Apple promises that its Gen AI offering, Apple Intelligence, will understand your context and protect your privacy through private-cloud compute. Data will not be shared or stored through Apple when using this feature. Apple also promises world-class energy efficiency. The company says it aims to be carbon-neutral by 2030.

Writing tools will be a crucial part of the iOS upgrade, to help draft, edit, and compile text. Users will also be able to generate new emojis through text-based prompts. Image Playground will let users generate entirely new images.

Apple Intelligence will help users find photos and videos in their collections by describing them, or entering keywords. It can arrange these into a storyline, says Apple.

Surveying your inbox is set to become easier, apart from scanning your notifications.

Siri is slated to get richer language understanding to help understand speakers in spite of their speech errors. It will also help users better navigate their iPhones. Siri will be able to provide customised assistance based on your personal messages and media as well, apart from making updates to contact books and other such apps.