Apple Working on Equipping iOS 18 With AI Features; Apple Music 1wy3m Siri to Get AI Upgrades: Mark Gurman

Apple's Messages app is expected to offer improved, AI-powered reply suggestions with the iOS 18 update. 4qs1p

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 25 October 2023 11:45 IST

Apple Working on Equipping iOS 18 With AI Features; Apple Music, Siri to Get AI Upgrades: Mark Gurman

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iOS 18 is expected to arrive as the successor to this year's iOS 17 (pictured) update

Highlights

iOS 18 could feature new AI-backed features across the operating system
The update to iOS 18 could bring more useful Siri responses
The firm could also bring AI-based playlist generation to Apple Music

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iPhone operating system (OS) update that rolled out to eligible models last month — and the next major OS upgrade could come with notable AI upgrades, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his weekly Power On newsletter published earlier this week, Gurman stated that Apple is working on AI features for apps and services like Apple Music, Siri, Messages, and is exploring the use of AI in its productivity apps.

Gurman reports that Apple is working on adding for ChatGPT creator OpenAI has also introduced several AI features to its mobile apps. The development of AI features for Apple's apps and services could reportedly cost Apple around $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,300 crore) over the next year.

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Just like the Messages app, Siri is also expected to debut with major upgrades to the voice assistant's capabilities. The revamped version of Siri will be powered by Apple's large language model (LLM) that will also improved suggestions for the Messages app. Gurman states that there are "concerns about the technology" at Apple, but the new AI features for Siri could be ready by 2024.

The company is also reportedly looking to develop other AI-powered upgrades, including the ability to automatically generate playlists, according to Gurman. Meanwhile, Apple's productivity apps like Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, could also get new AI capabilities — Microsoft earlier this year Microsoft Copilot assistant.

While Apple's existing apps and services perform a lot of machine learning tasks on the 's device — such as detecting faces in the Photos app — the company could decide to use cloud-based servers for some features that would offer more advanced features offered by its rivals, while some experiences would work entirely on the 's device — in order to preserve the 's privacy, according to Gurman.

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