Here’s How to Access Apple’s Visual Intelligence on an iPhone 15 Pro

Apple will publish iOS 26 this fall and this update will bring a new liquid glass design, the possibility of filtering incoming calls and more to your iPhone. But when Apple published iOS 18.4 In March, this update has provided a handful of new checks to the iPhone control center, including one that brings visual intelligence to the iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

When Apple published iOS 18 in September, this update has reshaped the control center to give you more control over the functioning of the functionality. With iOS 18, you can resize controls, assign certain checks to their own dedicated page and adjust the placement of controls to your taste. Apple has also introduced more functionality controls, making it a central center for your most used iPhone features.

Apple continues to extend the number of checks you can add to the control center with iOS 18.4. If you have the update to your iPhone, you can add ambient musical controls, and Apple Intelligence compatible iPhones also have some AI commands in the menu.

Here is what you need to know about new controls and how to add them to your control center.

Apple intelligence controls

Only people with an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max or the iPhone 16 range can access Apple Intelligence’s features for the moment, and these people have obtained three new Apple intelligence controls with iOS 18.4. These controls speak to Siri, Type to Siri and Visual Intelligence.

Here’s how to find these controls.

1 and 1 Slide down the upper right corner of your home screen to open your control center.
2 Press the most (+) Connect in the upper left corner of your screen.
3 and 3 Press Add a check.

Then you can use the search bar near the top of the screen to search for “Apple Intelligence” or you can scroll through the Apple Intelligence & Siri section. Press any (or all) of these commands to add them to your control center. Although Talk to Siri and Type To Siri can be useful if you have trouble accessing the digital assistant, control of visual intelligence is important because it brings Apple’s intelligence function to the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.

Visual intelligence was originally only accessible on the iPhone 16 range because these devices have the camera control button. With iOS 18.4, visual intelligence is now accessible on more devices and people thanks to the control in control center. But don’t forget, visual intelligence is like any other AI tool so that it is not always correct. You must double the results and information it shows you.

Ambient music checks

With iOS 18.4, Apple gave each four new checks in the library of the control center in the ambient music category. These controls are sleep, cold, productivity and well-being. Each of these controls can activate a reading list filled with music that corresponds to the specific control. Sleep, for example, plays ambient music to help you go to bed.

Some studies suggest that white noise could help adults learn words and improve learning in distractions. According to the Calm mental health company, some types of music can help you fall asleep faster and improve the quality of your sleep. Thus, these new controls can help you learn, to fall asleep and more.

Here’s how to find these controls.

1 and 1 Slide down the upper right corner of your home screen to open your control center.
2 Press the most (+) Connect in the upper left corner of your screen.
3 and 3 Faucet Add a check.

You will see a section of commands called Ambient music. You can also search for “ambient music” in the search bar at the top of the control library. Below Ambient musicYou will see the four orders. Press one (or all) to add them to your control center. Once you have added one or all the commands to your control center, go back to your control center and press one to start playing music.

Here’s how to change the playlist for each control.

1 and 1 Slide down the upper right corner of your home screen to open your control center.
2 Press the most (+) Connect in the upper left corner of your screen.
3 and 3 Press the ambient musical control that you want to modify.
4 Press the playlist to the right of Playlist.

A drop -down menu will appear with additional reading lists for each check. If you are in sleep control, you will see reading lists like Restful Notes and the Lo-Fi snooze. If you have reading lists in your musical application, you will also see an option from the library, which shoots music from your library. Press the reading list you want and will be assigned to this control.

Apple already allows you to transform your iPhone into a white noise machine with background sounds, such as the ocean and rain. But ambient music is real music as opposed to more static sounds in this functionality.

These two features look like a way for Apple to present themselves as the first option for each time you want background music to help you fall asleep or be productive. Other services, such as Spotify and YouTube, already have lists for reading ambient music like these, so it could be the way of Apple to take part of the public from these services.

To find out more about iOS 18, here is what you need to know iOS 18.6 and iOS 18.5, as well as our iOS 18 cheat sheet. You can also consult what you need to know about iOS 26 and my first impressions of the beta iOS 26 version.

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