After a long wait, Apple has finally released its artificial intelligence (AI) tools for iPhone – to a select few.
Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI tools announced in June, became available to owners of some iPhones around the world on Monday.
The new features include notification summaries, tools to assist users in writing messages, and a glowing new interface for virtual assistant Siri.
But they will only be available to people with the latest devices – including all iPhone 16 models, and the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
Apple Intelligence is also available on Mac computers and iPad tablets that are powered by its latest chips.
But some of the tools made available on Monday have arrived later than equivalent features on other popular devices.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the public release of its AI tools introduced “a new era” for its products.
It comes after the company said on Friday it would reward ethical hackers who could demonstrate vulnerabilities in its AI software with a bounty of up to $1m (£770,000).
The bundle of features released on Monday in its iOS 18.1 update are the first wave of AI tools previously shown off at Apple’s summer developer conference.
More features expected later this year include generating images and emoji from text prompts.