When will Apple's new OS updates be available to everyone & what are the top 10 upgrades?
Apple on Monday announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that its latest operating system updates will be released as developer betas starting today, with public beta versions arriving next month. The full rollout for all users is scheduled for this fall.
Apple, during its event said it will open up the underlying technology it uses for Apple Intelligence and announced an overhaul of its operating systems.
Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is opening up the foundational AI model that it uses for some of its own features to third-party developers.
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"This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar," Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, said of the delays of some features such as improvements to the Siri virtual assistant.
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In an early demonstration of how partners could improve Apple apps, the company added image generation from OpenAI's ChatGPT to its Image Playground app, saying that user data would not be shared with OpenAI without a user's permission.
Apple is facing an unprecedented set of technical and regulatory challenges as some of its key executives kicked off the company's annual software developer conference on Monday.
Shares of Apple, which were flat before the conference, slipped 1.5% after executives took the stage in Cupertino, California.
Federighi also said Apple plans a design overhaul of all of its operating systems.
Apple's redesign of its operating systems centered on a design it calls "liquid glass" where icons and menus are partially transparent, a step Apple executives said was possible because of the more powerful custom chips in Apple devices versus a decade ago.
Federighi said the new design will span operating systems for iPhones, Macs and other Apple products. He also said Apple's operating systems will be given year names instead of sequential numbers for each version. That will unify naming conventions that have become confusing because Apple's core operating systems for phones, watches and other devices kicked off at different times, resulting in a smattering of differently numbered operating systems for different products.
In other new features, Apple introduced "Call Screening" where iPhones will automatically answer calls from an unknown number and ask the caller the purpose of their call. Once the caller states their purpose, the iPhone will show a transcription of the reason for the call, and ring for the owner.
Apple also said it will add live translation to phone calls, as well as allow developers to integrate its live translation technology into their apps. Apple said the caller on the other end of the phone call will not need to have an iPhone for the live translation feature to work.
Apple's Visual Intelligence app - which can help users find a pair of shoes similar to ones at which they have pointed an iPhone camera - will be extended to analyzing items on the iPhone's screen and linked together with apps. Apple gave an example of seeing a jacket online and using the feature to find a similar one for sale on an app already installed in the user's iPhone.
Here are the top 10 highlights
Apple opening up access for any app to tap directly into LLM model at core of Apple Intelligence with new Foundation Model Framework
Apple unveils 'Liquid Glass' technology.
Unifying version numbers across all our platforms; releases for the fall will be version 26.
Apple adds ChatGPT image generation to Image Playground feature.
Over 20 brands already offering car keys in Wallet and 13 more coming soon, including Acura and Tata.
Extending visual intelligence to your iPhone screen.
Introduces macOS Tahoe which includes many features from iOS.
Enhancing the calling experience by bringing the Phone app to Mac.
Sony is bringing support for PlayStation VR2 Sense controller to vision OS 26.
Will add generative AI to its Xcode coding tools
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