Apple will gradually roll out its new Intelligence features over several months, seeking to avoid the pitfalls that have plagued other AI systems. When it comes to Apple Inc’s new artificial intelligence offerings, the company is taking it slow, Bloomberg reported.

The Apple Intelligence service — unveiled to much fanfare last week – won’t become available for developers to try out until later this summer. That means it isn’t part of the first beta releases of iOS 18, iPadOS, and macOS Sequoia. And when the software ultimately launches in the fall, it will arrive as a preview, signaling to users that it’s not quite ready for prime time. It will only work on a subset of Apple’s devices and only in American English. In some cases, users may even have to join a waitlist to use features.

The keynote presentation at last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference also didn’t reflect the exact features that will be arriving in the fall. Instead, Apple essentially gave a road map of what’s coming in late 2024 and the first half of 2025.

The rollout strategy marks an important shift for Apple. For years, the company unveiled features at WWDC for release in the fall, but they sometimes ultimately had to delay features. This time around, Apple is telegraphing to users — via its website, online presentations and briefings with journalists — that its latest technology won’t follow a strict timeline.

Engadget reported: Just how thin can a Macbook get? According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s mission is to make the thinnest product ever won’t stop at the iPadPro – the company also has plans for a skinnier Macbbook Pro, Apple Watch, and, as The Information also reported last month, iPhone.

Engadget also reported that Gurman says he too has been told the slimmed-down iPhone could come as early as 2025 with the introduction of the iPhone 17 line. There’s no timeline yet on the rest of the products named in the report. The upcoming thin iPhone is expected to be pricier than the current iPhone Pro Max, and have a screen sized somewhere between that of the Pro Max and the standard iPhone.

Apple Insider reported although iOS 18 will be arriving in the fall as usual, many Apple intelligence features are on a slower rollout schedule. 

Users should expect only a handful of the many features unveiled as part of Apple Intelligence to be available when the new updates arrive. Even those that are available on release day will be noted as “previews,” with further features arriving late in 2024 or as late as early 2025.

To be clear, a number of the main AI features highlighted in the WWDC presentation are likely to be available in the initial OS updates this fall. This would include prioritizing notifications, and the ability to summarize long texts, emails, and webpages.

Also scheduled to be available as of the official release will be Genmoji image generation and Grammerly-like writing improvement tools. Transcription capabilities already seen in the Podcasts app now will spread to other voice recordings, and voicemail transcription will be improved.

In my opinion, it might be a good thing for Apple to slowly roll out new features. Doing so could give the company time to make changes to things that need more work.

At its “Let Loose” virtual event this morning, Apple introduced its long-awaited iPad Pro updates.

The new 13-inch and 11-inch tablets have a fresh design, more powerful internals, and a thinner profile than ever before, and they come with a major display upgrade, The Verge reported.

As rumored, Apple has switched to OLED screens on both sizes, bringing perfect blacks, richer color saturation, and enhanced contrast to its flagship iPads. Oh, and the front-facing camera is now in the correct (landscape) position for video calls.

The iPad Pros use a tandem OLED structure that allows the display to reach 1,000 nits of peak full-screen brightness — just like the Mini LED model before it — and 1,600 nits for HDR content. The 13-inch model measures just 5.1 millimeters thick, which Apple says is its thinnest device ever. (The 11-inch is 5.3 millimeters thick.) For those who prefer a matte display finish, a nano-texture glass coating will be available for the first time with these iPad Pros.

The base storage for both models is now 256GB, with prices starting at $999 for the 11-inch and $1,299 for the 13 inch. Both are available for preorder today and will be available in stores on May 15th.

Apple posted: Apple today unveiled the groundbreaking new iPad Pro in a stunningly thin and light design, taking portability and performance to the next level. Available in silver or space black finishes, the new iPad Pro comes in two sizes: an expansive 13-inch model and a super-portable 11-inch model. 

Both sizes feature the world’s most advanced display — a new breakthrough Ultra Retina XDR display with state-of-the-art tandem OLED technology – providing a remarkable visual experience. 

The new iPad Pro is made possible with the new M4 chip, the next generation of Apple silicon, which delivers a huge leap in performance and capabilities. M4 features an entirely new display engine to enable the precision, color, and brightness of the Ultra Retina XDR display. With a new CPU, a next-generation GPU that builds upon the GPU architecture debuted on M3, the most powerful Neural Engine yet, the new iPad Pro is an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence. 

The versatility and advanced capabilities of iPad Pro are also enhanced with all-new accessories. Apple Pencil Pro brings powerful new interactions that take the pencil experience even further, and a new thinner, lighter Magic Keyboard is packed with incredible features. The new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro, and Magic Keyboard are available to order starting today, with availability in stores beginning Wednesday, May 15.

9to5Mac reported Apple’s M4 iPad Pro and new iPad Air are both on sale, and the company’s website has revealed some key additional info about the devices that were not mentioned during the announcement.

One such tidbit has to do with a change in how SIMs are handled on both iPads.

Both the M4 iPad Pro and the iPad Air 6 have removed the physical SIM slot entirely. Gone are the days of physical SIMs, as all cellular models now support eSIM only.

In my opinion, Apple stores are likely to see a long line of people who want to purchase the M4 iPad Pro or the new iPad Air on May 15th. I think the price of these new devices will be out of reach for most people.

There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight, 9to5Mac reported. A number of people on social media say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening and forced to reset their password before logging back in.

We received our first tip about this around 8 p.m. ET. In the hours since then, the problem has gained significant traction on social media.

Apple’s System Status website doesn’t indicate that any of its services are having issues this evening. Still, it’s clear that social media reports that something wonky is going on behind the scenes at Apple. A few of us at 9to5Mac have also been directly affected by the problem.

People are being signed out of their Apple ID across all of their devices. If you try to sign in with your original Apple ID password, you’ll be locked out of your account. You’ll then be forced to reset your password before being able to sign back in. There doesn’t appear to be any rhyme or reason as to why this is happening.

The Verge reported that overnight, many people reported on social media that they were inexplicably logged out of their Apple IDs and then require to reset their passwords when they tried to sign in again, and nobody seems to know why. Some reported needed to enter their iPhone passcode to connect to iCloud again, while others with Stolen Device Protection enabled said they had to wait an hour before being able to log in.

According to The Verge, Apple’s System Status webpage shows no current issues with any of its services, so it’s not clear if this was a widespread issue. That said, 9to5Mac reports that even a few of its staff members were also affected by the issue. 

At least one Forbes contributor apparently experienced the issue as well. The outlet saw no indication that this was related to the password reset attacks that several publications, including Forbes, covered in March.

Engadget reported something is up with Apple ID this weekend. As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple users started complaining online last night that they’d been logged out of their Apple ID’s on all of their devices without explanation. 

Upon trying to log back in, some say they were locked out of their accounts despite entering the correct details, and had to reset their passwords. Engadget has reached out to Apple for more information.

According to Engadget, Apple hasn’t said anything publicly about what’s going on, and its System Status page makes no mention of problems with Apple ID or any other systems in the last 24 hours. In a Mastodon post spotted by The Verge, one person told them that “sometimes random security improvements are added to your account,” 

It’s unclear how many users have been affected, though people have piled onto social media threads about the issue to say they’ve experienced it too. According to 9to5Mac, some of the publication’s own team have run into the problem.

In my opinion, something wonky was going on at Apple. There doesn’t appear to be any specific reason why some Apple users were affected by .. whatever this was.