Get ready for WWDC 2024, with a jam-packed, keynote address video coming to you from Apple Park on Monday, June 10th at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. You can watch Apple’s keynote address live, right on this page, below.
We will add our live notes on this page as the event unfolds.
The 2024 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting reveals, inspiration, and new opportunities to continue creating the most innovative apps in the world. Join the worldwide developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS — directly from Apple Park.
WWDC 2024 launches with a first look at groundbreaking updates coming to Apple platforms later this year. The keynote address will be available via apple.com, the Apple Developer app, the Apple TV app, and YouTube, with on-demand playback available after the conclusion of the stream.
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MacDailyNews WWDC 2024 Live Notes (in reverse chronological order):
• AAPL: $193.63, -$3.26 (-1.66%) @ 02:43PM EDT
• End of event
• Cook” “We think Apple Intelligence will be indispensable…”
• Cook returns to recap today’s announcements
• Apple Intelligence is a beta, coming this fall to Mac, iPhone, and iPad
• Mac requires M1 and later
• Apple Intelligence is AI for the rest of us
• SiriKit and App Intents get Appel Intelligence
• Support for other AI server-based LLMs models will be added in the future
• Subscribers to ChatGPT’s advanced features can integrate the Mac, iPad, and iPhone seamlessly
• ChatGPT is available for free; your info will not be logged
• ChatGPT is integrated systemwide into Pages, Notes, etc.
• Apple Intelligence offers ChatGPT 4o from OpenAI
• Apple Intelligence is available for free for Mac, iPad, and iPhone
• Apple Intelligence will create a memory video from a simple prompt suing your photos and videos, with a narrative, music, etc. – all privately, of course
• Search in Videos finds a scene in a longer video
• Apple Intelligence powers Clean Up in Photos will remove distracting images in a photo beacground
• Image Wand opens up an Image Playground right in a Note
• Image Playground is also a standalone app
• Image Playground API lets third-party devs add to their apps
• Image Playground in in Keynote, Pages, Freeform
• Apple Intelligence understands your personal context so unique images are created especially for you
• Image Playground: built into apps like Messages – choose a theme and Apple Intelligence creates preview images on-device
• Genmoji – describe an image and Genmoji will create the image
• Apple Intelligence can create original images in Keynote, Messages, ever third-party apps
• New Focus: Reduce Interruptions – only surface important info
• Apple Intelligence can understand your emails so it can surface the most important ones (preserving privacy)
• Apple Intelligence speeds up browsing your inbox with summaries
• Smart reply offers quick responses to email messages
• Summarize to bring out the key points of a longer email or other text in other apps
• Proofread – automatically
• Apple Intelligence offers Rewrite (GenAI) in Mail and other apps
• AAPL: $193.34, -$3.55 (-1.80%) @ 02:24PM EDT
• Siri has awareness of your personal context (photos, concert tix, messages) so it can find things it never could before – while maintaining your privacy
• Siri looks good – we’ll believe it when we use it and it actually works
• Siri can take actions across apps
• Apple Intelligence with provide Siri with onscreen awareness (Sir knows what on your screen, say an address in a text, and you can just ask Siri to add it to a contact card)
• Siri will be able to answer iPhone, iPad, Mac questions – built in Apple support
• Switch between text and voice
• Siri now understands context in a conversation with Siri
• In the demo Siri works (in every demo for the past 13 years, Siri worked – you know, as opposed to reality)
• Siri glowing light wraps around the edge of your screen
• Siri becomes more natural, relevant, and personal to you
• Siri with Apple Intelligence takes a major step forward
• AAPL: $195.14, -1$.75 (-0.89%) @02:16PM EDT
• Some models require the cloud – servers – Apple Intelligence offers Private Cloud Compute – allows for server-based models using Apple Silicon servers and privacy; data is never stored or made accessible to Apple (can be independently examined to prove it’s private)
• Apple Intelligence is aware of you and useful to you, personally, without leaving your device
• Apple Intelligence offers powerful intelligenec and powerful privacy with on-device processing
• Example: a meeting is rescheduled. Apple Intelligence understands how that would affect your daughter’s plary later that day
• Apple Intelligence understands your personal context
• Talk to your device and it will deliver, saving you time
• Sketch, Illustration, and Animatons image styles – built into apps throughout the systems
• Works with images – can create totally original images
• Available automatically across Mail, Pages, Keynote, even third-party apps
• Brand new writing tools system-wide
• Makes your everyday task faster
• Will enable you devices to understand language, your personal context
• Relevant for you, protects your privacy and is deeply integrated into Apple platforms
• Intelligence that understands you
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• Goes beyond artificial intelligence, it’s Apple Intelligence
• AI as to be powerful, intuitive, integrated, personal, and private
• Cook talks artificial intelligence, LLMs, and GenAI
• Developer betas available today for all OSes, Public betas next month; Public release this “fall.”
