Artificial intelligence is everywhere right now, including our smartphones. If you have an iPhone, you’ve probably noticed the increased AI features since the launch of Apple Intelligence on iOS 18, including new writing tools, message summaries, generative AI images and more.

But even if you opt out of using these features, chances are you’re still using AI daily, without knowing.

“AI is now an integral part of smartphones,” Dhaval Gajjar, CEO of the tech company Pranshtech and chief technology officer of Textdrip, told HuffPost. “It provides the consumer with a better experience, though most people probably do not even realise it.”

There are many hidden ways your phone and other tech use built-in AI to work, some of which might surprise you. Here are a few:

Live Voice-To-Text Transcriptions

You know that helpful feature thatturns voicemails into text in real-time, so you can discreetly check your messages without having to listen (especially handy for those who are hard of hearing)? Yeah, that is powered by AI.

Sukh Sohal, a senior consultant at the AI company Affinity Reply, told HuffPost, “AI-powered speech-to-text models process the audio and create a readable transcript.”

In the same vein, your phone uses AI totranscribe your voice into text, “making such processes like texting and note-taking smooth,” said Gajjar.

Recognising Text In Images

Phones can copy text from images now, “a feature that uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and AI-driven language processing,” Sohal said.

He explained that with the help of AI, our phones can “spot and handle written content in photos just like any other text input.”

ThisLive Text tool is helpful for things like copying a Wi-Fi password from a picture, pulling text from a document or even taking a picture of handwritten notes to save them digitally.

Photo Searching And Categorising

Head to the Photos app on an iPhone or in Google Photos to see how AI categorises your images and allows you to search within them. Using AI, your phone can “spot objects, people, and even landmarks in your picture collection,” said Sohal.

This makes finding specific pictures a breeze. “Rather than scrolling through countless photos, users can just look for words like ‘beach’ or ‘dog’ and AI will bring up matching images,” Sohal said. “This happens because of deep learning models trained to sort and label visual content on their own.”

Taking Photos

AI can help you take better photos as well. “AI is very useful for........

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