Final yr, Apple’s WWDC keynote highlighted the corporate’s bold strides in AI. This year, the corporate toned down its emphasis on Apple Intelligence and focused on updates to its working techniques, companies, and software program, introducing a brand new aesthetic it calls “Liquid Glass” together with a brand new naming conference. 

Nonetheless, Apple nonetheless tried to appease the group with just a few AI-related bulletins, resembling a picture evaluation device, a exercise coach, a dwell translation characteristic, and extra.

Visible Intelligence

Visible Intelligence is Apple’s AI-powered picture evaluation expertise that permits you to collect details about your environment. For instance, it might determine a plant in a backyard, let you know a few restaurant, or acknowledge a jacket somebody is carrying.

Now, the characteristic will be capable of work together with the data in your iPhone’s display screen. As an example, for those who come throughout a publish on a social media app, Visible Intelligence can conduct a picture search associated to what you see whereas searching. The device performs the search utilizing Google Search, ChatGPT, and related apps.

To entry Visible Intelligence, open the Management Middle or customise the Motion button (the identical button usually used to take a screenshot). The characteristic turns into out there with iOS 26 when it launches later this yr. Read more.

ChatGPT involves Picture Playground

Apple built-in ChatGPT into Image Playground, its AI-powered picture technology device. With ChatGPT, the app can now generate photos in new kinds, resembling “anime,” “oil portray,” and “watercolor.” There may also be an choice to ship a immediate to ChatGPT to let it create extra photos. Read more.

Exercise Buddy

Apple’s newest AI-driven exercise coach is strictly what it appears like — it makes use of a text-to-speech mannequin to ship encouragement whilst you train, mimicking a private coach’s voice. If you start a run, the AI inside the Exercise app supplies you with a motivational speak, highlighting key moments resembling while you ran your quickest mile and your common coronary heart price. After you’ve accomplished the exercise, the AI summarizes your common tempo, coronary heart price, and whether or not you achieved any milestones. Read more.

Reside Translation

Apple Intelligence is powering a brand new dwell translation characteristic for Messages, FaceTime, and telephone calls. This expertise routinely interprets textual content or spoken phrases into the person’s most well-liked language in actual time. Throughout FaceTime calls, customers will see dwell captions, whereas for telephone calls, Apple will translate the dialog aloud. Read more.

AI helps with unknown callers

Apple has launched two new AI-powered options for telephone calls. The primary is known as call screening, which routinely solutions calls from unknown numbers within the background. This enables customers to listen to the caller’s identify and the rationale for the decision earlier than deciding whether or not to reply. 

The second characteristic, maintain help, routinely detects maintain music when ready for a name heart agent. Customers can select to remain linked whereas on maintain, permitting them to make use of their iPhone for different duties. Notifications will alert them when a dwell agent turns into out there. Read more.

Ballot strategies in Messages

Apple additionally launched a brand new characteristic that permits customers to create polls inside the Messages app. This characteristic makes use of Apple Intelligence to counsel polls primarily based on the context of your conversations. As an example, if folks in a bunch chat are having bother deciding the place to eat, Apple Intelligence will advocate beginning a ballot to assist land on a choice. Read more.

AI-powered shortcuts

The Shortcuts app is changing into extra helpful with Apple Intelligence. The corporate defined that when constructing a shortcut, customers will be capable of choose an AI mannequin to allow options like AI summarization. Read more.

Contextually conscious Highlight

A minor replace is being launched to Highlight, the on-device search characteristic for Mac. It should now incorporate Apple Intelligence to enhance its contextual consciousness, offering strategies for actions that customers usually carry out, and tailor-made to their present duties. Read more.

Basis Fashions for builders

Apple is now permitting builders to entry its AI fashions even when offline. The corporate launched the Basis Fashions framework, which permits builders to construct extra AI capabilities into their third-party apps that make the most of Apple’s present techniques. That is doubtless meant to encourage extra builders to create new AI options as Apple competes with different AI firms. Read more.

Apple’s AI-powered Siri setback

Probably the most disappointing information to emerge from the occasion was that the much-anticipated developments for Siri aren’t prepared but. Attendees had been anticipating a glimpse of the promised AI-powered options that had been anticipated to debut. Nonetheless, Craig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of Software program Engineering, mentioned they gained’t have extra to share till subsequent yr. This delay could elevate questions on Apple’s technique for the voice assistant in an more and more aggressive market. Read more.