12 New iPadOS 18 Features You’ll Want To Start Using ASAP – SlashGear

ChatGPT lets you do a lot more than draft a professionally written email in seconds. Prompt engineers have found a ton of unexpected uses, such as getting outfit suggestions or picture pose ideas. The only problem is that you have to open a browser to use ChatGPT, unless you’re rocking Windows, where Copilot bakes a ChatGPT twin into your OS. Apple users may have the next best thing with Writing Tools, available natively on iPadOS 18 and other platforms. Writing Tools is a pop-up window that allows you to generate or edit text in a convenient way that is similar to how ChatGPT works.

When summoned, Writing Tools lets you describe, in natural language, what you would like to write or change. If you want to do the writing yourself, but aren’t pleased with the result, then you can use the Proofread or Rewrite option to polish it up, the latter of which gives you multiple rewritten versions to choose from. Your tone can also be tweaked with the Friendly, Professional, and Concise presets. At any time, you can fall back on the prompt box to describe, in precise detail, what result you’re looking for. Then you can condense your text into summaries, key points, lists, and tables, potentially making TL;DRs and overviews effortless.

Those who are familiar with Apple’s shenanigans might be wondering if this is only available in Pages, Mail, and Notes. Not so. Most text-based apps should support it, so presumably developers need only hit some switch in the code to make Writing Tools talk with their platform. The feature goes hand in hand with cool additions like Smart Reply, which creates context-based, intelligent responses to emails and — hopefully someday — messages in third-party apps.