Apple has announced its next era. Your experience of using an iPhone, Mac, or iPad will be guided by, and suffused with, artificial intelligence. Apple calls it, of course, Apple Intelligence. It’s coming later this year. That’s right: We have another “AI” to deal with. You may have heard plenty …
Read More »Thinking Different About Apple AI
Apple executives used the keynote address of this week's annual WWDC developers conference to debut all of the artificial intelligence capabilities that are coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The team showed off how generative tools will help users write emails, clean up iPhone photos, illustrate presentations, and make custom …
Read More »Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product
Apple's otherworldly, flying-saucer headquarters in Cupertino, California, felt like a suitable venue this week for a bold and futuristic revamp of the company’s most prized products. With iPhone sales slowing and rivals gaining ground thanks to the rise of tools like ChatGPT, Apple offered its own generative artificial intelligence vision …
Read More »The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Apple executives always describe new hardware and software as the “best” or “biggest” ever, but the delivery doesn’t usually live up to the hype (see the recent iPads). However, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 might be deserving of a few of those adjectives. The new operating systems, which are now …
Read More »All the Top New Features in MacOS Sequoia
MacOS Sequoia, also known as macOS 15, is officially here. The new OS packs a ton of new capabilities onto the desktop, including a password management app, videoconferencing tools, and updates to Safari, as well as all the features that come with Apple Intelligence—the company’s new artificial-intelligence-powered system. Below, we …
Read More »AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone
Apple’s new AI strategy might also play a key role in its upgrade-your-iPhone strategy. The company used its annual developer conference today as a platform to announce Apple Intelligence, a decidedly non-generative nomenclature for a suite of new AI features that, like other generative AI tools, are trained on massive …
Read More »The Top New Features in WatchOS 11
At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced small but significant updates to watchOS 11. This year is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Apple Watch, and rumors abound that we will see a major redesign of Apple's wearable this fall, with a new suite of health features …
Read More »Apple's Cycle Tracking app to add gestational age
Apple‘s Cycle Tracking app will soon indicate the gestational age of a user’s pregnancy, according to an announcement made during the company’s WWDC 2024 presentation. SEE ALSO: Everything announced at WWDC 2024, from iOS 18 to Apple Intelligence Gestational age is a term that describes how far a pregnancy is, …
Read More »Everything Apple Announced at WWDC
Apple typically uses its annual developer conference to announce big software updates and introduce new devices. But this year, Apple set aside the gadget talk and left plenty of room for what everyone expected would be the main topic of WWDC: all of the shiny new AI features coming to …
Read More »Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI
Apple is finally getting into the generative artificial intelligence game—with a little help from an unlikely partner in OpenAI. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple’s long-awaited AI reboot at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino, California, today. What the company is calling Apple Intelligence, available in beta this fall, …
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