I'm excited about all the software updates that are announced by Apple. Some of them are long overdue (like the iPad calculator app and customization of app layout on iPhone).
The most exciting announcement of this year's WWDC is the advent of "Apple Intelligence" or AI for short :). It's gonna leverage the powerful SoCs of Mac, iPad and iPhones for on-device AI capabilities. Here are some of the things it's capable of:
- Context-driven notifications: Apple Intelligence can recognize which notifications are important to your personal context.
- Writing improvements: Apple Intelligence will introduce a systemwide tool for proofreading and style improvements (with almost all the features of Grammarly) which works across third-party and native apps.
- Image generation: Apple Intelligence can create generative photos with a prompt that you give or based on your photo library. There are three styles: Sketch, Illustration and Animation. You can also generate CUSTOM EMOJIS!! And it works similarly to their Image generation tool. Finally, you can highlight a rough sketch (with an apple pencil) on your notes app and turn that into an Image easily.
- Cross-application tasking: Apple Intelligence can delve into your apps and execute tasks on your behalf. One of the examples Federighi gave was asking Apple Intelligence to pull up files sent by a contact during a certain period.
- Focus on personal context: Apple Intelligence can draw upon the full suite of your activity but also on what is on your screen. For example, you can ask it whether a shifted meeting will cause you to be late to a personal commitment, Federighi said.
Siri: It's wayyyyyyyyyyy better.
Private Cloud Compute: Apple Intelligence will leverage cloud-based models on special servers using Apple Silicon to ensure that user data is private and secure. If a request needs to go to a cloud server, Apple says it will only send a limited selection of data in a “cryptographically” secure way.
Are you excited by the announcements shared at WWDC 24?
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