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iPhone 16 AI features: Everything Apple announced on stage

Updated: Aug 22, 2024, 3:22 AM

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iPhone 16 AI features: Everything Apple announced on stage

The iPhone 16 represents Apple's attempt to catch up on AI integration, offering several key features that enhance user experience and productivity. One of the most notable advancements is Siri's improved natural language understanding. Users can now interact with Siri more naturally, asking follow-up questions and receiving contextually relevant responses.

Beyond Siri, AI is seamlessly integrated into various apps. The Messages and Mail apps now leverage AI to suggest appropriate responses, summarize lengthy threads, and compose emails in different tones. The Photos app benefits from AI-powered features like object removal and enhanced search capabilities.

For web browsing, the iPhone 16 introduces Intelligent Search, which analyzes web pages to highlight key points and provide summaries. The Web Eraser tool further streamlines the browsing experience by allowing users to remove unwanted elements from websites.

Of course, many of these AI features are coming with iOS 18 to the Pro models from last year too, but Apple has not specified whether all of some of them will trickle down to older high-end models.

All iPhone 16 AI features

Siri Catches Up

Siri's New Look and Feel

Siri's interface has been redesigned to be more visually appealing and modern. When you activate Siri, a soft, colorful glow appears at the corners of your screen, indicating that the assistant is listening.

Natural Conversations

One of the most significant improvements to Siri is its ability to understand natural language more effectively. This means you can ask Siri questions without worrying if it understands you when you stumble over words as you talk.

You can even ask follow-up questions or give follow-up commands to Siri. This was somewhat possible before, but now Siri can understand and act upon more inputs. For example, you can ask Siri "What will the weather be like at Half Dome Yosemite tomorrow?" and then ask Siri to create a hike event there for that day.

Contextual Awareness and Proactive Assistance

Siri is now more contextually aware, meaning it can access and use information from your calendar, messages, photo library, and other apps to provide more relevant and helpful responses.

For instance, if you ask Siri, "When is mom's flight landing?" it will search contacts and messages to give you the flight details. You can even follow-up with a question about any plans you made with that person like "What's our dinner plan?" and Siri will draw out the exact message that has the information you need.

Text-Based Interactions

In addition to voice commands, you can now also interact with Siri by typing your requests. Simply double-tap the bottom of your screen to bring up a keyboard, and then type your query. This feature is especially useful in situations where using voice commands might be inconvenient or disruptive.

Messages and Mail

Apple Intelligence—like many other AI models—changes the way you write by being your personal editor. You can use it to have an email written in a different tone (friendly, professional, concise), or to proofread the text. It is also capable of summarizing, placing key points or a list, and even inserting a table.

You can even give specific instruction on what you want to change about the text and the AI will act according to your wants and needs as it works its magic.

Besides the numerous writing tools, users can also have long messages and emails summarized. You can even summarize whole email threads in order to catch up quickly on the most important parts.

Endless Emoji Possibilities

Apple is giving users the ability to create their own emojis with the new feature creatively dubbed "Genmoji." These generated emojis are created via prompts in the form of text, and they have the exact same style as that of regular emojis.

Generative Images

A new Image Playground app, which appears rather limited compared to the alternatives such as Microsoft's DALL-E, is available for users to create custom images with the help of Apple Intelligence and possibly ChatGPT. This feature likely functions like the popular Midjourney app.

AI-enhanced Safari

Apple's Safari browser is getting some helpful updates to make browsing easier. A new feature called Intelligent Search uses artificial intelligence to analyze web pages and highlight key points or phrases. It can also provide a summary of the content, saving you time spent reading through long articles.

More exciting is the new Web Eraser tool that lets you remove unwanted elements from websites, like ads or distracting sections. Once removed, these elements stay hidden for future visits, creating a cleaner browsing experience.

Enhanced Photos App

Much like with Google's Magic Eraser tool, Apple has added a way for users to remove unwanted objects from photos. In fact, the tool appears to be even better, as it is aware of other parts of the image.

For example, if you want to remove a person that is partially behind someone else, the phone is aware of who/what you want to keep and does not let you accidentally cut them away as you mark the object you want removed.

Additionally, searching through photos and videos is now more intuitive as the app can understand more complex queries. Users can also create a memory by simply typing a description, with Apple Intelligence transforming their photos and videos into a movie.

Our thoughts so far

Apple Intelligence and the new AI features coming with the iPhone 16 series are shaping up to have a major influence on the overall iOS experience. Some of the features mentioned above are already available on other phones, but Apple appears to have utilized its ecosystem, focus on security, and powerful phone chipsets to make AI useful on a more personal and holistic level.

Truth of the matter is that we can't know how good these new AI features are until we get to test them with the iPhone 16 series, and we have a little more time to wait before that happens, so stay tuned!

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