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Apple WWDC 2026

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ksec 4mo ago
New Search! Finally !
- mostlysimilar 4mo ago
  It's shocking how bad Mail.app search is today. It basically doesn't work.
IMTDb 4mo ago
Anyone able to restart the stream if you missed the first few minutes or are we living in a world where AI will cure cancer but Apple can't build a "Watch live / Watch from start" button ?
- GeekyBear 4mo ago
  You can't scrub back and forth on the timeline until the live stream is finished.
  - addandsubtract 4mo ago
    "It's a feature, not a bug" – Apple
- nextstep 4mo ago
  https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o there’s also a YouTube live stream that lets you go back
  - tcmart14 4mo ago
    This isn't letting me drag back either.
    - lysace 4mo ago
      Yeah, explicitly disabled. Corporate control freak behavior - that tracks.
  - IMTDb 4mo ago
    Does it ? I can pause but I can't seem to go back. Clicking on the timeline does nothing. Clicking on the "live" indicator does nothing.
  - numpad0 4mo ago
    YouTube has a "disable DVR" toggle that disables the seek bar. There is a workaround, but I'm not sure if there's one that work in-browser.
    - madars 4mo ago
      This UserJS worked for me with Violentmonkey - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485020-dvr-chan-force-enable-youtube-dvr-rewind-formerly-ytbetter https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485020-dvr-chan-force-enab... What is the non-browser workaround? E.g., can streamlink do it?
- tcmart14 4mo ago
  No kidding. I missed the first 16 minutes because something needed my attention. I'd like to be able to restart the stream.
- defrim 4mo ago
  can confirm, not able to scrub backwards. Maybe it requires iRewind™ premium?
- chocochunks 4mo ago
  https://www.theverge.com/tech/942572/wwdc-2026-live-blog-ios27-macos27-watchos27-ipados27-visionos27-siri-apple-intelligence https://www.theverge.com/tech/942572/wwdc-2026-live-blog-ios... At least a summary of what was missed.
thewebguyd 4mo ago
Old sidebar back on macOS thank god. 2026, the year Apple discovered toolbars are useful.
akohstic 4mo ago
I have to manually log in to Gmail and other emails accounts just to search it properly. Really glad to see some action on this
- chatmasta 4mo ago
  When I download a new app on iOS, I immediately disable searching it and disable background updates. I hate the search feature and only use it as an app launcher when I’m accidentally not on the App Library screen. On macOS, I also disable spotlight for everything because the indexing process has been the single biggest culprit of CPU spikes when it’s doing something insane like indexing a git repo. Again, I only use Spotlight as an app launcher. I wish it were easier to opt into this “App Launcher only” mode. I had to really tinker with the settings to exclude everything except applications. And I’m sure I’m going to need to do it all over again after this update.
  - pfortuny 4mo ago
    Try quicksilver
    - desolate_muffin 4mo ago
      The presence of an alternative launcher does not prevent spotlight background tasks from running
      - pfortuny 4mo ago
        Ah but you can disable it completely.
tosh 4mo ago
finally a snow leopard like release focused on performance and fixing user experience
- praash 4mo ago
  My impression was that they're doubling down on that horrid Liquid glass. Apparently there's a new fancy slider for making it more (but not completely) opaque? Did I miss an option for turning it off?
  - Groxx 4mo ago
    [accessibility settings -> display -> reduce transparency] is the main option afaik. while you're in there, try "reduce motion" too, it's pretty nice imo.
    - deleted 4mo ago
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  - jerlam 4mo ago
    Have you tried the Accessibility setting "Reduce Transparency"? Apple tends to hide too many things there.
  - iknowstuff 4mo ago
    that's been available from the beginning
  - smilespray 4mo ago
    Keep in mind Apple would never admit mistakes on Liquid Glass. But: Looks to me they're fixing some of the worst aspects. I'm on the fence. The iOS 7 flat redesign was a UX disaster. But they got back up to speed in subsequent releases. There IS something to be said for design resets with follow-up refits to accomodate for actual human beings. Most companies just add crap on top of crap. Not saying what everything Apple does is perfect, even as a user/fanboy since '86. What I most enjoyed about todays's annoucement that they're doing a Snow Leopard performance/bug reset, because that was expected and needed. And they started out with it, so they know their WWDC audience. So: Both a technical and UX debt effort, with some privacy-focused AI on top. I can't complain.
xyzsparetimexyz 4mo ago
Let me know if Metal gets any cool new features
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 4mo ago
  There’s tons of Metal updates that will be announced during the platform meeting and workshops.
- mococa 4mo ago
  There is a lot of metal news here https://www.metal-archives.com https://www.metal-archives.com
sherbondy 4mo ago
Stoked about custom environments on visionOS from your panoramas. I have been shooting so many panoramas of national parks in anticipation of this moment.
cromka 4mo ago
The dubbed audio is disturbing. Or is it a delayed audio stream?
- dilap 4mo ago
  Reload should fix (did for me).
WorldPeas 4mo ago
Hopefully this new golden gate update is really the snow leopard everyone's been hoping for.. already exciting one can now (if only partially) disable liquid glass
- chatmasta 4mo ago
  Liquid Glass is fine for me since I put it in grayscale. I actually like it. I’m just talking about iOS though. Haven’t updated to Liquid (Gl)ass on macOS yet.
  - philistine 4mo ago
    People talk about Liquid Glass as if it equal on all fronts. It's absolutely not. Apple knows which way their bread is buttered, that they can't mess up the iPhone. So Liquid Glass is fine on iOS. It's on Mac that it's a garbage fire of ridiculous design decisions. Still the best OS around, but it looks like it was made by idiots.
    - chatmasta 4mo ago
      Also weird how it’s all or nothing. Feels like it should just be a theme you choose for your OS.
      - mostlysimilar 4mo ago
        This is really what they need to get back to. Let macOS be themeable again.
    - badc0ffee 4mo ago
      IMO it's not fine on iOS. It has the same visual busyness as on macOS.
      - avarun 4mo ago
        Agreed, but seems like we're the odd ones out. I keep hearing how Liquid Glass is ok on iOS and terrible on macOS, but I actually think it's (slightly) better on macOS than on iOS. At least macOS has configurability to turn off all the transparency. iOS just looks bad no matter how you configure it right now.
rayiner 4mo ago
Is there a live text play-by-play so we don't have to watch a video like some pre-literate? ArsTechnica used to do one but I can't find it for this year.
- leoh 4mo ago
  macrumors.com
- kdkirsch 4mo ago
  Not on Ars :( Verge’s is behind their paywall. Try Wired’s https://www.wired.com/live/apple-wwdc-2026-live-blog-all-the-updates-as-they-happen/ https://www.wired.com/live/apple-wwdc-2026-live-blog-all-the...
- jdub 4mo ago
  MacRumors always delivers. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/wwdc-2026-live-coverage/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/wwdc-2026-live-coverage...
WoodenChair 4mo ago
Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.
- matesz 4mo ago
  I bet they planned this before the initial release and actually had this capability then and there. Just needed some guinea pigs (aka their users) to learn more and establish the trend.
  - kefabean 4mo ago
    well, they also needed the initial release to facilitate a 'speed bump' in the new release, so perhaps!
- philistine 4mo ago
  It was literally the first specific announcement they made after they finished their introductions. Not anything iPhone related; they announced that Liquid Glass on macOS would move towards the older design. Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. That and the guy who announced it last year fled to Facebook of all places.
  - xoa 4mo ago
    >shows just how bad it was >Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. Worth remembering too that this isn't merely about "complaints", Apple has significant metrics on the rates at which users are upgrading to a new OS, or not. You can opt-out of sharing that data, but a lot of people (even technical people) may choose to check the box to share with Apple. Anecdotally, I myself and a LOT of other people have stuck with macOS 15 or earlier, but Apple should have a lot of hard data on it and adoption curves vs the past. A real reaction does certainly suggest that this wasn't just a tempest in a teacup, but that they really weren't seeing the adoption on Macs they expected.
rvz 4mo ago
Another bunch of AI startups have been destroyed.
- victorbjorklund 4mo ago
  Which ones? Doesn’t sound like they delievered anything really new that wasn’t announce years ago.
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CrimsonCape 4mo ago
Ever since the liquid glass update, my wallpaper is just a muted color. I investigated the settings and previously my wallpaper was the "blur" version of my lock screen. Since the liquid glass update, "blur" apparently means "99% blur" instead of the 20-30% blur it used to be. The muted color does seem to be an average color of the lock screen image. But nothing recognizable.
- rconti 4mo ago
  Every once in awhile my background wallpaper goes from "normal" to "blurry mess". It seems to correlate with low battery but not perfectly. I'm not quite sure what's going on.
- ivm 4mo ago
  Yeah, I'm struggling to find a wallpaper that looks good under the transparent menu bar + the vertical dock on the right. So now it's almost black solid color.
miladyincontrol 4mo ago
Much as I have a not so great opinion on Siri's capabilities, I'm rather surprised how many people appear to use Siri/Apple Intelligence to search for rather niche hobby content that I run a site for. OpenAI's scrapers I expect volume from, but I didnt really expect apple's to be consistently rank second.
antirez 4mo ago
They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.
- sixothree 4mo ago
  The minimalism evocative wealth display is off-putting.
  - kettlecorn 4mo ago
    In a time where people are increasingly disillusioned with the tech industry & billionaires the imagery Apple puts forward of a literally siloed utopian ultra wealthy landscape probably does rub people the wrong way, at least at a subconscious level. In the past Apple has been pretty good at anticipating and responding to shifting cultural dynamics. I wonder if they'll recognize and adjust?
    - thewebguyd 4mo ago
      I'm not sure it actually rubs people the wrong way, given Apple's sales numbers. Apple positions themselves as an aspirational brand. Everything they do is on purpose to enforce that. When people are upset at reality most people look for an escape into something else, not dive further into whats actually happening. The siloed utopian landscape is the point. Apple tries to sell a modern, clean lifestyle status symbol. They are selling products for the person you hope you become, not the person you are right now. "Buy an iPhone, and this is what your life could look like." Same deal as fad diets and gym memberships, its the illusion of being able to buy your way into a lifestyle without doing the hard work. Apple is selling an identity.
      - kettlecorn 4mo ago
        I agree with that, but I don't think it's incompatible with my observation. Apple has often in the past positioned itself as an aspirational product for those who aim to be tasteful, talented, beautiful and wealthy. The risk of becoming too disconnected from reality is that the typical person may stop aspiring to the sort of rich-person reality Apple presents. Think of how many of the symbols of wealth of prior generations, like fine tableware, were rejected by younger generations.
amrrs 4mo ago
Siri AI - looks like finally Siri is getting its due update, hopefully they ship it soon!
- flippy_flops 4mo ago
  I thought the same thing at the 2024 WWDC
- mohsen1 4mo ago
  "coming later this year" – still behind the schedule I have an iPhone 16 that was promised to have it. Now they are saying some features are available only on 17+ models
  - jjice 4mo ago
    I believe the only features I saw, and I could be wrong, that require the 17 or air were the new dictation and Siri voices. Those weren't in the original promises for the iPhone 16. That said, I don't know how much actually changed in the hardware where that actually has to be gated.
- atestu 4mo ago
  From Apple's website: > iOS 27 coming this fall. > Siri Al coming in English later this year. So they're already admitting it won't be here in time for iOS 27.
Quitschquat 4mo ago
Are new MBPs eliding the notch?
- fckgw 4mo ago
