Much anticipated! What big moves will Apple make at WWDC next week?

The annual Apple developer conference WWDC is about to kick off next Monday. What surprises will Apple bring to users and investors at this highly anticipated event?

The most eye-catching aspect is Apple's layout in the field of AI, with about half of the keynote at this WWDC expected to be related to AI.

After the fervor of artificial intelligence in the past two years, the world's most valuable tech giant is finally making a move.

AI Fully Integrated into Apple Applications

It is widely believed that Apple's strategy is to integrate this technology into as many applications as possible. Apple will also collaborate with OpenAI to bring users an intelligent chat experience comparable to ChatGPT.

According to sources cited by the media, Apple will release a new AI system called "Apple Intelligence" at the event, and integrate it into the operating systems of iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The AI features will appear in the form of a beta version, and users can choose whether to enable them.

This means that Apple devices will become smarter, able to provide users with more personalized and efficient services through AI technology. This mainly includes:

Summarization and Abstracting Functionality

Safari browser will be able to automatically summarize web page content, helping users quickly grasp the key points; meeting notes, messages, and emails will also have AI summarization features added.

Apple will also introduce a feature called "Missed Notification Completion" in the new operating system, where the system will generate an intelligent notification summary, extracting important information that users missed and presenting it in the most concise form.

Reply Functionality

The iPhone will be able to create complete email and text message replies for users;

The iPhone's on-device large language model can interact with the Calendar app, integrating to-do items when composing text message replies.

Siri Enters the AI Era

As Apple's iconic virtual assistant, Siri will have more powerful semantic understanding and task execution capabilities.

Siri can manipulate Apple's own apps based on natural voice commands, such as deleting emails, editing photos, summarizing news articles, and more.

In the future, Apple will extend this feature to third-party applications and be able to handle more complex requests, executing multiple commands at once. However, these features may not be rolled out until next year.

AI-assisted Development

For developers, the most anticipated feature is Xcode+AI. By introducing functionality similar to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, Xcode will use the power of AI to help developers auto-generate code, significantly improving development efficiency Currently, Xcode+AI is already being used internally at Apple, but it may not be available to the public until 2024.

AI-assisted photo editing

Apple plans to integrate AI technology into its "Photos" app to provide users with more powerful and intelligent image editing capabilities.

With AI, users can easily adjust parameters, cut out images, and perform retouching operations.

Automatic email categorization, AI emoji stickers, automatic transcription

The Mail app will also undergo a major upgrade, adding features similar to Gmail that automatically categorize received emails.

To enhance user interaction, Apple is expected to add AI-generated emoji sticker functionality to devices, potentially becoming a favorite among meme enthusiasts.

Voice Memos will add automatic transcription of recordings, although this feature has long been available on Google Pixel devices and many third-party voice recording apps.

In addition to the iPhone, AI features are likely to be integrated into the operating systems of smartwatches, iPad tablets, and the Vision Pro mixed reality headset, allowing functions such as using the virtual assistant Siri on an Apple Watch to play music on other devices.

To experience AI features, the standard version of the iPhone 15 may not be sufficient

It is worth noting that these cutting-edge AI features have certain requirements for device performance.

Reportedly, only the iPhone 15 Pro series equipped with the A17 bionic chip, as well as iPads and Macs with M1 chips or higher, can perfectly run "Apple Intelligence".

This means that the standard version of the iPhone 15 may be excluded.

For some complex AI tasks, cloud processing may be required to achieve them. Apple promises that the processing of user data will adhere to the strictest security and privacy protection standards.

Expectations for system and hardware?

In addition to AI, Apple is expected to unveil significant updates to a series of operating systems at WWDC.

The most significant update, codenamed Crystal, iOS 18 is expected to bring the biggest home screen redesign in iPhone history, allowing users to freely adjust the position and color of app icons, and supporting a multi-page Control Center. The Control Center will also add a music widget and a widget to control smart home devices On the hardware front, as Apple just released the new MR headset Vision Pro at last year's WWDC, there may not be any major new products from Apple this year.

However, there is reason to believe that new software features paving the way for upcoming products such as Apple Watch, AirPods, etc., will quietly debut at this conference