iOS 18.2 is out now, including ChatGPT integration and extra Apple Intelligence instruments

Apple has launched iOS 18.2,iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, which add a bunch of recent Apple Intelligence options, together with Image Playground, Genmoji, and integration with ChatGPT.

With Image Playground, customers can generate a picture from a immediate or make one thing primarily based on one among Apple’s recommendations. However, Image Playground appears to go for cartoony or stylistic pictures as a substitute of photorealistic photos, which may forestall potential misuse. Image Playground is offered as a standalone app, alongside being built-in into Messages, Freeform, and Keynote.

Genmoji permits customers to generate their customized emoji photos (Emojipedia calls them “emoji-like stickers”) that I believe may very well be a giant hit in group chats. The Notes app can also be getting an “Image Wand” software that transforms tough drawings into extra detailed photos, with preset types accessible for animation, illustration, and sketch.

The ChatGPT integration, which has been probably the most notable Apple Intelligence options within the works, permits you to entry the OpenAI software from Siri or when utilizing Apple’s Writing Tools. Features embody a compose software that generates textual content primarily based on what the person is already writing about and ChatGPT’s text-to-image era to insert photos instantly into the doc. You don’t have to have a ChatGPT account to make use of it, however you’ll be able to log in to your account if you need.

Other new options in iOS 18.2 embody Visual Intelligence, the flexibility to share AirTag places with a hyperlink, day by day sudoku puzzles in Apple News Plus, and extra. Localized English language assist has additionally been expanded to Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK, with assist for extra languages like Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. The expanded language assist will roll out all through 2025, with the preliminary set launching in April at across the similar time Apple Intelligence options are scheduled to begin rolling out within the EU, in keeping with Apple.