Apple’s massive iPhone 16 launch weekend wasn’t fairly all it could possibly be, due to one main lacking characteristic: Apple Intelligence. Whereas new options equivalent to Digicam Management and customized Photographic Types gave customers loads to play with, the principle attraction was MIA and will probably be for a short time. However maybe not so long as we thought.
In his newest Energy On publication, Mark Gurman experiences that Apple is “already racing” to ship iOS 18.1 and 18.2 earlier than the top of 2024, with some main Apple Intelligence options, together with the brand new Siri interface, Writing Instruments, Genmoji, ChatGPT integration, and the Picture Playground app. That’s on monitor with Apple’s earlier roadmap for its AI suite of options.
Nonetheless, Gurman additionally experiences that Apple is working to finish the event of iOS 18.3 by the top of the yr for a January launch, an aggressive timeline that might see most of Apple Intelligence’s main options arrive inside 4 months. That launch may additionally embody a number of the new Siri options, which have been initially slated for iOS 18.4. Gurman says that launch is because of arrive in March.
Siri’s “new era” is the centerpiece of Apple Intelligence, however except for the brand new design “with an elegant, glowing light that wraps around the edge of your screen,” lots of the good assistant’s upgraded capabilities received’t arrive till subsequent yr. Apple has been closely selling Apple Intelligence as one of many foremost causes to purchase an iPhone 16, so it’s doubtless that it desires to push out these options ahead of later. iPhone 16 customers can already set up the iOS 18.1 beta on their telephones to check the primary spherical of options, which is able to doubtless arrive in mid-October.