Apple Announces iOS 18 Beta Update with Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT Integration

Apple released updated beta versions of iOS 18, macOS Sequoia (15.2), and iPad 18 including Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT integration this Wednesday.

The tech giant announced the new Apple Intelligence back in June at the WWDC, and in July warned the public that the highly-anticipated technology was not going to be included in the iOS 18 release in September. But, as promised in July, the company is now releasing the beta version in October.

According to CNBC, Apple Intelligence has already been available for selected users in previews and will open to the public next week—developers are getting access to the new beta versions just a few days ahead.

The new update includes writing tools with Apple Intelligence, Apple’s emoji generator Genmoji, and image generator Image Playground, a feature to remove objects from images called Image Wand, and the ChatGPT integration. OpenAI chatbot will assist Siri with users’s requests, but Siri will ask for permission to access the external tool first.

One of the features promoted at the WWDC, Siri’s capability to control devices, is not included in this update but is expected to be released soon.

According to Engadget, developers with iPhone 16s will be able to test the Visual Intelligence which allows users to point cameras at objects and surroundings and get answers and information by interacting with the AI—from a restaurant’s menu to a math problem in a textbook. This feature is also powered by ChatGPT and Google.

Genmoji allows users to create personalized emojis from a prompt or based on a friend’s image. Apple also launched the Genmoji API yesterday, so that third-party messaging platforms can recognize and render users’s creations on other apps like WhatsApp or Telegram.