Your iPhone 16 may get its first Apple Intelligence features later this month

The iPhone 16 has no Apple Intelligence yet, despite its previous marketing. Bloomberg Mark German will release it with the power of today's newsletter, and this will be changed on October 28 with the iOS 18.1 release.

The update will bring with it AI-powered notification summaries, Gurman writes. Though he only lists that example, the iOS 18.1 beta has also included some Siri improvements (like understanding you better when you stumble over your words), along with writing tools and a new rainbow colored glowing edge graphic when you summon Siri on a phone or iPad. 

Apple Intelligence only works on the iPhone 15 Pro and above, but it’s also available in beta for Macs and iPads with Apple Silicon chips (M1 and above), so even if you don’t have those iPhones, you can still try it out. Looking ahead, there are rumors that it will also be supported in the upcoming iPhone SE. We'll have to wait to discover some of the flagship features of Apple Intelligence, including Siri, which performs tasks on your behalf across multiple apps and uses your information as context, but they're not included in the beta release.

 That might not happen until March of next year. Other features like Image Playground and Apple's Genmoji could arrive by December.