Apple Intelligence is now available in France on iPhone, iPad and Mac. This new layer of artificial intelligence, integrated directly into the devices, makes it possible to summarize texts, generate images or modify photos, while guaranteeing confidentiality thanks to local treatment. A revolution?
Apple Intelligence in France, it is finally a reality. This new free feature, particularly awaited as it is promising on paper, has just been deployed after months of waiting. It is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Provided you have a recent model, with a sufficiently powerful processor. Concretely, what does it change? Is the user experience upset? Can we really talk about a “before” and an “after”. This is what we will see.
Apple Intelligence, what exactly is it?
Apple Intelligence, it is a set of features based on a model Artificial Intelligence designed by Apple and integrated directly into the American brand devices. This AI layer allows, among other things, to reformulate a text, generate a summary, create images, invent personalized emojis or even understand the content of a photo or a document.
Unlike other comparable systems that operate in the cloud (that is to say on servers, remotely), Apple is betting on local treatment, directly on the device, to offer maximum confidentiality, a notion dear to the brand. The requests are not sent, we do not know where, they remain on the smartphone, the tablet or the computer. Objective: to offer modern, powerful and intuitive tools without (too) compromising personal data.
Concretely, what is it for?
Concretely, Apple Intelligence’s mission is to save the user time and to simplify everyday tasks. The AI can summarize an email from several hundred signs in a few lines, reformulate a message before sending it using a particular tone (friendly, professional etc.), generate a personalized emoji (Genmoji), create a structured note or synthesize a note written in a hurry, produce an image to insert in a conversation … In the photo application, it becomes possible to erase an annoying element. These new features can also help to quickly find precise information in its documents, its notes or its agenda.
How do you access these features?
The principle of Apple Intelligence is that the user does not need to go through a dedicated application to access it. The features are directly integrated into the Apple apps such as email, messages, notes, safari or photos. They appear in the form of buttons or contextual options: a “Rewrite” menu in the mail app, a “erase the background” command in photos, or a summary suggestion in Notes. The activation settings are found in the parameters, section “Apple Intelligence”.
What are the compatible devices?
Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15 Pro Max at least, an iPad equipped with a M1 or more chip, or a Mac with Apple Silicon processor (M1, M2, M3, etc.). You must also install the iOS 18.4 update (or MacOS Sequoia 15.4). As most tasks are carried out by the device itself, it is impossible to run the features offered by AI on modest power models.
Siri, which can now be launched in mute mode by tapping the bottom of the screen and more to speak to it out loud, becomes more useful. Today he is able to understand complex instructions or chain several actions. We can ask him for example to create a reminder: “Make me think of watering my yucca tonight.” And in stride, “Not at 7 p.m., at 8 p.m. rather.”
And chatgpt in all of this?
In most cases, Apple Intelligence is self-sufficient. But when the requests become too complex, the system calls on Chatgpt, with whom Apple has passed a partnership that aims to be “win-win”. The user is warned when the smartphone or computer is about to use the conversational agent developed by Openai, just to be perfectly transparent. Even in this case, anonymity is guaranteed. And no need to have an account on Chatgpt, which works here for free.
In use, is it really useful?
For those who are not familiar with tools like Chatgpt, Perplexity or, to a lesser extent Gemini by Google, Apple Intelligence has something to seduce or even bluff. For others, experienced users, the feeling is more mixed. The integration is generally clean (can do better anyway), consistent with the Apple and reassuring ecosystem in terms of privacy. It is a good basis but you quickly feel the limits of the tools. And Apple brings nothing really new: apart from personalized emojis, everything that is offered already exists.
The company has only been starting to catch up by betting as no other on confidentiality. A small step in the world of AI to destination especially for the moment of the general public. But one thing is certain: with the war treasure that the American company has, its artificial house intelligence will evolve at high speed “V”. This is only the beginning.
Free workshops to discover Apple Intelligence
Apple offers in all its Apple Stores, like that of Montpellier in Odysseum, “Projector Coups” on Apple Intelligence. Understand: free workshops of around sixty minutes during which these new features are patiently and pedagogically explained. All questions are welcome, benevolence reigns.
“Together, we will explore how to make your daily tasks more creative and effectiveexplains the manufacturer. You will learn to create personalized images, find the right word, sum up a text and much more with Siri, then you can try other amazing features by yourself. The equipment will be loaned. ” The slots are displayed on the official Apple website.
