 allows them by default.
Apple has deployed a series of new features fueled in AI starting with the iOS 18.1 update, and even for someone like me who rarely speaks of Siri, many of them have proven the game of my iPhone experience and helped reduce my screen time.
Summaries of messages fed by AI make group cats more manageable
When there are several non -read alerts of an application, such as email or SMS, the new update now condenses them in a brief two -line summary. It is automatically displayed on a notification stack of an application directly on the locking screen.
The iPhone software now works as a generative AI chatbot. It has a more in -depth understanding of language and can scan notifications for key details like a human.
When I missed a few texts from a particularly active group which was planning a vacation, the Apple Intelligence’s summary showed me suggestions for destination of the favorite members and dates, such as “Janhavi recommends to Bali .
Another series of messages from a friend was informed as “panic at home and work; the colleague corrected an error”. Notification summaries work on applications. Over the past two weeks, I have relied on this to quickly understand if a stack of emails, texts or Slack notifications needs my immediate attention.
There are times when a notification summary is too short or generic to be useful. It can sometimes miss the context. For example, he wrongly summed up a handful of newspaper titles and wrote “Netanyahu decree” for a report concerning the international criminal tribunal issuing an arrest warrant against the Israeli Prime Minister.
Since then, Apple has taken a notification summary break for news and entertainment applications. You can also manually choose applications alerts are summarized or completely extinguish the function.
A new framework is the non -urgent notifications
Another Apple intelligence tool that has reduced my screen time is the “Reduing interruption” setting. The new Apple software, the internal functioning of which we do not know much, analyzes the urgency of each alert according to its content and shows only those that its models think that you import yourself while hiding the rest .
Once I place my iPhone in this mode, it generally hides non -essential correspondence, such as sales alerts, advantages on messaging applications or reservation confirmations, and informs me for others with labels like “Maybe important”. For example, it did not give me a ping about an information link that someone sent me a text, but alerted me for another message confirming the dinner plans of the same person .
Siri is more precise
With Apple Intelligence updates, Siri now converses naturally and is more contextually aware.
If you ask a question of follow -up at the first “Hey Siri”, you no longer have to repeat the details of the intimate demand. If you stammers half-conversation or conversation as you would normally, it will not lose track of your question. A request like “Siri, define a timer for 10 minutes, wait, sorry, make 15” translate into a 15 -minute timer during the answer – not the classic answer “I do not quite understand”.
With Apple Intelligence, Siri is also much more precise to carry out actions in other applications, such as sending SMS to someone on WhatsApp. Siri has always been known not to fail in voice detection, and this update pushes these basic problems. In future updates, Apple has said that Siri will allow you to execute more complex hands -free workflows on third -party services, opening the way to an intelligent assistant who can control the entire phone.
Siri + Chatgpt = Apple Happy user
The Siri upgrade that I use the most is its ability to consult Chatgpt. When Siri has no answer, he transmits it to the Openai chatbot, which, in most cases, does it. The addition of chatgpt is particularly effective in analyzing a visual on your phone.
I can ask Siri: “What’s on my screen?” And that will encourage Chatgpt to describe it. By pressing and holding the new camera control button, opens a visual intelligence interface, where I can take a photo, and ask questions about it to chat or search for its content on Google.
Last week, I took pictures of books that I finished and used visual intelligence to find new and similar or to prepare a dinner menu to associate with a bottle of wine that was offered to me .
Similar functions have been available on third -party applications, but to integrate them in iOS makes them much more practical.
More importantly, Apple solutions keep your private sensitive data. You can not only use Chatgpt integration without account, but Apple also explicitly prevents Openai from forming its models on your conversations and media.
It is not yet perfect. Often, I need more time to get Siri’s answers than to launch the Chatgpt application directly. In addition, there is no live mode like what others (Google Gemini, Perplexity) propose, which means that after each request, I have to activate the Apple voice assistant again.
The tools of practical AI have won me over to me
That said, I appreciate that the generative update of Apple AI is focused on daily granular practice.
I described the most useful tools, but other Apple intelligence tools, such as Siri’s ability to record and transcribe calls and the application of photos generating a film of your media from A brief investigation, impressed me.
But although Apple Intelligence is already conduct IPhone sales, it is still not enough for me to come back due to obsolete equipment. In recent months, I have been more productive to use AI assistants on larger screens, such as foldable than many Android phones manufacturers offer.