  This is a software keynote, they very rarely talk hardware at WWDC
- weikju 4mo ago
  Let's find out when they announce them later this year or next year...
slopinthebag 4mo ago
They can't come up with a better demo than planning the menu for a party???
- apetresc 4mo ago
  Your first Apple keynote, huh?
- Groxx 4mo ago
  The irresistible urge to plan parties has infected them all: https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ
nsagent 4mo ago
They really are trying to convince the skeptics about AI privacy. Do they allow you to opt out of data collection to improve their models for Siri? What about allow users to choose on-device only processing? If not, they are only speaking to the converted when they have Craig drill home their supposed privacy guarantees.
cromka 4mo ago
"Goal Chasers" group chat. Yikes.
earthnail 4mo ago
The new Siri might bring AI to way more people than OpenAI managed to reach with ChatGPT. I wonder what it means to OpenAI‘s planned IPO. Curious to try the beta to see how the new Siri feels.
- ACCount37 4mo ago
  Not by much. ChatGPT alone is among the most popular apps ever made, and it's available both inside and outside Apple's walled garden. Letting it reach audience in countries where Apple doesn't have much of a foothold. I do wonder if new Siri is any good though. Apple used to be a genuine AI leader, but they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution, and Siri's response quality was a sad joke for a while now. Did they bring it up to modern standard?
  - Schiendelman 4mo ago
    Traffic from Siri to the web is much higher than traffic from OpenAI, generally. It's the default. People installing ChatGPT takes work. And some of that traffic is also coming from Siri today… It won't after this launches.
    - ACCount37 4mo ago
      Because Siri defaults to dumb search much more often. While ChatGPT sucks up the search results and gives its own answer. Which either terminates the session, or goads the user into asking a follow-up question, improving retention - the user doesn't leave the app either way.
  - chasd00 4mo ago
    > they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution I don't think so, i don't think they want to be in the LLM laboratory business. They just want to leverage the technology to make money not invent it. Hence the reason why they made a deal with Google to license Gemini, let OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out while Apple just keeps making sales. I think they're betting that in the long run LLMs become a commodity more or less and the major labs go bankrupt/get acquired by their heavy duty investors. I feel like Athropic will goto Amazon (AWS) and OpenAI may end up property of Microsoft. Google will remain Google of course so they're not going anywhere which is probaly why they won the deal with Apple. I'm pretty confident it's Gemini behind the curtain for Siri.
uejfiweun 4mo ago
All I want the ability to talk to Siri while I'm in the car. My buddy's Tesla has this feature with Grok and it's actually really awesome. Let me have an on-demand CONVERSATIONAL assistant, meaning something I'd actually want to have a conversation with.
gregcohn 4mo ago
Would really like Siri AI to have an MCP server
- marksully 4mo ago
  This would be huge
- anthonypasq 4mo ago
  as a third party developer, i would want my app to expose mcp/tools that siri can natively access as well
- Toutouxc 4mo ago
  To like, talk to Siri through Claude?
- knollimar 4mo ago
  They didn't even give you all of bluetooth. Not sure they'll let you do this
mococa 4mo ago
Cool, now how to disable Sire AI?
BugsJustFindMe 4mo ago
Siri wakes up on my phone every time they say "hey siri". I thought it was supposed to be bound to my voice. :/
- Schiendelman 4mo ago
  I was listening to Leviathan Wakes recently - on my car's Audible app (not carplay). Every time they said Ceres, it would wake up Siri...
- myvoiceismypass 4mo ago
  Listening to SiriusXM commercials in my car often triggers it for me. Howard Stern saying "SiriusXM" on his show also often triggers Siri on my apple watch.
- browningstreet 4mo ago
  they need a background scrobble that they can put under the demo "hey siri" voices that doesn't launch anything
- jjkaczor 4mo ago
  ... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...
- nevi-me 4mo ago
  They should just license the tech from Google. Google might be missing the urinal with forcing Gemini down everything while not improving basics, but their keyword detection remains good for me.
Keyframe 4mo ago
For a company of Apple's caliber, I'd expect better lighting on the presenters.
breatheoften 4mo ago
Man that conversation history navigation for the new Siri app looks super unuseable ... how the hell am I supposed to actually find the conversation I want with the super-dynamic non-ordered 2-column offset-row view thing ...? It looks hard to use ... Also the 'floating semi-window but not a window' thing when using contextual siri in the context of some other app ... sure looks like it won't work with cmd-tab navigation ... I really hope is not the case ...
- praash 4mo ago
  I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac. You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.
  - interestpiqued 4mo ago
    I think they were just pointing out the difference between that and iOS there
  - isametry 4mo ago
    The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with: - no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+` - no minimize?? - generally no presence in the Dock whatsoever - no keyboard shortcuts beyond basic text editing ones - no smart window resize - … So in other words, no Justin, that’s not a window. That’s a resizable Spotlight pop-up with an “X” button.
    - Coeur 4mo ago
      My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.
      - 4mo ago
seydor 4mo ago
I often think that Zuck spent so much on metaverse in order to to bait Apple to spend enormously on an experimental product and OS which now they are forced to maintain
- nozzlegear 4mo ago
  I used to have an Apple Vision Pro; it was a genuinely great piece of tech. IMO if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit.
  - PedroBatista 4mo ago
    It's great, yet you "used to have it" :)
    - nozzlegear 4mo ago
      Yes, I bought it to make apps when it first came out, but I immediately picked up a new Shopify client and couldn't justify the time/investment. I had to choose between dunking $5k on it to maybe develop apps when my work schedule opened up, or return it and get the money back.
    - uejfiweun 4mo ago
      [dead]
  - microtonal 4mo ago
    if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit It would be a PR disaster, most people outside the SV bubble just find smart glasses what they really are: creepy. Even more so because Meta is going to roll out face recognition and going to live-annotate people you encounter in the streets. Luckily that shit is not allowed in the EU.
    - nozzlegear 4mo ago
      A few things: - A lot of people found smart watches to be nerdy, something that only geeks would wear, until Apple made the Apple Watch. Along the same lines, everyone (on tech-oriented social media) thought the AirPods looked stupid and dorky when they were first announced, but now they're ubiquitous. - People find smart glasses from Meta (and previously, Google) creepy, but – and it's anathema to say this around certain parts of HN – like it or not, people do generally trust Apple with their data in a way that they don't with those other companies. - It seems like you're assuming Apple's glasses would include outward-facing cameras in the first place. Do we know that? The ideal device for me would just include the downward-facing IR cameras for gesture detection. Presumably only people under NDA can say for sure right now. > Luckily that shit is not allowed in the EU. What's not allowed? Facial recognition, street annotation, AI? Does it make a difference if it's local, on-device AI?
chasd00 4mo ago
I wonder if visual intelligence can be used to produced code like claudcode can. like highlight a UI component on an app you like and say "implement this for me". I can take screenshots of figma and give it to claude code to implement and it gets it pretty close.
- amne 4mo ago
  or use the already existing figma mcp
imWildCat 4mo ago
Over-polished WWDC keynote is just another great example that we as individuals with great motivation can do better Even my prompt with Veo3 or Seedance 2.0 generated video can do better than Apple
kimbernator 4mo ago
I don't know why I torture myself with these kinds of presentations anymore. Aside from the obvious "It's all AI" complaint, it feels like every problem they describe as needing a solution is fundamentally basic human reasoning that they are hoping we'll replace with a non-deterministic interaction with our phones. Splitting a tab by taking a picture and letting AI split it for you? Get out a fucking calculator. Is that really a scenario they think will excite people? Their portrayal of a world where we depend on computers for such simple thoughts is not a positive one.
- MSKJ 4mo ago
  Kids these days can't even split a tab without using a calculator. Next they'll forget how to balance a checkbook
dwa3592 4mo ago
finally Siri and Apple intelligence are getting some much needed updates. Most of the stuff shown was already open source and had been achieved under 16GB of ram so it is timely.
CodeCompost 4mo ago
Are we going to hear more Ay! than a Mariachi band?
alberth 4mo ago
While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?
- kmlx 4mo ago
  it’s the list of features to disable. it’s been like that for the past… 5 years? 4?
- uejfiweun 4mo ago
  Conversational Siri - yes, absolutely. All the rest - probably not.
cdrnsf 4mo ago
I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.
- officeplant 4mo ago
  This is my biggest concern. I've only stuck with Apple during this AI nonsense era because the parental/screentime controls allow to me completely shut it down, and I've never toggled it on in the Siri/AI options. It took a while but the 7GB they initially stole from me for the AI nonsense I'm not using eventually cleared itself out of storage. I already have Siri limited to manual activation only. If they force all of this into Siri and I can't prevent AI models from actually installing their gubby hands all over the phone then that's it for me.
  - memco 4mo ago
    I didn't see it touched on, but I'm hoping improved storage management is included in the update. My system has > 20% storage used by "system storage" and in total nearly half the device storage is used by ios and is outside my control. Supposedly some of this stuff is just cache data and there's no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting. Handling for large files is also hit or miss and could use some updates. I didn't even realize some of that was AI stuff I might not even be using.
    - officeplant 4mo ago
      Yeah file management in general is still incredibly rough around the edges. I would still like to be able to simply grab files from my phone via a connected linux computer, but apple will never let me have that one. >no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting Unfortunately the only current ways to pull this off is to either artificially move the current time years forward so it hits a time gate and dumps the cached files, or use enough space on your iPhone to force it to dump the useless cached files then delete whatever you used to take up space temporarily.
- tencentshill 4mo ago
gguingff 4mo ago
even the market understands this is a massive failure by apple, nobody needs another chat application especially using that stupid overlay window. looks like apple won't leapfrog anyone and has zero agentic features to show and no resetting a password doesn't count as agentic apple.
ohmahjong 4mo ago
Yoof, that reframing is interesting but took LONG
- theshrike79 4mo ago
  It’s fully local though
  - avarun 4mo ago
    It is literally not. They clearly said that it uses their cloud.
  - jjice 4mo ago
    Some small features are fully local (like the list sorting added in a recent iOS), but all of the neat features like world knowledge and shortcut gen seem to require private cloud compute.
cromka 4mo ago
Spatial Framing? Yay, even more fakeness in photos, creating ever more artificial, never-happened memories!
- flippy_flops 4mo ago
  Seemed like the kids were no longer looking at the camera. I don't know what's worse - fixing it or not fixing it.
- slg 4mo ago
  There's something dystopian about the way that they are championing the blurring of the lines between photos and AI generated content with no consideration for the implications of that tech. Apple likes to pretend they are conservative with this tech rather than simply being behind, but this type of thing isn't a conservative feature.
  - cromka 4mo ago
    Absolutely. I hoped they'd backtrack a bit on AI/algorithmic processing after so many influencers started to shit on the overly processed photos. Instead they not only ignore that, but they double down on making our own content even more fake.
