Top Stories: WWDC Recap With iOS 18, Apple Intelligence, and More

[MacRumors]

WWDC 2024 kicked off on Monday with a jam-packed keynote revealing iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and more, all fueled by upcoming Apple Intelligence technology.

We've highlighted the major announcements below, but be sure to check out our recap post that includes a video going over the highlights plus links to all of our coverage from the big day!

Apple Announces iOS 18 With Customizable Home Screen and Control Center and Much More

Apple this week announced iOS 18, which includes a wide range of new features and changes for the iPhone, including new customization options for the Home Screen and Control Center, a redesigned Photos app, the ability to use any emoji as a Tapback in the Messages app, an option to lock apps behind Face ID or Touch ID, and much more.

The tentpole feature of iOS 18 is Apple Intelligence, which is Apple's new suite of generative AI features coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac later this year. Read on for more details about Apple Intelligence.

'Apple Intelligence' Unveiled for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple Intelligence can summarize text and notifications, create custom emoji and images, and more. Siri is also getting smarter with Apple Intelligence, with richer language understanding and more per-app controls. Siri will also be able to access ChatGPT.

These new AI-powered features will be available on the iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or any Mac or iPad equipped with an M1 chip or newer. Apple Intelligence will be available when iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia are released to the public later this year, but the features will have a beta label at launch.

Apple Unveils macOS 15 Sequoia With iPhone Mirroring, Passwords App, More

macOS Sequoia is the name for this year's major update to the Mac operating system!

Key new features beyond Apple Intelligence include the ability to mirror your iPhone onto your Mac, the same Passwords app coming to the iPhone with iOS 18, improved window tiling, and more.

macOS Sequoia is currently in beta, and it will be widely released later this year.

Apple Previews watchOS 11 With New Health and Workout Features

watchOS 11's key new features and changes for the Apple Watch include the ability to pause your Activity rings without disrupting your award streak, a new Vitals app that provides overnight health metrics, Live Activities support in the Smart Stack, and more.

Like the other software updates unveiled at WWDC, watchOS 11 is currently in beta for developers and will be widely released later this year.

tvOS 18 Adds 'InSight' to Identify Actors and Songs in Apple TV+ Shows and More

While it did not receive too much attention at WWDC, tvOS 18 is coming to the Apple TV.

The software update includes a handful of new features and changes, including an "InSight" feature that can identify actors and songs in Apple TV+ shows, updates to the Enhance Dialogue feature and subtitles, additional screen savers, 21:9 video playback support for playing movies and shows on projectors, and more.

Apple Announces visionOS 2 With Ultra-Wide Mac Virtual Display, Travel Mode on Trains, and More

visionOS 2 is the first-ever major software update for Apple's Vision Pro spatial computer, which launched in the U.S. earlier this year and will be available in eight more countries by mid-July.

visionOS 2 can turn existing 2D photos into spatial photos with machine learning, adds new hand gestures for frequently used features like Home View and Control Center, introduces a larger ultra-wide version of Mac Virtual Display, expands Travel Mode to trains, supports a physical mouse, and more.

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[nt5672]

Yep, I pretty much quit watching after the Keynote. Not much that interests me as a developer except improvements in the terrible development tools. Which, if the Xcode beta is any indication, have not improved much. Still crashes in multiple areas. Fails to render documentation. Givens nonsense errors. The list is still way too long.

Anything that Apple introduced this year will take 1+ years to get working. Maybe some of these features will be ready by WWDC25.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Seems like the bulk of the keynote was about style over substance, which is a bad situation for a company that no longer has a sense of style.

 

[Macaholic868]

Yep, I pretty much quit watching after the Keynote. Not much that interests me as a developer except improvements in the terrible development tools. Which, if the Xcode beta is any indication, have not improved much. Still crashes in multiple areas. Fails to render documentation. Givens nonsense errors. The list is still way too long.

Anything that Apple introduced this year will take 1+ years to get working. Maybe some of these features will be ready by WWDC25.

Isn’t that the entire point of the beta, release and refinement cycle? A big part of WWDC seems to be a look at what’s coming for interested early adopters. Since I’ve never been to one I don’t know to what extent it used to be focused on what’s already there and established but if it used to be 50/50 or pick your percentages split between what’s coming and what’s already established, refined and there and that’s changed to the extent you don’t find value in it then it sounds like the event isn’t for you anymore and more for those interested in what’s coming and what will be established and partially though perhaps not completely refined a year from now.

 

[Realityck]

Apple Intelligence can summarize text and notifications, create custom emoji and images, and more. Siri is also getting smarter with Apple Intelligence, with richer language understanding and more per-app controls. Siri will also be able to access ChatGPT.

Thought that Apple trying to rename AI as Apple Intelligence might confuse some people.
Reference

The History of AI: A Timeline of Artificial Intelligence

In recent years, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has undergone rapid transformation. Learn more about its development from the 1950s to the present.

www.coursera.org

During the summer of 1956, Dartmouth mathematics professor John McCarthy invited a small group of researchers from various disciplines to participate in a summer-long workshop focused on investigating the possibility of “thinking machines.”

