Your Comprehensive Guide to All the Top Highlights From Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2024

Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, revealing dozens of new features and changes coming to the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and other Apple devices. Here’s everything you might have missed.

We got our first real look at the upcoming iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, iPadOS 18, visionOS 2, tvOS 18, and watchOS 11 updates this week. The big reveal was Apple Intelligence, the company’s long-awaited answer to the generative AI rush. Even though it looks more useful and more private than many other recent attempts at AI tools (looking at you, Recall ), it won’t even enter testing until later this year, so there are still some open questions.

The Big News

Here’s How AI Will Transform the iPhone, iPad, and Mac This Fall

Apple Intelligence is coming later this year, powering a revamped Siri and new writing and design tools.

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Apple’s macOS Sequoia Delivers Three of My Most-Wanted Features

Window management features, iPhone Mirroring, a Passwords app, and more are coming to a Mac near you.

iOS 18 Update Has Home Screen Upgrades, New Mail Features, and More

This might be the biggest update for iPhones in years.

The iPad Now Has a Calculator App, Thanks to iPadOS 18

No amount of AI innovation can top this.

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Finally, Apple Watch Will Let You Pause Activity Rings

Take a rest day without losing your streak, plus everything else in watchOS 11.

Your Apple ID Is Going Away (But Not Really)

Goodbye Apple ID, hello Apple Account.

Apple Bakes More Predatory Lending Options Into the iPhone

As if the Apple credit card and Pay Later service weren’t enough.

Even More News

The Safari 18 update coming to macOS Sequoia, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and visionOS 2 has a redesigned Reader mode, a one-click button to move web videos to a larger view, and (on supported devices) page summarization. Apple also published a full technical changelog for the update, if you’re curious about the underlying engine changes.

Apple also revealed how it trained its new artificial intelligence tools: by scraping the open web without asking for permission first, just like most other companies developing AI tools. Not everyone is happy about that .

Finally, Apple revealed the visionOS 2 update , the tvOS 18 update for Apple TV, support for more hiking routes in Apple Maps , and new gestures for AirPods .

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