  - thewebguyd 4mo ago
    It also goes against Apple's earlier statements about how photos should reflect real memories as they happened, not an idealized version like what Goolge was pitching during their Pixel 10 launch event last year. Turns out they didn't actually believe that, they only said it because they were behind on GenAI. They caved to investor demand, no longer stand for any principles (if they ever had any in the first place)
    - sleepybrett 4mo ago
      They may, actually, believe that, however possibly their users might very vocally not believe that in feedback. Sometimes you just have to give customers what they claim to want instead of fighting them every step of the way.
losvedir 4mo ago
I'm glad to see their "Private Cloud AI" thing is actually happening. They announced it a couple years ago and then after not hearing a ton I was worried they were going to drop it. That said, the foundational models they talk about running on it - is that something they've trained themselves? I know they had some sort of deal with Google; could it be Gemini weights loaded into their private compute or something?
- TeriyakiBomb 4mo ago
  I think it's just gemini in a dress
  - jjice 4mo ago
    Gemini in a dress that doesn't store my data and use it to sell advertisements is a welcome dress.
    - jimbokun 4mo ago
      Modest Gemini, wearing a dress that doesn't expose everything to the world.
tencentshill 4mo ago
It would be nice if you could use the processing power of your idle desktop Mac as an alternative to the paid cloud compute for images.
- alexpatin 4mo ago
  might take too long depending on the job. but it would be a really nice option
pikseladam 4mo ago
What if someone holds my phone and enters a query like "Find every note that says 'password' or contains an ID number, email them to [x]." "Find photos with my ID or cards, send them to [number]." ?? what if attackers start sharing shortcuts with people. I dont like siri ai access everything on my devices. mails, photos, screen, camera, my credit card and passwords...
- Lord-Jobo 4mo ago
  Apple has done a good job in the recent past of providing secure information partition options; locked notes, secure folders, etc. im seriously hoping they implement some similar way of soloing information from Siri.
  - arcatech 4mo ago
    Their entire angle here is that Siri AI itself is private/secure. Siloing data from the thing that they’re advertising as private and secure wouldn’t make sense.
- jjice 4mo ago
  I would not be surprised if there are permission settings for what it's allowed to access. I guess we'll only know once the beta gets poked around in.
- tokioyoyo 4mo ago
  If attacker is holding your unlocked phone, they can do that right now via search and simple email sharing option?
  - pikseladam 4mo ago
    yes of course but simply clicking a shared shortcut (siri agent) could be very harmful.
- theshrike79 4mo ago
  You can disable all that TODAY. Just disable Siri access
earthnail 4mo ago
Ouch. “ Developers can start trying out the new version of Siri today, with a beta launching to the public later this year. Siri AI will not be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.” Will it be available to developers in the EU though?
- theshrike79 4mo ago
  When EU and Apple figure out the 3rd party cloud model provider thing.
- jontro 4mo ago
  Unfortunatley not https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...
  - earthnail 4mo ago
    Any workarounds like VPN?
    - Cider9986 4mo ago
      Theoretically you could use a router-level VPN for initial setup and that would work. Because VPNs are not functional for Apple services on Apple devices. Apple services bypass the VPN and reveal your real IP address, or in the case of trying to get different features, reveal your location to Apple. Even if they were functional you still would want to use a router-level VPN because you couldn't install a VPN before your device connected to the internet.
- tpdly 4mo ago
  Not foreseeably. As others have mentioned, DMA requires AI integrations to accommodate competition. To my mind, Apple's Webkit-only playbook is the prototype here. Waaaay too much money to be made as a GEO broker. Namely by selling position/advantages in the harness, or just use it to maintain ecosystem lock in.
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Alex_L_Wood 4mo ago
I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.
- microtonal 4mo ago
  Apple not rolling out a lot of this stuff in the EU (immediately) is a feature.
- nirava 4mo ago
  Couldn’t you do this by turning off Siri and Apple Intelligence, two global toggles?
eknkc 4mo ago
I was hoping for some kind of a Siri LLM API for providers to implement so that I'd be able to use Gemini, ChatGPT, maybe Openrouter, SELF HOSTED or whatever the fuck I want. Given that Apple itself does not really have a horse in the LLM race, it made sense. Say the ChatGPT app would provide the functionality to the system and I'd allow a scary popup saying "these guys will own you, sure?".. I guess they are going all in into Gemini instead. But I don't want Gemini..
cebert 4mo ago
It's uncanny how they announce that AI features won't be available in the UK or China, and then, with a smile, proceed with, "Now, let's discuss what's next for developers."
kettlez 4mo ago
"Siri AI will not be available in E.U. until we figure out privacy" Funny to hear that after they mentioned how seriously they are taking privacy every 37 seconds.
- cromka 4mo ago
  Laughed at it, too. It's almost as if they admit the EU privacy legislation enforces ACTUAL privacy.
  - deleted 4mo ago
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  - singularity2001 4mo ago
    or could it be the other way around that actual privacy is forbidden in Europe because they want to read your messages
    - cromka 4mo ago
      It's not about how it is but how they made it sound. Let's not get ideological here.
    - peterspath 4mo ago
      This. They come up with so many laws under so many pretences that want to take away the freedom of private communications
- IMTDb 4mo ago
  Privacy and EU regulation are two very different things.
- theshrike79 4mo ago
  EU wants them to open up the cloud models to any 3rd party. How can Apple guarantee privacy then?
- robot_jesus 4mo ago
diimdeep 4mo ago
Still deliberately running macOS Sequoia 15 cuz you know… and if I'll switch to something hopefully better than Tahoe will disable SIP and every thing that is not needed to just launch software, this OS has gotten too obese.
cromka 4mo ago
Kinda love that Tim said his goodbyes with a rainbow in the background. Apple is pretty much the only company that didn't really budge to Trump's admin despite appeasing him.
- Todd 4mo ago
  Don't forget Costco
  - cromka 4mo ago
    Yup, indeed. But it's crazy we can count those companies in single digits. Shows how cynical the corporate PR really is; they'll virtue signal for years and then forget their inclusiveness shamelessly on a whim.
- microtonal 4mo ago
  Except that he validated Trump by giving him gold trinkets and donated $1M to his inauguration. Cook is an enabler.
  - cromka 4mo ago
    That's what I meant by "seemingly".
    - avarun 4mo ago
      You didn't say seemingly.
      - cromka 4mo ago
        Wow I could have sworn I did. Good cstchm
- badc0ffee 4mo ago
  It's the retro Apple logo rainbow they've had since they opened Apple Park. It could be interpreted as a pride rainbow, but the colours are different and in a different order.
kylehotchkiss 4mo ago
Bye Tim, thanks for making tech fun the past 10 years. No new hardware, feels like the party is over. Thanks Altman for the greed.
- thewebguyd 4mo ago
  Has there ever been hardware launched at WWDC? It's a developer conference, not a hardware launch. Hardware is in the fall.
  - throwfaraway4 4mo ago
    AVP
  - badc0ffee 4mo ago
    Not every year, but yes.
  - K7PJP 4mo ago
    They have on occasion, when it makes sense to unveil OS changes and hardware simultaneously. Apple Vision Pro, move to new architecture, 2019 Mac Pro tower – that sort of thing. Most years they don't announce new hardware, though.
- sneakymichael 4mo ago
  The WWDC keynote is a software, not hardware, announcement…?
PedroBatista 4mo ago
That AI segment was a boomer core slop fest. But to be fair, it's clear that Apple is not on the AI bleeding edge and it appears it doesn't want to be, it cannot afford to ignore it tho. Let's hope they don't get overconfident with Gemini and pull a MS Copilot..
- thewebguyd 4mo ago
  > it appears it doesn't want to be I get this vibe too. Turning Siri into yet another chatbot is a far cry from the vaporware they showed at 2024's WWDC. Seems they found out LLMs can't actually do that, but investors aren't just going to let them ignore it unfortunately. Feels like they are just phoning it in here and waiting on AI hype bubble to burst. "Here's your stupid chatbot, now shut up"
- whywhywhywhy 4mo ago
  Far too much focus on having AI write things for your loved ones, invites etc. Shouldn't those be the moments where you're writing it yourself.
norman784 4mo ago
Are we living the worst times in a while technology wise, this presentation showed nothing useful. Last year at least they showed some interesting features, but as always I don’t use any of them, the only one I wanted in the past few years was to use the iPhone from my mac, but never shipped in EU. And the other feature was universal control that I use every day and works just fine most of the time.
- quentindanjou 4mo ago
  I don't think so. We have tons of apps and ideas and now AI. I honestly don't expect much from an OS on my phone or laptop and I am glad they improve what matter: OS performance and bugs. I don't mind having the "innovation" in the apps and not in the OS. Or at least for the first time and then brought in a well-thought-out ecosystem.
- Grombobulous 4mo ago
  This WWDC is thin, but it seems like a lot of it outside of AI is a refinement year. For them to just blanket announce that a bunch of stuff across the platforms perform better, that shows that Apple spent most of their effort on quality over shipping features. It’s also possible they’re preparing for less availability of RAM long term and trying to optimize. The list of stuff they had go highlighted includes a whole bunch of small but impactful little tweaks. iCloud shared libraries being easier to use outside of Apple operating systems, that’s great. And adding full resolution support, also great. I’ve left iCloud Photos and macOS for myself but I’m stuck on iCloud shared photos with family albums, so making it easier for me to participate is a big plus. Custom EQ in AirPods. Awesome. Smoother network transitions between WiFi and cellular. Huge positive impact. Send indicator in messages, yes please. The parental controls are industry-leading. The AI features are the most boring and uninteresting to me, but the little stuff is all big news to me.
  - steve_adams_86 4mo ago
    > The parental controls are industry-leading. They've been awful for me. This is best-in-class software? It breaks constantly. It fails to notify me of all kinds of events that should work, but spontaneously fail to. This could be someone entering the parental control pin or requesting to download an app. It's misery to deal with. I've used it for years across several devices and kids. It's some of the worst software I ever need to use.
dabinat 4mo ago
Honestly, I’m more excited about a faster and more polished OS than any new feature they announced.
slg 4mo ago
I think the potentially most impactful singular feature mentioned in all this is being able to conversationally describe Shortcuts for AI to create. That feels like the type of thing that if done right can change how we all use our phones in a way that things like Siri becoming smarter and more conversational likely won't.
- abhi_kr 4mo ago
  User defined Safari Extensions was also pretty cool.
- praash 4mo ago
  I really like this idea of rapidly extensible software, a browser is a nice sandbox for it! Models also seem to be much better at generating programs than "manually" executing a described task.
- novafunc 4mo ago
  I used Gemini Pro to convert health data from a .csv and import it into Apple Health. Worked first try. I just hope the AI Apple use is smart enough for the task. And that giving the AI information it needs is easy (such as a snippet of the health data so it knows what it's working with).
drcongo 4mo ago
The whimsy in this can absolutely do one in 2026.
thewebguyd 4mo ago
In case anyone missed it, Apple's dropping support for Watch Series 6/7/8/9 and the Ultra 1 with this release. The 9 isn't even 3 years old yet until September, absolutely garbage support timeline for a wearable. I have a Series 9, and it's still essentially like new. edit Seems this was an error on Apple's part, all watches that support 26 should get 27
- avarun 4mo ago
  Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS
