UPDATE
14 September 2026
The next generation of Apple Intelligence is available today
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today released the next generation of Apple Intelligence, bringing powerful AI capabilities into the apps and experiences users rely on most. Built on a bold new architecture designed with privacy at every step, the latest Apple Foundation Models are deeply integrated across operating systems, making iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro even more personal and useful. Now users have new ways to improve compositions and make edits in Photos, intelligent tools to tailor browsing in Safari, the ability to express their creativity with an all-new Image Playground that includes photorealistic imagery, and more. Users with a supported product set to a supported language can start experiencing these new features today with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27.
Powerful Editing Capabilities in the Photos App
The Photos app taps into more powerful image models with intelligent editing tools that respect the original moment as it was captured.
With Spatial Reframing, users can improve the composition of a photo after it’s been taken. Building on Apple’s deep understanding of spatial models thanks to Apple Vision Pro, users can preview in real time how the perspective of a photo shifts by touching and dragging. Apple Intelligence only generates new content where the perspective has been shifted, ensuring the reframed photo remains consistent with the original scene.
Users can also expand their images with the Extend tool. Whether they simply want to give their subjects more breathing room, adjust the aspect ratio, or straighten a crooked horizon without cropping out anything important, Extend can fill in the missing pieces.
Additionally, the popular Clean Up tool gets a major upgrade, so users can remove distractions with better quality and more realistic infill, even when the scene is complex. And with upcoming support for the SynthID standard, users can identify images generated or edited with AI using Apple Intelligence-powered tools.1
New Ways to Browse in Safari
With the power of Apple Intelligence, new tools transform how users can browse the web in Safari. The intelligence in Safari is built with privacy in mind, delivering useful capabilities without exposing personal browsing data to anyone, including Apple.
Safari can now simplify browsing by automatically organizing a user’s tabs into relevant topics. As users browse, Safari will continue to organize new tabs into existing topics or create new ones.
With Notify Me, users can ask Safari to monitor a web page for changes — like product restocks or price drops — so they can stay on top of updates they care about. Users can simply describe the change they want Safari to monitor for, and when Safari detects a change on that web page, they’ll get a notification so they can take action.
With Describe an Extension, users can create custom Safari extensions simply by describing what they want. Safari will then generate the custom extension right in the toolbar, like adding a button to save and rate recipes a user has tried.
Photorealistic Imagery with a Reimagined Image Playground
Image Playground is more powerful and useful than ever, bringing new ways for users to express themselves. With a new generative model that runs on Private Cloud Compute, users can tap into their creativity to generate high-quality images in virtually any style, including photorealistic.
Image Playground makes it easy and intuitive to modify images. Users can describe the changes they want to make — or simply tap, circle, or brush to highlight an object to move or resize it.
Users also have new ways to enjoy the images they create. In addition to places like Messages, Image Playground can now be used to generate Lock Screen wallpapers and Contact Posters. And they can choose the aspect ratio for what they are working on, such as a landscape image for a website or portrait image for a flyer.
Helpful Features to Manage Communication and Scheduling
New Apple Intelligence features across Mail, Phone, and Calendar help users manage their communication and schedule.
Suggestions in Mail become even more capable with the ability to take action with third-party apps. And Smart Reply in Mail and Messages can draw on a user’s personalized writing style.
When users call a business, Call Context proactively surfaces relevant information — like a confirmation code or reservation number — directly in the Phone app. Call Context looks at who the user is calling, not what they are saying, to surface helpful information; it runs entirely on device, so nothing is shared with Apple or anyone else.
Apple Intelligence also makes it possible to add or modify events in Calendar just by describing the event. As users type, Calendar will identify contacts and locations, and create a title for the event.
Easier Ways to Build Powerful Automations with Shortcuts
Shortcuts help users get things done faster by automating a wide range of tasks, and now with Describe a Shortcut, they’re more approachable than ever. Leveraging the power of Apple Intelligence, Shortcuts can take a user’s description and assemble the required steps on their behalf. If a user sees something they need to tweak or add, they can simply describe their change, and the Shortcuts app makes adjustments.
For example, a user can create an automation for a nightly wind-down routine that turns on Do Not Disturb, dims their screen brightness, opens their meditation app on iPhone, and sets their alarm to 7 a.m., which automatically updates to 8 a.m. on weekends.
Intelligent Features for the Home
Apple Intelligence delivers smart capabilities in the Home app, with accessory notifications and new capabilities for HomeKit Secure Video cameras. The Home app can now understand related notifications as a single activity, so users receive one notification that updates as the activity happens.2
With generated video descriptions, users can quickly understand what happened across a sequence of video clips, even without watching them.3 They can also search through camera clips so they can easily find what they’re looking for, like a package delivery. At the top of the Search page, the Home app elevates noteworthy clips that users may want to review, so they can quickly see important moments.4
Even More Powerful Accessibility Features
Apple Intelligence powers accessibility updates that bring new capabilities to the tools many users rely on every day.
