Apple has announced the new lineup of iPhones today, and I can order one this Friday.
I have an iPhone 13 Pro (three years old), so it’s a happy coincidence that my upgrade this year catches the Apple Intelligence-enabled (aka Artificial Intelligence-enabled) phones.
What will that mean, eventually? (Not all the AI features will be available right away).
Well, the AI tools will fall into three main categories:
a smarter Siri (the voice-enabled assistant);
assistance with text (proofread your text, rewrite it to adjust the tone and wording, or summarize selected text with a tap); and
assistance with images (tools to create original images based on text prompts, or from a rough sketch, and powerful editing functions for photos).
There is a new camera control button on the side, and the ‘action’ button from last year’s iPhone 15 is still there.
[Screen shot from The Wall Street Journal online]