  - thewebguyd 4mo ago
    On their WatchOS page, about halfway down: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/ https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/
    - avarun 4mo ago
      Has to be a fuckup. watchOS 26 supported the Series 6 onwards. I don't think Apple has ever cut 3 generations of devices with a single yearly OS upgrade unless there's an underlying architecture reason for it before. This might be the list for Siri AI supported watches or something.
      - thewebguyd 4mo ago
        Seems you are correct, the beta is now showing available on my Series 9 at least.
    - deinonychus 4mo ago
      wow this blows. do they ever like release an OS for older machines at a later date?
- jmyeet 4mo ago
  Yeah, I'm shocked at this [1]. The Series 9 was released in September 2023, not quite 3 years old. Apple is normally very good with long-term support. This is surprising to say the least. I bought a 10 last year when it was current-gen and it's going to be the minimum supported Watch with the next version of Watch OS? WTF? At least I'm glad I did that rather than repalcing a battery on an even older Watch. iPads aren't free from this either but it's a little less severe [2]. For example, iPad Air 4th gen will be the minimum iPad Air and it was released in 2020. The M1 iPad Pro was released in 2021 and will be the minimum there. [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/watchos-27-drops-support-for-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-se-2/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/watchos-27-drops-suppor... j2]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/ipados-27-drops-support-for-a-wave-of-ipads/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/ipados-27-drops-support...
throwfaraway4 4mo ago
I gotta say, as I read these comments HN's bubble is showing with astounding clarity. The top comment is about presenter authenticity? Idle Mac used for cloud models? No features are useful? I can't help but think for most folks out there these features make using Apple products considerably more powerful and easy. They may be "boomer" features and you won't be able to roll them into your MCP server, but IMO it doesn't take a huge perspective leap to understand how they're game changers.
- arcatech 4mo ago
  You think criticism is a sign of being in a bubble?
  - cromka 4mo ago
    Especially funny because you could make an exact opposite claim, i.e. that criticism is a sing of not being in a bubble.
etempleton 4mo ago
A real snooze fest. I care so little about the AI features. I felt like they introduced the same thing over and over again. I would be more excited if they said “AI? Yeah, we decided we aren’t interested in doing it anymore.”
prymitive 4mo ago
The only thing that interested in is: did they fix screen brightness getting super dim even when the slider is at max? That’s incredibly annoying and frustrating, and it’s been like that since first 26 release. And it’s a clear bug because brightness resets to expected level if I go to photos and open an HDR image. I can wait for autocomplete that doesn’t suggest garbage 50% of the time, but this one is just too annoying. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256141236 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256141236
- gordon_freeman 4mo ago
  I thought this is happening for me because I have an old iPhone 11 with degrading battery, screen etc. Did not realize that this is so widespread problem across devices. Really annoying when that happens! Almost unusable phone.
- Royce-CMR 4mo ago
  Damn I thought this was just me. I figured it was a temp thing - device too hot for ongoing high brightness, and the photos app overrides because someone decided if you are trying to show a photo, do the job right to the limit. Ugh so newer phones have this too? (15 pro max). Another reason to not upgrade.
tizio13 4mo ago
It's nice to see the improve focused on AI and recognition of their past missteps. So far out of all the announcements this past month, I think this will be the most significant. The increased emphasis with on device models is exactly the right move. I'm tired of sending data out of my computer when it isn't needed.
praash 4mo ago
Lightweight browser extensions generated on demand, now there's a good use case for what they seem to be actually building. Extending applications without having to launch a full agentic IDE. Macos is already very well equipped with GUI automation tools.
chris_money202 4mo ago
I have to say, I extremely dislike AI processing of photos. The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments. Distorting that with AI and being okay with it is really disappointing.
- nicebyte 4mo ago
  when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particular, I think it's fair to say that you never really see the "real" image as captured by the CCD sensor, and even if you did you would not like it anyway.
  - chris_money202 4mo ago
    Not sure I agree with the cropping argument, would be no different than cutting a printed photo with scissors. I would lump the other image manipulations done by hardware into "AI manipulation" as well, although those tend to be much more modest.
  - merlindru 4mo ago
    cropping doesn't alter the moment captured. or, rather, you're also cropping when taking a picture - no camera can capture all 360 degrees. so what is being captured is altered from the get. yet i don't think you'd argue that the act of taking a photo is the same as photoshopping a giant giraffe into a photo :P i don't think arguing that taking a photo which is cropped/enhanced (as in sharpening, color correction, ...) is akin to changing what's displayed in it. those distortions only serve to let us better focus on what truly happened in a moment, not change the moment in essence.
    - SSLy 4mo ago
      what about keystone correction? A staple in any proper digital image editing tool
mrichman 4mo ago
So sterile and performative.
heisenbit 4mo ago
Now if they just let me switch off the sound when I connect the charger. For any couple not going to bed at the same time and charging their phone at the bed this may be a welcome innovation. I'm willing to license this idea for free.
sirwhinesalot 4mo ago
They fixed all the extremely egregious issues with Liquid Glass, good to see. It's still an extremely ugly, "worst of both worlds" combination of wasted space (from early-gen flat design) with gaudy effects (from late-gen skeumorphism), but at least now it is usable. I'd never update to macOS 26, but 27 I might, begrudgingly.
- TeriyakiBomb 4mo ago
  In the first beta they've actually made aspects of it worse with more instances of the glass effect than before. It's still very distracting even with the slider all the way over to opaque
- yurishimo 4mo ago
  Even if it sucks, there is always the possibility that some software you use finally updates and you dont have a good alternative to replace it. Especially if you consider corporate fleets. Many IT departments are okay to let you lag behind OS updates for a major version, but not 2 or 3. So if I am being forced to upgrade, I’m glad 27 is likely going to fix a lot of stuff anyway.
officeplant 4mo ago
Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates." Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.
- groundzeros2015 4mo ago
  What do you want?
  - officeplant 4mo ago
    The ability to continue to completely lock down Apple Intelligence to the point where it even free's up the ~7gb it takes up on the phone. Currently this works in iOS 26 as long as I never accidentally toggle it back on via Apples dark pattern attempts that happen every few software updates. Also for the ability to continue using Siri without Apple Intelligence would be nice. I rarely need to use Siri so it's already set for manual triggering with the power button long press only. But if Siri goes into the AI shitter then I'll just wholesale disable it.
- desolate_muffin 4mo ago
  As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?
  - officeplant 4mo ago
    What makes you think I would go crawling back to a worse AI hellscape? Dumbphones exist, degoogled phones exist. If it weren't for the USA's telcom differences a fairphone with PostmarketOS would be great. I enjoy postmarketOS on my pinephone, the phone's hardware is just far too shit for daily driving.
nixpulvis 4mo ago
I swear I watched this Keynote before when they announced Apple Intelligence. Then proceeded to deliver nothing. Apple is so lost it makes me really sad.
fridder 4mo ago
I know it was a long shot but still mighty disappointed with no m5ultra mac studio
rightlane 4mo ago
WWDC makes me sad. It was such a great in person conference, I remember having a really weird issue with cookie handoff in Safari, and being able to sit down with a bunch of the Safari engineers to troubleshoot the issue. It started with one, then more and more engineers came to give ideas! I appreciate making it available to everyone but it feels like there needs to be some kind of middle ground. IOS development just isn't as much fun absent the in-person community.
- flutas 4mo ago
  FWIW: My colleague went to Google IO in person this year, he said the entire vibe was just off this year describing it as "almost somber" to quote him.
- tmoertel 4mo ago
  Do they still have the "Stump The Experts" event at WWDC? You know, where you ask Apple engineers a technical question about their work and, if they can't answer it, you win a t-shirt with tree stumps on it.
  - wpm 4mo ago
    They did not as far as I know back in 2024, the last, and likely last WWDC I'll ever go to.
t1234s 4mo ago
first WWDC I haven't bothered to watch in over a decade.
- steve_adams_86 4mo ago
  Right there with you. It feels weird not to care. I used to look forward to it. Last year I watched a bit and bailed. This year, I opened the stream after it finished, clicked through to a few spots, noticed I didn't care at all and got back to work.
tamimio 4mo ago
I don’t agree with the whole kids “safety”, if your child is too young they shouldn’t be using such electronics without direct supervision in the first place, ie you sitting with them, and if you don’t have some time to be with your child you shouldn’t have children to start with. If your child however is able to comprehend conversations, the parenting should be based on trust and communication, rather than further surveillance and control. This is bad and mostly will result in two outcomes: a more systematic domestication to groom the child into accepting such surveillance from a higher authority, so later in life they are more susceptible to be monitored by employers or even the government, just like how schools domesticate people to be a cog in the machine later in life. The other outcome, is a complete radical shift where that kid goes on doing anything and everything as soon as they are in their own.
analogpixel 4mo ago
I read through a summary of what was announced today, and I don't really want/care about any of it. The biggest apple announcement today that I was excited about, and would tell other people about was https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ I have an older iPhone that can't run any of this new stuff, and I'm not upgrading because I have no reason to. I think I actually prefer at this point to be on an older phone that won't get all of this. When is technology going to get exciting and fun again? (that's not 100% true, I was excited to hear they were walking back liquid glass.)
- yreg 4mo ago
  I'm very happy with their announcements - fixing the main liquid glass issues (transparency, toolbars, window corners) - rewriting OS components to work better - fixing the ever annoying "The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time" problem (we knew this was going to happen by following the Swift project, but still) Honestly, we really really needed a year with less features and more work put towards improving the platforms.
- archagon 4mo ago
  I do enjoy reading about what the Swift team is doing. (And other folks working on the lower decks — kernel, Foundation, etc. The AI brainrot hasn't seeped down there yet.)
wallaBBB 4mo ago
WWDC - time of the year Apple reminds us it has a VR.
gigatexal 4mo ago
I’m so stoked for macOS 27 for feature improvements and polish. The ai stuff fine but a snow leopard like release I’m here for.
ksec 4mo ago
Are there any summary of all the new under the hood features rather than user features? I don't want ( or care ) about UI and AI on WWDC. I want to know how they got 30% smaller in Xcode? What was done? New CPU Scheduler? Improvement to APFS? Metal API ? Memory and Performance Optimisation? There used to be more information on WWDC and the State of Union. But with every year past they have deleted it to consumer level marketing speak.
Bulbasaur2015 4mo ago
underwhelming and super disappointing. still no hyprland or native tiling manager on mac. siri ai is a lagging copy of openclaw
4lx87 4mo ago
No parents on HN? The new parental controls are everything I could ask for.

