Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025: Genmoji Upgrade Incoming Instead of Personalized Siri

[idktbh]

Do they have some kind of infantilising fetish for these little digital pictograms?

 

[gluckett]

Good grief what a waste. What a demo that's going to be lol.

 

[citysnaps]

Anybody actually use genmojis regularly? Surely, they have to have some stats on this somewhere and know that it's not worth investing their resources into its development, right?

I suspect it's only people who are creative/gifted and enjoy making whimsical characters. Artists like my wife and friends come to mind. It's kind of an Apple tradition reaching out to creative people.

Definitely not for others with closed minds. Which is OK. Simply don't use it.

 

[lucasrant]

The thing I’m personally most interested in from all of this is the native Xcode support for third party LLMs, but from Bloomberg’s report, it’s not actually super clear when or if this is going to launch for users.

 

[phenste]

my god does this headline read like an Onion headline 😂

 

[Mousse]

*sigh* panem et circenses

More genmoji. Just what I wanted to hear.🤥🤥🤥 How much longer before Apple finally decides to roll out something worthwhile? Y'all can only distract the mass so much bread and circuses before they lose interest in the distractions.🤨

I'd take a boring, but stable OS over all the Genmoji in the world.😐 I knew hoping for a smarter Siri was a bridge too far, so I wasn't expecting that.

 

[Populus]

It probably never even existed besides as a render.

System wide translation would be great. I love how on android you can just press on the home bar and get an instant translation of whatever is currently shown on your screen without having to copy paste anything

You can do that? Wow. The UI of the latest Android is quite nice as well. And from what people say, it’s pretty stable.

On the other hand, we have a buggy iOS 18 that hasn’t been able to be there AI-wise, won’t be there for the next year, and instead is focusing on emojis…

Sometimes I envy Android users (at least Pixel users), and if it wasn’t because I don’t trust Google… I would have made the switch. Let’s hope that, at least, the new “glassy” UI is nice and fresh…

 

[McScooby]

I’d be happy starting with it getting the correct eye colour of who you’re basing the Genmoji on. Up until now, it’s been too slow to create anything & no, it’s not the 1Gb internet connection nor the iPhone 16PM.

 

[Zine]

Don't. Just don't.

 

[Windoes]

2026 the year for OS26 and Genmoji, we use that instead of AI

 

[Macalway]

I must say this is good news. That is, people's reactions. LOL

 

[jonnyb098]

Is this a joke? All 99% of us want is for Siri to not be an idiot. THATS IT

 

[titanium69]

From pioneering innovation to emojis of eggs with legs.

Embarrassing

 

[titanium69]

Is there a Tim Cook emoji that I can combine with a trashcan?

yes, it’ll show him putting money into the trash can

 

[dustin_]

genmoji on my m1 ipad is so slow & buggy it’s actually a miserable experience. devoting resources to add more features to this while delaying calendar app improvements is certainly a choice. wtf is going on over at apple?

 

[DavidLeblond]

Anybody actually use genmojis regularly? Surely, they have to have some stats on this somewhere and know that it's not worth investing their resources into its development, right?

I've tried, I've never gotten it to make what I want it to.

 

[flybass]

Looks like a super crappy release. More time investment in Genmoji is a joke. Apple is becoming more like blackberry..

 

[Kar98]

Genmoji is literally the least useful implementation of A.I. features ever.

 

[summiter]

This feels like the cycle I break free and give the Goog/Android universe a try. I love Apple and their products but the painfully slow mild iterations aren’t enough anymore. Really want a more fully capable AI that’s well integrated and I think Goog is pulling it off.

 

[citysnaps]

This feels like the cycle I break free and give the Goog/Android universe a try. I love Apple and their products but the painfully slow mild iterations aren’t enough anymore. Really want a more fully capable AI that’s well integrated and I think Goog is pulling it off.

But… roughly 99% of the people here said they’ll immediately turn AI off when it’s released on their Apple devices. Without even trying it.

 

[Nilhum]

The headlines seem like an April Fools joke. 😂. I’m still shocked Apple promised Apple Intelligence when they have always been slow on the block to implement everything. Not sure why they felt the rush. Still amazing a company so rich and with so much cash is so behind. I suppose money isn’t everything as shown by all the tech companies that have failed before Apple. The tech world is quite brutal.

 

[rp2011]

Hell yeah man. That's what I'm talking about! Apple is really cooking meth now.

 

[boswald]

Is this pandering to Gen Z to keep them buying iPhones or something? I know I'm not the target audience, but come on, Apple. Enlighten me.

 

[sfsurfer]

This is an honest question - does someone have a real understanding of why Siri is still so far behind every other voice assistant despite coming from a company with a $3 trillion dollar market cap that should have enough resources to create a fully functional one, if not a best-in-class one? I know that Apple doesn't like to rush into things and instead make them very good before releasing them, but at this point, it's really pathetic. I guess as long as their hardware is selling in the top 3 mobile phones, is there no pressure to improve it?

 

[zorinlynx]

Does anyone actually want this stuff? It feels like most of the new stuff Apple brings to their platform every year now is silly fluff like emojis rather than actual useful features.

And I mean, this stuff is fun, but for it to be the MAIN thing you're talking about? It should at most be a side piece with actual useful features being the main thing.