Apple’s big rivals such as Google and Microsoft surprised last month with their latest advances in artificial intelligence. Now all eyes are on the Cupertino company, which is celebrating this Monday at 7:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time) one of its most anticipated events of the year: the keynote of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). If last year all the attention was monopolized by the Apple Vision Pro – its first mixed reality glasses –, this time it is expected that the apple company will take advantage with a profound renovation of Siri and its advances in AI to speed up tasks. everyday.
Like every year, this event will serve to present the new functions of the operating systems of Apple phones, computers, tablets and other devices. Over the course of a two-hour presentation, the company’s executives will explain the new features of iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11 and tvOS 18; perhaps also visionOS 2, for the glasses that Apple only sells in the US and could also announce the date on which it will begin to market them in other countries.
Multiple analysts have anticipated that the most important renewal of Siri will be a common novelty for all those operating system updates, which Apple will definitively launch at the end of the summer. The voice assistant has not experienced major improvements since its launch in 2011. The goal of the Cupertino company is not only for Siri to better understand users and be able to maintain more fluid conversations with them. It also hopes that the assistant will be able to perform more complex tasks, such as deleting emails, editing photos, summarizing news or creating a GIF with a set of images and then sending it to a contact.
It is not the only way in which Apple intends to speed up tasks. It could also rely on AI to offer automatic summaries of messages and web pages, as well as real-time transcriptions in the Notes and Voice Memos apps, according to major leaks. Additionally, it could bring generative AI to emojis, so users could create them on the fly. “That means you’ll suddenly have a completely new emoji for any occasion, beyond the catalog of options that Apple currently offers on the iPhone and other devices,” says Mark Gurman, an analyst at Bloomberg.
A possible Apple partnership with OpenAI is also rumored. Although this alliance could give life to a ChatGPT-type chatbot on devices like the iPhone or iPad, it also raises some unknowns. Experts like John Gruber of Daring Fireballpoint out that this movement raises doubts about how this chatbot will work without competing with Siri.
The most anticipated new features of the iPhone
WWDC is a software-focused event that will bring new features to iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro or Apple TV. With iOS 18, the new iPhone operating system, it is expected that users will finally be able to place applications wherever they want on the home screen. Rumors indicate that they could organize the apps with spaces between them and even change the color of their icons.
It is also possible that Apple refers to a new feature that will arrive with iOS 18 to avoid car sickness when using the iPhone. “Research shows that motion sickness is commonly due to a sensory conflict between what a person sees and what they feel, which may prevent some users from comfortably using their iPhone or iPad while in a moving vehicle,” the study states. Cupertino company. This new feature incorporates animated dots on the edges of the screen that represent changes in the vehicle’s motion to “help reduce sensory conflict.”
Among other main developments expected from WWDC, a new app also stands out to create and manage passwords, a calculator app for the iPad, and a headphone mode for AirPods. In addition, Apple also plans to add a new hearing test function linked to these headphones, according to the portal MacRumors.
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