Apple WWDC 2026

265 points by nextstep 4mo ago

ksec 4mo ago

New Search! Finally !

mostlysimilar 4mo ago
It's shocking how bad Mail.app search is today. It basically doesn't work.

IMTDb 4mo ago

Anyone able to restart the stream if you missed the first few minutes or are we living in a world where AI will cure cancer but Apple can't build a "Watch live / Watch from start" button ?

GeekyBear 4mo ago
You can't scrub back and forth on the timeline until the live stream is finished.
- addandsubtract 4mo ago
  "It's a feature, not a bug" – Apple
nextstep 4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o there’s also a YouTube live stream that lets you go back
- tcmart14 4mo ago
  This isn't letting me drag back either.
  - lysace 4mo ago
    Yeah, explicitly disabled. Corporate control freak behavior - that tracks.
- IMTDb 4mo ago
  Does it ? I can pause but I can't seem to go back. Clicking on the timeline does nothing. Clicking on the "live" indicator does nothing.
- numpad0 4mo ago
  YouTube has a "disable DVR" toggle that disables the seek bar. There is a workaround, but I'm not sure if there's one that work in-browser.
  - madars 4mo ago
    This UserJS worked for me with Violentmonkey - https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485020-dvr-chan-force-enable-youtube-dvr-rewind-formerly-ytbetter https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485020-dvr-chan-force-enab... What is the non-browser workaround? E.g., can streamlink do it?
tcmart14 4mo ago
No kidding. I missed the first 16 minutes because something needed my attention. I'd like to be able to restart the stream.
defrim 4mo ago
can confirm, not able to scrub backwards. Maybe it requires iRewind™ premium?
chocochunks 4mo ago
https://www.theverge.com/tech/942572/wwdc-2026-live-blog-ios27-macos27-watchos27-ipados27-visionos27-siri-apple-intelligence https://www.theverge.com/tech/942572/wwdc-2026-live-blog-ios... At least a summary of what was missed.

thewebguyd 4mo ago

Old sidebar back on macOS thank god. 2026, the year Apple discovered toolbars are useful.

akohstic 4mo ago

I have to manually log in to Gmail and other emails accounts just to search it properly. Really glad to see some action on this

chatmasta 4mo ago
When I download a new app on iOS, I immediately disable searching it and disable background updates. I hate the search feature and only use it as an app launcher when I’m accidentally not on the App Library screen. On macOS, I also disable spotlight for everything because the indexing process has been the single biggest culprit of CPU spikes when it’s doing something insane like indexing a git repo. Again, I only use Spotlight as an app launcher. I wish it were easier to opt into this “App Launcher only” mode. I had to really tinker with the settings to exclude everything except applications. And I’m sure I’m going to need to do it all over again after this update.
- pfortuny 4mo ago
  Try quicksilver
  - desolate_muffin 4mo ago
    The presence of an alternative launcher does not prevent spotlight background tasks from running
    - pfortuny 4mo ago
      Ah but you can disable it completely.

tosh 4mo ago

finally a snow leopard like release focused on performance and fixing user experience

praash 4mo ago
My impression was that they're doubling down on that horrid Liquid glass. Apparently there's a new fancy slider for making it more (but not completely) opaque? Did I miss an option for turning it off?
- Groxx 4mo ago
  [accessibility settings -> display -> reduce transparency] is the main option afaik. while you're in there, try "reduce motion" too, it's pretty nice imo.
  - deleted 4mo ago
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- jerlam 4mo ago
  Have you tried the Accessibility setting "Reduce Transparency"? Apple tends to hide too many things there.
- iknowstuff 4mo ago
  that's been available from the beginning
- smilespray 4mo ago
  Keep in mind Apple would never admit mistakes on Liquid Glass. But: Looks to me they're fixing some of the worst aspects. I'm on the fence. The iOS 7 flat redesign was a UX disaster. But they got back up to speed in subsequent releases. There IS something to be said for design resets with follow-up refits to accomodate for actual human beings. Most companies just add crap on top of crap. Not saying what everything Apple does is perfect, even as a user/fanboy since '86. What I most enjoyed about todays's annoucement that they're doing a Snow Leopard performance/bug reset, because that was expected and needed. And they started out with it, so they know their WWDC audience. So: Both a technical and UX debt effort, with some privacy-focused AI on top. I can't complain.

xyzsparetimexyz 4mo ago

Let me know if Metal gets any cool new features

Q6T46nT668w6i3m 4mo ago
There’s tons of Metal updates that will be announced during the platform meeting and workshops.
mococa 4mo ago
There is a lot of metal news here https://www.metal-archives.com https://www.metal-archives.com

sherbondy 4mo ago

Stoked about custom environments on visionOS from your panoramas. I have been shooting so many panoramas of national parks in anticipation of this moment.

cromka 4mo ago

The dubbed audio is disturbing. Or is it a delayed audio stream?

dilap 4mo ago
Reload should fix (did for me).

WorldPeas 4mo ago

Hopefully this new golden gate update is really the snow leopard everyone's been hoping for.. already exciting one can now (if only partially) disable liquid glass

chatmasta 4mo ago
Liquid Glass is fine for me since I put it in grayscale. I actually like it. I’m just talking about iOS though. Haven’t updated to Liquid (Gl)ass on macOS yet.
- philistine 4mo ago
  People talk about Liquid Glass as if it equal on all fronts. It's absolutely not. Apple knows which way their bread is buttered, that they can't mess up the iPhone. So Liquid Glass is fine on iOS. It's on Mac that it's a garbage fire of ridiculous design decisions. Still the best OS around, but it looks like it was made by idiots.
  - chatmasta 4mo ago
    Also weird how it’s all or nothing. Feels like it should just be a theme you choose for your OS.
    - mostlysimilar 4mo ago
      This is really what they need to get back to. Let macOS be themeable again.
  - badc0ffee 4mo ago
    IMO it's not fine on iOS. It has the same visual busyness as on macOS.
    - avarun 4mo ago
      Agreed, but seems like we're the odd ones out. I keep hearing how Liquid Glass is ok on iOS and terrible on macOS, but I actually think it's (slightly) better on macOS than on iOS. At least macOS has configurability to turn off all the transparency. iOS just looks bad no matter how you configure it right now.

rayiner 4mo ago

Is there a live text play-by-play so we don't have to watch a video like some pre-literate? ArsTechnica used to do one but I can't find it for this year.

leoh 4mo ago
macrumors.com
kdkirsch 4mo ago
Not on Ars :( Verge’s is behind their paywall. Try Wired’s https://www.wired.com/live/apple-wwdc-2026-live-blog-all-the-updates-as-they-happen/ https://www.wired.com/live/apple-wwdc-2026-live-blog-all-the...
jdub 4mo ago
MacRumors always delivers. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/wwdc-2026-live-coverage/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/wwdc-2026-live-coverage...

WoodenChair 4mo ago

Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.

matesz 4mo ago
I bet they planned this before the initial release and actually had this capability then and there. Just needed some guinea pigs (aka their users) to learn more and establish the trend.
- kefabean 4mo ago
  well, they also needed the initial release to facilitate a 'speed bump' in the new release, so perhaps!
philistine 4mo ago
It was literally the first specific announcement they made after they finished their introductions. Not anything iPhone related; they announced that Liquid Glass on macOS would move towards the older design. Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. That and the guy who announced it last year fled to Facebook of all places.
- xoa 4mo ago
  >shows just how bad it was >Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. Worth remembering too that this isn't merely about "complaints", Apple has significant metrics on the rates at which users are upgrading to a new OS, or not. You can opt-out of sharing that data, but a lot of people (even technical people) may choose to check the box to share with Apple. Anecdotally, I myself and a LOT of other people have stuck with macOS 15 or earlier, but Apple should have a lot of hard data on it and adoption curves vs the past. A real reaction does certainly suggest that this wasn't just a tempest in a teacup, but that they really weren't seeing the adoption on Macs they expected.

rvz 4mo ago

Another bunch of AI startups have been destroyed.

victorbjorklund 4mo ago
Which ones? Doesn’t sound like they delievered anything really new that wasn’t announce years ago.

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CrimsonCape 4mo ago

Ever since the liquid glass update, my wallpaper is just a muted color. I investigated the settings and previously my wallpaper was the "blur" version of my lock screen. Since the liquid glass update, "blur" apparently means "99% blur" instead of the 20-30% blur it used to be. The muted color does seem to be an average color of the lock screen image. But nothing recognizable.

rconti 4mo ago
Every once in awhile my background wallpaper goes from "normal" to "blurry mess". It seems to correlate with low battery but not perfectly. I'm not quite sure what's going on.
ivm 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm struggling to find a wallpaper that looks good under the transparent menu bar + the vertical dock on the right. So now it's almost black solid color.

miladyincontrol 4mo ago

Much as I have a not so great opinion on Siri's capabilities, I'm rather surprised how many people appear to use Siri/Apple Intelligence to search for rather niche hobby content that I run a site for. OpenAI's scrapers I expect volume from, but I didnt really expect apple's to be consistently rank second.

antirez 4mo ago

They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.

sixothree 4mo ago
The minimalism evocative wealth display is off-putting.
- kettlecorn 4mo ago
  In a time where people are increasingly disillusioned with the tech industry & billionaires the imagery Apple puts forward of a literally siloed utopian ultra wealthy landscape probably does rub people the wrong way, at least at a subconscious level. In the past Apple has been pretty good at anticipating and responding to shifting cultural dynamics. I wonder if they'll recognize and adjust?
  - thewebguyd 4mo ago
    I'm not sure it actually rubs people the wrong way, given Apple's sales numbers. Apple positions themselves as an aspirational brand. Everything they do is on purpose to enforce that. When people are upset at reality most people look for an escape into something else, not dive further into whats actually happening. The siloed utopian landscape is the point. Apple tries to sell a modern, clean lifestyle status symbol. They are selling products for the person you hope you become, not the person you are right now. "Buy an iPhone, and this is what your life could look like." Same deal as fad diets and gym memberships, its the illusion of being able to buy your way into a lifestyle without doing the hard work. Apple is selling an identity.
    - kettlecorn 4mo ago
      I agree with that, but I don't think it's incompatible with my observation. Apple has often in the past positioned itself as an aspirational product for those who aim to be tasteful, talented, beautiful and wealthy. The risk of becoming too disconnected from reality is that the typical person may stop aspiring to the sort of rich-person reality Apple presents. Think of how many of the symbols of wealth of prior generations, like fine tableware, were rejected by younger generations.

amrrs 4mo ago

Siri AI - looks like finally Siri is getting its due update, hopefully they ship it soon!

flippy_flops 4mo ago
I thought the same thing at the 2024 WWDC
mohsen1 4mo ago
"coming later this year" – still behind the schedule I have an iPhone 16 that was promised to have it. Now they are saying some features are available only on 17+ models
- jjice 4mo ago
  I believe the only features I saw, and I could be wrong, that require the 17 or air were the new dictation and Siri voices. Those weren't in the original promises for the iPhone 16. That said, I don't know how much actually changed in the hardware where that actually has to be gated.
atestu 4mo ago
From Apple's website: > iOS 27 coming this fall. > Siri Al coming in English later this year. So they're already admitting it won't be here in time for iOS 27.

