AI is the new big thing in phones, with companies from Apple to Google and beyond packing their latest handsets full of clever AI features.
But not all phones support AI, and depending on the brand of phone you have, the specific AI features you have access to will vary. With that in mind we’ve created this guide detailing all the currently available ‘AI phones’, along with an overview of the AI features they offer.
Note that this is a fast moving field, so it’s possible that by the time you read this there will be additional AI handsets and features available, but we’ll be sure to update this guide periodically.
Apple AI phones
Apple wasn’t the first company to launch AI handsets. In fact, at the time of writing you can’t get AI on any of its phones – or not quite anyway. But iOS 18.1 is just days away from launch, and with it comes the first wave of Apple’s AI features – which the company collectively dubs Apple Intelligence.
To use Apple Intelligence on a phone, you’ll need an iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max, so it’s only offered on the latest and greatest Apple handsets.
The initial AI features include Writing Tools, which helps you proofread and polish your writing, Notification Summaries, which gives you summaries of messages you receive, Clean Up, which can remove unwanted objects from photos, and Smart Replies, which gives you suggested replies to emails and messages.
Siri is also getting visually redesigned, but won’t actually be getting smarter until probably sometime in 2025.
Prior to that, we should later this year see features like ChatGPT integration, Visual Intelligence (which lets you search for or get more information about things that you point your camera at), Image Playground (which lets you generate images), and Genmoji (which lets you generate emoji).
Note that as well as Apple Intelligence only being available on select handsets, some features will be excluded from certain handsets too. For example, Visual Intelligence only works on the iPhone 16 series.
Google AI phones
Google was the first company to start heavily pushing AI in its phones, and as such the Google Pixel line is arguably ahead of rivals in terms of the sheer quantity of AI features available.
And in fact, you can use some of its AI tools on every single Pixel model, right back to the original Google Pixel, though you’re limited to select things like Magic Eraser (which can remove unwanted elements from images) on older phones.
As a general rule, the newer your Pixel phone is the more AI tools it will have access to, and to access the full suite of Pixel AI features, you’ll need a Google Pixel 9, Google Pixel 9 Pro, Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, or Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
Along with Magic Eraser the tools available on these phones include things like Gemini built in, Super Res Zoom, which provides an AI-enhanced digital zoom for both photos and video recording, Magic Editor, which is an AI-powered photo editing tool, Pixel Studio, which can generate images, Pixel Weather, which uses AI to supplement conventional weather reports, Pixel Screenshots, which can help you save and organise screenshots, Call Notes, which provides a summary of your phone calls, AI Wallpaper, which lets you use AI to generate wallpapers, Circle to Search, which lets you circle things in photos or videos to have your phone search for them online, and more.
Again, some but not all of these features will be available on various Pixel phones, but to get access to the full suite you’ll need a model in the Pixel 9 series. Even with a Pixel 7 or Pixel 8 for example though, you’ll have access to more AI capabilities than most rival handsets can currently deliver.
Samsung AI phones
Samsung has its own suite of features called Galaxy AI, and these are available on the Samsung Galaxy S22 series, the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, and the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, as well as the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, Galaxy Z Flip 5, Galaxy Z Flip 4, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4.
The available Galaxy AI features include Live Translate to instantly translate calls, Photo Assist to move objects in photos and reframe them, Note Assist, to transcribe and organise recordings, Interpreter, which translates live conversations, and Google’s Circle to Search feature.
Xiaomi AI phones
The Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14T lines include a number of AI abilities, such as the ability to create AI generated selfies (once you’ve trained the phone on what you look like). These phones also use AI to help with image editing, audio transcriptions, voice translations, note summaries, and to add subtitles to video calls.
And the Xiaomi 14T series additionally has access to Google’s Circle to Search tool (detailed in the Google AI phones section above).
Motorola AI phones
The foldable Motorola Razr 50 and Motorola Razr 50 Ultra both let you use the AI-powered Google Gemini instead of Google Assistant, much like Pixel handsets do.
This adds various AI tools to the phone, including the ability to pick different tones for your messages.
These phones along with the Motorola Edge 50 Pro and Motorola Edge 50 Ultra also use AI to improve their cameras in various ways, such as Auto Focus Tracking, to track moving subjects, and Adaptive Stabilisation, which adapts the stabilisation to your movements, so the camera always stays in focus.
You can also take a photo of your outfit or a pattern, and have these phones then generate wallpapers and themes to match it.
OnePlus AI phones
The OnePlus 11, OnePlus 12, OnePlus 12R, and OnePlus Open all have access to AI Eraser, which like similarly named tools from other brands lets you remove unwanted objects from photos.
If you have a OnePlus Nord 4 or a OnePlus Nord CE 4 Lite then you can access the company’s ‘AI Toolkit’, which includes things like AI Speak, which can read articles for you, AI Summary, to generate an article summary, and AI Writer, to generate text on a subject of your choice. We’d imagine these tools will eventually be made available on high-end OnePlus phones too.
Oppo AI phones
The Oppo Reno 12 FS, Oppo Reno 12 Pro, and Oppo Reno 12 F include things like AI Studio, which lets you create numerous portrait images from a single photo, AI Eraser, which removes unwanted objects from photos, AI Smart Image Matting, which lets you cut people and pets out of photos to use their image elsewhere, and AI LinkBoos, which improves connectivity.
You also have access to tools like AI Recording Summary, AI Summary, and AI Writer, all of which are basically what they sound, along with AI Speaker, which reads articles out loud.
Then there’s the Oppo A60, which gives you access to AI Portrait Retouching. This uses AI to enhance portrait images you take with the front camera.
Honor AI phones
The Honor Magic V3 has AI working behind the scenes to improve the screen, and also uses AI in the camera, to help keep subjects in focus and improve portrait images.
Additionally, you can use AI to optimise voice leakage and noise cancellation in calls through AI Privacy Call, intelligently sort apps with AI App Sorting, remove things from photos with AI Eraser, and convert audio to text with AI Honor Notes.
AI is also used to improve images with the Honor Magic V2, the Honor 200 Pro, and the Honor Magic 6 Pro.
TCL AI phones
TCL offers a suite of AI tools in the TCL 50 Nxtpaper and the TCL 50 Pro Nxtpaper. Text Assistant and Writing Assistant help with rewriting, summarising, and translating text, while Voice Memo can transcribe and summarise conversations.
Other phones
Note that even if your handset or brand isn't accounted for above, there’s a high chance you’ll have access to some AI features – you’ll just probably have to download a third-party app to do so.
Google Photos for example gives many phones access to AI photo editing tools, and you can also download AI chatbots like ChatGPT on iPhone and most Android handsets.
Note that we’ve also excluded handsets that simply claim to use AI behind the scenes to provide minor improvements to images and the like – numerous phones make these sorts of claims, but they’re not really user-facing AI features.
