Following this week’s public releases of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2, Apple is rounding out the following wave of Apple Intelligence by including assist to its iWork suite of productiveness apps.
Whereas a few of these options are arguably overdue — Writing Instruments got here out in October’s software program updates — the suite now has direct assist for these, together with integration of the most recent options like Picture Playground and ChatGPT.
Writing Instruments have been beforehand accessible within the apps, as they’re a system-wide perform that reveals up in any app that makes use of the usual textual content enhancing options of the iPhone, iPad, or Mac — even Microsoft Phrase. As we speak’s replace brings them to the forefront of Apple’s apps extra prominently, due to a brand new Writing Instruments possibility on the toolbar.
The timing can be extra apt, since this week’s iPhone, iPad, and Mac updates broaden the Writing Instruments to permit extra refined rewriting of textual content by describing tone modifications to Apple’s AI and utilizing the brand new ChatGPT integration to compose blocks of textual content — even entire tales — from scratch.
For instance, you may ask ChatGPT to jot down a bedtime story on your youngsters, have Apple Intelligence flip one thing you’ve already carried out right into a poem, or give it a extra partaking tone. ChatGPT remains to be solely used right here whenever you explicitly name it up within the Compose part on the backside of the Writing Instruments. The Describe your change possibility depends on Apple Intelligence, which makes use of on-device processing as a lot as attainable, solely sending requests securely and anonymously to Apple’s Personal Cloud Compute infrastructure when wanted.
Nevertheless, even the ChatGPT options are as nameless as attainable, due to Apple’s association with OpenAI. Except you’re signed right into a ChatGPT account, no private data is shipped to ChatGPT, and your prompts will not be used to coach its AI fashions. Your IP handle can be obscured such that the chatbot can’t even tie your requests collectively; so far as it’s involved, each new request comes from a unique gadget.
That stated, all bets are off when you’re utilizing a ChatGPT account; in that case, OpenAI’s normal information assortment insurance policies apply, and your requests shall be tied to your account. Nevertheless, simply because you might use an account with the ChatGPT app doesn’t imply it is advisable to register to Apple Intelligence with it.
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote additionally tie into ChatGPT to let Siri reply questions concerning the contents of your paperwork. There’s no direct consumer interface for this; as an alternative, you’ll must make a voice or type-to-Siri request to put up a query, at which level you’ll be prompted to ship a screenshot or the total content material to ChatGPT, which can chew on it and are available again with a solution to your query. It’s not essentially the most elegant answer since Apple’s privateness protections forestall Siri from speaking to ChatGPT with out your permission, but it surely will get the job carried out.
The opposite integration that’s solely come extra lately is direct assist for Picture Playground. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote be part of Messages and Freeform to allow you to name up Picture Playground to generate a customized picture and drop it straight into no matter doc you’re engaged on. A brand new Picture Playground possibility seems on the Media menu within the Mac iWork apps or behind the plus button on the iPhone and iPad variations.
The updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote can be found on the App Retailer now. Whereas they’re nonetheless appropriate with iOS/iPad 17.0 and macOS 14.0, Apple Intelligence options require the most recent iOS/iPadOS 18.2 and macOS 15.2 updates and, after all, a tool that helps Apple Intelligence: an iPhone, iPad, or Mac utilizing an M-series chip or an A17 Professional or later.