The first Apple Intelligence features should finally arrive on October 28

It was a wait. According to Apple, Apple Intelligence will be rolled out on October 28 Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Apple said last month it was targeting October for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 – which will bring some of the first Apple Intelligence features to iPhone 16 and the rest of the Apple family.

The first set of features supported by Apple Intelligence includes the summary tool, writing tools, and smart audio recording and transcription for Mail, Notes, Pages, and other apps. I’ve been testing the beta, and so far the most useful feature has been the summary tool, which took my forest of notifications and messages and analyzed them into digestible summaries.

– Matt Smith

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The company said no user accounts were compromised.

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These were issues with the iPhone 16 series.

In a more direct update from Apple, it has released two new patches, including iOS 18.0.1 for iPhones and iPadOS 18.0.1. The patch fixes recording issues with all iPhone 16 models in the Messages app. The iPhone’s microphone accidentally started recording for a few seconds before activating with the orange microphone icon.

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It was an attempt by the company to avoid a $400,000 fine.

X tried to avoid a $400,000 fine by claiming that Twitter (the old name) no longer exists. The… creatively The legal argument came amid a more than year-long dispute with Australia’s eSafety Commission. The committee had asked the company last February to provide details on its approach to tackling child sexual exploitation on the platform. X failed to answer several questions and was fined more than $415,000 for non-compliance. The argument isn’t exactly new: CEO Linda Yaccarino has also repeatedly claimed that X is a “brand new company” in an effort to avoid criticism. She repeated this phrase several times earlier this year while testifying at a Senate hearing on child safety issues. However, Australian Federal Judge Michael Wheelahan was not having it.

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