Cupertino, June 10: Apple WWDC 2024 is finally here, and during the event, Apple announced some groundbreaking updates. Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off Apple's highly anticipated event by announcing “intelligence” and groundbreaking software updates. Apple unveiled Vision OS 2 for its Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset for the first time.
Apple announced software updates across six broad categories, including visionOS 2 for its Apple Vision Pro headsets, iOS for iPhones, Audio and Home for Apple TV and Apple Air Pods, watchOS for Apple Watches, iPadOS for Apple iPads, and iMacOS for Apple Mac computers.
All Apple announcements:
Apple's full announcements (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Apple visionOS Updates:
visionOS (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Apple iOS 18 Update:
IOS 18 (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Audio & Home:
Audio & Home (Photo courtesy of Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Apple watchOS 11:
watchOS (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Apple iPadOS:
iPadOS (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Apple macOS:
macOS (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
Apple Intelligence:
Apple Intelligence (Photo credit: Apple WWDC 2024 official event)
visionOS 2 Update
- Ability to process spatial images
- Multiview for TV apps
- New Bora Bora Environment
- A travel mode within the train that provides an interactive multimedia experience
- Mouse Support
- Follow your breathing exercises
- AirPlay Receiver
- New gesture and tap controls for notifications
- Health Kit
- Recent Guest Users
- Customize and sort your Home view
- Volumetric API, Enterprise API, TabletopKit
- Mac Virtual Display Enhancements
- A keyboard breakthrough
- Apple's spatial video now available in the Vimeo app for Vision Pro headsets
- Apple Vision Pro will be available in nine more countries, including China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Germany and the UK.
New Updates and Features in iOS 18
- Customize your home screen and wallpaper according to your color
- Control Center Customization and Quick Access
- iOS 18's Enhanced Privacy Features – Locking and Hiding Apps
- Message updates – emoji tapback, scheduled messages, text effects, messaging via satellite
- Mail improvements – Better categorization, interactions, and related information search
- Hike with turn-by-turn audio guided maps
- “Tap to cash” feature that allows for quick payments between iPhones (works like NFC)
- New features in the Journal – Easily track your goals, check your pastries, and more
- iOS 18 introduces “Game Mode” with enhanced visuals and a better gaming experience
- Photos: This time, Apple has redesigned the Photos app. You can easily categorize, jump to specific photos or dates, and filter screenshots. Called “Collections,” the Photos app has a new way to organize your different photos, memorable adventures, and everything else under a specific topic. Favorites, Carousel, and Wallpaper features have been introduced to improve the overall look and feel of the operating system.
Audio and Home:
Apple announced that Apple Air Pods will be integrated with Siri for a touch-free experience. A new feature “Voice Isolation” introduced to provide better call quality. The company also introduced “Personalised Spatial Audio API” to improve gaming experience.
- InSight: This feature allows users to find actors in real time and save an audio version to listen to later.
- Enhanced Dialogue: This new feature provides subtitles and enhanced dialogue on Apple TV.
- 21:9 Projection: Apple has introduced new 21:9 movie and video projection on the Apple TV screen, allowing you to watch movies in the aspect ratio of the director. The company has also introduced screensavers.
WatchOS11:
Apple has introduced a wide range of modes in watchOS 11 to enhance your productivity, health and personal experiences.
- Training mode – This mode has been improved to help you learn about your training duration and its impact on your body. It provides an effort rating to effectively measure your fitness.
- Apple's watchOS 11 will have a customized summary feature
- Customize the Overview app
Adjust your goals
A vitals app that lets you check your health indicators, changes and pregnancy-related data
Translation widget, machine learning for speech recognition and translation
Your Uber ride is coming soon, and machine learning is being used to customize your watch face,
About iPadOS18
Home screen customization, control center customization, tab car customization,
Responsive animation, morphing
Share Play, Freeform
Calculators that give you answers by imitating handwriting, calculators that produce graphs using a pencil,
Take math notes with Apple Pencil Pro
Smart scripts for handwriting, spell checking, moving text, erasing, and more
MacOS Sequoia:
MacOS Sequoia comes with new features to enhance productivity. The company has introduced iPhone Mirroring to wirelessly operate and receive notifications on your iPhone. The iPhone Mirroring feature allows users to fully interact with their device while having different features open on it.
Video calling with better background changing options.
A keychain app that protects and syncs all your passwords across all your devices.
Safari: Comes with more privacy and battery saving options. Comes with profiles, translations, and more. Using machine learning, Safari highlights your searches.
Safari's Reader feature helps you navigate without distractions.
Gaming on MacOS Sequoia comes with a powerful gaming experience with Metal 3, Game Porting Toolkit 2, and Xcode support for bringing games to iPhone and iPad, with Assassins Creed Shadows coming to iPad later this year.
Developer Beta
Beta version available next month
Apple Intelligence
Apple also unveiled its personal intelligence system, Apple Intelligence, at Apple WWDC 2024. According to Apple, most online AI tools don't know much about individuals. Apple Intelligence includes features such as language, images, behavior, and personal context.
Apple Intelligence has the ability to understand an individual's situation, including relationships, and enhance privacy. Apple announced that this personal intelligence will be processed on-device, enhancing privacy. The tech giant also announced private cloud computing, which will enhance privacy and store no data. Apple's personal intelligence also comes with natural language search, video search, and the ability to create memory movies using image understanding. Another feature introduced is Genmoji, which allows users to create real-time emojis with text descriptions.
Siri Updates
The Siri voice assistant has also been improved by Apple and is packed with new features. Siri has richer language understanding capabilities. The voice assistant accomplishes more integrated tasks more easily. The tech giant promises to add more features next year. It also performs in-app actions on the user's behalf. With more voice commands, Siri can intuitively navigate each app without touching the screen. It also performs a variety of operations, such as summarizing meetings, understanding personal texts like links sent to you personally, and searching for information.
ChatGPT Integration:
When Siri asks a question she may not know about, it will suggest using ChatGPT, making for a seamless integration. ChatGPT on iOS 18 and other platforms is expected to roll out later this year, and the tech giant also says it will put users in control of their privacy.
Apple Intelligence is scheduled to be available in the US this summer.
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