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What to expect at WWDC 2024

By The AI Sckool
What to expect at WWDC 2024

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Every year, Apple’s WWDC conference ranks third after the Google I/O and Microsoft Build developer conferences, and Apple has almost never had to make a product announcement in response. This time, however, it is different.

Over the past month, Apple’s biggest rivals unveiled bold artificial intelligence plans, Google showed off its latest Gemini models, and Microsoft revealed powerful Copilot features like Recall. Now Apple needs to step up and show that it’s not far behind when it comes to providing customers with useful generative AI solutions.

The Apple Global Developer Conference begins on Monday, June 10 with a presentation at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT. Here’s what you can expect from Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote.

There are rumors that Apple will be equipping its operating systems with artificial intelligence during WWDC, and Siri will be the main point of this discussion. According to Bloomberg, Apple has reworked Siri using immense language models to lend a hand it better understand what users want and better respond to their queries. According to reports, the fresh version of Siri will be able to take actions for you in Apple applications, which will potentially make the assistant have much more capabilities than it currently has.

Apple apparently intends to brand AI features as “Apple Intelligence” and incorporate them into its apps, Bloomberg reports. Other AI features may include AI-powered news and website summaries and real-time transcriptions in notes and voice memos. Apple insider. AND custom emoji generator is on the cards, and the Photos app will reportedly let you operate AI to remove objects and people from photos.

Apple is also said to be considering third-party partnerships to strengthen its artificial intelligence. The company has reportedly been in talks with Google and Anthropic, but it appears to have struck a sole deal with OpenAI, which recently unveiled a powerful personal assistant-like conversation feature for ChatGPT. Some ChatGPT-like chatbot is now targeting Apple devices, According to Bloomberg.

Apple is finally adopting Opulent Communication Services (RCS) as the default replacement option for iMessage, and it will likely appear as part of iOS 18. This means that soon iPhone and Android users will be able to put aside the differences in blue and green bubbles and instead so send each other longer text messages and higher quality photos – hopefully all while being completely encrypted.

Apple has previously ignored Google’s (sometimes pathetic) pleas to adopt RCS and abandon its long-standing and privacy-free SMS replacement feature. Apple’s change in stance required some regulatory pressure. As for the green bubbles, they will stick. But they will be good green bubbles.

Finally, Apple can finally let users organize their apps the way they want. MacGossip reports that you will finally be able to leave empty spaces between apps in iOS 18. I Bloomberg reported that Apple will integrate a theme system into the operating system, allowing icons to be recolored to match each other.

As part of the operating system updates for Mac, iPhone, iPad and other models, Apple is also expected to debut fresh and improved versions of built-in applications. Rumors point to the Calculator app get refreshed AND finally a debut on iPad, a password manager launch on Apple platforms and Redesigns are coming to Apple’s messy Settings and Control Center screens.

For now, however, there are no rumors that the refreshed machines will appear at WWDC, so perhaps we will wait until the end of this year.

The AI Sckool
The AI Sckool