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Apple is bringing ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot experience that leverages OpenAI's GPT-4 and other generative AI models, to Siri and other Apple apps. Apple announced the news at its annual WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino this year. Apple says Siri can tap ChatGPT to ask for “expertise” that could come in handy: For example, if you need menu ideas to cook a friend a meal using ingredients from your garden, you can ask Siri, and if you give permission, the prompt will automatically be sent to ChatGPT. When asking ChatGPT a question via Siri, you can include photos and…

An Apple Intelligence-powered feature coming in iOS 18 will allow iPhone users to create AI-like images of people they're messaging with, sort of like an AI-upgraded Bitmoji. According to Apple, the new product will help “make everyday conversations more enjoyable.” The company announced the new technology at WWDC 2024. Apple Intelligence understands who you're talking to in a Messaging conversation, so if you want to personalize your chats with custom AI images, you can create them on the fly. Image credit: Apple For example, Apple showed off the creation of an AI Bitmoji that celebrated a friend's birthday with images…

Apple's WWDC 2024 in Cupertino saw the company get a refresh of Siri, part of a comprehensive generative AI push the company is calling Apple Intelligence this year. Siri is now more natural, more relevant and more personal, with a new look and refreshed icon. The assistant now pops up with glowing lights around the edge of your device's screen. Thanks to Apple Intelligence, Siri can handle conversational stumbling blocks, better understand context, and now you can type to Siri to answer questions about using your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Soon, Siri will have even better screen recognition capabilities, so…

At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple unveiled its long-awaited ecosystem-wide generative AI initiative, Apple Intelligence. As previous rumors had suggested, the new feature is called Apple Intelligence (AI, get it?). The company promised that the feature will deliver a highly personalized experience with safety at its core. “Most importantly, it needs to understand you and be rooted in your personal context: your daily life, your relationships and your communications,” CEO Tim Cook noted. “And of course, it needs to be built from the ground up with privacy in mind. All of this goes beyond artificial intelligence. It's personal intelligence, and…

You can already use your iCloud account to store and sync passwords across devices, but figuring out how to do it wasn't easy: Passwords were available through the Settings app on your Mac or iPhone. At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple announced its Passwords app, which will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS and visionOS, namely iOS 18, macOS Sequoia and visionOS 2. In addition to everything you currently have in the Passwords menu, a new column has been added on the left to make it easier to navigate your password collection: for example, you can…

At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple announced that iPadOS 18 will include a new “Smart Scripts” feature that will clean up your handwriting when you write in notes with Apple Pencil. According to Apple, Smart Script makes your handwritten notes smoother and straighter. The feature uses on-device machine learning to recreate your handwriting from your notes, improving the look of your writing as you write. Your own handwriting will be smoother and easier to read. This feature helps you maintain the flow of your writing by correcting mistakes immediately. When you paste text into a note, it appears in your…

One of the sure ways you know you're at a developer conference is when the audience gets really excited when they announce their new calculator app, the addition of which has received some of the biggest applause so far at WWDC 2024. Indeed, the company has just about an hour left to unveil all of its intelligence capabilities. The classic iOS tip calculator finally comes to the big screen. It takes advantage of the expanded screen real estate to provide new features that weren't available on the iPhone. The biggest new feature is the addition of Math Notes, which does…

Developers who want to show off apps, or anyone whose iPhone is currently out of reach, will appreciate a new Continuity feature arriving on the new version of macOS Sequoia. The new OS, announced at WWDC 2024, will allow users to mirror their iPhone screen directly on their Mac and even control it, like swiping through pages on the Home Screen and launching apps via the Mac's trackpad. Apple didn't detail many use cases for the feature, but it seems it would make it easier to demo apps over video calls or in person, as users could move between a…

At Apple's WWDC 2024 in Cupertino, macOS received some notable upgrades, with the latest version being macOS Sequoia. One of the biggest features is iPhone mirroring. Now, with Continuity in macOS, you can mirror your iPhone screen and control it directly from your Mac laptop or desktop. Notifications on your Mac will trigger iPhone mirror mode, and your iPhone audio will also be heard through your Mac, while the paired iPhone remains locked. Other improvements in macOS Sequoia include automatic window tiling and a presenter preview mode for video conferencing with built-in background replacement. Upgrades to Keychain, including a new…

Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that one of its most popular apps, the Photos app, will be overhauled to coincide with the release of iOS 18. The new app introduces new navigation, new organization features, and more ways to find your favorite photos, including friends, family, pets, and travel. The company says the new design will reduce the time you spend searching for photos because everything you need is right at your fingertips. One big change is that the app is now consolidated into a single view, with a photo grid at the top and a thematically organized library at…