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Forbes
2 hours ago
- Forbes
WWDC: iOS 26 Brings 8 New Apple Intelligence Features To Your iPhone
iOS 16 Apple Intelligence Features Apple is doubling down on Apple Intelligence in iOS 26. Thankfully, it's not just about gen AI smarts, but some actually useful features that'll help break down language barriers in real-time. Other new Apple Intelligence features for iPhone include Visual Intelligence for the entire screen, more intuitive Shortcuts and more. Here are eight new Apple Intelligence features that are coming to your iPhone with iOS 26. Apple is taking a big swing at Google Translate and Samsung's real-time call interpreter with Live Translation. Whether you're texting someone in another country or FaceTiming a friend who doesn't share your language, iOS 26 can now translate conversations in real time. You'll see messages translated as you receive them, hear live translations on calls, and get captions during FaceTime chats. For Messages, it'll work in nine languages, including English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese (simplified). Apple now lets you blend emojis together and mix them with descriptions to generate hyper-personalized Genmoji. You can also tweak things like hairstyle and expressions to reflect someone's new look. Image Playground can now tap into ChatGPT's visual styles like oil painting and vector art. If you have a specific idea in mind, you can use the new 'Any Style' mode and describe what you want. Your iPhone will then create a custom image based on your prompt. Apple explicitly states that nothing gets sent to ChatGPT without a user's permission. Visual intelligence can now analyze anything that's on your screen, not just what's in the camera viewfinder. Let's say you're looking at a lamp on a shopping app. You can long-press to highlight it, and your iPhone can search the web for that exact item or something similar across supported apps like Google and Etsy. If there's a calendar-worthy event mentioned in a message or article, your iPhone will detect the date, time, and location, and offer to pre-fill a calendar entry. Accessing all this is simple: just press the same button combo you use to take a screenshot. Shortcuts have always been powerful in theory, but iOS 26 finally brings them closer to being user-friendly. Shortcuts can now directly tap into the on-device AI model, allowing you to take actions. You will see dedicated actions for features like summarizing text with Writing Tools or creating images with Image Playground, based on what you're doing on your iPhone. iOS 26 Apple Intelligence will also improve the system app experience that you use on a daily basis. For example: Apple Wallet is no longer just for tickets and Apple Pay. With iOS 26, Apple Intelligence will scan your emails for order confirmations, pull delivery details from merchants, and summarize it all in one clean view in the Wallet app. You will see current status updates, full order details, and tracking info in one place, without needing to dig through a cluttered inbox. While this one's a bit more behind the scenes, it has huge implications. Apple is opening up its on-device AI model to developers. This means apps you already use, from note-taking to food delivery, can now tap into Apple Intelligence's generative smarts without sending your data to the cloud. Like, flashcards automatically generated from your notes, or natural language search in hiking apps without needing internet connectivity. Last but not least, Apple is expanding its reach. By the end of the year, Apple Intelligence will support eight new languages, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese. This rollout matters not just for Live Translation but also for AI-enhanced experiences across Messages, Safari, Mail, and other system apps. I expect these Apple Intelligence upgrades in iOS 26 to reduce friction across your day-to-day tasks and make your iPhone feel more intuitive. These features may not scream innovation on the surface, but they could add up to a smarter and better iPhone experience.
