Apple Intelligence debuts in India on iPhones, Macs

Apple has officially launched iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, expanding Apple Intelligence support to India. This update introduces localized English (India) language support. With this roll out, Apple users in India can now access advanced AI-powered tools, including Writing Tools, Image Playground, Image Wand, and more.

According to Apple, these features will adapt to the user's language, ensuring a more personalised and intuitive experience. Beyond new AI-powered features, the update also adds support for ten new system languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

As detailed in Apple's release notes, the key changes rolling out to eligible iPhones with iOS 18.4 are -

·         Apple Intelligence (All iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max)

·         Priority Notifications: Displays critical notifications at the top of your list for better visibility and quicker response.

·         Visual Intelligence: Now extended to iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, this feature-already available on the iPhone 16 series-enables users to summarise and translate text, identify phone numbers and email addresses, and conduct visual searches via Google or OpenAI's ChatGPT. On iPhone 15 Pro models, Visual Intelligence can be accessed using the Action Button.

·         Sketch in Image Playground: Adds a new artistic style option for creating sketch-like drawings.

·         Expanded Language Support: Apple Intelligence now supports eight additional languages and two more English variants: English (India, Singapore), French (France, Canada), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Spain, Latin America, US).

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