How to get started with Apple Intelligence on your iPad

You can get started with Apple Intelligence on iPad, try Siri AI (Beta), get writing help, and make your photos frame-worthy.

By Dave Johnson - Senior Staff Writer
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With iPadOS 27, Apple Intelligence is integrated across your apps and experiences to help you communicate, express yourself, and get things done more easily, all while protecting your privacy. You can try Siri AI (Beta), find the perfect words with writing help, and make your photos frame-worthy.

Siri AI (Beta) is your conversational AI assistant, with personal context understanding, onscreen awareness, and broad world knowledge. It can generate a draft from scratch, summarize information, and give feedback on what you’ve written.

Note: Apple Intelligence on iPadOS 27 or later is available on an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPad mini (A17 Pro) and iPad models with M1 or later. Apple Intelligence is not available in all languages or regions. Usage limits may apply.*

An iPad showing Siri answering a request to plan a menu based on a calendar event.

Try Siri AI (Beta)

Siri AI (Beta) is your conversational AI assistant with entirely new capabilities, including personal context understanding, onscreen awareness, and broad world knowledge. These new capabilities make Siri a more capable assistant by allowing you to find what you need and get more done. You can also use a dedicated Siri app that brings all your conversations in one place.

Siri AI is available in beta on iPadOS 27 or later on an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPad mini (A17 Pro) or iPad model with M1 or later set to a supported language. Available in English to start. Siri AI will not initially be available in the EU on iPadOS. Usage limits may apply.

Get started with Siri AI

An iPad showing Siri proofreading and giving feedback on text.

Find the perfect words

Siri AI can generate a draft from scratch, summarize information, and provide feedback on what you’ve written—just describe what you want. For example, ask Siri to proofread an email or to write an itinerary for an upcoming trip.

Siri AI: Write with Siri

If you aren’t using Siri AI, check out our guide, Use Writing Tools to write, improve, and summarize content, instead.

The buttons for Clean Up, Extend, and Reframe are displayed next to a photo.

Make your photos frame-worthy

You can remove distracting objects, extend a photo beyond its original frame, and adjust its perspective. With Clean Up, Extend, and Reframe, a photo doesn’t have to be finished once you take it. Open a photo in the Photos app, then tap the Edit button to get started.

Clean up, extend, and reframe photos

And more…

Even more features powered by Apple Intelligence can help with your daily routine, your creativity, and communicating with ease.

Productivity Creativity Communication
Create new shortcuts, calendar events, and reminders with a description. You can also create custom extensions in Safari, automatically organize your tabs by topic, and get alerts when a webpage has been updated (like a price change or restock).

Sharpen your productivity with Apple Intelligence

Create original images and Genmoji, transform rough sketches into images with Image Wand, create custom memory movies with a description in Photos, and more.

Express yourself creatively with Apple Intelligence

Get relevant info in the Phone app during calls, translate across languages, and more.

Communicate with ease with Apple Intelligence

*Apple Intelligence is available with Siri and device language set to Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Vietnamese. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. Some devices may not be available in all regions. Siri AI is available in beta in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 and requires an Apple Intelligence–enabled device set to a supported language. Available in English to start. Siri AI will not be initially available in the EU on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Certain Apple Intelligence features that rely on server-side models are subject to daily usage limits, including but not limited to Siri AI, Intelligent Photo Editing Tools, Image Playground, and AFM 3 Cloud models in Shortcuts. Daily limits may vary by feature, request complexity, system demand, system policies, and other factors. Expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future. Use of these features is subject to the Apple Intelligence Terms and Conditions.

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Dave Johnson is a staff writer for GeeksChalk based in New Jersey. He covers news, how-tos, and user guides for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
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