Anyone who has had the chance to test Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 15 Pro while traveling outside the EU will unfortunately know that the developer beta of iOS 18.1 does not yet have the direct ChatGPT integration promised by Apple. Why this is so far remains unclear – the language assistant Siri does not offer alternative language models. Now Apple has clarified when this function should arrive.
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end of calendar year
During its quarterly figures announcement on Thursday, the company told analysts that integration for iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia would happen “by the end of the calendar year.” Apple did not provide any further details about the timing. Overall, it seems that Apple will take a step-by-step approach to launching Apple Intelligence this year. As expected, iOS 18.0 is still planned for September, but iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence, which can now be tested in parallel by developers, could not arrive until October.
also thinks of Well-known Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman. It can be speculated that ChatGPT will still not be available by then and in fact will only come with a next update before the end of 2024 – or that Apple will roll it out as a server-side update as soon as the company is confident the function is ready.
Not just the MacBook Pro: Other M4 Macs are also reportedly coming in 2024ChatGPT is not without controversy
With Apple Intelligence, Apple relies primarily on its own language models, which generate their results either locally or using Apple’s own private cloud compute servers. ChatGPT is just an additional model. It should be offered by Siri if the system thinks it might be suitable for the user. Direct calls are also possible. Apple also plans to integrate other language models such as Google Gemini. The group apparently wants to avoid regulation problems as well.
Some fear that ChatGPT in iOS 18 could cause privacy issues. However, Apple insists that requests are made anonymously – even though there is an option to log in with your OpenAI account. X boss Elon Musk has already threatened to ban his companies’ iPhones due to ChatGPT integration as he fears data could be leaked.
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