The second-biggest day in Apple’s calendar is sort of right here. On Monday, thee annual WWDC occasion kicks off with a keynote presentation, the place all the main modifications to the corporate’s software program platforms shall be introduced to watching app builders… and the world’s media. There may very well be a couple of {hardware} surprises too.
Most individuals must wait till Monday to search out out what Apple has in retailer for us. However Macworld readers can get that data proper now, because of sterling detective work from the folks we pay to rifle by the trashcans at Apple Park. As soon as once more, they’ve provide you with an entire, albeit fairly coffee-stained draft of the script for the occasion, which we’re happy to publish right here.
From iOS 18 and macOS 15 Golden Gate to the way forward for AI, we’ve bought all of the WWDC 2024 spoilers you may probably need. In different phrases, if you wish to be shocked, cease studying and watch the WWDC keynote reside at 10 am on Monday, June 10.
(For the avoidance of doubt, and to hopefully reduce the variety of indignant emails, this isn’t actual. The script under is a combination of educated guesses primarily based on leaks and previous habits, and foolish jokes primarily based on the mannerisms we’ve seen at Apple occasions. A few of it will grow to be correct; some shall be incorrect. Please don’t take it too severely.)
Introduction
09:57 am PT: The pre-stream begins. Struggling to call the musical accompaniment? It’s, after all, the toe-tapping pop hit “Platitude Queen” by Mrs Boothroyd’s Vacation Dancer. (By the way in which, Apple has already launched a WWDC 2024 playlist.)
10:00: Right here we go. The video stream is beginning! And the digicam zooms by the sky earlier than alighting within the grassy bit within the heart of Apple Park the place Tim Prepare dinner stands like an affable android.
10:01: Prepare dinner needs us morning and guarantees every week of “innovation and courage in service of the user experience going forward.” He says Apple has a historical past of constructing nice merchandise and that is underpinned by nice software program. We’re going to be speaking concerning the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and the Mac. (Unhappy faces among the many Apple TV fandom.)
10:03: “Synergy means innovation and security going forward,” says Prepare dinner, bafflingly, earlier than including that know-how have to be for people, not merely for revenue. Apple, he says, is conscious of the strain to ship on the AI hype, however will solely achieve this if it makes the world a greater place.
iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
10:05: Prepare dinner tosses it over to Craig Federighi to speak about “The biggest leap in iOS. Ever.” Federighi is dressed up because the Terminator and rides onto the digital set on a motorcycle. It’s time to speak about iOS 18.
10:07: Federighi begins by making it clear that Apple has been a frontrunner in AI for years already, after which says AI goes to take iOS to the subsequent degree. The buzzwords are: Private, Non-public, Highly effective.
10:08: “And it all starts with Siri.” Federighi reminds everybody how Apple was first with an AI assistant and launches into an instance of how the all-new Siri was “built from the ground up” to be extra highly effective, private, and personal than ever earlier than. Siri will be capable to carry out all types of widespread duties or reply to requests for data, showcasing a way more pure conversational move and human-sounding vocal type.
10:10: John Giannandrea is launched to speak about all of the work Apple does on AI. He describes the AI {hardware} in most Apple gadgets and the massive cloud infrastructure they’re constructing to maintain your information safe. He explains that many Siri requests are dealt with completely on-device, however “for more complex requests” the corporate has particular cloud servers with a course of to maintain every part safe and personal, even from Apple itself. “It’s the most private and secure cloud processing in the world,” he says.
10:14: Apple pronounces a partnership with ChatGPT to carry “its most advanced model” natively to iOS, to reinforce Siri’s superior privateness options.
10:15: AI goes to permeate Apple’s apps and companies, and the primary instance is Messages. Apple reminds us that iMessage is essentially the most safe and personal method to message, and introduces new AI options: customized emoji primarily based on what you kind, and new auto-reply and auto-complete options which might be primarily based in your prior messages, in order that they sound extra such as you.
10:18: Subsequent up is Images, the place Apple reminds us (or makes an attempt to steer us) that it has been a frontrunner in AI for years. New generative AI options embrace the flexibility to take away background objects with only a faucet or to take a photograph and alter its type–cartoon, portray, and so on.
