# New Writing Tools coming to Bear

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/new-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/14078>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 29, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/new-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/14078 "2024-10-29T17:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![danmills7](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/danmills7/32/501_2.png) [@danmills7](https://community.bear.app/u/danmills7)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/new-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/14078/1 "2024-10-29T17:46:27Z")

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> **[New Apple Intelligence Writing Tools coming to Bear](https://blog.bear.app/2024/10/new-apple-intelligence-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/)**
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> You can use Writing Tools powered by Apple Intelligence in Bear to make your writing experience even better.

I hope that Apple will provide APIs next year that will allow the Bear team to have in-app buttons, rather than having to right-click and look for the writing tools.

To the Bear team - thank you for allowing what we do have on day 1, to work!

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**Author:** ![danmills7](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/danmills7/32/501_2.png) [@danmills7](https://community.bear.app/u/danmills7)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/new-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/14078/2 "2024-10-30T11:58:18Z")

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UPDATE! I completely missed this, until this morning. When you highlight text, if you move your pointer to the left a little the Apple symbol for AI pops up. This way you don’t have to go the menu or the right-click menu. Awesome!

 ![CleanShot 2024-10-30 at 07.55.54@2x](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/2/2c519113199d1f16f2a73767661c18b9ad01fb0c.png)

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**Author:** ![krssno](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/krssno/32/1338_2.png) [@krssno](https://community.bear.app/u/krssno)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/new-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/14078/3 "2024-10-30T12:57:29Z")

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I’m not looking for a discussion about how useful ai can be in writing or what dangers lurk in it. But the text on the iA Writer site is worth reading. The article addresses some of the current shortcomings of the writing tools and explains how the app deals with them:

[How to stay in control of apples ai writing tools](https://ia.net/topics/how-to-stay-in-control-of-apples-ai-writing-tools#fn-27754-WSJ)

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**Author:** ![celsius1414](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@celsius1414](https://community.bear.app/u/celsius1414)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/new-writing-tools-coming-to-bear/14078/4 "2024-10-30T15:47:14Z")

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The easiest way to “stay in control” of the AI writing tools is to turn them off. Hopefully that is available as standalone OS setting toggles without losing useful functionality like transcription.