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wwdc is one of Apple's biggest events of
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the year and it is just days away this
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is where Apple announces all their
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upcoming software updates to iOS MacOss
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iPad OS and so much more there's a lot
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of rumors apple no doubt has a lot of
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surprises for us but here's what we're
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expecting so the biggest rumor of the
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event is that there's going to be a
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major software redesign the biggest leap
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that there has been since iOS 6 became
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iOS 7 and OS 10 Mavericks became Yusede
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the new interface draws heavy
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inspiration from Vision OS users can
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expect to see glassy translucent menus
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and panels throughout the system
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creating a more immersive and modern
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visual experience the new design
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supposedly brings subtle motion and
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lighting effects that shimmer and wave
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as you move the device in your hands app
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icons might also become even more
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rounded than before giving them a fresh
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new look this new design will come to
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the iPhone iPad Mac even the Apple Watch
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Apple TV and CarPlay it'll leave no
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stone unturned on the iPhone other
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design elements might be tweaked or
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changed most notably the tab bar at the
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bottom of the screen which has been a
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staple since iPhone OS 1 the tab bar
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will now be a floating menu type deal
1:29
that can expand and contract show
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different things and most notably it'll
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bring the search bar to the bottom of
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the screen where you can reach it with a
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thumb if you have a Plus or Pro Max
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sized iPhone the camera app is due for
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its first major redesign since iOS 7 no
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longer will you swipe between that tiny
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skinny little rotating menu the primary
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toggles at the bottom of the screen will
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be photo and video and additional modes
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like portrait or cinematic or panorama
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will be in a submen that's easier to
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access the other big rumor is that Apple
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might change how it numbers its
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operating systems they all go up by one
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every year but they all started at
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different times so we have iOS 18 Mac OS
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15 Vision OS 2 Watch OS 11 instead they
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will switch to a unified system based on
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the upcoming year so instead we'll have
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iOS 26 iPad OS 26 Mac OS 26 etc you also
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may be able to use your iPhone as a
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computer plugging it into an external
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display you'll be able to use apps on a
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bigger screen and even use a keyboard
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and mouse or trackpad kind of like an
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iPad in stage manager the health app
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will also get a new redesign that'll be
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reorganized to be much more intuitive
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than before right now it's kind of a
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mess in terms of new features Apple
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plans on adding expert-led video content
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that will help explain certain health
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concepts or metrics advanced food
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tracking capabilities and fitness
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tracking capabilities apple might
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introduce a new AI powered low power
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mode that will intelligently learn from
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your usage behavior charging habits and
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background activity to intelligently
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adjust your phone's performance for the
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best battery life and a new lock screen
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indicator will show how long it'll take
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for your phone to hit 100% charge now
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let's move on to the iPad the iPad is
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always being pulled in these two
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different directions between people who
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just want to use it as a simple tablet
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like a bigger phone and the people who
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want to use it as a modular computer
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with a keyboard and mouse who are
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perpetually frustrated that the iPad
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doesn't have all the capabilities of a
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Mac well reportedly this year iPad OS 26
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or perhaps 19 will be getting more power
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user features according to reliable
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leaker Majin Buu when you connect your
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iPad to a keyboard and pointing device
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like the Magic Keyboard you'll get a
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menu bar at the top of the screen just
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like on the Mac and you'll also get more
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advanced windowing controls with freely
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resizable windows and stage manager and
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possibly more windows available on
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screen than before according to a less
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reliable leaker who simply wrote in
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anonymously to the connected podcast
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there will be other improvements to
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Stage Manager as well you'll have a
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triangular cursor just like on the Mac
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as opposed to the circular cursor you
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have right now and you'll be able to
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have many more windows on screen at once
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directly proportional to how much RAM
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your iPad has four windows if you have 4
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gigabytes six windows if you have six
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gigabytes or 12 windows if you have 8
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gigabytes you'll be able to freely
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position these windows just like on the
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Mac speaking of the Mac it'll also get
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that new visual redesign it'll also get
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that new naming system but it'll
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continue with the additional brand named
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after a place in California and
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according to Bloomberg's Mark German Mac
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OS 26 will be called Tahoe like Tahoe is
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apparently famous for its deep blue
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color that beautifully reflects the sky
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and the surrounding mountains and Apple
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apparently thinks this is a fitting name
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for a Mac OS with a brand new glossy
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glass-like look it is also apparently a
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popular vacation destination and a lot
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of Apple executives have second homes in
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the area apple will also be dropping
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support for older Intel Macs most
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notably the 2018 MacBook Pro and the
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iMac Pro mac OS Tahoe will only run on
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Macs from 2019 or later moving on to the
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Apple Watch in addition to watch OS
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getting the new system redesign and
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numbering system the biggest new feature
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this year will be limited support for
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Apple Intelligence apple Intelligence
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doesn't currently run on the Apple Watch
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due to its much more limited processing
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capability the Apple Watch Ultra 2 only
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has four neural engine cores as opposed
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to 16 on the iPhone and it's a much
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lower power device apple might be adding
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some of the new Siri capabilities and
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even Genoji creation on the Apple Watch
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although just like notification
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summaries this will probably offload the
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processing power to your iPhone so the
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feature will only work when your iPhone
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is nearby now let's move on to the
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Vision Pro which already has a Vision
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Pro inspired user interface but with the
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new numbering scheme we might be jumping
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directly from Vision OS 2 to 26 the
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Vision Pro might be getting a new way to
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scroll through web pages lists and other
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content right now when you want to
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scroll a web page you focus your eyes on
