It’s that point of the yr once more. It’s time for Apple to take middle stage in Cupertino to announce a slew of software program updates to its merchandise, together with iOS 18, iPad OS 18, watchOS 11, macOS 15, and tvOS 18. Although, this yr, we expect to see fairly just a few AI bulletins, that rumors have been pointing in direction of Apple calling “Apple Intelligence”. As a result of the corporate can’t bear utilizing the identical phrases as its opponents.
With iOS 18, Apple is about to launch an enormous replace for iPhone users, although it should largely solely have an effect on iPhone 15 Professional and future iPhone 16 customers. Since rumors have pointed to the Apple Intelligence options being too highly effective to run on older iPhones because of the chipset and the RAM inside.
In fact, probably the most thrilling AI function that Apple might need up its sleeve this yr goes to be – Siri. That’s proper, Siri is about for an additional improve, this time with Apple’s personal LLM, which ought to make it much more helpful. Nonetheless, admittedly, the bar for that’s fairly low proper now.
WWDC kicks off at 10AM PT
The Apple Keynote at WWDC 2024 will kick off on June 10 at 10 AM PT. Typically, the keynote will final for round two hours. In response to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, the keynote is about to be half about AI. So, count on Apple to spend roughly an hour on AI options this time round. Gurman additionally says that there received’t be any {hardware} introduced at WWDC this yr. Whereas that appears odd, Apple introduced the new iPads actually final month. And that was seemingly performed to clear up a while to speak about AI at WWDC.
You may watch the keynote by way of the YouTube video embedded under. Apple now allows you to watch on just about any platform – since it’s on YouTube now. Years in the past, you might solely watch on Apple units, because it was streamed straight from Apple’s web site and used Quicktime, which solely Apple’s net browser supported.
