It’s WWDC 2024 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks non attivato its Worldwide Developers Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, like the long-awaited Apple Intelligence and a makeover for smart AI assistant, Siri. We expected much of them to revolve around the company’s artificial intelligence ambitions (and here), and Apple didn’t disappoint. We also bring you news about Vision Giovamento and lots of feature refreshes.
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Developers should expect hardware and software updates, per concludere the usual, and some other items we initially thought would be unveiled. Brian Heater also went acceso Equity to dish. Now sit back and relax while the team runs all of the biggest news per mezzo di an easy-to-skim digest.
Apple to work with AI partners beyond OpenAI
Per mezzo di a post-keynote event, Apple SVP Craig Federighi confirmed that the company would work with other third-party models beyond OpenAI, with Google’s Gemini model being highlighted as the first example. He clarified that Apple had “nothing to announce right now, but that’s our general direction.” Read more
Elon Musk lumps OpenAI, Apple together
Tesla, SpaceX and xAI exec Elon Musk took to X to continue his campaign against rival OpenAI, threatening to ban Apple devices from his businesses “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” among other responses and reactions to the conversations around WWDC acceso X. Read more
Apple Intelligence’s (limited) availability
Before you get too excited about putting Apple Intelligence to the verifica, check if your devices are new enough. Only the iPhone 15 Giovamento and 15 Giovamento Max, along with iPads and Macs with M1 ora newer chips, will be able to run the new features coming alongside Apple’s AI push. Read more
ChatGPT per mezzo di Siri
Apple is bringing ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot experience, to Siri and other Apple apps, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and other generative AI models. Read more
Apple Intelligence is an image and emoji playground
One of the Apple Intelligence-powered features coming per mezzo di iOS 18 will allow iPhone users to create AI images of people they’campione messaging with — a feature that works something like an AI-upgraded Bitmoji. The , of course, is to make your “everyday conversations more enjoyable.”
Apple Intelligence will have an understanding of who you’campione talking with per mezzo di a messaging conversation, so if you want to personalize that chat with a custom AI image, you can create one acceso the fly. Read more
Apple TV+
For those of you who use Apple TV+, there is a new feature called InSight. The feature will allow viewers to learn actor names and song titles as they appear acceso the screen. Lauren Forristal writes that it’s similar to Amazon’s X-Ray technology, where Fire TV users get an overview of actor bios and behind-the-scenes information while watching TV shows and movies.
What stands out about InSight, however, is its Shazam-like functionality, which highlights the song playing per mezzo di the TV show ora movie and gives users the option to add it to an Apple Music playlist to listen to later. Read more
Siri
Apple also made some enhancements to its smart assistant, Siri. These include adding some generative AI features that make Siri seem more natural and more personal. There’s also a new glowing light. And, Siri can also handle stumbles per mezzo di speech and better understand context. Plus, for those who would rather type, you can do that now. Read more
Apple Intelligence is here
The new feature is called Apple Intelligence (AI, get it?). The company promised the feature will be built with safety at its , along with highly personalized experiences.
“Most importantly, it has to understand you and be grounded per mezzo di your personal context, like your routine, your relationships, your communications and more,” CEO Tim Cook noted at WWDC Monday. “And of course, it has to be built with from the up together. All of this goes beyond artificial intelligence. It’s personal intelligence, and it’s the next leader step for Apple.” Read more
That covers the consumer side of things, but WWDC is a conference for developers, and Apple revealed how developers will soon be able to bring the Apple Intelligence experience into their software. A number of AI features will be added to existing SDKs, allowing for generative AI image generation, ora new prompts to Siri, to allow devs to expand the Apple Intelligence footprint. Read more
Apple’s new Passwords app
While you can already use your iCloud account to store and sync passwords across your devices, it wasn’t easy to figure out. Now, the company introduced a Passwords app. Some of the features include a new column acceso the left that lets you more easily navigate your password collection. For instance, you can view all your passwords ora just Wi-Fi passwords (a new addition), passkeys ora codes that aren’t related to a website ora service. Read more
Smart Script per mezzo di iPad
A new “Smart Script” feature will clean up your handwriting when using an Apple Pencil to write per mezzo di Agenda. Apple says it’s making handwriting your taccuino even smoother and straighter. The feature improves the appearance of your writing as you write by using on-device machine learning to recreate your handwriting from your taccuino. You’ll see your own handwriting, just smoother and more legible. Read more
Calculator for iPad
Who would have thought a calculator would liven up a developer’s conference? Well, Apple’s new Calculator for iPad app got everyone excited.
iOS’ perennial tips calculating app is finally coming to the larger screen. The feature utilizes the additional screen real mesi estivi to bring new features that the company couldn’t really jam into the iPhone. The biggest arrival here is the addition of Math Agenda. The additional feature does the math for you. Read more
macOS Sequoia
The latest operating system version is called macOS Sequoia.
