Developers or people enrolled in Apple's public beta program can install prerelease versions of iOS 18.1 right now and sign up to test Apple Intelligence. (The technology will also run on iPadOS 18.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, but I'm using iOS 18.1 as shorthand to mean all three. As always, be smart about what you're getting into .)

When Apple revealed the iPad mini 7 this week, the company also announced that the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 updates would arrive before the end of October. With those updates, we will finally get our hands on the first group of Apple Intelligence features.

There are two possible release dates for iOS 18.1. One might have been hinted by Apple, while the other comes from a trusted source.

The first wave of AI is coming to iPhones soon. But here are all the Apple Intelligence features arriving in iOS 18.2 or later.