Visual Intelligence: Apple wants to deliver AI function for iPhone 15 Pro

Apple will also deliver the visual intelligence function for older iPhones who support Apple Intelligence. The company shared this Compared to a US Apple blogger with. “Apple representatives told me that owners of the iPhone 15 Pro will soon be able to call up Visual Intelligence via their action button,” said John Gruber. This is done “in a future software update”. He suspects that it is already iOS 18.4, whose beta phase has still not been started. With the update, Apple Intelligence is also provided for the first time in other European languages, including German.

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iPhone 16e can already visual intelligence

According to Apple, Visual Intelligence enables “to quickly learn more about the places and objects in your area”. To do this, the button for the four models of the iPhone 16 series for the Camera control (Camera control). But this is exactly the lack of both the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max and the new iPhone 16E. In the latter, Apple Visual Intelligence has for the first time on the action button (Action Button). This is exactly what is now planned for the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, but only with new software.

Among other things, Visual Intelligence can provide information about restaurants or companies, translate and summarize texts (as well as reading aloud) plus plants and animals. Apple uses both Ki technology and the help of Google. So far, however, this can only be used for devices on which Apple Intelligence is active, which in turn depends on the language settings of the device (English) and the Apple ID for purchases in the app store (and for media content). It will only be possible in German as mentioned in April.

It is probably time until April

In the United States, Visual Intelligence is also possible to discontinue restaurant reservations or delivery service orders. Finally, there was also the possibility to create calendar events, for example if you have a concert poster in front of the lens. Only Apple only knows why Visual Intelligence explicitly linked to the presence of the camera control and does not otherwise – for example via the control center.

Initially, it was assumed that it was a marketing measure for the 16 models. With the appearance of the 16e without camera control, however, the company was now prompted to retrofit this with the Apple intelligence-capable iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. When iOS 18.4 appears is still unclear, but it must be as mentioned in or before April.