IOS 26: Apple Intelligence – New Features
IOS 26 ushers in a new era of mobile innovation with the launch of Apple Intelligence,reshaping how you interact with your devices. Expect enhanced creative tools like Image Playground, offering diverse design styles and text-to-image capabilities. Genmoji evolves, letting you craft unique emoji blends, deeply integrated with Image Playground for expressive creations. Reminders recieve a smart upgrade, proactively suggesting actions from across your apps, and Messages gains polls and integrated image generation. Developers gain access to an on-device model, fueling offline app experiences. Shortcuts are supercharged with Apple Intelligence. News Directory 3 keeps you informed.Discover what’s next, and explore the power of Apple Intelligence and clever iOS features.
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Image Playground:
Includes suggested design styles like anime, oil painting, vector, print, and watercolor.
Offers an “Any Style” option for more open-ended image generation.
Allows text-based requests or image uploads as the basis for image generation.
Uploaded images and text requests can be combined.
Genmoji:
Updated to support mixing two or more emoji together to create new emoji characters.
Integrated into Image Playground.
Emoji can be combined and altered with text descriptions.
When added to Image Playground creations with photos, Genmoji dictates expression and emotion (happy, sad, etc.).Reminders:
Identifies and categorizes relevant actions from emails, websites, notes, etc.
Features a Siri Suggestions section. Users can add suggestions to Reminders or delete them.
Reminder suggestions appear in apps like Mail, allowing users to add reminders without opening the Reminders app.
Messages:
Supports creating polls (not an Apple intelligence feature).
Suggests adding polls in group chats when relevant.
Offers custom backgrounds.
Image Playground integration allows generating Messages backgrounds using AppleS image generation tools.
Developer Framework:
An Apple Intelligence on-device model is available for developers to integrate into their apps.
Developers can use the foundation model that runs apple Intelligence to create new bright, offline experiences.
On-device models will not have any cloud API costs.
Shortcuts:
Apple added new shortcuts that are powered by Apple Intelligence.
* Includes actions for summarizing text with Writing Tools, creating images with Image Playground, generating text, and more.