How to Use Apple Intelligence on Your iPhone: A Simple Guide

by | Jan 10, 2025 | Guides

Apple Intelligence is an innovative feature for Apple devices. It enhances the capabilities of your iPhone, Mac, and iPad. This feature makes your devices smarter and more useful. It doesn’t activate on its own; you have to enable it.

This feature uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to summarize your notifications and emails. This improvise Siri’s understanding and responses. It also tools like ChatGPT for writing and creative projects. This helps you save time and increasing your device’s functionality.

Here is a simple guide to help you get started.

What Can Apple Intelligence Do?

Here is the list of some helpful features that can save your time.

  • Notification Summaries: Groups similar notifications and gives you a quick summary.
  • Email Summaries: Makes long emails shorter and easier to read.
  • Smarter Siri: Siri understands your questions better and gives smarter answers.
  • Writing Help: Use ChatGPT to write emails, documents, or creative content.

Which Devices Can Use Apple Intelligence?

This feature finely works on certain devices which includes

  • iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.
  • Any iPhone 16 model.
  • Macs with Apple silicon chips.
  • iPads with A17 Pro chips (like the iPad mini) that run iPadOS 18.1 or later.

If you are unsure about your device then you can go to Settingsand in About tab to check its model and software version.

What Do You Need to Get Started?

Following is needed for Apple Intelligence

  • Your iPhone must have upadted software version i.e iOS 18.1 or later.
  • You need macOS 15.1 in Mac and if you are using iPad then iPadOS 18.1 or newer version of software is recommended.
  • Your device’s language and Siri must be set to English (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa). As of now this feature only works in these English-speaking regions. More languages will be added in 2025.

How to Turn On Apple Intelligence?

This feature is not on by default. You need to follow the steps given below to turn it on:

  • Open Settings (or System Settings on a Mac).
  • Tap Apple Intelligence & Siri.
  • Select Get Apple Intelligence.

Your device will download required files for Apple Intelligence. These files are large and may take some time to download, depending on your internet speed. Once the download is complete, AI feature will be ready to use.

How to Use Intelligence feature in Unsupported Regions?

If Apple Intelligence isn’t available in your region, you can change your device’s settings given below

  • Go to Settings > General > Language & Region.
  • Tap Add Language and choose one of the supported languages.
  • Return to the Language & Region screen and change your region to a supported country.
  • Go back to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri and set the language to match.
  • Turn off Location Services under Settings > Privacy & Security to avoid region restrictions.

How to Turn On ChatGPT in AI?

This function includes ChatGPT, which helps with tasks like writing and answering questions. Follow the steps given below to turn it on:

  • Open Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri.
  • Look for Extensions.
  • Tap ChatGPT and turn it on.


AI makes your Apple devices smarter. You need to take few steps for set up. It saves your time. This feature helps you with tasks like organizing notifications, writing, and smarter Siri responses. Follow this guide to start using Apple AI today!

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