Quitschquat 4mo ago

Are new MBPs eliding the notch?

fckgw 4mo ago
This is a software keynote, they very rarely talk hardware at WWDC
weikju 4mo ago
Let's find out when they announce them later this year or next year...

slopinthebag 4mo ago

They can't come up with a better demo than planning the menu for a party???

apetresc 4mo ago
Your first Apple keynote, huh?
Groxx 4mo ago
The irresistible urge to plan parties has infected them all: https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ

nsagent 4mo ago

They really are trying to convince the skeptics about AI privacy. Do they allow you to opt out of data collection to improve their models for Siri? What about allow users to choose on-device only processing? If not, they are only speaking to the converted when they have Craig drill home their supposed privacy guarantees.

cromka 4mo ago

"Goal Chasers" group chat. Yikes.

earthnail 4mo ago

The new Siri might bring AI to way more people than OpenAI managed to reach with ChatGPT. I wonder what it means to OpenAI‘s planned IPO. Curious to try the beta to see how the new Siri feels.

ACCount37 4mo ago
Not by much. ChatGPT alone is among the most popular apps ever made, and it's available both inside and outside Apple's walled garden. Letting it reach audience in countries where Apple doesn't have much of a foothold. I do wonder if new Siri is any good though. Apple used to be a genuine AI leader, but they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution, and Siri's response quality was a sad joke for a while now. Did they bring it up to modern standard?
- Schiendelman 4mo ago
  Traffic from Siri to the web is much higher than traffic from OpenAI, generally. It's the default. People installing ChatGPT takes work. And some of that traffic is also coming from Siri today… It won't after this launches.
  - ACCount37 4mo ago
    Because Siri defaults to dumb search much more often. While ChatGPT sucks up the search results and gives its own answer. Which either terminates the session, or goads the user into asking a follow-up question, improving retention - the user doesn't leave the app either way.
- chasd00 4mo ago
  > they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution I don't think so, i don't think they want to be in the LLM laboratory business. They just want to leverage the technology to make money not invent it. Hence the reason why they made a deal with Google to license Gemini, let OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out while Apple just keeps making sales. I think they're betting that in the long run LLMs become a commodity more or less and the major labs go bankrupt/get acquired by their heavy duty investors. I feel like Athropic will goto Amazon (AWS) and OpenAI may end up property of Microsoft. Google will remain Google of course so they're not going anywhere which is probaly why they won the deal with Apple. I'm pretty confident it's Gemini behind the curtain for Siri.

uejfiweun 4mo ago

All I want the ability to talk to Siri while I'm in the car. My buddy's Tesla has this feature with Grok and it's actually really awesome. Let me have an on-demand CONVERSATIONAL assistant, meaning something I'd actually want to have a conversation with.

gregcohn 4mo ago

Would really like Siri AI to have an MCP server

marksully 4mo ago
This would be huge
anthonypasq 4mo ago
as a third party developer, i would want my app to expose mcp/tools that siri can natively access as well
Toutouxc 4mo ago
To like, talk to Siri through Claude?
knollimar 4mo ago
They didn't even give you all of bluetooth. Not sure they'll let you do this

mococa 4mo ago

Cool, now how to disable Sire AI?

BugsJustFindMe 4mo ago

Siri wakes up on my phone every time they say "hey siri". I thought it was supposed to be bound to my voice. :/

Schiendelman 4mo ago
I was listening to Leviathan Wakes recently - on my car's Audible app (not carplay). Every time they said Ceres, it would wake up Siri...
myvoiceismypass 4mo ago
Listening to SiriusXM commercials in my car often triggers it for me. Howard Stern saying "SiriusXM" on his show also often triggers Siri on my apple watch.
browningstreet 4mo ago
they need a background scrobble that they can put under the demo "hey siri" voices that doesn't launch anything
jjkaczor 4mo ago
... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...
nevi-me 4mo ago
They should just license the tech from Google. Google might be missing the urinal with forcing Gemini down everything while not improving basics, but their keyword detection remains good for me.

Keyframe 4mo ago

For a company of Apple's caliber, I'd expect better lighting on the presenters.

breatheoften 4mo ago

Man that conversation history navigation for the new Siri app looks super unuseable ... how the hell am I supposed to actually find the conversation I want with the super-dynamic non-ordered 2-column offset-row view thing ...? It looks hard to use ... Also the 'floating semi-window but not a window' thing when using contextual siri in the context of some other app ... sure looks like it won't work with cmd-tab navigation ... I really hope is not the case ...

praash 4mo ago
I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac. You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.
- interestpiqued 4mo ago
  I think they were just pointing out the difference between that and iOS there
- isametry 4mo ago
  The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with: - no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+` - no minimize?? - generally no presence in the Dock whatsoever - no keyboard shortcuts beyond basic text editing ones - no smart window resize - … So in other words, no Justin, that’s not a window. That’s a resizable Spotlight pop-up with an “X” button.
  - Coeur 4mo ago
    My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.
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seydor 4mo ago

I often think that Zuck spent so much on metaverse in order to to bait Apple to spend enormously on an experimental product and OS which now they are forced to maintain

nozzlegear 4mo ago
I used to have an Apple Vision Pro; it was a genuinely great piece of tech. IMO if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit.
- PedroBatista 4mo ago
  It's great, yet you "used to have it" :)
  - nozzlegear 4mo ago
    Yes, I bought it to make apps when it first came out, but I immediately picked up a new Shopify client and couldn't justify the time/investment. I had to choose between dunking $5k on it to maybe develop apps when my work schedule opened up, or return it and get the money back.
  - uejfiweun 4mo ago
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- microtonal 4mo ago
  if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit It would be a PR disaster, most people outside the SV bubble just find smart glasses what they really are: creepy. Even more so because Meta is going to roll out face recognition and going to live-annotate people you encounter in the streets. Luckily that shit is not allowed in the EU.
  - nozzlegear 4mo ago
    A few things: - A lot of people found smart watches to be nerdy, something that only geeks would wear, until Apple made the Apple Watch. Along the same lines, everyone (on tech-oriented social media) thought the AirPods looked stupid and dorky when they were first announced, but now they're ubiquitous. - People find smart glasses from Meta (and previously, Google) creepy, but – and it's anathema to say this around certain parts of HN – like it or not, people do generally trust Apple with their data in a way that they don't with those other companies. - It seems like you're assuming Apple's glasses would include outward-facing cameras in the first place. Do we know that? The ideal device for me would just include the downward-facing IR cameras for gesture detection. Presumably only people under NDA can say for sure right now. > Luckily that shit is not allowed in the EU. What's not allowed? Facial recognition, street annotation, AI? Does it make a difference if it's local, on-device AI?

chasd00 4mo ago

I wonder if visual intelligence can be used to produced code like claudcode can. like highlight a UI component on an app you like and say "implement this for me". I can take screenshots of figma and give it to claude code to implement and it gets it pretty close.

amne 4mo ago
or use the already existing figma mcp

imWildCat 4mo ago

Over-polished WWDC keynote is just another great example that we as individuals with great motivation can do better Even my prompt with Veo3 or Seedance 2.0 generated video can do better than Apple

kimbernator 4mo ago

I don't know why I torture myself with these kinds of presentations anymore. Aside from the obvious "It's all AI" complaint, it feels like every problem they describe as needing a solution is fundamentally basic human reasoning that they are hoping we'll replace with a non-deterministic interaction with our phones. Splitting a tab by taking a picture and letting AI split it for you? Get out a fucking calculator. Is that really a scenario they think will excite people? Their portrayal of a world where we depend on computers for such simple thoughts is not a positive one.

MSKJ 4mo ago
Kids these days can't even split a tab without using a calculator. Next they'll forget how to balance a checkbook

dwa3592 4mo ago

finally Siri and Apple intelligence are getting some much needed updates. Most of the stuff shown was already open source and had been achieved under 16GB of ram so it is timely.

CodeCompost 4mo ago

Are we going to hear more Ay! than a Mariachi band?

alberth 4mo ago

While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?

kmlx 4mo ago
it’s the list of features to disable. it’s been like that for the past… 5 years? 4?
uejfiweun 4mo ago
Conversational Siri - yes, absolutely. All the rest - probably not.

cdrnsf 4mo ago

I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.

officeplant 4mo ago
This is my biggest concern. I've only stuck with Apple during this AI nonsense era because the parental/screentime controls allow to me completely shut it down, and I've never toggled it on in the Siri/AI options. It took a while but the 7GB they initially stole from me for the AI nonsense I'm not using eventually cleared itself out of storage. I already have Siri limited to manual activation only. If they force all of this into Siri and I can't prevent AI models from actually installing their gubby hands all over the phone then that's it for me.
- memco 4mo ago
  I didn't see it touched on, but I'm hoping improved storage management is included in the update. My system has > 20% storage used by "system storage" and in total nearly half the device storage is used by ios and is outside my control. Supposedly some of this stuff is just cache data and there's no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting. Handling for large files is also hit or miss and could use some updates. I didn't even realize some of that was AI stuff I might not even be using.
  - officeplant 4mo ago
    Yeah file management in general is still incredibly rough around the edges. I would still like to be able to simply grab files from my phone via a connected linux computer, but apple will never let me have that one. >no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting Unfortunately the only current ways to pull this off is to either artificially move the current time years forward so it hits a time gate and dumps the cached files, or use enough space on your iPhone to force it to dump the useless cached files then delete whatever you used to take up space temporarily.
tencentshill 4mo ago

gguingff 4mo ago

even the market understands this is a massive failure by apple, nobody needs another chat application especially using that stupid overlay window. looks like apple won't leapfrog anyone and has zero agentic features to show and no resetting a password doesn't count as agentic apple.

ohmahjong 4mo ago

Yoof, that reframing is interesting but took LONG

theshrike79 4mo ago
It’s fully local though
- avarun 4mo ago
  It is literally not. They clearly said that it uses their cloud.
- jjice 4mo ago
  Some small features are fully local (like the list sorting added in a recent iOS), but all of the neat features like world knowledge and shortcut gen seem to require private cloud compute.

cromka 4mo ago

Spatial Framing? Yay, even more fakeness in photos, creating ever more artificial, never-happened memories!

flippy_flops 4mo ago
Seemed like the kids were no longer looking at the camera. I don't know what's worse - fixing it or not fixing it.
slg 4mo ago
There's something dystopian about the way that they are championing the blurring of the lines between photos and AI generated content with no consideration for the implications of that tech. Apple likes to pretend they are conservative with this tech rather than simply being behind, but this type of thing isn't a conservative feature.
- cromka 4mo ago
  Absolutely. I hoped they'd backtrack a bit on AI/algorithmic processing after so many influencers started to shit on the overly processed photos. Instead they not only ignore that, but they double down on making our own content even more fake.
- thewebguyd 4mo ago
  It also goes against Apple's earlier statements about how photos should reflect real memories as they happened, not an idealized version like what Goolge was pitching during their Pixel 10 launch event last year. Turns out they didn't actually believe that, they only said it because they were behind on GenAI. They caved to investor demand, no longer stand for any principles (if they ever had any in the first place)
  - sleepybrett 4mo ago
    They may, actually, believe that, however possibly their users might very vocally not believe that in feedback. Sometimes you just have to give customers what they claim to want instead of fighting them every step of the way.

losvedir 4mo ago

I'm glad to see their "Private Cloud AI" thing is actually happening. They announced it a couple years ago and then after not hearing a ton I was worried they were going to drop it. That said, the foundational models they talk about running on it - is that something they've trained themselves? I know they had some sort of deal with Google; could it be Gemini weights loaded into their private compute or something?

