The second-biggest day in Apple’s calendar is nearly right here. On Monday, thee annual WWDC occasion kicks off with a keynote presentation, the place all the key modifications to the corporate’s software program platforms will probably be introduced to watching app builders… and the world’s media. There may very well be a couple of {hardware} surprises too.
Most individuals should 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 individuals we pay to rifle by way of the trashcans at Apple Park. As soon as once more, they’ve give you an entire, albeit slightly 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 would presumably need. In different phrases, if you wish to be stunned, cease studying and watch the WWDC keynote dwell at 10 am on Monday, June 10.
(For the avoidance of doubt, and to hopefully decrease the variety of offended emails, this isn’t actual. The script under is a mix of educated guesses based mostly on leaks and previous conduct, and foolish jokes based mostly on the mannerisms we’ve seen at Apple occasions. A few of it will grow to be correct; some will probably be unsuitable. Please don’t take it too significantly.)
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 best way, Apple has already launched a WWDC 2024 playlist.)
10:00: Right here we go. The video stream is beginning! And the digital camera zooms by way of the sky earlier than alighting within the grassy bit within the heart of Apple Park the place Tim Cook dinner stands like an affable android.
10:01: Cook dinner needs us a very good morning and guarantees every week of “innovation and braveness in service of the consumer expertise going ahead.” He says Apple has a historical past of creating nice merchandise and that is underpinned by nice software program. We’re going to be speaking in regards to the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and the Mac. (Unhappy faces among the many Apple TV fandom.)
10:03: “Synergy means innovation and safety going ahead,” says Cook dinner, bafflingly, earlier than including that expertise should be for people, not merely for revenue. Apple, he says, is conscious of the strain to ship on the AI hype, however will solely accomplish that if it makes the world a greater place.
iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
10:05: Cook dinner tosses it over to Craig Federighi to speak about “The largest 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 pacesetter in AI for years already, after which says AI goes to take iOS to the following stage. The buzzwords are: Private, Personal, Highly effective.
10:08: “And all of it begins 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 “constructed from the bottom up” to be extra highly effective, private, and personal than ever earlier than. Siri will have the ability to carry out all types of widespread duties or reply to requests for data, showcasing a way more pure conversational stream and human-sounding vocal model.
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 large cloud infrastructure they’re constructing to maintain your information safe. He explains that many Siri requests are dealt with totally on-device, however “for extra complicated requests” the corporate has particular cloud servers with a course of to maintain the whole lot safe and personal, even from Apple itself. “It’s essentially the most non-public and safe cloud processing on the planet,” he says.
10:14: Apple publicizes a partnership with ChatGPT to convey “its most superior mannequin” 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 strategy to message, and introduces new AI options: customized emoji based mostly on what you sort, and new auto-reply and auto-complete options which might be based mostly 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 influence us) that it has been a pacesetter in AI for years. New generative AI options embody the power to take away background objects with only a faucet or to take a photograph and alter its model–cartoon, portray, and many others.
10:22: Apple says AI is just vital if it could actually provide help to actually get stuff accomplished. An instance is Notes, the place now you can make voice recordings they usually’ll be transcribed by AI. One other is Apple Music, the place a brand new Good DJ characteristic seems to be at your track playback historical past, location, time of day, and extra to place collectively the right combine for you. It runs totally on-device, too.
10:25: Safari will get its personal breakout part, exhibiting off new options to mechanically 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 “essentially the most private iOS ever” as Apple demonstrates a extra customizable dwelling display screen, Management Heart, and lock display screen. Extra methods to make your iPhone actually yours.
10:31: The “private, non-public, highly effective” message extends to the brand new CarPlay, which was already introduced (and promised by the tip of 2023) however isn’t but in any transport automobiles. Apple provides a greater demo and name-drops a number of automobiles coming this fall with the brand new system. It’s pitched not solely as one of the simplest 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 loads of unique new options for iPadOS 18, however 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 properly. AI might 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 embody a slew of interface tweaks, AI that can assist you write emails, and even an AI-powered inbox that may provide help to prioritize and arrange 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 form of robotic/synthetic intelligence theme tonight, maybe?) He’s sporting an Apple Watch and a fearful expression. “I don’t suppose the delicate well being monitoring options in my Apple Watch Extremely 2 are working correctly!” he wails. “Oh wait! I haven’t bought a coronary heart. Phew!” This appears to be the watchOS 11 part.