Phone Arena
6 hours ago
- Phone Arena
Apple's AI gets quieter but smarter at WWDC 2025
These days, it is rare to see a tech event without some kind of AI mention and Apple's latest WWDC 2025 is no different. Last year, Apple Intelligence made its debut, but the rollout has been anything but smooth. Features have either been super slow to arrive or missing altogether and instead of making a splash in the AI scene, Apple kind of became the butt of the joke. So, this time around, Apple took a different route. During the WWDC 2025 keynote, it didn't go all-in on AI, although it started with it – and honestly, that might've been the smarter move. Still, it didn't skip over AI entirely and revealed quite a lot. So, how exactly did it bring it up this time? Well, for starters, Apple Intelligence is expanding to eight new languages by the end of the year, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (traditional) and Vietnamese. Apple also announced fresh AI-powered features to boost user experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. One big highlight is Live Translation, designed to break language barriers in messaging and calls. Live Translation is coming to your iPhone. | Image credit – Apple Integrated into Messages, FaceTime and Phone, it runs fully on-device to keep conversations private. Messages can auto-translate as you type and instantly translate replies. On FaceTime, live captions show translations while you hear the speaker's voice. Phone calls get spoken translations in real-time. Sound familiar? That is because Google and Samsung have offered a similar feature for a while now – yep, Live Translate part of Galaxy AI on the Galaxy S25 series and earlier models. – Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, June 9, 2025 Apple also updated its creative tools with Genmoji and Image Playground. Now you can mix emojis with text to create custom Genmojis, tweak expressions and hairstyles and generate images in cool new styles like oil painting or vector art – all powered by ChatGPT. And don't worry, everything stays private, with nothing shared without your permission. Apple gives new ways to express yourself with Genmoji. | Image credit – Apple And if Genmoji isn't your thing (I know it's not mine), you might get more excited about Apple's expanded visual intelligence. It now works directly with your iPhone screen, letting you search and take action on whatever you are viewing across apps. Visual intelligence helps you learn about objects and places with your camera and now lets you do more on your screen – faster. Ask ChatGPT questions about what you see or search apps like Google or Etsy for similar images and products. For example, if you spot a chair you like, you can highlight it and search for that exact or similar item online — kind of like Google's Circle to Search. Apple Intelligence updates now bring visual intelligence to whatever's showing on your iPhone screen. | Image credit – Apple Visual intelligence also recognizes events you are looking at and suggests adding them to your calendar by extracting details like date, time and location. And this could be pretty convenient. There is AI love for the Apple Watch, too Apple Intelligence is also getting a workout boost on the Apple Watch with Workout Buddy – a new feature that uses your workout data and fitness history to give real-time, personalized insights. It taps into heart rate, pace, distance, Activity rings and fitness milestones, delivering motivational feedback through a dynamic voice built from Fitness+ trainers. Workout Buddy works privately on your Apple Watch paired with Bluetooth headphones and requires a nearby iPhone with Apple Intelligence support. It'll launch in English and support popular workout types like running, walking, cycling, HIIT, and strength training. And while the focus was not all on AI, there is more Apple Intelligence can now pull order tracking info straight from your emails and show a summary, plus it can suggest polls in group chats when it thinks one might come in handy. | Image credit – Apple There are even more AI-powered tweaks across everyday apps: Reminders now automatically categorize important actions from emails, websites, and notes. Apple Wallet summarizes order tracking from merchant emails so you can see all your orders and updates in one place. Messages can suggest polls when it thinks you might need one and lets you personalize chat backgrounds with designs or custom creations made in Image Playground. But what's up with Siri? If you were hoping for a more personalized Siri to drop soon, you'll have to hang tight a bit longer. At WWDC 2025, Apple made it clear that the personalized Siri features will come at some point during the year, but I don't think you should expect them in the first iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or macOS 26 betas. However, when they do arrive, expect smarter personal context understanding, better on-screen awareness and more detailed controls for individual apps.