10:22: Apple says AI is barely essential if it will possibly assist you to actually get stuff achieved. An instance is Notes, the place now you can make voice recordings and so they’ll be transcribed by AI. One other is Apple Music, the place a brand new Sensible DJ characteristic appears at your track playback historical past, location, time of day, and extra to place collectively the proper combine for you. It runs completely on-device, too.
10:25: Safari will get its personal breakout part, displaying off new options to routinely summarize net pages, an AI-powered search assistant, and a “magic eraser” that may take away components of net pages each time you go to them.
10:28: iOS 18 goes to be “the most personal iOS ever” as Apple demonstrates a extra customizable residence display screen, Management Heart, and lock display screen. Extra methods to make your iPhone really yours.
10:31: The “personal, private, powerful” message extends to the brand new CarPlay, which was already introduced (and promised by the top of 2023) however isn’t but in any delivery autos. Apple offers a greater demo and name-drops a number of autos coming this fall with the brand new system. It’s pitched not solely as one of the best ways to customise your driving expertise however to maintain all of your information in your cellphone, safe and personal.
10:35: Apple doesn’t have a whole lot of unique new options for iPadOS 18, nevertheless it factors out some enhancements to Stage Supervisor and makes use of iPad to showcase Pages, Numbers, and Keynote upgrades that may come to different platforms as nicely. AI may also help you write, make charts, make slides, and extra.
10:38: Apple makes use of iPad to indicate the brand new enhancements in Mail, too. They embrace a slew of interface tweaks, AI that will help you write emails, and even an AI-powered inbox that may assist you to prioritize and set up your e mail.
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watchOS 11
10:41: After a stunning transition, Federighi is now dressed because the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. (Some type of robotic/synthetic intelligence theme tonight, maybe?) He’s sporting an Apple Watch and a nervous expression. “I don’t think the sophisticated health monitoring features in my Apple Watch Ultra 2 are working properly!” he wails. “Oh wait! I haven’t got a heart. Phew!” This appears to be the watchOS 11 part.
10:43: It’s a disgrace there’s no reside viewers, actually, as a result of Federighi is strictly the type of speaker who would draw vitality from a crowd.
10:44: We’re speaking Apple Watch, and the way a lot it has modified for the reason that first mannequin again in 2015. Federighi admits that Apple didn’t really perceive the system for the primary few years and that watchOS needed to evolve to accommodate what customers wanted. “And this year watchOS evolves into our greatest smartwatch operating system yet!” That appears… self-evident, however Federighi sells it along with his traditional enthusiasm.
10:47: AI will allow the Apple Watch to turn into your private healthcare companion. (Wait, is that phrase from a film?) watchOS 11 will be taught your habits, the belongings you eat and drink, the way in which you train, your sleep patterns, and extra, and use these information factors to focus on methods so that you can enhance your well being.
10:50: If you happen to select to allow the characteristic, the Apple Watch will communicate useful suggestions out loud, similar to “Maybe don’t drink that,” “Have you considered going for a run?” and “Did you know that sleep is a thing people do?” Siri’s new human-sounding supply goes to be important on this not changing into madly annoying.
10:53: Your information shall be safe and personal, we’re advised. And all of watchOS 11’s AI processing will happen on-device. That’s reassuring, significantly for these in nations that depend upon medical insurance.
10:54: watchOS can also be gaining a brand new app. Properly, not precisely a new app… It’s Notes! As we identified again in March, being able to talk and retailer notes on the go could be extraordinarily helpful.
10:57: watchOS 11 is in developer beta proper now, and can launch to the general public “in the fall.”
macOS 15
10:58: Now Federighi is switching to the macOS 15 portion of the keynote. He doesn’t look fazed in any respect after occurring and on for an hour about Siri and iOS 18 and watchOS 11 and his hair nonetheless appears thick and splendid. (That is pre-recorded, not reside, so he actually should look good. Perhaps his hair is generated by AI?) That is undoubtedly the Craig Federighi present.
