This article explores Apple's new AI features in the macOS Sequoia beta, focusing on Mail summaries and Writing Tools. While these features show promise, they are still under development and require improvement.
Recently, Apple launched the macOS Sequoia 15.1 beta, and with it came a bunch of new Apple Intelligence features. Not everything, mind you – many of the flagship tools, like the Image Playground and Siri’s more powerful capabilities, might not debut until next year. But there’s enough Apple Intelligence here to get a feel for the new system.
Mail summaries One of the key use cases of AI is summing up content that you feed it, and that’s exactly what the Summarize feature is for in Apple’s Mail app. Yet, while it does a decent job, it comes with several annoyances that prevent it from being a must-have tool. There’s another problem: Mail summaries are slow, at least initially. The first time you load Mail and click Summarize, the app will take an absolute age to summarize your emails, even if there’s only one message in the chain. It’s often so sluggish that you wonder if it’s just bugged out entirely. I frequently had to quit Mail and reopen it before trying again. It’s quicker after the first attempt, but still far from instant.
Writing Tools In the absence of Apple’s image-generation tools, one of the key generative features we have in Apple Intelligence for now is the Writing Tools suite. This is more encouraging than Mail summaries, although it’s not without its quirks. How about the tools themselves? Proofread gets off to a poor start because it doesn’t actually show you the changes it’s making to your text, what was incorrect, or why. Learning how to improve is hard if you don’t know where you went wrong.
A presentation problem Going into this testing, the key question I had was whether I’d actually want to use any of Apple Intelligence’s available tools. After all, I’m a writer, and I don’t really want an AI doing my writing for me – that’s giving it control over something I actually enjoy doing.
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