Apple Hints at iOS 18 AI Announcements Coming at WWDC 2024

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced official dates for the 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is set to begin on Monday, June 10. In its announcements, Apple sometimes gives us minor hints on what to expect, and Greg Joswiak is making some not-so-subtle references to AI.

In a tweet, Joswiak said that the WWDC 2024 event is going to be "Absolutely Incredible," and he deliberately capitalized the first two letters of each word, AI.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772671384335925493

There have been multiple rumors suggesting that AI will be a major focus in iOS 18, macOS 15, and other operating system updates that are set to come out this year. Apple will add AI features to many of its built-in apps, and the company is in talk with Google and other companies about integrating an existing large language model (LLM) into iOS 18.

Over the course of the last few months, Apple executives have confirmed Apple's work on AI, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in February that Apple plans to "break new ground" on generative AI in 2024. "We believe it will unlock transformative opportunities for our users," said Cook.

Cook in November confirmed that Apple was "investing quite a bit" in AI, and during Apple's most recent earnings call, he said that Apple was spending a "tremendous amount of time and effort" on AI, with details set to come out later in 2024.

WWDC 2024 is set to take place during the week of June 10, and it will begin with a keynote event that will see the unveiling of iOS 18 and other operating system updates.

Article Link: Apple Hints at iOS 18 AI Announcements Coming at WWDC 2024

 

[McWetty]

As long as Siri can answer my questions without directing me to my iPhone… I don’t care about the rest.

 

[scrapesleon]

lets see how this works in terms of privacy with google taking data

 

[xxray]

You can tell Apple feels the pressure to not appear behind on AI. It’s un-Apple like to use buzzwords like this or have Tim Cook announcing features like generative AI before a product launch or before WWDC.

 

[Fuzzball84]

Privacy, first and foremost. Any mistakes or slips on this and it would seriously affect my view and trust of Apple and my data.

If I'm honest, i feel nervous about this.

I feel like they're just rushing into it, because everyone else is.

Id doubt it, but hope there is an option in future Apple OS to completely switch off all AI using third party services and software for the core OS.

 

[antiprotest]

So excited for this. Hopefully great partnerships with Google and Baidu and other data miners.

 

[Bigkool2inSC]

what does "Absolutely Incredible" have to do with AI??

 

[Slix]

Watch them not do anything with "AI" as we know it right now, and this is just a funny thing to get people talking.

 

[SoldOnApple]

I wish WWDC would happen once every four months, so technology could advance four times quicker and we'd already have the AI by now.

 

[bobmans]

Calling it now: somehow Apple will, while being late to AI, redefine and set the standards of how we're going to interact with AI for the next few years.

 

[antiprotest]

Baidu. That's iPhone.

 

[Kylo83]

Maybe it’s just me but I’m so bored of the whole AI talk, I feel this will over shadow the event and features

 

[jz0309]

I personally do not want any genAI features on by default, give me a toggle.
And while you’re at it, give me more toggles to turn features on/off

 

[sw1tcher]

Apple today announced official dates for the 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is set to begin on Monday, June 10. In its announcements, Apple sometimes gives us minor hints on what to expect, and Greg Joswiak is making some not-so-subtle references to AI.

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[Lounge vibes 05]

Watch them not do anything with "AI" as we know it right now, and this is just a funny thing to get people talking.

Well, given that Tim literally said it during the quarterly earnings call, if they didn’t have any AI announcements for this year, he’d be in some pretty big trouble.
That is what’s called misleading investors

 

[harold.ji]

Tim Cook: Wow, absolutely amazing 🙏

 

[redbeard331]

Loving that new iOS 18 font.

 

[DaveTheRave]

As long as Siri can answer my questions without directing me to my iPhone… I don’t care about the rest.

Here’s what I found for “As long as Siri can answer my questions without directing me to my iPhone”….

 

[Fraserpatty]

As long as Siri can answer my questions without directing me to my iPhone… I don’t care about the rest.

Looks like there will be heavy, Siri focus. The WWDC announcement is in her colors.

 

[KurtWilde]

Let us trigger Siri and use the screen at the same time!

 

[ZipZilla]

As long as Siri can answer my questions without directing me to my iPhone… I don’t care about the rest.

I love my iPhone, but Siri is so far behind Android....it's pathetic and sad.

 

[nt5672]

The question with the current sorry state of Apple software development is what is going to broken or left broken while Cook drives Apple towards the "Fantastic" releases in the next Keynote.

Then we need to ask if the Keynote will be good enough for Cook to get his Oscars invite for next year.

Mic Drop.

Somewhere along this line maybe, just maybe, a few users will get a few bug fixes. But the bar for success here is pretty low.

 

[twolf2919]

lets see how this works in terms of privacy with google taking data

If Apple does anything off-device using Google's or Baidu's LLM, I'm sure Apple will anonymize the queries as it does for existing Siri requests that are sent to Apple's servers for response.

 

[jonnysods]

So curious how they are going to do this. They were caught flat footed on AI, I just hope they don't rush this and keep privacy in mind. I also hope they give us the ability to toggle features on and off.

 

[Kylo83]

I hope iOS 18 is more than just AI everything