Parallels Desktop Now Supports Windows and Apple’s AI Writing Tools

You may now access several Apple Intelligence capabilities within Windows apps with Parallels Desktop. Here’s everything you need to know and how it operates.

Apple’s most recent set of AI-powered tools, known as Apple Intelligence, was made publicly accessible on Monday along with the release of macOS Sequoia 15.1. With the use of generative AI software, Apple Intelligence may be used to edit text, alter photos, and summarize conversations.

As part of the company’s software update for iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1, Apple Intelligence started to be made available to consumers in the United States earlier this week. Apple Writing Tools is the most prominent AI function accessible on compatible Mac and iPhone computers. It lets users rewrite material entirely, alter its tone and length, or proofread or summarize it on their device. Although the functionality is compatible with the majority of macOS programs, users may also access it on Windows apps that are running in a macOS virtual machine.

According to a support document shared by virtualization software manufacturer Parallels, users can access Windows applications running inside a virtual machine while using the new Apple Writing Tools feature, which is part of the first Apple Intelligence feature rollout, on a Mac computer running macOS Sequoia and Macs with Apple Silicon processors running macOS Sequoia 15.1 or later are the only ones that can access Apple Intelligence.

Users may start utilizing the new Apple Writing Tools feature while running Windows programs like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint after updating to macOS 15.1 and having a Parallels Desktop virtual machine on their Mac. It’s important to remember that before an update can allow support for Windows programs, the computer must first have Apple Intelligence active.

Apple’s Writing Tools are system-wide text editing tools that may be used to edit, proofread, and summarize documents as well as change their tone. Among other things, writing tools can alter user-provided text to seem more amiable, polished, or succinct.

You need to make sure your Windows virtual machine’s Parallels Tools have been updated before you can utilize Writing Tools.

Users must launch their Windows virtual machine, launch the Parallels Desktop Control Centre, and then choose the following settings from the menu bar at the top of the screen, according to the virtualization software company: Actions > Parallels Tool Update.

After this procedure is finished, users may use the Shift + Command + W keyboard shortcut to open the Apple Writing Tools menu after selecting a block of text within an application like Microsoft Word that is running on their virtual machine on Parallels Desktop.

For Mac computers with an Apple Silicon chip, customers in the United States can access Apple Intelligence. As long as the user’s system language is set to English (US), they can access Apple Intelligence if they are using a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, iMac, or Mac Pro with an M1, M2, M3, or M4 series processor.