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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…
At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple announced a new feature in iOS 18 that will allow users to lock or hide apps. Users will be able to lock the app when they hand over their phone to show them photos or let them play a game. When the app is locked, anyone who tries to tap on your phone will have to authenticate using Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode. While the App Lock feature is enabled, information within the app won't appear in searches, notifications, or anywhere else. Users can also hide apps that they don't want others…
Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote was packed with content, with many important new features announced for iOS 18. One of the more interesting additions was “Tap to Cash,” which, as the name suggests, lets you make payments by tapping two iPhones together. As the name suggests, this feature is essentially a spinoff of Apple Pay's long-standing Tap to Pay feature. Similarly, this new feature is likely to use the device's NFC capabilities. Apple has said that this feature will allow you to send money without sharing any personal information, which is a nice privacy boost. This isn't the first time Apple…
Apple announced at its WWDC 2024 event on Monday that several new features coming to iOS 18 will make it easier to customize your iPhone's interface. The company will now support long-requested features like the ability to place app icons and widgets anywhere on your home screen, as well as support for dark mode icons with different color schemes. Previously, iOS app icons were fixed to a grid, which forced workarounds like white space and transparent iPhone widgets to let users organize their screens however they wanted. But now that you can move icons around the screen and place them…