iOS 18 is all about adding recording and transcribing tools to some unusual places. For example, you can make an audio recording in the iOS 18 Notes app and get a transcript of that audio, too. The same goes for phone calls — there's now a Record function in the Phone app, with transcripts of your calls appearing in Notes.
But if you've got a device capable of supporting Apple Intelligence — basically, an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max or any of the four iPhone 16 models — there's a bonus feature available to you. You can get an AI-generated summary of those Notes audio files and recorded phone calls. And the process works the same no matter what kind of audio file you're trying to summarize.
