It’s time for the most impactful speech Apple will make all year: WWDC, when the company will reveal the new direction it’s taking its devices. Today, Apple will unveil iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, macOS 15 and watchOS 11, as well as possible updates to tvOS, AirPods, HomePod and visionOS, all coming this fall. It’s a big day.
So if you’re as excited as we are, you’ll be keeping up with all the latest news and rumors before the speech begins at 10 a.m. PT. Well look no further, we have everything you need right here.
WWDC 2024: latest news
Dark mode icons: According to MacRumors, iOS 18 will bring dark mode to the Home screen icons to make the iPhone look completely dark. Apple is rumored to allow users to change the color of app icons using AI. So this is probably an extension of this feature.
Locked apps: Another report from MacRumors claims that Apple will allow users to lock apps behind Face ID, similar to how Notes, Photos, and Safari allow users to enable authentication for certain content and features. (Note that some third-party apps like WhatsApp already let you do this.)
Siri with AI: AppleInsider presents all the new features that Siri will be able to achieve thanks to AI, which will be called Apple Intelligence. The report states that Apple “wants to accustom its AI to natural language, speech patterns, sentence structures, and instruction types.”
AirPods hearing test: According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will announce a new “hearing test” feature for AirPods that will presumably emit a series of beeps to test your ability to detect certain frequencies.
Buggy betas: On
WWDC 2024: main preview
We’ve done our best to write the WWDC keynote based on rumors, reports, and our own educated guesses, so read it before Tim Cook takes the stage.
WWDC 2024: watch the keynote
The WWDC keynote will begin at 10:00 a.m. PT and will be broadcast live for everyone to see. You can watch it on Apple.com, in the TV app, or on YouTube below.
WWDC 2024: live blog
We’ll be tracking WWDC announcements for anyone who can’t watch, so be sure to check back at 10:00 AM PT when the keynote begins.
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