First iOS 18.2 and macOS 15.2 Developer Betas Bring New Apple Intelligence Features

Apple has just released the first developer betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2. The new updates make a couple of new Apple Intelligence features available for testers, including Image Playground and a new ChatGPT integration in Siri and Writing Tools.

The first set of Apple Intelligence features will officially launch next week with the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. The biggest addition is probably Writing Tools, which will be able to help users rewrite, proofread, and summarize text across any apps. Other notable features include notifications summaries, priority messages in Mail, transcription summaries for phone calls, Clean Up and Memory Movies in Photos, and Siri updates.

Here are the main new Apple Intelligence features that are now available in beta for developers:

Writing Tools updates: The new ‘Describe your change’ text field lets users more precisely describe how they want text to be modified using a natural language prompt. Writing Tools also now integrates with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, though this is an opt-in feature.

Siri updates: Apple’s digital assistant is also getting the ability to summon ChatGPT. This is also an opt-in feature, just like the aforementioned ChatGPT integration in Writing Tools.

Image Playground: This is Apple’s new AI-powered image generator that can create images in apps like Messages, Notes, Keynote, Pages and more.

Genmoji: This new Apple Intelligence tool lets users create custom emojis using a natural language prompt. This feature is not available in the first developer beta of macOS Sequoia 15.1.

Visual Intelligence: iPhone 16 users can now click and hold the new Camera Control button to learn more about objects and places around them.

iOS 18.2 also adds support for five new locales of English for users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and United Kingdom. When the first Apple Intelligence features come to the public next week, they will only support US English.