We’re just some days away from Apple’s opening WWDC 2024 keynote and count on a giant deal with software program on the occasion. All the pieces kicks off 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST on June 10 (3am AEST, June 11), and, fortunately, the particular occasion will probably be live-streamed so you’ll be able to watch alongside.
Whereas TechRadar will probably be on the bottom, I polled a few of my colleagues forward of the developer’s convention to get a way of what we want to see Apple speak about and even unveil. These are among the most repeated objects wished for and aren’t primarily based on one particular platform or product.
Learn on for 5 issues we’re hoping Apple will announce at WWDC, from a wiser Siri to a extra superior iPadOS with AI-infused photograph enhancing and helpful iPhone options, that we hope Apple’s Tim Cook dinner will showcase on-stage.
5. A better keyboard for the iPhone
With the anticipated treasure trove of AI options, which embrace every thing from summarizing notes to letting Siri management apps, I hope we see some enhancements for the keyboard on the iPhone and – why not – additionally the iPad.
We have already got recommended phrases and phrases on the high which might be context-aware. Nonetheless, infusing AI and understanding the message, what’s been stated, and even the steps to when the keyboard appeared may make it much more sensible. Contemplating good, recommended replies are rumored for Messages and Mail, baking this further performance into the keyboard would appear to go hand-in-hand.
Constructing in some formal system grammar, spelling, and punctuation checks would additionally assist make messages a bit cleaner. It may additionally save from self-editing or retyping one thing altogether.
Between third-party apps like Snapseed or Pixelmator for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac and competing telephones like Google’s Pixel with Magic Eraser and the Galaxy AI suite on Samsung telephones, it’s about time to step up the enhancing sport inside Images.
Whether or not on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac, I’d love the power to intelligently erase an individual or an object from the background of photos. A kind-of tremendous button that goes past simply messing with white stability or distinction but in addition integrates good crops and different clever photograph instruments may make your complete course of much more succinct and be a manner for Apple to indicate off its generative AI chops.
3. Smarter battery administration on the iPhone
Whenever you nonetheless have rather a lot to do, and your iPhone battery is operating decrease, likelihood is you have searched by settings for Low Energy Mode. However equally to how Focus Modes – mainly customized variations of Do Not Disturb relying on what you’re doing – robotically activate, Apple ought to add some intelligence to battery administration.
So for those who’re removed from house and the share hits 50% or decrease, why not robotically interact Low Energy Mode – or a minimum of ship a notification to show it on – to assist your iPhone make it by the remainder of the day?
2. A extra superior iPadOS
We’ve heard many studies and rumors about iOS 18—summaries of notes, mail messages, and webpages alongside a Siri that may management apps and a customized emoji creator. Chances are high many of those will arrive on the iPad courtesy of iPadOS 18, however contemplating we’re recent off the discharge of the iPad Professional with the M4 chip and new iPad Air, Professional Customers of Apple’s tablets are nonetheless anticipating extra options—myself included.
One concept is an additional growth of Stage Supervisor, a complicated multitasking expertise that permits you to place and use a number of windowed purposes on the identical display screen. It’s additionally accessible on macOS, however when docked within the Magic Keyboard on iPad, it makes extra of a laptop-like expertise. It could be neat if utilizing the iPad within the Magic Keyboard unlocked a extra desktop-like mode with extra freedom of putting open apps and even icons or widgets on the house display screen. Nonetheless, the important thing with that is nonetheless making it contact first and letting a person broaden controls with a trackpad, keyboard, or Apple Pencil.
1. A better, extra intuitive Siri
Like everybody else, I need Siri to do extra and be extra useful on all of the units I can entry the digital assistant. The concept of a Siri that may management particular features of an app and even stack them collectively is superior and might be genuinely helpful. I wouldn’t have to dig round a number of apps to repeat a photograph, place it in information, after which share it with a colleague … it may simply be a voice request. This could even be an opportunity for Apple to flex its in-house large-language-model tech as it will let Siri perceive what’s on the display screen, what was, and what might be seen subsequent; it’s all about being context conscious.
The reply appears to be giving Siri the equal of a brand new mind or, quite, integrating what makes AI chatbots so attention-grabbing, and that’s an entire new large-language mannequin to overtake Apple’s digital assistant. It might be a built-in home, however rumors additionally level to Apple partnering with OpenAI, which may inject a little bit of ChatGPT into Siri, nevertheless it’s all speculative now. It additionally raises the query of on-device processing versus sending off the request into the cloud – the latter could be a privateness problem however may additionally lengthen the time wanted to offer a solution.
In the long run, I hope Siri is extra useful on the fly with requests or queries but in addition smarter within the house, on the Apple TV, on the wrist with an Apple Watch, and even on the Mac.
