New Apple Intelligence Settings You Need to Change

Apple Intelligence is one of the most significant changes that iOS 18.2 brings to the table. Now, there are a lot of new features that will make your iPhone just a little bit smarter.

The biggest change here is ChatGPT integration. This lets Siri call up ChatGPT when there’s something it can’t answer — which is a lot at the time of this writing. When that happens, you’ll be asked if you want to get an answer from ChatGPT instead. 

To use this feature, go to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > ChatGPT, and then turn on ChatGPT.

There’s also a new Apple Intelligence report, which you can generate to understand how Apple Intelligence has been handling your prompts. Apple Intelligence can fulfill your requests on your device, or if the prompt is too complicated, it will send it to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute intelligence system so it can handle your prompt and then send it back to your iPhone. 

To understand which prompts are handled on your iPhone and which ones go to Private Cloud Compute, you can get an Apple Intelligence Report. However, if you’re not interested, you can turn it off by going to Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Intelligence Report and then turn off Report Duration.

Of course, there are more interesting features of Apple Intelligence. For instance, you can now use Genmoji, which lets you create emojis in seconds, and Image Playground, which can create drawings and illustrations based on your prompts. 

Visual Intelligence, a feature that lets you identify and learn more about objects you capture with your camera, is also available. However, this feature only works with the iPhone 16 lineup.