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.