Apple enters the AI era on its own terms

Despite the mystique that has wrapped itself around Apple since Steve Jobs brought it back from the brink, this isn’t a company that likes to be first to lucrative technologies like the tech world’s latest darling, generative AI. The mouse, the graphical user interface, the powerful laptop, the touchscreen tablet, the touchscreen phone, the augmented […]
Apple Intelligence only supports these devices: Is yours on the list?

Apple made a long-awaited AI announcement at WWDC Monday, introducing Apple Intelligence. The tech giant’s endeavor into generative AI has a huge focus on privacy, running on “private cloud compute” so that user data isn’t stored or made public to Apple. Apple Intelligence doesn’t have an official release date, but will come in beta with […]
iOS 18 is coming, but which iPhones will support it?

At the June 10, 2024 Apple WWDC presentation, the brand revealed its latest software including iOS 18, as we speculated. While hardware updates only affect users gearing up for the new devices, most Apple users will see the benefits of the latest integrations and updates. But which iPhones are getting the iOS 18 update? iOS […]
10+ Macs likely to support MacOS Sequoia β will yours?

Apple’s WWDC 2024 event on June 10 finally focused on the operating system glow-ups that’ll sit behind the screens of most Macs released in the past few years. MacOS 15, officially dubbed MacOS Sequoia, doesn’t have an official release date yet, but typical timelines from the developer conference in years past point to beta availability […]
Watch out, Grammarly! Apple announces 3 new AI-powered writing tools

At its annual WWDC keynote today, Apple introduced its version of AI, “Apple Intelligence.” It’ll power everything from emoji creation to new writing tools that can help you perfect your prose. According to Apple, these new tools will be available system-wide “nearly everywhere you write,” including Mail, Notes, and third-party apps. Here’s how Apple Intelligence […]
Apple unveils its own Google Magic Eraser tool β Clean Up βat WWDC 2024

Just last month, Google finally rolled out its suite of AI photo editing tools in Google Photos to iPhone users. At WWDC 2024, Apple announced that a few of those AI photo features – including the popular Magic Eraser tool – are now going to be directly built into iOS 18. Clean Up tool Apple’s […]
5 ‘Apple Intelligence’ features coming to new AI-powered iOS 18

Your iPhone might be getting a bunch of AI features soon. Let’s talk about them. At its WWDC 2024 keynote, Apple did what we expected and spent a ton of time talking about “Apple Intelligence,” the new batch of AI features coming to its devices. It was a blazing-fast presentation that focused more on high-level […]
WWDC 2024: Genmoji lets you create your own emojis with ‘Apple Intelligence’

Apple revealed its all-new Genmoji feature at WWDC 2024, allowing users to create emojis using Apple Intelligence (AI). That’s right; you can now generate a unique emoji by simply describing the emoji you want via Apple AI — and even use images of friends. Apple already has thousands of emojis available and continuously brings new […]
How to install iOS 18 beta for developers

The developer beta of iOS 18 was announced at WWDC 2024, and it is available for any iPhone user to download. As reported last year, developer betas previously required membership to Apple’s Developer Program at a cost of $99/year, but beginning with iOS 17, the developer beta became open to the public for free. SEE […]
Apple announces AI-powered iPhone call recordings at WWDC 2024

If you sneezed during Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote, you might have missed what was arguably the biggest announcement of the day: AI-enhanced call recordings on iPhone, right there on your default Phone app. Apple software engineering lead Craig Federighi squeezed the announcement of call recordings into a section on the numerous enhancements rolling out with […]