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Apple Intelligence makes its big debut next week.

Apple has confirmed that iOS 18.1 — and with it, the first phase of Apple Intelligence features — will roll out sometime next week. There’s been fair skepticism that these initial AI tricks won’t really move the needle despite Apple’s big advertising push.

But I must say, after a few weeks of receiving summarized notifications, I’d never want to go back to the old way.

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