iOS 18: AI-powered Safari enhancements include Web Eraser and Intelligent Search
Apple’s Safari browser should gain several artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements in iOS 18, including Web Eraser and Intelligent Search.
AppleInsider, which first learned about Web Eraser and Intelligent Search, says Intelligent Search will leverage on-device large language models to search web pages you visit to identify key topics and phrases for summarization.
Web Eraser will allegedly let you remove specific webpage sections, with the removed portions remaining when revisiting the site until manually reverted.
Safari will apparently pick up a new menu in the address bar for quickly accessing the new AI-powered page tools alongside some of the features previously located across different menus and share sheets. Both features should be available across iPhones, iPads, and Macs that are compatible with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15.
Safari 18 apparently includes Intelligent Search
Intelligent Search is apparently the same AI-powered Safari browsing assistant one source recently mentioned, according to Marko Zivkovice at AppleInsider. He explained how Intelligent Search is supposed to work.
In selecting key phrases, Apple’s large-language model software identifies sentences that provide explanations or describe the structure of objects, depending on the text in question. Words repeated within a text and key sentences are recognized as text topics.
How might Web Eraser in Safari 18 work?
And this on Web Eraser:
The erasure is said to be persistent rather than limited to a browsing session. This means that Safari will remember the changes even after the original tab or window has been closed.
And:
When visiting a page with previously erased content, Safari will inform the user that the page has been modified to reflect their desired changes. The browser will also give the user the option to revert changes and restore the webpage to its initial, unaltered state.
The site speculates that both Intelligent Search and Web Eraser probably rely on iCloud Private Relay to bring AI capabilities while preserving user privacy.
Visual product search coming in 2025
AppleInsider also claims Apple’s AI efforts include a souped-up Visual Look Up feature for searching consumer products with images.
Visual Search could be implemented as a system-wide feature. So, instead of surfacing search results in the Photos app, the user may be able to use Visual Search directly in Safari by selecting an image.
This will reportedly launch in 2025, but the site doesn’t know whether this feature might arrive in an update to iOS 18 or drop as part of iOS 19.
iOS 18 may include Calculator and Notes changes
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said some stock apps in iOS 18 will be overhauled to be “easier to update and customize,” like Photos, Mail, Notes and Fitness.
AppleInsider learned earlier that macOS 15 will gain a redesigned Calculator Mac app resembling the iPhone version, while Notes on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS 15 will bring support for proper mathematical notation and recording voice notes.
Calendar should support creating and scheduling reminders directly from within the app, while iPadOS 18 might bring a native iPad Calculator app.
iOS 18 and other OS previews at WWDC
We’ll soon learn more about the changes in iOS 18. Apple has scheduled its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) from June 10 through June 14.
The five-day event will kick off with a June 10 keynote, after which Apple will release the first developer previews of iOS 18 and other software.
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