11:00: As if on cue, at precisely the hour mark, Federighi is hyping up the “legendary crack product marketing team” (which is what he’s known as them for so long as we will bear in mind) that “traveled far and wide” to search out the right California location that’s befitting of a macOS identify. Federighi’s build-up to the reveal talks about how the advertising crew was lured by the aroma of Dungeness crab and sourdough bread as they traversed the hilly panorama on vehicles of each the cable and (sarcastically) self-driving selection by the fog to get to the vacation spot that finds itself because the identify of the subsequent Mac working system: macOS 15 Golden Gate.
(Aspect observe: There’s an AI tie-in with the identify! San Francisco is likely one of the prime areas for AI firms, and in response to the State of California, San Francisco, and San Jose account for “a quarter of all Al patents, conference papers, and companies globally.” Our interpretation: macOS 15 is a bridge from OSes of the previous to AI-enhanced OSes of the longer term.)
11:03: Loads of what was featured for iOS 18 can also be in macOS 15, and we’re now taking a look at a abstract picture of these options: Siri, Highlight, Safari, Notes, Calendar and Reminders, on-device AI privateness, and so on.
11:05: A brand new abstract picture seems that lists the brand new macOS 15 options. However there’s no time to jot down all of them down as a result of Federighi is now descending into “Apple’s secret underground lab.” He walks over to a House Black 16-inch MacBook Professional that, unbeknownst to viewers, is utilizing a pre-release M4 Max. (He’ll later reveal this little Easter egg in a November 2024 video interview with Marques Brownlee.) His hair continues to be impeccable.
11:07: Since most of those options had been coated within the iOS 18 part, Federighi is shortly overlaying the identical new options in macOS 15: AI-enhanced Siri, AI-enhanced Highlight, AI-enhanced Messages and Mail, AI-enhanced Keynote, Numbers, and Pages, AI-enhanced Music playlists, AI-enhanced Images instruments, and he wraps up this cross-OS-features part with “and there’s a whole lot more” with a abstract display screen that lists different AI options.
11:11: However that’s not all! We’re now taking a look at a demo of the new Management Heart and the way new good residence controls can be found.
11:13: A vociferous roar of approval comes from the viewers as Federighi demonstrates the brand new Calculator! It appears like it will possibly do all of the maths!
11:16: Federighi is wrapping up the macOS 15 presentation. He says macOS 15 is the most effective model of macOS but and the macOS 15 beta is accessible now with the official launch “in the fall.” There’s a beat of a pause as we hope to listen to Federighi introduce John Ternus to disclose Mac Studio and Mac Professional updates, however nope, not gonna occur. He wraps it up by saying, “And that’s macOS 15 Golden Gate.” No new Mac {hardware}. As a substitute, along with his hair nonetheless lookin’ good, he’s switching to…
One Extra Factor
11:18: Tim Prepare dinner! Tim Prepare dinner is again. Is that this the wrap-up?
11:19: Probably. Prepare dinner is summarizing the bulletins we’ve heard tonight, and the way Apple intends to carry the facility of AI to its customers “responsibly, carefully, thoughtfully, and with innovation and synergy going forward.” The iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and the Mac “are about to become even more powerful,” he says.
11:21: Is that every part? It appears not… Prepare dinner simply used the magic phrase. One Extra Factor! Keynote-drinking recreation gamers all over the world simply downed their craft beers.
11:22: It’s a brand new HomePod! And this time it has a display screen. A correct display screen for displaying monitor information, that’s, not the shiny mild present from earlier fashions.
11:24: Okay, it’s not truly a HomePod. It’s known as the Apple Hub. Prepare dinner says will probably be the middle of your own home, coordinating home equipment and safety gadgets, streaming music and TV, and connecting you to colleagues and family members by FaceTime.
11:26: Most of all, Apple Hub is an illustration of the facility of AI. It should develop to grasp your preferences and desires, modify lighting, play music, supply data and hints, and launch apps when it thinks you’ll profit from them.
11:28: Prepare dinner says the Hub will launch “later this year,” and that extra data shall be forthcoming down the road. And with that…
11:29: The keynote is over! Builders will now file off to every week of workshops and networking occasions, however the remainder of us can now flip off and take into consideration what we’ve realized.
Jason Cross (iOS and iPadOS) and Roman Loyola (Macs and macOS) contributed extensively to this text.