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Monday was the first day of Apple’s highly anticipated developer event, known as Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024, which left several expected announcements from the company led by Tim Cookas a look at the integration of Artificial Intelligence in its devices, now known as Apple Intelligence, the new iOS 18 operating system, its alliance to improve Siri in conjunction with ChatGPT, among others.
For a start, Apple Intelligence is a new system to optimize the use of iPhone and Mac using generative artificial intelligence (AI). At the center of this development, the firm based in Cupertino, California, placed its virtual assistant Siri, which had a radical update with which Apple seeks to recover its delay in relation to the products launched by OpenAI, manufacturer of the ChatGPT conversational bot. .
What is Apple Intelligence?
To achieve its goal, the company partnered with OpenAI. “We are excited to partner with Apple to integrate ChatGPT into their devices later this year. I think you will like it,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on social media.
Apple Intelligence will appear in the new version of the iOS 18 operating system, also presented this Monday at the beginning of the annual WWDC conference, in Silicon Valley.
“We think that Apple Intelligence will be indispensable in products that already play an essential role in our lives“, said the CEO of the apple firm, Tim Cook, in the presentation broadcast online.
This new Apple system aims to improve and simplify the use of the company’s devices and their applications.
Among other things, it will allow you to generate email summaries or create an emoji from a description in common language. The user must make their requests to Siri in writing or orally.
Tycoon Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, criticized the agreement and noted that the threat to data security will lead him to ban the use of the iPhone in his companies.
“Apple has no idea what will really happen once it gives your data to OpenAI. “They are betraying you,” Musk said on the social network X, which he owns.
Musk is building his own rival to OpenAI, xAIand sued that company that he helped found in 2015.
What’s new in iOS 18
iOS 18, which will debut new icon customization capabilities and widgetsas well as privacy features to block and hide services installed on the device.
iOS 18 launches a new look for applicationswhich will stand out from the background when the dark mode is implemented and whose icons can also be colored according to the user’s tastes, in order to homogenize them with the background image or highlight them from it.
Apple has also introduced a swipe for navigation in the App Control Center, to prevent users from swiping across the iPhone screen at different times when they are using it and to streamline the experience. Likewise, you can add controls for third-party ‘apps’ compatible with this manager to have everything in the same place.
The firm has also commented that the new version of the OS puts greater control in the hands of users, with tools such as Locked Apps -for whose access a password or FaceID is requested- and Hidden Appsthan hide the desired applications in an external folder.
The Messages app is also updated to incorporate new ways to express yourself and stay connected, with more reactions. Now you can program messages to later send them, underline and cross out text, introduce effects on the text, so that the letters move, vibrate, sway or disappear. In addition, Apple has commented that this service offers the possibility of sending messages when you do not have good coverage.
While Mail Inbox now introduces new ways to sort messages with built-in categorization that organizes and classifies messages by importance or urgency, Wallet will soon have the option tap to cashto pay other iPhone users.
One of the sections that has the greatest new features in iOS 18 is the Photos applicationwhich has been redesigned to improve the organization of images, in order to spend “less time searching and more time enjoying,” as the firm explained at the event.
New buttons have been introduced to filter by ‘All’, ‘Months’ and ‘Years’, as well as a window with Collections, such as ‘Recently’, ‘Travel’, ‘People and Pets’. Within each section, which presents the images as a Collage, you can make swipe to move between the days in which photos were taken.
On the other hand, the brand has commented that with the new version of the OS, the 2nd generation AirPods Pro will have better interaction with Siri and will be able to understand certain user gestures. In this way, if there is a phone call that cannot be answered at a specific time, it will detect if the user moves their head from one side to the other to hang up. If, on the other hand, you do it from top to bottom, it will enable the call.
Another new feature aimed at improving the calling experience is Voice Isolationwhich manages to offer a clearer and clearer voice in situations with a lot of noise or wind that can interrupt communication.
The long-awaited calculator for iPad
Craig Federighi has commented that everything that has been presented for iOS will also be available in the new version of the operating system for tablets, iPadOS, which incorporates the redesign of the Photos application and the introduction of the long-awaited Calculator function.
This service, which has the same look as the iPhone calculator, has been optimized for large screens with new options, such as the results history display function, which is located on the left of the interface. In addition, it can be used with Apple Pencil and does the calculations automatically thanks to the new Math Notes option, which supports calculations with variables and graphs.
All calculations and annotations can be moved to Notes, an application that also comes with new features, since it now selects the writing to place it straight if it deviates at a specific point and improves its appearance and legibility simultaneously. Likewise, you can paste text into a note and generate the same text in the user’s style.
iPhone on computer with macOS Sequoia
The functionalities that come to the new operating system for Mac computers, called macOS Sequoia, are also part of the features released by the OS for the brand’s smartphones.
One of the standout features is iPhone Mirroring, which can bring the iPhone experience to your computer without having to use the iPhone, that is, just by clicking on the computer’s dock. So much so that you can interact with each of its applications, even offline.
Apple has commented that the keyboard, trackpad and mouse on the Mac allows users to interact with the iPhone and even listen to audios, and you can drag and drop content between the iPhone and the Mac with the iPhone still locked. You can also check iPhone notifications on your Mac, which appear alongside alerts from the computer itself.
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This version of the operating system, which proposes an organization of the windows if there are several open, will also have the new Passwords application, which allows you to organize credentials and security codes in one place and which can also be used on iPad, iPhone, Vision Pro and Windows with iCloud app.
For its part, Safari: enter machine learning to extract the most prominent information from web pages with the tool Highlights, which makes it easier to find information on the website, such as directions, summaries or urls. Likewise, if the browser detects that there is a video on a web page, it separates it from the text and places it in the foreground and displays the system’s multimedia playback controls.
The last section of MacOS Sequoia has focused on the section gaming to remember that, as was known a few days ago, Assassin’s Creed: Mirage It will also arrive on Mac on November 15, taking advantage of all the power of Apple Silicon.
All betas of these operating systems are now available for those who wish to try them, but the official versions will reach users globally in the fall, although no date has been specified. In addition, The firm has commented that both iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will release Apple Intelligencethe personal intelligence system that combines the power of generative models with personal context to offer a useful experience for each user.
