Apple just taught your iPhone to finish your sentences, your photos, and your workflows

Apple today announced a series of new Apple Intelligence updates for all its apps, including tab management for Safari, one-tap password updates, context awareness between apps, and AI-powered shortcut creation via natural language.

Safari gets an AI-powered tab manager that automatically groups tabs by topic. It can also suggest and add related tabs to an existing group. The company is also adding a page monitor to Safari that alerts you when changes are detected – useful for tracking prices, news stories, or other time-sensitive matters. Apple said Safari can also create a custom extension using text prompts to modify a web page, a capability that until now has required a developer.

The company is adding a way to update compromised passwords with one tap, with Apple handling the process on your behalf via AI and Safari – no manual login required.

Messages gets AI-powered reply suggestions and a new ability to display photos based on a text description, so you can find what you’re looking for without scrolling. In Calendar, users can now type in natural language to create an appointment. Just mention the people and the time, and Apple Intelligence will do the rest.

Perhaps the most consequential update for power users: Apple said the Phone app can now pull context from other apps like Mail and Messages during a call. For example, if you’re on the phone with an airline, they can pull your flight details from your email in real time. It’s Apple’s answer to Google’s similar “Magic Cue” feature, and suggests that the AI ​​assistant wars are increasingly being fought at the operating system level – with your personal data as the differentiator.

The company is also revamping Shortcuts with AI-powered creation. Instead of manually piecing together a workflow step by step, users can now describe what they want in plain language and the app will build the shortcut automatically, effectively bringing vibe coding to the regular iPhone user.

Image Playground is also getting a major update, with easier natural language editing and a new model that can generate more photorealistic images. Users can tap, circle or brush to select and edit individual objects, and can now resize each generated image to different sizes – a feature that developers will likely use immediately once Apple opens up image generation to third parties via a new API. The app will also have the ability to generate wallpapers and contact posters.

Finally, Apple updates its photo cleaning tool with improved infill and higher-quality object removal, and adds an AI-powered extension tool that can extend the edges of a photo. A new feature called Spatial Reframing lets you reposition the subject or objects within a frame – using spatial models on the device in combination with an image generation model to convincingly fill in the new perspective. Apple says it also works on older photos, meaning your existing library is now a potential target for these types of retroactive edits.