iOS 18 and macOS 15 are set to get a slew of new AI features. Here are some of the coolest new capabilities to expect on the iPhone.
Apple isn’t immune from the AI craze sweeping the rest of the industry. Following suit with companies like Google with Gemini Nano, Apple is set to roll out AI upgrades to the iPhone with iOS 18. Codenamed “Project Graymatter,” the iOS 18 update will bring a variety of AI-powered enhancements to the iPhone and Siri in particular.
According to AppleInsider, the features are being tested in advance of WWDC, and one of the biggest is called “Graymatter Catch Up.” The feature is tied to Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, which will now allow users to request and receive an AI overview of the most recent notifications.
It sounds fairly similar to Amazon Alexa’s daily summaries that you can enable, though Siri will operate as an on-device LLM. It’ll have access to your other accounts and information, including calendar events, locations, dates, contacts, and companies. We assume this will be optional and can be enabled or disabled since Apple tends to be a bit better about privacy than Google and Samsung.
With the AI enhancements, Siri should be able to summarize all kinds of text, including short messages and long-form articles.
