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Safari could get an AI browsing assistant in iOS 18.

Code uncovered by X user Nicolás Álvarez and confirmed by MacRumors reveals that Apple is working on something called a “Safari browsing assistant” with “encrypted visual search.”

As pointed out by Álvarez, this suggests that Safari’s AI assistant may use Apple’s Private Relay feature, which is only available to iCloud Plus subscribers. Details are still slim on Apple’s plans to bring AI to the iPhone, but it could involve either Google or OpenAI.

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