Apple pushes out the stable version of iOS 18.2 which includes the second batch of Apple Intelligence features.
Apple pushed out the first wave of its Apple Intelligence features to iPhone 16 series users and those with the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max with the release of stable iOS 18.1 late in October. Today, the second batch of Apple Intelligence was pushed out to the same models with the release of the stable version of iOS 18.2.
The AI features that come with iOS 18.2 include the Image Playground. You can use descriptions, concepts, and people from your photo library to create images in two different styles: Animation or Illustration. Personally, I haven’t really found the Image Playground to be as useful as requesting an image from Gemini or ChatGPT. Hopefully, the Image Playground will improve over time. Image Playground is integrated into Messages and Mail besides being a dedicated app.
What I did find fun and useful was Genmoji which allows you to create custom emojis. Simply type in the description of what emoji you want to create. For example, you can type in “Cow wearing sunglasses” and a few seconds later the emoji appears.
