In the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 updates, Apple expanded the use of Apple Intelligence across more apps and added features to apps that already had some Apple Intelligence support. Apple Intelligence is designed to synthesize information, like creating summaries, as well as generate stuff, such as text or images. Some of the elements are distinctly more useful than others.
Where to look for Apple Intelligence in individual apps:
- Calendar and Reminders: Enter text that is more freeform in nature than rigidly structured in Calendar or Reminders, and the apps offer suggestions for structured data replacement.
- Camera: Visual Intelligence is integrated as a Siri option in Camera alongside Photo and Video. With Siri selected, pointing the camera at certain items, like food, a restaurant receipt, or an event’s details, will result in a prompt you can tap. You can also tap the Siri button to analyze what’s in the view.
- Mail: Mail offers suggestions as you type to insert information from other apps and libraries, such as photos, or to take action, like creating an entry in Notes.
- Messages: Messages makes a suggestion when it thinks it makes sense to insert something from another app, like a photo.
- Notes: After making a sketch with an Apple Pencil on an iPad in Notes, you can use Image Wand to make it photorealistic.
- Passwords: The Passwords app scans for weak or compromised passwords at websites that support Apple’s method for automated password updates, then offers to fix those passwords for you.
- Photos: Photos improves its Clean Up feature to provide much better generative image replacement. It adds two new Apple Intelligence tools: Extend, to extend the borders of an image, and Reframe, which allows slightly changing the point of view and perspective of an image.
- Phone: While on a call, Phone may suggest contextually appropriate information, like a flight number when you call an airline.
- Safari: You can have Safari automatically organize tabs, bookmarks, and Reading Lists into a grouping within a tab group. Keep tabs (ha, ha) on changes to webpages with Notify Me, which lets you describe what you want to monitor and have it automatically checked at a recurring interval.
- Shortcuts: You can describe what you want via Siri AI in Shortcuts, and the app will attempt to write a shortcut for you.
Two more sit outside the apps themselves: Siri AI across the system, and Visual Intelligence on whatever is on your screen.
