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But you’ll excuse me for feeling like Apple’s initial suite of AI-powered tools is already here.
Which of these new features are hits and which are misses?
Original text (left) and text altered with the Professional tone tool in Writing Tools (right)
That’s something everyone’s going to decided for themselves.
But that’s prior to Apple adding support fornatural language searches with Apple Intelligence.
(We’ll get to the one that bugs me later.)
But Writing Tools also includes buttons that canmake changes in toneto what you’ve written.
And it turns out the one that gives your writing a Professional tone is shockingly good.
Maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise.
Original text (left) and text altered with the Professional tone tool in Writing Tools (right)
Good luck saying that letter escaped your attention.
Obviously, that’s not a tool you’re going to need for every letter.
It’s a good idea in theory, but it’s not that well implemented in practice.
What ends up happening is the summary gets cut off mid-sentence, really defeating the purpose of the change.
you could activate the jot down toSirifeature, and an on-screen keyboard appears to tap out your query.
You launch key in to Siri by tap the bottom of your iPhone screen.
And I mean theverybottom, pretty much as close to the bezel as you’re able to get.
Well, that’s just absolutely useless in my experience.
Apple should just eighty-six it from Apple Intelligence at the earliest possible moment.
Apple Mail’s typical inbox view (left) and an inbox with summaries created by Apple Intelligence (right)
Siri’s smart enough to know I want a forecast for Maui for the coming days.
But that understanding can be limited.
I asked Siri the score for last night’s Dodger-Mets game and got a very handy box score.
But the follow-up question of “who’s pitching today?”
produced a bunch ofSafarilinks, not any information about the upcoming game.
A second follow-up of “when does the game start?”
Original email (left) and the version created by the Rewrite feature in Writing Tools (right)
had Siri asking me what sport I was talking about.
If this is the smarter digital assistant, I’d hate to interact with the dumb one.
I expect Siri’s understanding of context will get better over time.
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