Apple has announced a major expansion of Apple Intelligence, its on-device AI platform, with new features rolling out across every first-party application in iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16.

Key New Features

Siri 2.0 Multi-App Actions
Siri 2.0 can now execute multi-step tasks across multiple apps with contextual understanding.
  • Safari AI Assistant — Built-in AI sidebar that summarizes pages and answers questions
  • Advanced Photo Editing — AI-powered object removal and background replacement on-device
  • Mail Intelligence — Contextual replies and action item identification, similar to features in Grammarly
  • Siri 2.0 — Rebuilt from the ground up with multi-step task execution across apps
  • Developer APIs — Third-party developers can integrate Apple Intelligence via new APIs

Privacy-First Approach

Apple Private Cloud Compute
Apple’s Private Cloud Compute ensures AI processing remains secure and private.

Apple’s differentiator remains privacy. All basic processing happens on-device. This contrasts with cloud-first approaches from ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Industry Implications

For the billion+ iPhone users worldwide, Apple Intelligence will be many people’s first daily AI interaction. See our related coverage on 75% of workers now using AI daily and the best AI tool stacks for professionals.