The public will finally get to try out Apple Intelligence at the end of October, with iOS 18.1 and Apple's AI features said to be exiting beta on October 28.
Apple Intelligence on an iPhone
Apple has been testing out various elements of Apple Intelligence since after the introduction at WWDC, via a second developer beta cycle. After multiple months, that cycle could finally come to an end with a public release.
On Sunday, a Bloomberg newsletter wrote that Apple had been clear about Apple Intelligence's arrival at some point in October. The release, the publication was informed, would occur on October 28.
Apple is reportedly taking its time to bring Apple Intelligence to the public, and with such a public launch, it has good reason to do so. It's making sure there are no major bugs for the release, which could severely harm the feature's reception.
It is also preparing its infrastructure, making sure that its AI cloud servers can handle the sudden influx of traffic.
The initial iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 releases will only have part of the Apple Intelligence suite, with notification summaries and Writing Tools being the main inclusions.
Future updates will add more features. In iOS 18.2, there should be Genmoji custom emoji and ChatGPT integration with Siri. By iOS 18.4 in March, Siri will gain many updates, including contextual responses that rely on personal data points in files and communications with others.
The release on October 28 will start a few busy days for Apple. Earnings are on October 31, and new M4 Macs and an iPad mini are expected to ship on November 1.