The three places where I noticed Apple Intelligence

iOS 18.4 on Monday (31st March), with it came Apple Intelligence in additional languages and regions, including support in English (India), as prophesied earlier in NL53.

After upgrading, I was greeted with a prompt about Apple Intelligence. I had hoped there would be a walkthrough of the places where Apple Intelligence, but there was none. Instead, in any app that supports it, I get prompts about what features the app supports, like Apple Intelligence in Numbers, Pages, etc.

Here are the three places where I noticed it.

1. Image playground. I took my image, added few floating things that were present and created a few images. I did the same with Prerna's image and Savya's image. Savya as a chef is something that lives rent-free in my head.
2. Summaries in Mail. I get a one line summary. It has ranged from useful to, kind of untrue. But as with all things AI, my expectation is that I need to check everything which is high-stakes.
3. Visual Intelligence. I triggered it almost by accident, and to be honest I have not really used it as much, but I just pointed it at this note, and it asked ChatGPT, which gave a good summary of what this post is. Meta, I know.

Image Playground was the fun thing.

I think it will be one of those things which I use now, and maybe never again. A gimmick, if there ever was one. It is of course, way behind the state of the art. All that I see in Instagram and other places is OpenAI generated Studio Ghibli style things. This, is not that. In a similar boat is the emoji (memoji) generator. Which I used to create something to ping in a group chat. That, as well is a fun thing. Not sure how often I would use it. Kind of like memoji in general. I have my own memoji created, but I don't really use it in chats.

Surprisingly, I have not used writing tools. I guess that's because I do most of writing here in Obsidian. And there is no integration here. There could be. All these features should be available as system level utilities, to all developers and users.

I can see a future where Apple iterates on these features, and makes them great. The killer app continues to be the new Siri, which got delayed and may come some time next year/NL51.