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by sharkjacobs 1541 days ago
Anything "predictive" probably uses Neural Engine. These are iOS features, but a lot of them apply to MacOS too

- Visual Lookup - Animoji - Face ID - recognizing "accidental" palm input while using Apple Pencil - monitoring users' usage habits to optimize device battery life and charging - app recommendations - Siri - curating photos into galleries, selecting "good" photos to show in the photos widget - identifying people's faces in photos - creating "good" photos with input from tiny camera lenses and sensors - portrait mode - language translation - on-device dictation - AR plane detection

Core ML API allows third party developers to use Neural Engine to run models

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But which consumer apps use it? I know of a handful of photo apps that use it to enhance photos, but I'm not aware of any other types of apps.