Parallels Desktop brings Apple Intelligence features inside Windows apps.
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With Parallels Desktop, you can now bring some Apple Intelligence features inside Windows apps. Here's how it works and what you need to know.
On Monday, macOS Sequoia 15.1 was released, making Apple’s latest set of AI-powered tools, called Apple Intelligence, generally available. Apple Intelligence can be used to edit images, summarize conversations, and edit text using generative AI-powered software.
Apple Intelligence is only available on Macs with Apple Silicon chips running macOS Sequoia 15.1 or later. Now, an update to the popular Parallels Desktop virtual machine app brings Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools to Windows apps.
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Writing Tools, Apple’s system text editing utilities, can be used to adjust the tone of texts or to proofread and summarize them. Writing Tools can modify user-provided text and make it more friendly, professional, or concise, among other things.
If you have an Apple Silicon Mac with Apple Intelligence enabled and the latest version of Parallels Desktop (version 20.1) installed, you can start using Writing Tools in Windows applications quite quickly.
To be able to use Writing Tools, you need to make sure that Parallels Tools are updated in your Windows virtual machine.
To check if your Parallels Tools are updated, you can open Parallels Desktop Control Center and then start your Windows virtual machine. You can then update Parallels Tools from the macOS menu bar by selecting the Actions menu and clicking Update Parallels Tools if the option appears.
Writing Tools is currently the only Apple Intelligence feature that can be used in Windows apps via Parallels Desktop. While the idea of using Writing Tools in Windows apps may appeal to some users, there are already plenty of similar Windows-compatible apps that work without the workaround, such as Grammarly.
Writing Tools is one of many Apple Intelligence features.
In addition to Writing Tools, Apple Intelligence also powers utilities like the cleanup tool in Photos, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 introduces support for creating images with Image Playground. Apple Intelligence is also available on iPhone and iPad with iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2, respectively.
Between Monday and Wednesday, Apple announced a trio of M4-based Mac models — a new iMac, a new MacBook Pro, and a redesigned Mac mini. Apple Intelligence and related features are available on all newly announced computers.
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