Apple asks via a popup before AI data is sent to Google
Apple sends data to the Google Cloud for some AI features – a popup asks for your consent beforehand. Here's why this specifically affects EU users.
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Tag: Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is Apple's own AI system, unveiled at WWDC 2024 and rolling out gradually since then on compatible iPhones, iPads, Macs and Vision Pro. The system combines on-device models with Apple's Private Cloud Compute and a Gemini model specifically adapted for Apple, which serves as the foundation of a redesigned Siri. The feature set includes Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, generative image editing in the Photos app, Visual Intelligence via the camera, smarter notifications, a ChatGPT integration, and deep system-level integration in Mail, Messages, Safari and many other apps.
Here on apfelpatient.de, this tag pulls together every piece of Apple's AI push: new features across the current operating system generations, the long-awaited Siri reboot, leadership changes within the AI division, the architecture behind Private Cloud Compute, rumors and reports on upcoming AI hardware from Cupertino, regulatory topics around AI labeling and privacy, and comparisons with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic and Microsoft Copilot.
Anyone wanting to truly understand Apple's AI strategy and not miss a single chapter of this deep transformation will find the running analysis right here.
Create Genmoji: Custom emojis with Apple Intelligence
Custom emojis with Apple Intelligence: Create, combine, customize and delete Genmoji – plus a solution if the feature malfunctions.
Image Playground: Create unique images on your iPhone
Create your own images with Image Playground: Apple styles, ChatGPT styles, Genmoji and, from iOS 27 onwards, photorealistic motifs on the iPhone.
Apfelpatient Weekly #13
Tim Cook is personally negotiating with the EU about Siri AI, plus a record order for the foldable iPhone and the iPhone leak week in...
Apple Intelligence: Multiple languages possible?
Apple Intelligence German: 16 supported languages, automatic text recognition, live translation and the Siri language limit from iOS 27.
Using Apple Intelligence with Siri: Features and iOS 27 Outlook
Siri with Apple Intelligence: an overview of typed queries, successive commands, ChatGPT and the major Siri overhaul from iOS 27 onwards.
Visual Intelligence explained: How to use your camera and screen
Visual Intelligence on the iPhone: Analyze and translate camera and screenshots, ask questions and create appointments – here's how.
ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence: Easy setup on the iPhone
Set up ChatGPT as an extension in Apple Intelligence: for Siri, writing tools and visual intelligence – with or without an account.
Limit Apple Intelligence: How to use screen time correctly
Control Apple Intelligence via Screen Time: Lock writing tools, image creation and ChatGPT individually – on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Using Apple Intelligence in the Messages app
Summaries, Smart Reply, Genmoji, Live Translation: How to use Apple Intelligence in the Messages app on iOS 26 and 27.