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Mind you, I’veusedthose phones.

I think that’s a problem for Apple.

A summary of an email in Apple Intelligence on an iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 18.1

Plenty of my Tom’s Guide colleagues haveembraced Apple Intelligence.

Apple Intelligence is simply not essential.

Not for me, anyhow.

An Image Playground generated image of a man dressed as a pilgrim on an iPhone 15 Pro screen

That’s not to say I don’t find some additions useful.

I find thesummary tool Mailto be helpful for condensing long email threads into digestable takeaways.

But the other Apple Intelligence additions, as nice as they are, don’t have that same effect.

Now Brief on Galaxy S25 Ultra

And then there are the Apple Intelligence features I’m actively hostile toward.

Siri to the rescue?

Thosefeatures are being delayedand won’t appear as part of iOS 18.

type to siri interface on an iPhone 15 Pro screen

That’s an AI improvement, I can get behind.

So I’m not about to write off Apple Intelligence just yet.

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iPhone 16 128GB

Straight Talk

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Galaxy S25 Ultra Now brief

Writing tools in Apple Intelligence on an iPhone 16e

iPhone 16 Pro Max, Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro

Siri presenting �Go ahead, I�m listening� in text on iPhone screen.

Siri on iPhone

Apple Peek Performance

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iPhone 16 colors hands-on.

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Recipes in the food section of Apple News Plus on an iPhone

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