When iOS 18 launches at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the upgraded iPhone operating system is expected to include several new AI-based features. Last year, it emerged that the iPhone maker was using AI to test its software for bugs in iOS 18 and to help improve its performance.

  Just now, Apple’s AI move changed the rules for all iPhone users.  Other iOS 18 features include AI-enhanced Siri and auto-summarizing and auto-completion features in apps, all underpinned by the iPhone maker’s large language model Ajax.

Bloomberg Apple commentator Mark Gurman recently wrote in his Power On newsletter that iOS 18 is “seen within the company as one of the biggest iOS updates—if not the biggest—in the company’s history.”

Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told shareholders the firm will “break new ground” in AI in 2024.

The momentum is there, fueled further by Apple’s purchase of DarwinAI. Apple hasn’t been shy about shouting about its AI credentials, as we’ve seen by the well-reported words of Tim Cook. But make no mistake, iOS is going to be game-changing for your iPhone—you just need to make sure you are careful how you use the technology.

And with Apple, privacy is always at the core, so expect iOS 18 and accompanying AI features to come with stringent user controls you can take advantage of.