iOS 18.2 provides pure language search to Apple Music and TV app

Apple has been testing iOS 18.2 for some time now, and the replace brings a number of new options associated to Apple Intelligence equivalent to Genmoji and Picture Playground. Nonetheless, there’s one other small however essential change for customers of the Apple Music and Apple TV app, and that’s the flexibility to go looking utilizing pure language in these apps.

Pure language search coming to Apple Music and Apple TV app

The information was confirmed by Apple itself within the launch notes for iOS 18.2 RC made accessible on Thursday to builders and beta testers. Within the notes, Apple says that Apple Music and Apple TV app now characteristic pure language search, in order that customers can describe what they’re searching for with out essentially understanding the identify of the track, film, or collection.

“Pure language search in Apple Music and Apple TV app helps you to describe what you’re searching for utilizing any mixture of classes like genres, moods, actors, many years, and extra,” the iOS 18.2 RC replace description reads.

Customers can seek for issues like “nostalgic hits from the 90s” or “songs much like Espresso.” The pure search additionally works with Siri, so you may ask the assistant to “play songs with epic guitar solos.” At the very least on Apple Music, customers might already search primarily based on lyrics once they can’t keep in mind the identify of the track. The characteristic solely works in English for now – similar to different Apple Intelligence options.

With iOS 18.1, Apple launched pure language search to the Photographs app, permitting customers to simply discover a picture or video utilizing particular phrases. For instance, now you can seek for a photograph of somebody sporting a blue sweater. In my exams, the Photographs app may even acknowledge movies I’ve shot from an airplane window once I seek for “airplanes” – one thing that wasn’t doable earlier than.

iOS 18.2 might be launched to the general public within the subsequent few days. It’s value noting that Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15 Professional or later, or iPads with the M1 chip or later.

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