Use Apple Intelligence on your iPad

With iPadOS 26, Apple Intelligence* is integrated across your apps and experiences to help you communicate, express yourself, and get things done more easily. It delivers intelligence that’s useful and relevant for you, all while protecting your privacy.

Note: Apple Intelligence is not available on all iPad models or in all languages or regions.** To access the most recent available features, make sure you’re using the latest version of iPadOS.

Turn on Apple Intelligence

If Apple Intelligence is off, you can turn it on to access the latest features across iPadOS 26. Go to the Settings app , tap Apple Intelligence & Siri, then do one of the following:

  • Tap the button next to Apple Intelligence.

  • Tap Turn on Apple Intelligence.

    The option you see is based on the version of iPadOS you have and if you’ve previously set up Apple Intelligence.

An iPad showing text being edited for grammatical errors in the Notes app.

Find the perfect words

Transform how you communicate using Writing Tools that can summarize text, proofread your work, and help you find the right wording and tone.

How to use Writing Tools

The Image Playground app window showing a created image of a dog wearing sunglasses.

Create one-of-a-kind images and your own emoji

Produce fun, original images in moments with Image Playground or Image Wand. You can also make custom emoji from simple text descriptions with Genmoji.

How to create original images

How to create your own emoji

How to use Image Wand

An iPad showing the keyboard on the Lock Screen. A Siri request appears at the top of the keyboard.

Do more with Siri

Type requests to Siri, get answers to questions about your Apple products, and more.

How to use Apple Intelligence with Siri

An iPad showing a story being written in the Notes app. At the right of the screen is the Compose with Writing Tools dialog that includes options to describe a change, choose ChatGPT suggestions, and more.

Tap into ChatGPT

Access ChatGPT within Apple Intelligence experiences, and tap into even more expertise when you use Siri, Writing Tools, Image Playground, and more.

How to use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence

Communicate across languages in real time

With Live Translation, you can automatically translate messages in the Messages app, display live translated captions in FaceTime, and get spoken translations for calls in the Phone app.

Translate messages and calls

Use Apple Intelligence with apps

Mail

View your most urgent emails, craft quick email responses with Smart Reply, and summarize long emails.

Use Apple Intelligence in Mail

Messages

See summaries of unread conversations, send original images and customize backgrounds with Image Playground, craft fast responses with Smart Reply, and more.

Use Apple Intelligence in Messages

Notes

After you record audio, use Apple Intelligence to generate a summary of the transcript.

Use Apple Intelligence in Notes

Phone

Generate a summary of a phone call you record, and view voicemail summaries.

Use Apple Intelligence in Phone on iPad

Photos

Find photos with natural-language search, create memory movies, and remove distracting objects with Clean Up.

Use Apple Intelligence in Photos

Reminders

Use Apple Intelligence to get suggested reminders, and automatically categorize related reminders into sections within a list.

Use Apple Intelligence in Reminders

Safari

Use Apple Intelligence to generate a summary of a webpage in the Safari app.

Get webpage summaries with Apple Intelligence

Shortcuts

Intelligent actions in Shortcuts can summarize text, create images, tap directly into Apple Intelligence models, and more.

Use Apple Intelligence in Shortcuts

And more…

Check the Apple Intelligence website for more information about features, supported devices, and languages.

Turn off Apple Intelligence

Go to the Settings app , tap Apple Intelligence & Siri, then tap the button next to Apple Intelligence.

*Apple Intelligence uses generative models, and outputs may be inaccurate, unexpected, or offensive. Check important information for accuracy.