Apple may roll out ChatGPT support, more Apple Intelligence features in December

Apple 's first instance of Apple Intelligence tools, which came out last week with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, brought features such as Clean Up in Photos, a redesigned Siri, and Writing Tools for text improvement across device. However, it still lacked several features Apple discussed at WWDC this year. A new report has claimed Apple may roll out some -- or maybe all -- of those features in first week of December.

That means Siri will get ChatGPT integration and Apple Intelligence will add more features with next iterations of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said new features will be part of iOS 18.2 update, which will likely arrive during December 2 week, "barring any unexpected delays."

While Gurman hints at a potential uncertainty in scheduled rollout, his information on exact release day of iOS 18.1 turned out to be true.

iOS 18.2 will integrate ChatGPT into Siri, allowing users to ask complex questions from OpenAI's chatbot in case Apple's assistant cant understand m. At WWDC held in June, Apple anunced collaboration with Microsoft-backed OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its devices. It will also enable Siri to read iPhone's screen and offer contextual answers to questions based on screen content.

Apple will also likely roll out Genmoji functionality with iOS 18.2. It is a new way to create emojis by using a combination of two or more Unicode-based emojis, through textual or voice prompts, or even from gallery photos. company said it has developed a specialised API for Genmoji at WWDC. eligible iPhone devices, including latest iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, will get a new Visual Intelligence feature, which works similarly to Google Lens. iPhone users can point camera at any object to learn more about it from AI-powered insights right on screen.

iOS 18.2 update will also add Im Wand and Im Playground functionalities, which are AI-powered tools to let users create ims based on content and generate ims from prompts, respectively.