Apple Intelligence so far: everything we were promised?

At Apple’s September 2024 hardware event, the company announced its iPhone 16 lineup, which was “built for Apple intelligence” — but Apple’s leap into AI has had a soft landing. The phones arrived without Apple Intelligence and, over the course of four months, Apple has been slowly rolling out some of the promised features through iterations of iOS 18.

Apple Intelligence’s first set of features included tools we’re pretty familiar with, like glowing gradients to indicate the presence of AI, the ability to change the tone of an email,…