Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) keynote is imminent. The festivities kick off later immediately — Monday, June 10 at 1PM ET. The keynote handle is out there to the general public and you’ll watch it through Apple’s occasion web site or on the corporate’s YouTube channel. And in the event you do not need to click on away, the latter feed is embedded straight beneath.
That is WWDC, so it’ll be a software-focused occasion. Anticipate that Apple will showcase updates throughout its full panoply of working methods, together with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, in addition to watchOS, macOS and even visionOS, which is the working system behind the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset.
However the huge information is predicted within the AI area, the place Apple has has to raise its video games to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google. To that finish, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is predicted to spend almost half of the keynote’s operating time touting a bevy of latest AI initiatives, a few of that are anticipated to be powered by a brand new partnership with OpenAI, the corporate behind ChatGPT. If Gurman is true, and he normally is, we’ll see Siri getting some lengthy overdue AI upgrades, together with the power to situation instructions inside particular apps.
As for software program updates, it seems like iOS 18 will lastly convey RCS help to Messages. This messaging protocol presents end-to-end encryption and higher media sharing. It’ll additionally enhance texting compatibility with Android units. Rumors point out that Apple Music might get an OpenAI-powered device that auto-generates playlists and Notes may get a voice-recording possibility. Different apps like Mail, Health and Well being are anticipated to get new options, too. (Once more, hit up that current preview from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which is chock stuffed with particulars.)
There’s additionally these ever-tantalizing phrases of “just one more thing.” Final yr, the corporate used WWDC to formally unveil the Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple gained’t introduce a brand new system class this yr, the AVP was its first since Apple Watch, however there ought to be a Imaginative and prescient Professional international availability announcement and a few up to date options.
Regardless of final yr’s Imaginative and prescient Professional reveal, we’re not anticipating plenty of {hardware} information. It’s potential we’ll get a brand new Apple TV streaming field and, if we’re fortunate, an AirPods Max refresh with USB-C. Don’t maintain out hope for brand spanking new tablets or laptops, as Apple not too long ago launched each iPads and MacBooks — although Apple might drop the just-released M4 chip within the MacBook Professional. The Mac mini and Mac Studio are each overdue for an replace, as properly. But it surely’s potential we get not one of the above. There gained’t be new iPhones till September, and the identical goes for Apple Watch.
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