GSM Arena
7 hours ago
- GSM Arena
Apple unveils more Intelligence features, smarter Siri still nowhere to be seen
Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote today, and of course it can't be a keynote in 2025 without a lot of AI talk. So, Apple Intelligence has received a bunch of new features - before you ask, the smarter Siri which was first promised one year ago is still nowhere to be seen. But what you do get is Live Translation - which competitors have had for years, but it's good to see Apple finally catching up. It's integrated into Messages, FaceTime, and the Phone app, and its models run entirely on-device. In Messages, it obviously translates messages, but interestingly in FaceTime you can still hear your interlocutor's voice, this feature will add live translated captions. Only when you're on a phone call will it use a voice. You can now mix various emoji together and combine them with descriptions to come up with something new through Genmoji. And when you create one based on your family and friends, you can adjust stuff like hairstyle after the fact in order to match their latest look. ChatGPT is now integrated into Image Playground, Writing Tools, Siri, and Visual Intelligence. Visual Intelligence can now take action on anything you're seeing on your screen, so you can ask ChatGPT questions about what you're looking at to learn more. You can also search Google or ask Etsy and other supported apps. It recognizes when you're looking at an event and suggests adding it to your calendar, extracting the date, time, and location in the process. To use this, just take a screenshot - alongside the options to save and share it, you'll also see a new one that lets you explore more with Visual Intelligence. Shortcuts got smarter and more powerful with the addition of intelligent actions. For example, Apple says a student is able to build a shortcut that uses Apple Intelligence to compare an audio transcription of a class lecture to the notes they took, and add any key points they may have missed. ChatGPT is available here too, should you want to engage with it, but the default are Apple's models. The most relevant actions in an email, website, or other content can now be identified and automatically categorized in Reminders, Apple Wallet can identify and summarize order tracking details from emails sent from merchants and delivery carriers across all your orders, and Messages lets you create polls and can detect when a poll may come in handy and suggest one. On the Apple Watch (when you use Bluetooth headphones only), Workout Buddy is a feature powered by Apple Intelligence, which generates personalized, motivational insights during your workout sessions by tapping into your workout data and fitness history, including heart rate, pace, distance, Activity rings, and personal milestones. A new text-to-speech model is used which has a voice built using voice data from Fitness+ trainers, "so it has the right energy, style, and tone for a workout". This will first be available in English for these workout types: Outdoor and Indoor Run, Outdoor and Indoor Walk, Outdoor Cycle, HIIT, and Functional and Traditional Strength Training. Source
Business Upturn
7 hours ago
- Business
- Business Upturn
Major updates in Live Translation: feature works without iPhone, API support for developers
By Aditya Bhagchandani Published on June 9, 2025, 23:07 IST Apple has announced a significant leap in real-time language support with the introduction of Live Translation in iOS 26 — and the big news is: it works even when the other person doesn't have an iPhone. Apple WWDC 2025 live: Live Translation breaks the iPhone-only barrier With Live Translation, users can now have real-time conversations across languages, even when the other person is using a non-Apple device. This update removes a long-standing limitation, making the feature more inclusive and globally useful. The tool uses on-device intelligence and works seamlessly with AirPods, allowing users to listen and understand foreign languages on the go — from travel to casual conversations. Apple WWDC 2025 live: API support opens door for developers Apple also introduced a new Live Translation API, allowing third-party developers to integrate translation features into their apps. This gives travel, education, customer service, and messaging apps access to Apple's real-time translation engine with privacy and performance benefits of on-device processing. This is part of Apple's broader push under Apple Intelligence to expand its language and accessibility tools across the entire ecosystem. Aditya Bhagchandani serves as the Senior Editor and Writer at Business Upturn, where he leads coverage across the Business, Finance, Corporate, and Stock Market segments. With a keen eye for detail and a commitment to journalistic integrity, he not only contributes insightful articles but also oversees editorial direction for the reporting team.
CNET
8 hours ago
- CNET
Apple Unveils AI-Powered Live Translation Service for iOS 26
Language barriers look set to fall in Apple's forthcoming iOS 26 with its new Live Translation feature. Unveiled during the company's WWDC 2025 presentation on Monday, Live Translation will, as the name suggests, offer on-the-fly language translation across the Phone, Messages and FaceTime apps in iOS 26, after years of the company dabbling with translation as its own app or via Siri. It's an AI-powered service, marking the company's latest effort to provide greater value to users for its Apple Intelligence AI systems, after the relatively tepid rollout in the last year. In Messages, texts will translate into the recipient's preferred language as you type them out. Messages you receive back will also be instantly translated for you. A glimpse of how Live Translation will work for texting in iOS 26. Apple/Screenshot by CNET While FaceTiming, Live Translation will offer captions in your preferred language as you converse with someone else speaking a different one, without interfering with the other person's voice. That's in contrast to its functionality in during phone calls, which will feature a spoke translation alongside the voice of the person you're speaking with. There's also no need to rehash any of those iMessage anxieties, as Live Translation will work even if the person you're communicating with isn't using an iPhone. For the time being, however, it's unknown how which and how many languages will be supported.
