Apple WWDC Live Blog: All the News as It Happens

Apple’s developer event kicks off Monday morning at 10 am PT. Join us for live updates about the company’s next steps in software, hardware, services, and—of course—artificial intelligence.

WELCOME TO THE WIRED live blog for the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote address. We have a couple of reporters at WWDC in Cupertino, California: Brenda Stolyar and Will Knight. Watching along remotely, we have Julian Chokkattu, Nena Farrell, Lauren Goode, and Michael Calore. The WIRED team will provide live updates and commentary during the keynote.

Michael Calore

2 months ago

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Michael Calore

2 months ago

“Apple showed off Apple Intelligence across numerous apps. The technology can rewrite messages in Mail, generate new emojis on-demand, and summarize content in Safari. An AI refresh to Siri will make the assistant better able to handle complex spoken commands and better able to search for information even if a command is ambiguous.”

Read the WIRED story: Will Knight on Apple Intelligence

Michael Calore

2 months ago

Thanks for joining us, everyone! We'll have a summary of all the big news from the WWDC keynote (not AI-generated, we swear) shortly, along with more analysis of Apple's announcements. We'll drop links to those stories here once they go up.

2 months ago

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Julian Chokkattu

2 months ago

Craig said this very quickly but:

“Apple Intelligence harnesses the power of our most advanced silicon, and will be available on iPhone 15 Pro, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later. We are bringing it to users in beta as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequioa this fall.”

We'll probably get more details soon but it sounds like you have to upgrade your iPhone to use Apple Intelligence (either to the 15 Pro or the upcoming iPhone 16 series).

Steven Levy

2 months ago

Sorry that Sam himself didn't get in the Apple keynote video. Maybe Sora can generate a piece where he shakes hands with Tim of the roof of the Ring.

Michael Calore

2 months ago

Tim Cook takes us home. No parkour, sadly.

Brenda Stolyar

2 months ago

The keynote has come to an end! I'm hoping they'll let us have a bit of hands-on time with some of these new features later today.

Michael Calore

2 months ago

Developers will be able to add AI-assisted Siri capabilities to their apps using AI Intents. These capabilities can be added to apps within these categories.

Julian Chokkattu

2 months ago

Brenda, to me, I get the sense that they rushed through it because it feels like an admission that Apple's Intelligence is not quite intelligent enough.

Michael Calore

2 months ago

Interesting that the OS asks you if it's OK to hand the request off to ChatGPT, instead of just providing an answer right away. I'd assume Apple is doing this extra step for privacy reasons.

Brenda Stolyar

2 months ago

It feels weird that Apple is being so casual about the ChatGPT integration. I feel like it was hyped up so much only for the company to quickly move past it.

Julian Chokkattu

2 months ago

“We also plan to include support for other AI models in the future.”

Nena Farrell

2 months ago

Siri can do anything–as long as it can ask ChatGPT.

Julian Chokkattu

2 months ago

Why do I feel like Siri is going to ask ChatGPT a lot.

Will Knight

2 months ago

Apple will let you use outside AI models including, yes, ChatGPT, which it is integrating into Siri.

Brenda Stolyar

2 months ago

You'll also soon be able to transcribe Voice Memo recordings. Last year, with iOS 17, Apple launched the ability to transcribe Voice Notes (which I love to use when I can't get around to listening to the audio).

Michael Calore

2 months ago

Apple's computer vision lets you search for specific things in photos. This is great.

Adrienne So

2 months ago

New Clean Up tool in photos, just like last year's Magic Editor and Magic Eraser! As an iPhone user, I find my Pixel envy is eased.

Julian Chokkattu

2 months ago

Oh hey! You can finally erase unwanted objects in your photos, just like on Android phones!