The group believed, “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it”. Due to the conversations and work they undertook that summer, they are largely credited with founding the field of artificial intelligence.

During the summer Dartmouth Conference—and two years after Turing’s death—McCarthy conceived of the term that would come to define the practice of human-like machines. In outlining the purpose of the workshop that summer, he described it using the term it would forever be known by, “artificial intelligence.”

 

[Realityck]

Seems like the bulk of the keynote was about style over substance, which is a bad situation for a company that no longer has a sense of style.

They get being able to see/use a iPhone and freely move data/files between the two on the Mac then I will complain a lot less.

 

[JosephAW]

Nobody was talking about the energy impact of millions of Apple intelligence device requests either locally or in the cloud.
I don’t think ChatGPT is net zero, so this is going against Apple’s Green thinking, just saying.

 

[nt5672]

Isn’t that the entire point of the beta, release and refinement cycle? A big part of WWDC seems to be a look at what’s coming for interested early adopters. Since I’ve never been to one I don’t know to what extent it used to be focused on what’s already there and established but if it used to be 50/50 or pick your percentages split between what’s coming and what’s already established, refined and there and that’s changed to the extent you don’t find value in it then it sounds like the event isn’t for you anymore and more for those interested in what’s coming and what will be established and partially though perhaps not completely refined a year from now.

Apple releases now for WWDC are alpha's not beta.

 

[Realityck]

Apple releases now for WWDC are alpha's not beta.

It's the first beta, no longer alpha. Thats in-house only.
iOS 18 beta (22A5282m) - June 10, 2024
IPadOS 18 beta (22A5282m) - June 10, 2024
macOS 15 beta (24A5264n) - June 10, 2024
tvOS 18 beta (22J5290l) - June 10, 2024
watchOS 11 beta (22R5284o) - June 10, 2024
visionOS 2 beta (22N5252n) - June 10, 2024

 

[SFjohn]

Nobody was talking about the energy impact of millions of Apple intelligence device requests either locally or in the cloud.
I don’t think ChatGPT is net zero, so this is going against Apple’s Green thinking, just saying.

Probably why ChatGPT is optional and requires permission each time you use it… 🔥🔥🔥

 

[TechnoMonk]

I am enjoying the iPad OS developer beta. Notes and math notes are great for plotting, and surprised how intuitive calculator app is when it comes to detecting hand written input. Gonna try the CSV data to create tables and data visualization.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Probably why ChatGPT is optional and requires permission each time you use it… 🔥🔥🔥

I’d imagine that Apple intends to eventually bring this all in house and onto Apple hardware running on “clean” energy.

 

[Macaholic868]

Apple releases now for WWDC are alpha's not beta.

That tends to happen when you go from the original iPhone which sold 6.1 million units in total to an ecosystem consisting of 1.46 billion active devices as of 2023 which consist of a whole lot of different makes and models with parts from a whole lot more suppliers and an OS that is now 18 generations in. Its not 2007 anymore despite how much we may want it to be.

Developer beta, alpha, whatever you want to call it, if it’s too early in the development cycle for you then don’t download it, install it or read about any of the new API’s until it’s been out for a year or two. Problem solved… if not then you can always develop for Android instead. Nobody makes you develop for Apple but a lot of people choose iPhones over Androids for a reason though you’d be hard pressed to know it reading these forums sometimes even though the devices continue to sell like hotcakes and the company’s market valuation keeps vying for the highest in the world. Those would tend to indicate they are doing something right.

 

[aibloop]

Apple intelligence = Ai

 

[Dave245]

Apple Intelligence isn't available in the UK, even at launch

 

[nt5672]

That tends to happen when you go from the original iPhone which sold 6.1 million units in total to an ecosystem consisting of 1.46 billion active devices as of 2023 which consist of a whole lot of different makes and models with parts from a whole lot more suppliers and an OS that is now 18 generations in. Its not 2007 anymore despite how much we may want it to be.

Developer beta, alpha, whatever you want to call it, if it’s too early in the development cycle for you then don’t download it, install it or read about any of the new API’s until it’s been out for a year or two. Problem solved… if not then you can always develop for Android instead. Nobody makes you develop for Apple but a lot of people choose iPhones over Androids for a reason though you’d be hard pressed to know it reading these forums sometimes even though the devices continue to sell like hotcakes and the company’s market valuation keeps vying for the highest in the world. Those would tend to indicate they are doing something right.

The number of devices has no bearing. What affects it? Not sure, but some of lack of structured software development, lack of quality software engineers, lack of time for developing quality software, lack of funding for QA, lack of clear product functional definitions, etc.

And no, I don't have t adjust to Apple. If Apple wants me as a customer, then release beta software, not alpha software and calling it beta. When software is not release feature complete, it is still alpha.

 

[ric22]

Nobody was talking about the energy impact of millions of Apple intelligence device requests either locally or in the cloud.
I don’t think ChatGPT is net zero, so this is going against Apple’s Green thinking, just saying.

AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years

The tech giant says it will be difficult to meet its net zero target due to AI using so much energy.

www.bbc.com

Massive increase in Google's emissions, due to AI, so we can expect more of the same from Apple 😬