iPhone 16 just went official with Apple Intelligence features. Apple confirmed iOS 18.1-based Gen AI features are coming to iPhone in Beta starting next month. Well, the features teaser suggests Apple Intelligence failed to crush Galaxy AI lead.

Galaxy AI will continue to lead the AI phone market as initial Apple Intelligence features will be exclusive to US English language users. Over time, the Gen AI tricks will be expanded to more languages and users, globally.

Apple pledged to add support for English dialects in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom in December. After the second language expansion, additional languages will roll out in 2025, that’s pretty much disappointing.

The iPhone maker claims to launch Apple Intelligence in Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish next year. Apple Intelligence will be available on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

The Cupertino-based firm didn’t reveal a specific release for certain features. Meanwhile, dedicated outlets believe notification summaries, email summaries, Reduce Interruptions focus, and Clean Up coming in the first phase.

The most highlighted features like Genmoji and Image Playgrounds will arrive in December. Apple’s Senior VP of Software Engineering confirmed that the first set of features will be available in a free software update next month.

Apple Intelligence is not only limited to a few models but language coverage is also restricted. Samsung already amazed the industry with Galaxy AI earlier this year, while a new set of features started to deploy on Galaxy S24 earlier today.

Most highlighting Galaxy AI features:

Turn simple sketches into awesome images

• Sketch to image is available in Samsung Notes, Photo Editor, Air command, Smart select, and the Edge panels.

Create unique portraits

• With a wide variety of AI-generated portrait styles, you can create a whole new look for your own profile image in Contacts or someone else’s, or use Photo Editor to invent something new for any of your photos that have faces in them.

Let your phone do the writing for you

• When you need to write something, whether it’s a text, an email, or a social media post, you can start by giving Samsung Keyboard’s new Composer a short request or snippet of text, then let Galaxy AI do the rest.

Translate calls in more apps

• In addition to the Samsung Phone app, you can get real-time translation in supported voice calling apps like Google Meet and WhatsApp. During a call, tap Live translate in the quick panel to start translating.

Translate image text on webpages

• Get the entire webpage in your language. When you translate a webpage in Samsung Internet, all of the text on the page gets translated, whether it’s formatted as text or part of an image or photo.

Translate in Listening mode

• Listen in, no matter which language is being spoken. Interpreter’s new Listening mode lets you translate one-way communication, like a lecture or presentation, into your language.

Turn voice recordings into notes

• It’s easier than ever before to create notes with Samsung Notes, even using just your voice. You can now transcribe voice recordings into text notes that you can edit, summarize, and more.

Translate and summarize PDFs

• Note assist’s translation and summary features now work with PDF files without the need to convert them to notes first. Translated text will appear in the original format of the PDF.

Auto detect languages in Voice Recorder

• Use Transcript assist to convert recordings of meetings, lectures, voice memos, and more into text. The language of your recording will now be automatically detected, so you can skip the language choice and go right to the transcript.

Edit voice recordings and transcripts

• After you create a transcript in Voice Recorder, you can now edit the text to fix any errors, remove unneeded parts, or add something that’s missing. You can also edit the audio recording itself by removing sections you don’t need.

Enhance your wallpaper with special weather effects

• Choose a photo to use for your photo ambient wallpaper and watch it change along with the time of day and weather conditions in the location you set for your weather widget.
• If it’s snowing or raining in that location, you’ll see the same conditions in your photo, and the sun will rise and set according the local time in that location.

Apple released a new Clean Up feature with iOS 18.1 Beta 3. The photo editing trick comes with the ability to remove objects, fix a photograph, and blur face. iOS 18.1 Clean Up features a distant echo of Samsung’s Object Eraser and Android’s Magic Eraser.

Way back in 2021, Samsung introduced the Object Eraser feature. The Galaxy S21 flagships debuted this intelligent photo editing trick. Later on, the company expanded it to many more premium and non-premium devices.

After Samsung, Google launched a similar feature entitled Magic Eraser. It launched in October 2021 with the Pixel 6 series. And recently, Magic Eraser turned Magic Editor, adding even more amazing editing capabilities for Android devices.

Apple came late but showcased Clean Up as a ground-breaking innovation. The feature is added within the iPhone’s Photos editor options. It allows you to perform fixes on the chosen photograph through an interface supporting gestures.

iOS 18.1 Beta 3 adds the Clean Up feature, allowing you to remove distractions from photos with Apple Intelligence while keeping the original image intact. pic.twitter.com/ZE6z3cJtAR

— Beta Profiles (@BetaProfiles) August 28, 2024

Similar to Object and Magic Eraser, Clean Up also has undo and redo buttons. You can also compare the difference by using the original toggle. The feature is in Beta but works well as Apple’s already three years behind Samsung, LOL.

Clean Up intelligently detects humans and objects in the selected photo. You can brush, tap to select, or circle the object you want to remove. AI will do the rest, delivering an improved version of the photo within a few seconds of processing.

The processing time is required to analyze the fill of the area vacated by removed humans or objects. The functionality will analyze the state of the image to fill the removed area so the photo won’t render odd after the removal of a human or object.

Clean Up also allows you to censor a face. If you want to share some graphical content without revealing your identity, it will be quite useful. If you blur a face, it will be blurred in pixelated style to completely hide the identity through the face.

You can censor a face using the “Clean Up” tool in iOS 18.1 🤯 pic.twitter.com/yhbBcgqj2J

— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) August 28, 2024

Apple Intelligence will only be available on iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. AI features will not be released for iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Meanwhile, Samsung is gradually expanding Galaxy AI to non-premium Galaxy phones.

AI – Apple vs Samsung

Debuted with the S24 series, the Galaxy AI has rolled out to many phones released in the past. While the S21 series received select AI tricks, the Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S23 series upgraded with most of the intelligent tools from the S24 lineup.

Samsung is pushing to expand its Galaxy AI features to over 200 million devices. At the same time, Apple is taking a more conservative approach by limiting Intelligence to the most expensive (Pro/Pro Max) models released last year.

This limitation is reportedly due to hardware constraints. Industry insiders believe that Apple Intelligence requires at least 8GB of RAM to function smoothly. However, non-Pro iPhone 15 models with 6GB RAM are left incompatible.

An industry insider stated that “Apple prioritizes on-device processing, which demands superior hardware performance and ample capacity. This is why there’s talk of Intelligence support being restricted to the 15 Pro series.”

Galaxy AI consists of on-device and cloud processing features. Apple, unlike Samsung, prefers on-device AI processing to market it as more secure. However, artificial intelligence is all about data to provide relevant and appropriate results.

A Samsung representative explained, “We anticipate that as users become accustomed to AI features, they’ll be more likely to choose new products with full Galaxy AI capabilities in the future.”