Discover the Latest Upgrades to Your Favorite Email App
For all you email enthusiasts, there's good news. Your favorite email app is receiving some significant enhancements. The latest version of your mobile operating system is introducing advanced search capabilities and new artificial intelligence (AI) features in the app.
Advanced Search
The email app's search feature has been completely redesigned. Instead of merely showing results based on the recency and keywords, the app now ranks the search results by relevance and user intent. This means search results will be more precise, helping you find exactly what you need.
For example, if you search for "Broccoli" to locate a recent order, the search will prioritize your order over promotional emails from the same retailer.
AI Assistance
A new feature, "Ask AI," is now incorporated into the email app. By simply holding down on an email, you'll be able to ask the AI to summarize the email, find a specific item, track a package, retrieve a flight number, save a photo, and so much more.
After receiving a response, you can swipe down to enter the AI interface for any follow-up questions. Your conversations with the AI are tracked within the app for future reference.
What's more, the AI can complete tasks in the email app. It can delete all emails from a specified sender or add information from an email to your reminders list. This can greatly streamline your email management process.
AI Writing Assistance
The email app now features a "Write with AI" interface above the keyboard. By tapping on it, you can receive writing assistance from the AI. It can draft an email for you, review an email you've written, assist with rewording, change the email style, or even provide writing tips.
Interestingly, the "Write with AI" feature can match your typical writing style, punctuation, and tone, making emails sound more like you and less like an AI. Your mobile device now also flags both spelling and grammar errors as you write.
AI-Suggested Responses
Your mobile device now offers smart replies that are tuned to your writing style. This means the one-tap suggestions will sound like phrases you would typically type, making responding to emails quicker and more personalized.
Contextual Suggestions
There are now contextual suggestions at the top of the email app, and these are now available to third-party apps as well. The design of these suggestions has also been updated.
An email containing a flight time or a restaurant booking will now display a one-tap button that adds the event to your calendar app. An email with directions might show you the route on your maps app, and emails with tracking info can be followed through the wallet app.
Call Context Feature
Another new feature, "Call Context," works in tandem with the email and phone apps. If you make a call to a business where there is a relevant email, the phone app will display information retrieved from that email.
This could include a reservation number for a flight or an order number for a call with a retailer. The "Call Context" feature works on-device, looking at who you're calling without accessing call audio.
Performance Enhancements
There are also notable performance improvements in the email app. Messages load faster, search indexing is more reliable, and unread badges sync more consistently across platforms.
The enhanced email app features are available on all devices running the latest version of the operating system. However, features like AI integration, "Write with AI," "Call Context," and contextual suggestions require a device that supports the latest intelligence features.
It's important to note that the AI feature is currently not available in the European Union or China, and Contextual Suggestions are only available in English at launch.
For all you email enthusiasts, there's good news. Your favorite email app is receiving some significant enhancements. The latest version of your mobile operating system is introducing advanced search capabilities and new artificial intelligence (AI) features in the app.
Advanced Search
The email app's search feature has been completely redesigned. Instead of merely showing results based on the recency and keywords, the app now ranks the search results by relevance and user intent. This means search results will be more precise, helping you find exactly what you need.
For example, if you search for "Broccoli" to locate a recent order, the search will prioritize your order over promotional emails from the same retailer.
AI Assistance
A new feature, "Ask AI," is now incorporated into the email app. By simply holding down on an email, you'll be able to ask the AI to summarize the email, find a specific item, track a package, retrieve a flight number, save a photo, and so much more.
After receiving a response, you can swipe down to enter the AI interface for any follow-up questions. Your conversations with the AI are tracked within the app for future reference.
What's more, the AI can complete tasks in the email app. It can delete all emails from a specified sender or add information from an email to your reminders list. This can greatly streamline your email management process.
AI Writing Assistance
The email app now features a "Write with AI" interface above the keyboard. By tapping on it, you can receive writing assistance from the AI. It can draft an email for you, review an email you've written, assist with rewording, change the email style, or even provide writing tips.
Interestingly, the "Write with AI" feature can match your typical writing style, punctuation, and tone, making emails sound more like you and less like an AI. Your mobile device now also flags both spelling and grammar errors as you write.
AI-Suggested Responses
Your mobile device now offers smart replies that are tuned to your writing style. This means the one-tap suggestions will sound like phrases you would typically type, making responding to emails quicker and more personalized.
Contextual Suggestions
There are now contextual suggestions at the top of the email app, and these are now available to third-party apps as well. The design of these suggestions has also been updated.
An email containing a flight time or a restaurant booking will now display a one-tap button that adds the event to your calendar app. An email with directions might show you the route on your maps app, and emails with tracking info can be followed through the wallet app.
Call Context Feature
Another new feature, "Call Context," works in tandem with the email and phone apps. If you make a call to a business where there is a relevant email, the phone app will display information retrieved from that email.
This could include a reservation number for a flight or an order number for a call with a retailer. The "Call Context" feature works on-device, looking at who you're calling without accessing call audio.
Performance Enhancements
There are also notable performance improvements in the email app. Messages load faster, search indexing is more reliable, and unread badges sync more consistently across platforms.
The enhanced email app features are available on all devices running the latest version of the operating system. However, features like AI integration, "Write with AI," "Call Context," and contextual suggestions require a device that supports the latest intelligence features.
It's important to note that the AI feature is currently not available in the European Union or China, and Contextual Suggestions are only available in English at launch.