WWDC 2024: news, rumors, and announcements from Apple's ...

10 Jun 2024

The Verge

Can Apple Intelligence fix the iPhone’s broken notifications system?

Apple has a new Focus mode.

Reduce Interruptions uses the company’s new AI to review notifications and only show those that “might need immediate attention” — like a message telling you to pick your child up.

As someone who is inundated with nuisance notifications and has failed to make Apple’s non-smart Focus Modes work for me, I’m looking forward to this one.

Reduce Interruptions will use Apple Intelligence to filter your notifications.

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Siri warns you that ChatGPT might be lying.

The words “ChatGPT · Check important info for mistakes” popped up under each demo of ChatGPT’s integration with Siri during Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote.

That Apple put something it doesn’t entirely trust on its devices feels like a huge move for the company. Although, it’s clearly keeping its options open — Craig Federighi teased that Google could be a partner, too.

Siri is adding a disclaimer to the ChatGPT results it surfaces.

Screenshot by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Google’s Gemini could eventually come to iOS too.

At a post-keynote live session, Apple’s Craig Federighi just explained how the company is thinking about integrating other AI models. ChatGPT is obviously the first big-name partner, but he mentioned eventually wanting to have domain-specific models. He also named another big player you might someday see in iOS:

“We want to enable users ultimately to choose the models they want, maybe Google Gemini in the future. Nothing to announce right now.”

Is this the most important Vision Pro update?

From Apple’s post-WWDC 2024 keynote release (emphasis mine):

visionOS 2 also adds mouse support for additional workflow options, and Vision Pro will now reveal the user’s physical Magic Keyboard — even when they are fully immersed in an Environment or app.

I can’t wait to see my keyboard floating in the clouds like Falkor from The Neverending Story when visionOS 2 comes out this fall.

Live from WWDC with Apple’s AI leaders

The Steve Jobs Theater.

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The WWDC keynote may be over, but we still have lots of questions about the state and future of Apple Intelligence. And in a somewhat unusual move, Apple is here to answer some of them: Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea, two of the executives in charge of all of Apple’s AI efforts, are taking the stage in the Steve Jobs Theater to talk about everything Apple announced on Monday.

Federighi, of course, is Apple’s software chief, overseeing nearly all the platforms and features we saw at WWDC. Giannandrea is Apple’s SVP of machine learning and AI strategy and has been an important figure in the AI world for a long time. (Before coming to Apple, he was an engineering VP at Google, overseeing a lot of the same stuff.) Together, they’ve overseen Apple’s work revamping Siri, partnering with OpenAI, bringing machine learning to devices and the cloud, and practically everything else Apple announced.

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All of Apple’s big AI news from WWDC 2024.

Siri meets generative AI, genmoji, image generation, and some big upgrades for Apple Photos. If you just want the Cliff’s Notes on Apple’s artificial intelligence plans, we’ve got you covered.

Here are some Apple-style speedometers.

Apple is holding a WWDC session today, where it will feature more information on the deeply integrated next-gen CarPlay it announced in 2022. Here we can catch a glimpse of how different automakers could adopt varied styles for their cars. No automaker other than Aston Martin and Porsche seems to have signed up so far.

Apple’s hoping these designs will help automakers express their vehicle’s character and brand.

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Here’s a first look at the iPhone’s upgraded green bubbles.

They sure look like text messages on the iPhone! But the bigger image, green waveform for the audio message, and the “Text Message • RCS” in the text entry field caught my eye.

RCS support is coming with iOS 18.

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Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote has come to a close — and the company had a whole lot to share. We got our first look at the AI features coming to Apple’s devices and some major updates across the company’s operating systems.

If you missed out on watching the keynote live, we’ve gathered all the biggest announcements that you can check out below.

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Apple Home adds support for robot vacuums

Support for robot vacuums is coming to Apple Home with iOS18.

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Apple has announced that Apple Home will finally support robot vacuums with iOS 18. This was one of just a few updates to its smart home platform that Apple announced at WWDC 2024. The company also revealed that hands-free unlocking is coming to compatible smart door locks as well as the ability to share guest codes for access to your home (another thing we’ve been impatiently waiting for). Plus, there’s a new electricity usage feature coming to the Home app, although it’s limited to Pacific Gas & Electric users in California at launch.

Apple said that the “Home app now supports the core functionality of robot vacuum cleaners, such as power control, cleaning mode, vacuum, mop, and charge status.” The floor cleaning devices can also participate in automations and scenes and be activated with voice control using Siri, so you can tell it to go clean your kitchen.

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Apple’s AI can make custom emoji and images

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Apple’s new “Apple Intelligence” AI features will let you make your own custom emoji and images, the company announced at WWDC 2024.

The custom emoji are called “Genmoji,” and they look like a lot of fun. In one example, during Monday’s keynote, Apple showed how the prompt “smiley relaxing wearing cucumbers” generates a yellow smiley face emoji with cucumbers over its eyes. If you don’t like the initial emoji that Apple makes, you can swipe to pick from a few different options.

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Apple is putting ChatGPT in Siri for free later this year