Apple recently announced a variety of different AI improvements for its built-in Mail application on iOS 18. Here’s everything that’s new.
Apple recently announced a variety of different AI improvements for its built-in Mail application on iOS 18. Here’s everything that’s new.
At its annual WWDC on Monday, the company previewed a new Mail feature that enables the on-device categorization of emails, based on their contents. Through machine learning, the built-in Mail app can classify emails into categories such as:
AppleInsider exclusively revealed this new feature, along with other Mail-related improvements, in our report on Project BlackPearl. This was the codename for Apple’s new email categorization functionality, made possible by machine learning.
The new on-device email categorization feature gives users a new way of organizing their inboxes and managing incoming emails. This will help users keep track of relevant event-related and time-sensitive information as well.
The Mail app now features an entirely new Digest view, which can display all emails from a specific company, making interactions with these messages significantly easier.
With the Digest view, users will be able to get information about flights from a particular company, for instance.
