Apple Intelligence lands on Vision Pro with visionOS 2.4

Typing on a floating virtual keyboard with hand gestures has always been one of the more awkward parts of using a three-thousand-dollar headset. That friction might finally start dropping today.

Apple officially released visionOS 2.4, bringing Apple Intelligence to Apple Vision Pro for the first time. The suite arrives in beta and currently requires both device and Siri language settings to be set to U.S. English.

Bringing personal AI into spatial computing

The update ports over nearly the entire initial Apple Intelligence toolkit that recently landed on Macs and iPhones.

Systemwide Writing Tools now sit inside Mail, Notes, and supported third-party apps, allowing users to rewrite passages in friendly, professional, or concise tones, check grammar, or generate recaps. OpenAI integration is included as well, letting users call ChatGPT through Compose to draft content from scratch.

Creative tools are also present. Image Playground arrives both as a dedicated app and embedded inside Messages and Freeform, supporting custom descriptions, preset concepts, and personal likenesses from photo albums. Genmoji lets users dictate or type a phrase to conjure bespoke emoji inline, while the Photos app gains natural language search and automated Memory Movie generation.

Priority Notifications, Mail Summaries, and Smart Reply round out the communication stack. Apple stressed that processing stays on-device whenever possible, falling back to Private Cloud Compute for heavier tasks, where data is never stored and external researchers can inspect server-side silicon code.

Fixing the awkward guest demo

Beyond AI, visionOS 2.4 addresses one of the biggest daily annoyances for owners: showing the headset to someone else.

The updated Guest User mode allows owners to launch and configure a session directly from a nearby iPhone or iPad. You can designate exactly which apps the guest is allowed to see and immediately mirror their view back to your phone over AirPlay to guide them through the interface.

Apple is also rolling out a dedicated Apple Vision Pro companion app on iPhone alongside iOS 18.4. It lets users discover curated spatial apps, queue downloads remotely, check hardware stats, and store App Clip codes for their ZEISS Optical Inserts.

A new built-in app called Spatial Gallery collects curated spatial photos, videos, and panoramas from brands like Porsche, Red Bull, and Cirque du Soleil, giving new users high-quality content to browse immediately.

Why it matters

We think dropping Apple Intelligence into visionOS is a major quality-of-life win where it matters most. Text entry and manipulation in spatial environments are notoriously clunky; having system-level text rewriting, summarization, and natural language media search removes real friction from daily use. If you own the device and use U.S. English, updating is an absolute no-brainer.

Apple played it smart by leaning heavily on the iPhone tether. Managing guest sessions and queuing downloads from a phone turns the headset from an isolated, antisocial computer into something far easier to share and maintain.

However, the rollout highlights persistent limitations. While iOS 18.4 expanded Apple Intelligence into French, German, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese, Vision Pro users are still stranded on U.S. English in beta, with features unavailable in regions like mainland China pending regulatory green lights.

Until spatial computing gets truly bespoke AI capabilities rather than ported 2D phone features, Apple Intelligence remains a welcome convenience rather than a definitive reason to buy the hardware.