On May 27, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman said in the latest real-time newsletter that Apple has reached an agreement with OpenAI to provide a series of generative AI functions for this year's iOS 18 system.
In addition, the company is still in a series of negotiations with Google to try to build Gemini in iOS system as an alternative solution.
Gullman said that Apple is expected to officially announce the partnership agreement with OpenAI at WWDC 2024 next month.
Gullman also revealed. Apple iOS 18 will provide the following AI functions: photo retouching, voice memo transcription, helping to write emails and messages, AI generating emoticons based on users' information content, providing new emoticons for any occasion other than the existing directory, improving Safari web page search, faster and more reliable search in Spotlight The interaction between users and Siri is more natural, and the more advanced version of Siri designed for Apple Watch is optimized to mainly serve "mobile tasks", intelligently reproduce missed notifications and single messages, web pages, news articles, documents, notes, etc., and provide Xcode developer tools.
In addition, in iOS 18, users can freely place icons instead of being limited to the current "fixed alignment" grid, and can also change the color of all app icons and place them where they want to place them. For example, users can change the icons of all social apps to blue, or change the icons of financial apps to green.