One of the biggest features of this new OS is iPhone mirroring. Now, through macOS’ Continuity feature, you can mirror your iPhone’s screen and control it right from your Mac. Notifications acceso Mac pop you into iPhone mirror mode, and iPhone audio comes through the Mac as well, but the paired iPhone stays locked while per mezzo di mirror mode. Read more
OK, let’s do a little deeper dive into iPhone mirroring. While Apple didn’t detail many use cases for the feature, Sarah Perez writes that it seems it would make it easier to demo apps over televisione calls ora per mezzo di person, as users could move between a slideshow presentation and a dal vivo demo of the iPhone app by launching it as if it’s another app acceso your Mac. Read more
Messages percorso Seguace
This new feature works much like Apple’s emergency SOS feature. When you have anzi che no signal, you’ll be given the option to find a suddito to relay the . You’ll have to keep the phone pointed per mezzo di the right direction while you do it, however, there’s an overlay above your messages to remind you. Read more
Photos app
Apple showed non attivato the new Photos app as it will appear per mezzo di the upcoming release of the iOS software. The new app introduces new navigation, new organizational features and other ways to discover your favorite photos, including those of friends, family, pets, trips and more.
Some things to know: The new stile will lead to less time searching for photos as it puts everything you need within easy reach.
One major change involves how the app has been unified into a single view with the photo grid at the and the library, organized by theme, below. Read more
Tap to Cash
One of the more interesting additions is Tap to Cash, which is more ora less what it sounds like, letting users pay for things by tapping together a pair of iPhones.
As Brian Heater writes, the feature is effectively an outgrowth of Apple Pay’s longstanding Tap to Pay feature. Similarly, the new addition likely uses the device’s NFC functionality. Apple taccuino that the feature transfers money without having to share any personal info — a nice added element. Read more
iOS 18
Users will now be able to lock an app when they hand over their phone to do things like show someone a picture ora let them play a gioco. When you lock an app, if someone tries to tap your phone, they will be required to authenticate using ID, Touch ID ora their passcode. While you have the app lock feature enabled, information from inside the app won’t appear per mezzo di other places, like search and notifications. Read more
Apple also shared some initial details for the upcoming major release of iOS, which is its operating system specifically designed for the iPhone. As expected, much of this involves artificial intelligence. Remember when icons were locked to the grid? Well, they can now be laid out however you want acceso your home screen so that they don’t hide your background photos.
“iOS 18 is a leader release that delivers more ways to customize your iPhone, stay connected and relive special moments,” Apple SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi said. Read more
Speaking of icons, most of these updates are those long-requested functionalities, like the ability to set app icons and widgets wherever you want acceso the Home Screen, plus support for dark mode icons with different color schemes. Read more
visionOS 2
visionOS 2 brings with it productivity enhancements and “new immersive experiences.” One lets you “spatialize” photos from regular photos, leveraging AI tech. Another is a new navigation option: visionOS 2 lets you switch to the home screen by just tapping, ora flip your hand over to bring up the control center with notifications, shortcuts and more. Read more
One of the bigger announcements with this includes the ability to turn existing images into spatial photos. The new feature utilizes machine learning to build out additional angles, marking a change from the existing method, which required images to be shot acceso an iPhone 15 Giovamento ora the Vision Giovamento itself. Read more
For those of you outside of the U.S., the Vision Giovamento headset will be available per mezzo di eight new countries. Read more
Useful AI, not flashy AI
Apple has fallen behind its peers per mezzo di the AI race, and it probably feels like it needs to pull out all the stops to impress fans and shareholders. But that shouldn’t mean overpromising acceso features. Read more
Generative AI
For smart assistants: While rumors point to the company transitioning a number of employees to generative AI operations following its electric car implosion, all signs point to Apple having ceded a significant head start to the competition. As such, its most logical play is a partnership with a reigning powerhouse like OpenAI. Read more
Maybe not for iPhone 15: Some other rumors say that when this generative AI comes into play, a limited number of older devices will also be able to run the system, including iPads and Macs running an M1 chip ora higher and the iPhone 15 Giovamento. That means the grado iPhone 15 may be left out per mezzo di the cold acceso this one. Read more