10:43: It’s a disgrace there’s no dwell viewers, actually, as a result of Federighi is strictly the form of speaker who would draw vitality from a crowd.
10:44: We’re speaking Apple Watch, and the way a lot it has modified because the first mannequin again in 2015. Federighi admits that Apple didn’t actually perceive the gadget for the primary few years and that watchOS needed to evolve to accommodate what customers wanted. “And this 12 months watchOS evolves into our biggest smartwatch working system but!” That appears… self-evident, however Federighi sells it together with his standard enthusiasm.
10:47: AI will allow the Apple Watch to turn out to be your private healthcare companion. (Wait, is that phrase from a film?) watchOS 11 will study your habits, the stuff you eat and drink, the best way 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: Should you select to allow the characteristic, the Apple Watch will converse useful ideas out loud, comparable to “Possibly don’t drink that,” “Have you ever thought of going for a run?” and “Do you know that sleep is a factor individuals do?” Siri’s new human-sounding supply goes to be important on this not changing into madly annoying.
10:53: Your information will probably be safe and personal, we’re instructed. And all of watchOS 11’s AI processing will happen on-device. That’s reassuring, significantly for these in international locations that rely upon medical health insurance.
10:54: watchOS can also be gaining a brand new app. Effectively, 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 “within 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 seems to be thick and opulent. (That is pre-recorded, not dwell, so he actually should look good. Possibly his hair is generated by AI?) That is positively the Craig Federighi present.
11:00: As if on cue, at precisely the hour mark, Federighi is hyping up the “legendary crack product advertising and marketing staff” (which is what he’s referred to as them for so long as we are able to bear in mind) that “traveled far and extensive” to search out the correct California location that’s befitting of a macOS identify. Federighi’s build-up to the reveal talks about how the advertising and marketing staff was lured by the aroma of Dungeness crab and sourdough bread as they traversed the hilly panorama on automobiles of each the cable and (satirically) self-driving selection by way of the fog to get to the vacation spot that finds itself because the identify of the following Mac working system: macOS 15 Golden Gate.
(Aspect observe: There’s an AI tie-in with the identify! San Francisco is among the prime places for AI firms, and in accordance with the State of California, San Francisco, and San Jose account for “1 / 4 of all Al patents, convention papers, and corporations globally.” Our interpretation: macOS 15 is a bridge from OSes of the previous to AI-enhanced OSes of the longer term.)
11:03: Plenty 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 many others.
11:05: A brand new abstract picture seems that lists the brand new macOS 15 options. However there’s no time to put in writing all of them down as a result of Federighi is now descending into “Apple’s secret underground lab.” He walks over to a Area 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 remains to be impeccable.
11:07: Since most of those options have been lined within the iOS 18 part, Federighi is shortly masking 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 an entire lot extra” 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 sensible dwelling controls can be found.
11:13: A vociferous roar of approval comes from the viewers as Federighi demonstrates the brand new Calculator! It seems to be like it could actually 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 on the market now with the official launch “within 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 an alternative, together with his hair nonetheless lookin’ good, he’s switching to…
One Extra Factor
11:18: Tim Cook dinner! Tim Cook dinner is again. Is that this the wrap-up?
11:19: Presumably. Cook dinner is summarizing the bulletins we’ve heard tonight, and the way Apple intends to convey the ability of AI to its customers “responsibly, fastidiously, thoughtfully, and with innovation and synergy going ahead.” The iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and the Mac “are about to turn out to be much more highly effective,” he says.
11:21: Is that the whole lot? It appears not… Cook dinner simply used the magic phrase. One Extra Factor! Keynote-drinking recreation gamers world wide 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 referred to as the Apple Hub. Cook dinner says it will likely be the middle of your private 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 ability of AI. It should develop to know your preferences and desires, alter lighting, play music, provide data and hints, and launch apps when it thinks you’ll profit from them.
11:28: Cook dinner says the Hub will launch “later this 12 months,” and that extra data will probably 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.