" ." That's how Apple advertises on its website, the company's upcoming generative AI experience. The problem is, that tagline only applies if you have the right device: namely, a newer Mac, or a brand-new iPhone.
Apple Intelligence is chock-full of features we haven't seen on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS before. Following in the footsteps of , Apple Intelligence is capable of image generation, text workshopping, proofreading, intelligent summaries, as well as enhancing Siri in ways that make the digital assistant, you know, actually assist you. In order to run these features, Apple is only making Apple Intelligence available on select iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
For the latter two categories, it's a rather wide net: Only M-series iPads and Macs can run Apple Intelligence. Sure, that leaves out plenty of the Intel Macs still in use today, as well as the iPads running Apple's A-series chips, but the company has been selling M-series devices since 2020. Many Mac users have adopted to Apple silicon, which means they'll see these AI features when they update to macOS Sequoia in the fall—or, at least, the features Apple has managed to roll out by then.
However, things aren't so liberal on the iOS side of things. Only those of us with an iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max can run Apple Intelligence when it's available with a future version of iOS 18. That's because Apple requires the A17 Pro chip for running Apple Intelligence on iOS, which the company has only put into these particular iPhones.