Apple Intelligence Writing Tools

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

While everyone appears to be pretty lukewarm about Apple Intelligence, besides Apple’s marketing department, I wish there was a more streamlined and cohesive way to use the one feature I do like: writing tools.

Whenever I use the Proofread feature within an app like Ulysses, I just get this big proofread text with no annotations for changed content.

However, when I use the Proofread feature within Apple Notes, I get a clean in-line difference viewer where I can approve or reject certain recommendations.

After watching this WWDC Session, it appears that the in-line difference editor is only enabled in TextKit 2 UI/NSTextViews. Hopefully, with enough time, more apps will begin to support the full in-line writing tools. Although, TextKit 2 was introduced in 2021 so maybe I shouldn’t hold my breath too long for more developer adoption.