Will it recommend a new pizza place? Tell you that your top clashes with your pants? Help you deal with a surly teenager?
Apple Intelligence, which debuted on Apple's iPhone 16 late last year, might be able to help with the first thing, but you're still on your own for the others. Still, the tech giant hopes that the roster of new Apple Intelligence-powered features will goose stagnant sales and bolster revenue after it declined for several consecutive quarters.
So far, Apple has released only a few new Apple Intelligence-powered features, with plans to gradually release more features over time. But here are some highlights:
* Summaries of just about everything. Apple intelligence will boil down meandering emails, too-long text messages, and even wordy web pages if you like. But if you don't like, you have the option to turn it off.
* Siri gets a makeover. If you use Siri on an older model, you're probably familiar with the animating glowing sphere that showed up whenever Siri showed up to assist you. With Apple Intelligence, Siri instead signals her presence with a glowing purple halo around the perimeter of your screen. Apple also claims that Siri will understand us better through verbal missteps and interruptions.
* Long-overdue photo editing features. Frustratingly, the Photos app has always lacked basic retouching capabilities, and users had to rely on their Mac computers (if they had them) or third-party apps if they wanted to remove dust and smudges from their photos. The new AI-enhanced Clean Up tool in the Photos app analyzes your photos, suggests fixes, and, well, cleans up.
Will it organize your pantry, train your dog not to dig through the trash, or block out all bad news when you're not in the mood? No. But if you look for some advice, it will at least summarize it for you.