iOS 18.1 has been released and Apple Intelligence is finally in the hands of beta testers. However, while the new iOS 18 development beta allows access to some new capabilities for your iPhone, it is still limited.

One of the biggest additions bundled with Apple Intelligence is Siri 2.0, or at least part of it. The revamped digital assistant has a shiny new UI and better understands user speech and context.

What is missing, however, is support for "personal context," which allows Siri to access information about you on your iPhone and provide more customized responses. Fortunately, the Wall Street Journal reports that this component will be available by the end of the year.

Aside from Siri, the Apple Intelligence beta includes several other highlights. Useful new writing tools such as tone/grammar suggestions, text summarization, and voice transcription; natural language image search in the Photos app; and the ability to create a montage of a selection of images and video clips in Memory Movies.

There are many things in Apple Intelligence that Apple showed off at WWDC 2024 that we have not yet seen. For example, Siri should theoretically be able to perform in-app actions on your behalf and read your screen to answer questions about it.

Besides Siri, we don't see Image Playground, a Genmoji image generator, Priority Notifications, or a Clean Up feature to fix images in Photos. There is also still no ChatGPT integration for Apple Intelligence to recognize the limitations of its capabilities and instruct it to use OpenAI products instead.

Apple has not stated when these features will be available. But even if we do get some of the features in the next few months, it will likely be next year before we get everything Apple has promised.

The official launch of Apple Intelligence is scheduled for October, but at this time it is still limited to only devices configured for US English and seems to lack many of the features mentioned above. So far only the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, and M-series equipped iPads and Macs have been confirmed as compatible, but all iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models will be able to take full advantage of Apple Intelligence, will give Samsung's Galaxy AI and Google's Gemini a shot in the arm.