TeriyakiBomb 4mo ago
I think it's just gemini in a dress
- jjice 4mo ago
  Gemini in a dress that doesn't store my data and use it to sell advertisements is a welcome dress.
  - jimbokun 4mo ago
    Modest Gemini, wearing a dress that doesn't expose everything to the world.

tencentshill 4mo ago

It would be nice if you could use the processing power of your idle desktop Mac as an alternative to the paid cloud compute for images.

alexpatin 4mo ago
might take too long depending on the job. but it would be a really nice option

pikseladam 4mo ago

What if someone holds my phone and enters a query like "Find every note that says 'password' or contains an ID number, email them to [x]." "Find photos with my ID or cards, send them to [number]." ?? what if attackers start sharing shortcuts with people. I dont like siri ai access everything on my devices. mails, photos, screen, camera, my credit card and passwords...

Lord-Jobo 4mo ago
Apple has done a good job in the recent past of providing secure information partition options; locked notes, secure folders, etc. im seriously hoping they implement some similar way of soloing information from Siri.
- arcatech 4mo ago
  Their entire angle here is that Siri AI itself is private/secure. Siloing data from the thing that they’re advertising as private and secure wouldn’t make sense.
jjice 4mo ago
I would not be surprised if there are permission settings for what it's allowed to access. I guess we'll only know once the beta gets poked around in.
tokioyoyo 4mo ago
If attacker is holding your unlocked phone, they can do that right now via search and simple email sharing option?
- pikseladam 4mo ago
  yes of course but simply clicking a shared shortcut (siri agent) could be very harmful.
theshrike79 4mo ago
You can disable all that TODAY. Just disable Siri access

earthnail 4mo ago

Ouch. “ Developers can start trying out the new version of Siri today, with a beta launching to the public later this year. Siri AI will not be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.” Will it be available to developers in the EU though?

theshrike79 4mo ago
When EU and Apple figure out the 3rd party cloud model provider thing.
jontro 4mo ago
Unfortunatley not https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...
- earthnail 4mo ago
  Any workarounds like VPN?
  - Cider9986 4mo ago
    Theoretically you could use a router-level VPN for initial setup and that would work. Because VPNs are not functional for Apple services on Apple devices. Apple services bypass the VPN and reveal your real IP address, or in the case of trying to get different features, reveal your location to Apple. Even if they were functional you still would want to use a router-level VPN because you couldn't install a VPN before your device connected to the internet.
tpdly 4mo ago
Not foreseeably. As others have mentioned, DMA requires AI integrations to accommodate competition. To my mind, Apple's Webkit-only playbook is the prototype here. Waaaay too much money to be made as a GEO broker. Namely by selling position/advantages in the harness, or just use it to maintain ecosystem lock in.
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Alex_L_Wood 4mo ago

I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.

microtonal 4mo ago
Apple not rolling out a lot of this stuff in the EU (immediately) is a feature.
nirava 4mo ago
Couldn’t you do this by turning off Siri and Apple Intelligence, two global toggles?

eknkc 4mo ago

I was hoping for some kind of a Siri LLM API for providers to implement so that I'd be able to use Gemini, ChatGPT, maybe Openrouter, SELF HOSTED or whatever the fuck I want. Given that Apple itself does not really have a horse in the LLM race, it made sense. Say the ChatGPT app would provide the functionality to the system and I'd allow a scary popup saying "these guys will own you, sure?".. I guess they are going all in into Gemini instead. But I don't want Gemini..

cebert 4mo ago

It's uncanny how they announce that AI features won't be available in the UK or China, and then, with a smile, proceed with, "Now, let's discuss what's next for developers."

kettlez 4mo ago

"Siri AI will not be available in E.U. until we figure out privacy" Funny to hear that after they mentioned how seriously they are taking privacy every 37 seconds.

cromka 4mo ago
Laughed at it, too. It's almost as if they admit the EU privacy legislation enforces ACTUAL privacy.
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- singularity2001 4mo ago
  or could it be the other way around that actual privacy is forbidden in Europe because they want to read your messages
  - cromka 4mo ago
    It's not about how it is but how they made it sound. Let's not get ideological here.
  - peterspath 4mo ago
    This. They come up with so many laws under so many pretences that want to take away the freedom of private communications
IMTDb 4mo ago
Privacy and EU regulation are two very different things.
theshrike79 4mo ago
EU wants them to open up the cloud models to any 3rd party. How can Apple guarantee privacy then?
robot_jesus 4mo ago

diimdeep 4mo ago

Still deliberately running macOS Sequoia 15 cuz you know… and if I'll switch to something hopefully better than Tahoe will disable SIP and every thing that is not needed to just launch software, this OS has gotten too obese.

cromka 4mo ago

Kinda love that Tim said his goodbyes with a rainbow in the background. Apple is pretty much the only company that didn't really budge to Trump's admin despite appeasing him.

Todd 4mo ago
Don't forget Costco
- cromka 4mo ago
  Yup, indeed. But it's crazy we can count those companies in single digits. Shows how cynical the corporate PR really is; they'll virtue signal for years and then forget their inclusiveness shamelessly on a whim.
microtonal 4mo ago
Except that he validated Trump by giving him gold trinkets and donated $1M to his inauguration. Cook is an enabler.
- cromka 4mo ago
  That's what I meant by "seemingly".
  - avarun 4mo ago
    You didn't say seemingly.
    - cromka 4mo ago
      Wow I could have sworn I did. Good cstchm
badc0ffee 4mo ago
It's the retro Apple logo rainbow they've had since they opened Apple Park. It could be interpreted as a pride rainbow, but the colours are different and in a different order.

kylehotchkiss 4mo ago

Bye Tim, thanks for making tech fun the past 10 years. No new hardware, feels like the party is over. Thanks Altman for the greed.

thewebguyd 4mo ago
Has there ever been hardware launched at WWDC? It's a developer conference, not a hardware launch. Hardware is in the fall.
- throwfaraway4 4mo ago
  AVP
- badc0ffee 4mo ago
  Not every year, but yes.
- K7PJP 4mo ago
  They have on occasion, when it makes sense to unveil OS changes and hardware simultaneously. Apple Vision Pro, move to new architecture, 2019 Mac Pro tower – that sort of thing. Most years they don't announce new hardware, though.
sneakymichael 4mo ago
The WWDC keynote is a software, not hardware, announcement…?

PedroBatista 4mo ago

That AI segment was a boomer core slop fest. But to be fair, it's clear that Apple is not on the AI bleeding edge and it appears it doesn't want to be, it cannot afford to ignore it tho. Let's hope they don't get overconfident with Gemini and pull a MS Copilot..

thewebguyd 4mo ago
> it appears it doesn't want to be I get this vibe too. Turning Siri into yet another chatbot is a far cry from the vaporware they showed at 2024's WWDC. Seems they found out LLMs can't actually do that, but investors aren't just going to let them ignore it unfortunately. Feels like they are just phoning it in here and waiting on AI hype bubble to burst. "Here's your stupid chatbot, now shut up"
whywhywhywhy 4mo ago
Far too much focus on having AI write things for your loved ones, invites etc. Shouldn't those be the moments where you're writing it yourself.

norman784 4mo ago

Are we living the worst times in a while technology wise, this presentation showed nothing useful. Last year at least they showed some interesting features, but as always I don’t use any of them, the only one I wanted in the past few years was to use the iPhone from my mac, but never shipped in EU. And the other feature was universal control that I use every day and works just fine most of the time.

quentindanjou 4mo ago
I don't think so. We have tons of apps and ideas and now AI. I honestly don't expect much from an OS on my phone or laptop and I am glad they improve what matter: OS performance and bugs. I don't mind having the "innovation" in the apps and not in the OS. Or at least for the first time and then brought in a well-thought-out ecosystem.
Grombobulous 4mo ago
This WWDC is thin, but it seems like a lot of it outside of AI is a refinement year. For them to just blanket announce that a bunch of stuff across the platforms perform better, that shows that Apple spent most of their effort on quality over shipping features. It’s also possible they’re preparing for less availability of RAM long term and trying to optimize. The list of stuff they had go highlighted includes a whole bunch of small but impactful little tweaks. iCloud shared libraries being easier to use outside of Apple operating systems, that’s great. And adding full resolution support, also great. I’ve left iCloud Photos and macOS for myself but I’m stuck on iCloud shared photos with family albums, so making it easier for me to participate is a big plus. Custom EQ in AirPods. Awesome. Smoother network transitions between WiFi and cellular. Huge positive impact. Send indicator in messages, yes please. The parental controls are industry-leading. The AI features are the most boring and uninteresting to me, but the little stuff is all big news to me.
- steve_adams_86 4mo ago
  > The parental controls are industry-leading. They've been awful for me. This is best-in-class software? It breaks constantly. It fails to notify me of all kinds of events that should work, but spontaneously fail to. This could be someone entering the parental control pin or requesting to download an app. It's misery to deal with. I've used it for years across several devices and kids. It's some of the worst software I ever need to use.

dabinat 4mo ago

Honestly, I’m more excited about a faster and more polished OS than any new feature they announced.

slg 4mo ago

I think the potentially most impactful singular feature mentioned in all this is being able to conversationally describe Shortcuts for AI to create. That feels like the type of thing that if done right can change how we all use our phones in a way that things like Siri becoming smarter and more conversational likely won't.

abhi_kr 4mo ago
User defined Safari Extensions was also pretty cool.
praash 4mo ago
I really like this idea of rapidly extensible software, a browser is a nice sandbox for it! Models also seem to be much better at generating programs than "manually" executing a described task.
novafunc 4mo ago
I used Gemini Pro to convert health data from a .csv and import it into Apple Health. Worked first try. I just hope the AI Apple use is smart enough for the task. And that giving the AI information it needs is easy (such as a snippet of the health data so it knows what it's working with).

