Apple has announced the dates for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which is always held in early June. This year is no exception, with the WWDC24 event taking place June 10-14. It’s a week later than usual, but not outside the usual time frame.
While the event focuses on developers and how they can use Apple’s latest tools and technologies to create apps, services and accessories for Apple products, the highlight for most us is the opening keynote which takes place on the first day at 10 a.m. Pacific time.
This year, WWDC is expected to focus on artificial intelligence. After years of using AI in its products, but hesitant to promote it using that term and having seemingly fallen behind other tech giants in the new race for “generative AI”, Apple is expected to unveil many new generative AI tools and technologies. Some will be user-facing, like a vastly improved Siri, and others will be developer-facing, like the code-writing AI in Xcode. As if we needed any more proof, Apple VP Greg Joswiak posted on X (formerly Twitter) that WWDC24 would be “absolutely amazing!” » a thinly veiled reference to the letters A and I.
During the “Special Event” keynote, Apple unveils the new operating systems coming in the fall: iOS and iPadOS 18, macOS 15, tvOS 18 and watchOS 11. For the first time, Apple will also present the latest advances in visionOS in the first update. since the mixed reality headset was announced at WWDC in 2023. The event will be streamed on Apple’s site, in the TV app on all supported devices, and usually on YouTube as well.
In addition to software and services, Apple sometimes announces new hardware at WWDC. We expect new iPads to already be on the market by June, and new iPhones and Apple Watches are still unveiled in September, but there’s a chance we’ll see a Mac Studio upgraded to the chips from the M3 series, new, cheaper AirPods (a replacement for the 2nd and 3rd generation AirPods), an M3 Ultra chip upgrade for the Mac Pro, or even something unusual like the “HomePod with Screen” according to rumor.
