Apple might not have mentioned AI for the first 28 minutes of its WWDC software conference on Monday, but don’t get it twisted. Apple Intelligence was the main event, with the company’s AI slated to get a major boost this year.
This year’s keynote address aimed to fulfill many of the promises the company has made about its AI since it was first introduced two years ago. The biggest news is about the emergence of the smarter, AI-enabled Siri. But there was a lot of other AI news, too, which we’ve rounded up below.
All of these updates will be available with the next generation of Apple software, most prominently in iOS 27. The iPhone software is expected to be widely released this fall, after the beta versions go out this summer. You’ll need an iPhone with the necessary computing juice that can run Apple’s AI, so iPhone 16 models or newer will be compatible, along with a couple of iPhone 15 Pro models.
Visual Intelligence helps AI (and you) better understand what’s going on in your screenshots and photos.
Spatial reframing, photo editing and AI slop
Spatial reframing may sound like a chewy piece of jargon, but it’s a new way to literally reframe your photos, thanks to visualization tech drawn from the Vision Pro headset. You can touch, drag and shift the perspective of a photo as if you’re moving a camera around — after the photo has already been captured. AI fills in the gaps to create an edited photo.