• Ubisoft, maker of Assassin’s Creed Shadows coming to Mac and iPad in November
• “Frostpunk 2” is coming to Mac next month
• Game Porting Toolkit 2 lets developers bring even more games to Mac
• Gaming: Metal 3 and Apple Silicon brings top games to Mac
• Reader mode gets summary, table of contents
• Safari can now help you discover more about web pages with highlights
• Safari is the world’s fastest browser; built on WebKit
• Keychain upgrade with new Passwords app (comes to iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, even Windows via iCloud)
• Presenter Preview works with FaceTime, Zoom (shows what you’ll be presenting before you share it)
• macOS will automatically tile open windows (if you desire)
• AAPL: $195.08, -$1.81 (-0.92%) @ 01:55PM EDT
• When you click on an iPhone Notification on your Mac, it takes you to your iPhone app (iPhone stays locked; works seamlessly with Standby)
• iPhone Notifications come to Mac – appear next to your Mac’s notifications
• Use Mac keyboard to type into apps on your iPhone
• Continuity feature: iPhone Mirroring: Control your iPhone via your Mac (mirrored in a window on your Mac)
• macSO Sequoia Continuity gets even more magical
• iOS and iPadOS features come to macOS
• macOS Sequoia
• macOS 15
• Paste text into handwritten note and it’ll convert to match handwriting
• Smart Script in Note makes handwriting look better via Machine Learning (keeps your style; easier to read)
• All works in Note, too (all math capabilities from Calculator)
• Seems very useful especially for math education
• Math Notes are able to be saved for future use
• Just start writing out expressions and the Calculator app will solve it for you
• Calculator app comes to iPad – Apple Pencil support offers Math Notes in Calculator app
• You can remotely control a friend’s or family member’s iPad or iPhone to help
• Animations will feel even more responsive (available as APIs)
• Apps designed for iPad get a new floating tab bar
• New ways to personalize your Home Screen
• iPadOS 18
• watchOS 11 uses Machine Learning to find the best photos for your Photo Apple Watch face
• Developers can now show Live Activities in the Smart Stack (example: Uber)
• Check In
• Live Activities come to Apple Watch
• Smart Stack adds new widgets when they’re need – based on Machine Learning
• AAPL: $193.54, -$3.35 (-1.70%) @ 01:41PM
• Cycle Tracking can now show gestational age
• New app for Apple Watch: Vitals app – check in on your daily health status and check health metrics
• Move goal can be changed for each day of the week
• Helps avoid injury
• Training Load measures intensity and duration of workouts (estimates effort)
• watchOS 11
• Redesigned Apple Fitness+ for the big screen
• Screensavers for Apple TV improved, new content, photos, Snoopy
• Support for 21:9 widescreen projectors
• Subtitles improved
• Enhanced Dialog uses machine learning for even better dialog clarity
• Apple TV+ gets InSight – just swipe down on remote (or iPhone as Apple TV remote) and it’ll show actors, music titles, etc.
• tvOS
• Personalized Spatial Audio available to games
• Voice Isolation removes background noise around you to enhance call quality
• AirPods: Easier to interact with Siri/ Just nod head “yes” or “no” to interact with Siri in place where you don’t want to speak
• Audio & Home
• Option for larger icons on the Home Screen
• Carousel features favorites and featured photos and videos
• Pinned Collections are for your most favorite moments
• Collections let you browse by topics, memories, people, recent days, etc.
• Ability to filter
• App unified into a single view
• Photos keeps your library organized
• Photos: Biggest redesign ever to Photos app in iOS 18
• Gaming: Game Mode is coming to iPhone, just like on Mac
• Journal gets updates
• Wallet: Tap to Cash is a quick and private way to share cash without exchanging personal info
• Maps: new topographic maps
• Digest view pulls all emails received from a business into one place
• Mail – on device categorization organization
• Messages via Satellite work with iPhone 14 and later (no Wi-fi or cell service needed)
• All new Text effects
• All new Text formatting
• Messages Tapbacks get redesigned and you can tapback with any emoji or sticker
• You can connect accessories with privacy
• Privacy: Control who can see specific apps (you can lock or hide an app)
• Lock Screen controls can be customized
• Controls API for developers
• New Controls Gallery
• Redesigned Control Center
• App icons still seem to be confined to a grid
• App icons can all be tinted with color
• New Dark Mode look for app icons
• Home Screen can now be customized
• iOS 18
• Apple Vision Pro expanding to international sales
• Tools coming for creators of Apple Immersive Video
• Apple Immersive Video are 180-degree, 8K recordings
• Spatial Video will be able to be created with Canon EOS 7
• New APIs for visionOS 2 developers, including Enterprise APIs
• Mac Virtual Display
• Train support comes to Travel Mode (like in planes, but now also in trains)
• New gestures provide quick access to frequently used features and settings
• SharePlay in the Photos app
• In visionOS 2, Spatial photos can be made from 2D images
• visionOS 2: New ways to connect with you most important memories, new APIs
• App Store for Apple Vision Pro is growing
• Apple touts spatial apps and games on Apple Vision Pro
• visionOS 2
• Cook: “This lineup looks incredible”
• Apple TV+ coming attractions promo reel (Severance and Silo seasons two!)
• Apple TV+ wins Oscars, Emmys, and BAFTAs
• Apple TV+
• Cook promises “profound new intelligence capabilities”
• Tim Cook opens presentation standing atop Apple Park’s roof
• Hair Force One and Phil Schiller in video intro
• Video event begins
• AAPL: $195.71, -$1.18 (-0.60%) @ 12:58PM EDT
• AAPL: $195.58, -$1.31 (-0.67%) @ 12:06PM EDT