Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2, plus new Apple Music stations

Apple Intelligence and the new Siri animation on iPhone

With this week’s OS updates, Apple Intelligence is truly here, with more to come. Plus Apple is again or still in trouble for what’s it done and what it hasn’t, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

Of course we’ve still more Apple Intelligence to come, and in particular the much-awaited series of improvements to Siri. But now that iOS 18.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.2, not to mention iPadOS 18.2, it feels as if Apple Intelligence has truly arrived. And the first thing it did was bring down OpenAI’s ChatGPT servers because of the demand.

So anecdotally, it looks as if a lot of iPhone, Mac and iPad users are at least trying out Apple Intelligence. The question now will be whether they find it useful, or whether it only has that brief new toy kind of appeal.

But at least you can listen to three new Apple Music radio stations while you try to get Image Playground to make an accurate, okay reasonable, okay recognizable avatar of yourself. And while you read about the new lawsuits that are trying to get Apple to bring back its abandoned CSAM plans, or to do something more about deepfakes.

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