Siri AI (iPad mini (A17 Pro), iPad models with M1 and later)

• Siri AI can recall your past conversations, so you can ask Siri about something it told you before, like the restaurants it recommended last week

• Siri AI can draw from more sources to give you a great answer, including photos attached in Messages, Calendar event attendees, your voicemails, and better results from Safari history and Reading List

• Excluded Apps lets you choose which apps Siri, Search, and suggestions can access, all from one setting

• Granular text selection lets you select and copy just the part of a Siri response you need

• Write with Siri is available in more places, including when you hover over a text selection or an empty line with a trackpad, and when you select handwritten text in Notes

• Siri AI is available in more languages, with support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Siri AI is not available in the EU or mainland China

Other

• Suggestions in Messages help you take action based on the context of your conversations, like adding a Calendar invite for a dinner

• Shared Albums in Photos adds the ability to edit captions and comments, to avoid adding duplicate photos, and can display a reminder before albums expire so participants can save important photos and videos

• Support for SynthID watermarking to help identify whether an image was generated or modified with generative tools in Photos and Image Playground

• The Home tab in the Podcasts app offers two separate sections for New Episodes and Continue Playing, letting you find the latest updates from your shows and then pick up where you left off

• Friends tab in the Games app provides context on why it’s suggesting friends to you and shows recent games played on friends’ player pages

• Side-by-side multitasking is easier to set up with the option to choose a second app whenever you tile apps to the left or right with the window controls or menu bar

• Simple Profiles in the Apple TV app lets everyone in your household have their own profile, with recommendations that fit what they like to watch

• FaceTime supports adding a third party sign language interpreter or live captioner to a call

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