Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2024: iOS 18, Siri, AI, and More
Apple unveiled numerous upgrades during its WWDC 2024 keynote. Here’s a quick roundup.
Key Highlights
VisionOS 2
- Major upgrade to VisionOS
- New features: Spatial Photos, hand gestures, enhanced MacOS mirroring, Guest User option, and more
- Available in more countries starting June 28
iOS 18
- Home screen customization and app icon color changes
- Enhanced Control Center with customizable toggles
- New privacy options: app locking and hiding
- Upgrades to Messages, Mail, Wallet, and Journal apps
- New Messages via Satellite for iPhone 14 and later
- Game Mode for optimized gaming
- Redesigned Photos app
- Safari upgrades, Calendar integration with Reminders
iOS 18 brings new ways to customize iPhone, additional ways to stay connected in Messages, the biggest-ever redesign of the Photos app, and so much more.
AirPods
- Voice Isolation for improved call quality
- Siri interactions with head gestures
- Personalized Spatial Audio API for game developers
tvOS 18
- InSight feature for additional show and movie information
- Enhanced Dialogue feature for clearer vocals
- New screensavers and optimized subtitles
- FaceTime Live Captions and redesigned Apple Fitness+ experience
WatchOS 11
- New training insights and Vitals app
- Improved Cycle Tracking for pregnancy
- Customizable Activity Rings
- More intelligent Smart Stack and photo suggestions for watch faces
- Check In, Translate, and double-tap gesture features
watchOS 11 offers breakthrough insights into users’ health and fitness, and more personalization than ever.
iPadOS 18
- Redesigned tab bar and SharePlay screen-sharing
- First-ever iPad calculator app with Math Notes feature
- Upgraded handwriting in Notes and Control Center customizations
MacOS 15/Sequoia
- Features from iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 integrated
- iPhone mirroring capability
- Window tiling for organization
- Upgraded video meetings and new Passwords app
- AI summarization tool and new Viewer experience for videos
Apple Intelligence
- New “personal intelligence” system
- AI features for rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing text
- Personalized image creation in Photos and Messages
- Siri enhancements with better natural language processing and on-screen awareness
- New Mail features for smart replies and prioritizing emails
- Genmoji and Image Playground for creating AI-generated emojis and images
Apple Intelligence — the personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — combines the power of generative models with personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant to the user.
Partnership with OpenAI
- Integration of ChatGPT with Siri for enhanced assistance
- Free access to ChatGPT via Siri integration, with advanced features for ChatGPT Plus users
- Coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS Sequoia later this year.
Note that users can access ChatGPT for free. According to Apple, their data will not be logged by OpenAI. Besides, ChatGPT Plus users can connect their subscriptions to access more advanced features.
The ChatGPT integration will be coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS Sequoia later this year.
So as we can see, Apple’s WWDC 2024 showcased significant advancements, especially in AI, across its operating systems and devices.
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Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in 18 minutes [Video]
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