Get started with Apple Intelligence on Mac

Apple Intelligence* is the personal intelligence system built into macOS Sequoia. It combines the power of generative models with an understanding of your personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant, all while protecting your privacy.

Note: Apple Intelligence is available in macOS 15.1 or later on Mac models with M1 or later. Apple Intelligence is not available in all languages or regions. To check whether Apple Intelligence is available for your device, language, and region, see the Apple Support article How to get Apple Intelligence.

Turn on Apple Intelligence

If Apple Intelligence is off, you can turn it on. Choose Apple menu > System Settings, click Apple Intelligence & Siri , then do one of the following:

Click the button next to Apple Intelligence.
Click Turn on Apple Intelligence.
The option you see is based on the version of macOS you have and if you’ve previously set up Apple Intelligence.

The Writing Tools dialog on the Mac wallpaper. The dialog has a Describe your change field at the top, followed by Proofread and Rewrite buttons. You can choose a Friendly, Professional, or Concise tone below that, and at the bottom are Summary, Key Points, Table, and List buttons.

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 puppy wearing sunglasses in a city.

Create one-of-a-kind images and emoji

Produce fun, original images in seconds with the Image Playground app, or make custom emoji—called Genmoji—from a description.

How to create original images

How to create your own emoji

The top-right portion of the Mac desktop showing the Siri icon in the menu bar and the Type to Siri field with Siri-provided steps for how to make text bigger.

Do more with Siri

Type requests to Siri, get answers to questions about your Apple products, tap into ChatGPT’s expertise, and more.

How to use Apple Intelligence with Siri

A Pages app window showing a story composed using Writing Tools and the ChatGPT extension. The Refine with ChatGPT dialog includes options to describe a change, choose ChatGPT suggestions, undo, rewrite, and add a photo or document.

Tap into ChatGPT

Turn on the ChatGPT extension, which integrates with Siri and Writing Tools, to get access to even more expertise—including the ability to compose text from scratch.

How to use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence

The top-right portion of the Mac desktop. The menu bar shows that the Reduce Interruptions Focus is turned on. An important time-sensitive Messages notification appears indicating that a child needs to be picked up at school.

Reduce the noise and focus

Apple Intelligence can summarize notifications and reduce interruptions, showing you the information most important to you.

How to summarize and reduce notifications

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 Messages conversations and craft fast responses with Smart Reply.

Use Apple Intelligence in Messages

Notes

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

Summarize an audio recording with Apple Intelligence

Photos

Find photos with enhanced search, create memory movies, and remove distracting objects with Clean Up.

Use Apple Intelligence in Photos

Safari

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

Get webpage summaries with Apple Intelligence

And more…

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

Turn off Apple Intelligence

Choose Apple menu > System Settings, click Apple Intelligence & Siri , then click the button next to Apple Intelligence.

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