VoiceOver is more powerful than ever in helping users who are blind or have low vision explore their surroundings and onscreen images. Users can receive richer descriptions of images, and with updates to Live Recognition, they can press the Action button on iPhone to quickly ask questions about their surroundings and get detailed responses. In Magnifier, Apple Intelligence brings the same assistive exploration to a high-contrast interface designed for users who have low vision.5
Voice Control, which lets users navigate iPhone and iPad entirely by voice, becomes more intuitive than ever.6 Users can simply describe onscreen buttons and controls instead of memorizing exact labels or numbers. And Accessibility Reader, which offers a customized reading experience for users with a wide range of disabilities, now works on more complex source material and can provide on-demand summaries and translation.
Additional New Features
Apple Intelligence powers even more useful capabilities across the operating system. For products that support Apple’s most advanced on-device model ever, AFM Core Advanced, users get a major boost in accuracy with systemwide dictation, which now captures what they say as polished text with greater precision, automatically handling capitalization, punctuation, and formatting as they speak.7 With automatic proofreading, users receive improved suggestions for spelling and grammar as they type across the system. They can also now get intelligent suggestions for names of files and folders, based on their contents.8 Workout Buddy is now available in Spanish and can be used on Apple Watch even when users don’t have their iPhone nearby.9 It also incorporates even more fitness data when delivering motivational insights. And Genmoji quality is even better, allowing users to describe changes they want to make.
A Bold Architecture, Built Privacy-First
These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers using Private Cloud Compute. Every facet of the new Apple Intelligence architecture is built privacy-first, from the latest Apple Foundation Models to the core operating system technologies that integrate these models deep into Apple’s platforms.
Apple Intelligence uses on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute to help protect users’ privacy. Private Cloud Compute gives users access to frontier-level intelligence, while extending the privacy and security of iPhone into the cloud. When Private Cloud Compute is handling users’ requests, their personal data is not stored nor made accessible to Apple or anyone else. Outside experts can continue to verify this privacy promise at any time.
Availability
- Apple Intelligence in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 is available on iPhone 16 models or later, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad mini (A17 Pro), iPad models with M1 or later, MacBook Neo (A18 Pro), Mac models with M1 or later, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Watch Series 9 or later, Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later, and Apple Watch SE 3 when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone nearby.
- Apple Intelligence is available with Siri and device language set to Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Vietnamese. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. Some devices may not be available in all regions.
- Siri AI and the other new Apple Intelligence features will not be available in China while Apple works through regulatory requirements.
- Certain Apple Intelligence features that rely on server-side models are subject to daily usage limits, including but not limited to Siri AI, intelligent photo editing tools, Image Playground, and AFM 3 Cloud models in Shortcuts. Daily limits may vary by feature, request complexity, system demand, system policies, and other factors. Expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future. Use of these features is subject to Apple Intelligence terms and conditions. Learn more at apple.com/hk/en/apple-intelligence.
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- SynthID will be available in a software update later this year, and will be included for most edited images, depending on the edits applied.
- Requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad and a home hub such as HomePod (2nd generation), HomePod mini, or Apple TV 4K with the latest operating system software. Location services must be enabled for the Home app and Home accessories.
- Requires a home hub such as HomePod (2nd generation), HomePod mini, or Apple TV 4K with the latest operating system software. The owner of the home must have an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone, have Apple Intelligence enabled in the Home app, and subscribe to an eligible iCloud+ plan.
- Search using natural language requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled device. HomeKit Secure Video requires a home hub such as HomePod (2nd generation), HomePod mini, or Apple TV 4K with the latest operating system software. The owner of the home must have an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone, have Apple Intelligence enabled in the Home app, and subscribe to an eligible iCloud+ plan.
- VoiceOver and Magnifier should not be relied upon in circumstances where one could be harmed or injured, in high-risk situations, for navigation, or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition.
- Voice Control powered by Apple Intelligence is available in English in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia.
- Apple’s most powerful on-device model and the features it enables, like expressive voices and more advanced dictation, are available on iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPad (M4) or later with at least 12GB of unified memory, and Mac (M3) or later with at least 12GB of unified memory. The model and expressive voices are also available on Apple Vision Pro (M5).
- Suggestions in Mail, Call Context, and intelligent file and folder naming will be available in English.
- watchOS 27 updates to Workout Buddy are available on Apple Watch Series 9 or later, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later with a paired Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone and Bluetooth headphones or speakers with device and Siri language set to English or Spanish.