RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
January 20, 2026 – 4 minutes read time
Overview
Now, there’s an easy way to rewrite any text or email in just a matter of seconds. With Apple Intelligence, you can now let your iPhone’s AI rewrite text for you.
Apple Intelligence is capable of using handy rewriting tools to change up any passage of text that you have typed, as long as you are using an iPhone 15 Pro or later model. Let’s explore this AI feature.
What is Apple intelligence
Apple Intelligence is a suite of AI-powered tools that use your personal data to generate information and recommendations tailored to you. It’s available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and is integrated into the core of the operating system and existing apps.
Apple Intelligence includes features like:
- Image Playground: A tool for generating cartoon-style images based on text descriptions
- Genmoji: A tool for creating emojis for any situation
- Writing Tools: Tools for enhancing your writing, including ChatGPT integration and reformatting tools like List and Table
- Priority Messages: A tool for prioritizing messages in your inbox
- Notification summaries: A tool for scanning long or stacked notifications with key details
- Reduce Interruptions: A Focus that surfaces only notifications that might need immediate attention
- Smart Reply: A tool in Mail that identifies questions you were asked in an email and offers relevant selections to include in your response
Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s aware of your personal information without collecting it, and it uses on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute to handle more complex requests.
Key aTakeaways
- Rewrite and improve typed text anywhere on your iPhone.
- Make sure your messages are always written correctly.
System Requirements
This tip works on the iPhone 15 Pro or later running iOS 18.1 or later. Screenshots are from iPhone 17 Pro running iOS 26.1.
Click here to learn how to update your iPhone to the latest iOS version.
How to Use
First, in any area where you have typed text, such as an email, select the text. Refer to the below image:
Next, you can tap Rewrite or the Apple Intelligence icon. If you tapped the Apple Intelligence icon, select Rewrite. See the image below:
Now, tap Original to see the original. See the following image:
Next, tap Rewrite to rewrite it again. Refer to the image below:
Now, you can use the Undo and Redo buttons to cycle through different rewrites. See the image below:
Next, you can tap the Rewrite icon to rewrite the text again. See the following image:
Now, select Done to save the rewritten text. Refer to he image below:
That’s how to use the new Apple Intelligence rewrite tools to change up your text after you have typed it.
In the author’s opinion, Apple Intelligence is lacking and needs refinements. We prefer to use Grammarly Pro.
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