Apple Intelligence release date report: When will you get iOS 18 Genmoji, new Siri, and more?

You’ll have to wait just a little longer for Apple Intelligence.

Apple Intelligence is coming, but you’ll have to wait just a little while longer for the stable version.
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On Apple’s official website, the Cupertino-based tech giant says that Apple Intelligence is “coming this fall.”

However, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, via his Power On newsletter, claims that he has more specific insight into the release date windows of some of the most highly anticipated Apple Intelligence features, including Genmoji, Image Playground, and more.

Apple Intelligence release date reportAs of this writing, you can beta test some Apple Intelligence features, including the new Clean Up Tool (Apple’s answer to Google Magic Eraser), Writing Tools, Siri’s new ability to handle disfluency, transcripts for Voice Memos and call recording, and more.

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(If you don’t know how to test Apple’s new suite of AI features, check out our quick Apple Intelligence guide; just make sure to backup your iPhone because beta software can be a little rough-around-the-edges.)

The stable public release of Apple Intelligence is expected to debut with the official launch of iOS 18.1. According to Gurman, iOS 18.1 will roll out some time “in the middle of October.”

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However, iOS 18.1 will not include Genmoji, Image Playground, and some other Apple Intelligence features. You may be wondering, “Well, when can I expect to officially get Genmoji and the other aforementioned perks?”

According to Gurman, you’ll have to wait until iOS 18.2 to play around with Genmoji, Image Playground, and the new ChatGPT integration.

“The company is looking to get that [iOS 18.2] release down to zero-bug status in early November,” Gurman said. This means that the release date window for Genmoji, Image Playground, and ChatGPT integration will be some time in December.

Users likely won’t get the full suite of Apple Intelligence’s AI-powered features until next year. According to Gurman, Siri’s new ability to provide better contextual and personalized responses won’t be available until March with iOS 18.4.

The most highly anticipated software release of 2024 is arguably iOS 18.2. Genmoji will allow you to create emoji by simply describing them with a text prompt. Image Playground is Apple’s answer to Google’s “Pixel Studio,” which lets you produce AI-generated images.

If you have an iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, as well as any of the four iPhone 16 models, you’ll have the opportunity to enjoy Apple Intelligence with its staggered rollout this year and next year.

Kimberly Gedeon, at Mashable since 2023, is a tech explorer who enjoys doing deep dives into the most popular gadgets, from the latest iPhones to the most immersive VR headsets. She’s drawn to strange, avant-garde, bizarre tech, whether it’s a 3D laptop, a gaming rig that can transform into a briefcase, or smart glasses that can capture video. Her journalism career kicked off about a decade ago at MadameNoire where she covered tech and business before landing as a tech editor at Laptop Mag in 2020.

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