drcongo 4mo ago

The whimsy in this can absolutely do one in 2026.

thewebguyd 4mo ago

In case anyone missed it, Apple's dropping support for Watch Series 6/7/8/9 and the Ultra 1 with this release. The 9 isn't even 3 years old yet until September, absolutely garbage support timeline for a wearable. I have a Series 9, and it's still essentially like new. edit Seems this was an error on Apple's part, all watches that support 26 should get 27

avarun 4mo ago
Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS
- thewebguyd 4mo ago
  On their WatchOS page, about halfway down: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/ https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/
  - avarun 4mo ago
    Has to be a fuckup. watchOS 26 supported the Series 6 onwards. I don't think Apple has ever cut 3 generations of devices with a single yearly OS upgrade unless there's an underlying architecture reason for it before. This might be the list for Siri AI supported watches or something.
    - thewebguyd 4mo ago
      Seems you are correct, the beta is now showing available on my Series 9 at least.
  - deinonychus 4mo ago
    wow this blows. do they ever like release an OS for older machines at a later date?
jmyeet 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm shocked at this [1]. The Series 9 was released in September 2023, not quite 3 years old. Apple is normally very good with long-term support. This is surprising to say the least. I bought a 10 last year when it was current-gen and it's going to be the minimum supported Watch with the next version of Watch OS? WTF? At least I'm glad I did that rather than repalcing a battery on an even older Watch. iPads aren't free from this either but it's a little less severe [2]. For example, iPad Air 4th gen will be the minimum iPad Air and it was released in 2020. The M1 iPad Pro was released in 2021 and will be the minimum there. [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/watchos-27-drops-support-for-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-se-2/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/watchos-27-drops-suppor... j2]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/ipados-27-drops-support-for-a-wave-of-ipads/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/ipados-27-drops-support...

throwfaraway4 4mo ago

I gotta say, as I read these comments HN's bubble is showing with astounding clarity. The top comment is about presenter authenticity? Idle Mac used for cloud models? No features are useful? I can't help but think for most folks out there these features make using Apple products considerably more powerful and easy. They may be "boomer" features and you won't be able to roll them into your MCP server, but IMO it doesn't take a huge perspective leap to understand how they're game changers.

arcatech 4mo ago
You think criticism is a sign of being in a bubble?
- cromka 4mo ago
  Especially funny because you could make an exact opposite claim, i.e. that criticism is a sing of not being in a bubble.

etempleton 4mo ago

A real snooze fest. I care so little about the AI features. I felt like they introduced the same thing over and over again. I would be more excited if they said “AI? Yeah, we decided we aren’t interested in doing it anymore.”

prymitive 4mo ago

The only thing that interested in is: did they fix screen brightness getting super dim even when the slider is at max? That’s incredibly annoying and frustrating, and it’s been like that since first 26 release. And it’s a clear bug because brightness resets to expected level if I go to photos and open an HDR image. I can wait for autocomplete that doesn’t suggest garbage 50% of the time, but this one is just too annoying. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256141236 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256141236

gordon_freeman 4mo ago
I thought this is happening for me because I have an old iPhone 11 with degrading battery, screen etc. Did not realize that this is so widespread problem across devices. Really annoying when that happens! Almost unusable phone.
Royce-CMR 4mo ago
Damn I thought this was just me. I figured it was a temp thing - device too hot for ongoing high brightness, and the photos app overrides because someone decided if you are trying to show a photo, do the job right to the limit. Ugh so newer phones have this too? (15 pro max). Another reason to not upgrade.

tizio13 4mo ago

It's nice to see the improve focused on AI and recognition of their past missteps. So far out of all the announcements this past month, I think this will be the most significant. The increased emphasis with on device models is exactly the right move. I'm tired of sending data out of my computer when it isn't needed.

praash 4mo ago

Lightweight browser extensions generated on demand, now there's a good use case for what they seem to be actually building. Extending applications without having to launch a full agentic IDE. Macos is already very well equipped with GUI automation tools.

chris_money202 4mo ago

I have to say, I extremely dislike AI processing of photos. The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments. Distorting that with AI and being okay with it is really disappointing.

nicebyte 4mo ago
when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particular, I think it's fair to say that you never really see the "real" image as captured by the CCD sensor, and even if you did you would not like it anyway.
- chris_money202 4mo ago
  Not sure I agree with the cropping argument, would be no different than cutting a printed photo with scissors. I would lump the other image manipulations done by hardware into "AI manipulation" as well, although those tend to be much more modest.
- merlindru 4mo ago
  cropping doesn't alter the moment captured. or, rather, you're also cropping when taking a picture - no camera can capture all 360 degrees. so what is being captured is altered from the get. yet i don't think you'd argue that the act of taking a photo is the same as photoshopping a giant giraffe into a photo :P i don't think arguing that taking a photo which is cropped/enhanced (as in sharpening, color correction, ...) is akin to changing what's displayed in it. those distortions only serve to let us better focus on what truly happened in a moment, not change the moment in essence.
  - SSLy 4mo ago
    what about keystone correction? A staple in any proper digital image editing tool

mrichman 4mo ago

So sterile and performative.

heisenbit 4mo ago

Now if they just let me switch off the sound when I connect the charger. For any couple not going to bed at the same time and charging their phone at the bed this may be a welcome innovation. I'm willing to license this idea for free.

sirwhinesalot 4mo ago

They fixed all the extremely egregious issues with Liquid Glass, good to see. It's still an extremely ugly, "worst of both worlds" combination of wasted space (from early-gen flat design) with gaudy effects (from late-gen skeumorphism), but at least now it is usable. I'd never update to macOS 26, but 27 I might, begrudgingly.

TeriyakiBomb 4mo ago
In the first beta they've actually made aspects of it worse with more instances of the glass effect than before. It's still very distracting even with the slider all the way over to opaque
yurishimo 4mo ago
Even if it sucks, there is always the possibility that some software you use finally updates and you dont have a good alternative to replace it. Especially if you consider corporate fleets. Many IT departments are okay to let you lag behind OS updates for a major version, but not 2 or 3. So if I am being forced to upgrade, I’m glad 27 is likely going to fix a lot of stuff anyway.

officeplant 4mo ago

Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates." Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.

groundzeros2015 4mo ago
What do you want?
- officeplant 4mo ago
  The ability to continue to completely lock down Apple Intelligence to the point where it even free's up the ~7gb it takes up on the phone. Currently this works in iOS 26 as long as I never accidentally toggle it back on via Apples dark pattern attempts that happen every few software updates. Also for the ability to continue using Siri without Apple Intelligence would be nice. I rarely need to use Siri so it's already set for manual triggering with the power button long press only. But if Siri goes into the AI shitter then I'll just wholesale disable it.
desolate_muffin 4mo ago
As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?
- officeplant 4mo ago
  What makes you think I would go crawling back to a worse AI hellscape? Dumbphones exist, degoogled phones exist. If it weren't for the USA's telcom differences a fairphone with PostmarketOS would be great. I enjoy postmarketOS on my pinephone, the phone's hardware is just far too shit for daily driving.

nixpulvis 4mo ago

I swear I watched this Keynote before when they announced Apple Intelligence. Then proceeded to deliver nothing. Apple is so lost it makes me really sad.

fridder 4mo ago

I know it was a long shot but still mighty disappointed with no m5ultra mac studio

rightlane 4mo ago

WWDC makes me sad. It was such a great in person conference, I remember having a really weird issue with cookie handoff in Safari, and being able to sit down with a bunch of the Safari engineers to troubleshoot the issue. It started with one, then more and more engineers came to give ideas! I appreciate making it available to everyone but it feels like there needs to be some kind of middle ground. IOS development just isn't as much fun absent the in-person community.

flutas 4mo ago
FWIW: My colleague went to Google IO in person this year, he said the entire vibe was just off this year describing it as "almost somber" to quote him.
tmoertel 4mo ago
Do they still have the "Stump The Experts" event at WWDC? You know, where you ask Apple engineers a technical question about their work and, if they can't answer it, you win a t-shirt with tree stumps on it.
- wpm 4mo ago
  They did not as far as I know back in 2024, the last, and likely last WWDC I'll ever go to.

t1234s 4mo ago

first WWDC I haven't bothered to watch in over a decade.

steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Right there with you. It feels weird not to care. I used to look forward to it. Last year I watched a bit and bailed. This year, I opened the stream after it finished, clicked through to a few spots, noticed I didn't care at all and got back to work.

tamimio 4mo ago

I don’t agree with the whole kids “safety”, if your child is too young they shouldn’t be using such electronics without direct supervision in the first place, ie you sitting with them, and if you don’t have some time to be with your child you shouldn’t have children to start with. If your child however is able to comprehend conversations, the parenting should be based on trust and communication, rather than further surveillance and control. This is bad and mostly will result in two outcomes: a more systematic domestication to groom the child into accepting such surveillance from a higher authority, so later in life they are more susceptible to be monitored by employers or even the government, just like how schools domesticate people to be a cog in the machine later in life. The other outcome, is a complete radical shift where that kid goes on doing anything and everything as soon as they are in their own.

analogpixel 4mo ago

I read through a summary of what was announced today, and I don't really want/care about any of it. The biggest apple announcement today that I was excited about, and would tell other people about was https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ I have an older iPhone that can't run any of this new stuff, and I'm not upgrading because I have no reason to. I think I actually prefer at this point to be on an older phone that won't get all of this. When is technology going to get exciting and fun again? (that's not 100% true, I was excited to hear they were walking back liquid glass.)

yreg 4mo ago
I'm very happy with their announcements - fixing the main liquid glass issues (transparency, toolbars, window corners) - rewriting OS components to work better - fixing the ever annoying "The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time" problem (we knew this was going to happen by following the Swift project, but still) Honestly, we really really needed a year with less features and more work put towards improving the platforms.
archagon 4mo ago
I do enjoy reading about what the Swift team is doing. (And other folks working on the lower decks — kernel, Foundation, etc. The AI brainrot hasn't seeped down there yet.)

wallaBBB 4mo ago

WWDC - time of the year Apple reminds us it has a VR.

gigatexal 4mo ago

I’m so stoked for macOS 27 for feature improvements and polish. The ai stuff fine but a snow leopard like release I’m here for.

ksec 4mo ago

Are there any summary of all the new under the hood features rather than user features? I don't want ( or care ) about UI and AI on WWDC. I want to know how they got 30% smaller in Xcode? What was done? New CPU Scheduler? Improvement to APFS? Metal API ? Memory and Performance Optimisation? There used to be more information on WWDC and the State of Union. But with every year past they have deleted it to consumer level marketing speak.

Bulbasaur2015 4mo ago

underwhelming and super disappointing. still no hyprland or native tiling manager on mac. siri ai is a lagging copy of openclaw

4lx87 4mo ago

No parents on HN? The new parental controls are everything I could ask for.