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the window tap two fingers together and
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flick your wrist in the direction you
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want kind of like tapping to scroll on
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an
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iPhone apparently according to Mark
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German you'll be able to scroll
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hands-free using just your eyes so this
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will probably mean when you focus your
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eyes at the bottom of the screen stuff
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will automatically scroll up in that
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direction this could be a lot more
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comfortable than using the full hand
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gesture because flicking your entire
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wrist can actually get a little tiring
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after a few hours of use the Vision Pro
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may also get special support for the
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PSVR2 Sense controller made by Sony
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other Apple devices have wide ranging
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support for all kinds of thirdparty
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controllers like the Xbox PlayStation
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and Nintendo Switch 2 Pro controller i
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regularly use a PS4 controller on my Mac
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and on my Vision Pro but it's not really
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designed for spatial content and games
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the PSVR2 Sense controller could be a
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big upgrade to VR gaming on the Vision
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Pro and if it's true I'm excited to try
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it out those are the only two concrete
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rumors for the Vision Pro but I bet
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there will be a lot more to announce
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here namely this is the first time Apple
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has had a full 12 months between major
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releases so I wouldn't be surprised if
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they spend a lot of time on the next
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version of Vision OS namely Apple could
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bring more native apps to the platform a
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lot of built-in apps like maps calendar
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reminders podcasts are running in iPad
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compatibility mode and especially maps
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would be a prime candidate for a great
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native Vision OS app other parts of
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Vision OS are just kind of rudimentary
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or clunky the home screen for example is
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just a big long list of icons that you
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can put in folders just like iOS 4 so
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I'd love to see an app library on the
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Vision Pro notifications and control
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center still feel a little awkward to
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use there are barely any window controls
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either you can move them around manually
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in your physical space resize them hide
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them or close them but nothing that
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helps manage windows for you i'd like to
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see something like Stage Manager or
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Mission Control on the Mac come to the
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Vision Pro i'd also like to see much
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more integration with the iPhone using
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my iPhone while I'm wearing my Vision
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Pro is a giant pain in the ass namely if
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my Apple Watch can unlock my iPhone
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while I'm wearing a mask I don't see why
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my Vision Pro can't unlock my iPhone
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while I'm wearing my Vision Pro iphone
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mirroring on the Mac would be great on
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the Vision Pro namely because looking at
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your iPhone screen through the Vision
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Pro's pass through cameras is a blurry
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illeible mess and call forwarding would
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be great to have it's on basically every
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other platform now phone calls that you
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receive can be relayed from your iPhone
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to your Mac your iPad your Apple Watch
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but for some reason not your Vision Pro
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and that is just the lowest hanging
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fruit finally Apple can add more
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immersive content and immersive
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environments the environments that they
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added in Vision OS 2 the sunny beach and
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the spooky lake are now my two personal
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favorites and with the commercial
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release of a Blackmagic camera that can
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natively record immersive video content
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I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has
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picked up production and there will be
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many more immersive videos and shows
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going forward last and definitely least
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let's talk Apple Intelligence apple
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probably won't have as many Apple
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Intelligence features to talk about this
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year namely because they spent most of
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the last 12 months finishing and
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shipping the features they had announced
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last June but nonetheless there are a
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few things that should be on the way
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shortcuts is the app that lets users
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build automations by piecing together a
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bunch of actions that can control your
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phone and according to Mark German Apple
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plans on using Apple intelligence to let
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users build shortcuts automations
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automatically using a natural language
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prompt building shortcut can be kind of
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intimidating with the dozens of pages of
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options but if you could just give a
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natural language prompt and have your
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phone build a shortcut for you that
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could be pretty powerful app Intents the
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underlying software framework that
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powers shortcuts was also going to power
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a smarter version of Siri that would be
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able to take natural language commands
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and execute them instantly on your
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behalf and Apple announced this last
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year at WWDC 24 but then delayed the
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feature to the coming year i don't know
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whether that means 2025 or 2026 but
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regardless Apple might reannounce this
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smarter version of Siri again in iOS 18
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developers can add existing Apple
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intelligence features like writing tools
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or image playground into their app using
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a small limited set of APIs but
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supposedly the next version of iOS will
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have a much more open-ended API that'll
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let developers build new AI features on
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top of Apple's powerful and ondevice
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foundation model that means that if a
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developer wants to add AI features to
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their app like audio transcriptions or
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text summaries they won't have to use a
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third party service from OpenAI or
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Anthropic they'll be able to use Apple's
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built-in APIs which could run on device
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and will probably be free that would
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open up custom brand new AI features to
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all kinds of thirdparty apps from big
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companies like Airbnb to small indie
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developers who make apps like Impulse
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Paprika or even free open-source apps
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like Net Newswire project Malbury is the
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internal code name for an AI health
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coach that'll analyze your data inside
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the health app and provide personalized
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health recommendations to you apple is
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training this agent using data from its
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in-house physicians and the project is
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reportedly in deep development and may
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not ship until the spring of next year
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so Apple may or may not actually
13:19
announce it next week according to
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Bloomberg Apple is testing multiple new
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versions of its foundation model
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versions with 3 billion 7 billion 33
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billion and 150 billion parameters are
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now in active use the latter of which
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would run exclusively by private cloud
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compute Apple's AI cloud servers while
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the latest Foundation models allegedly
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have similar performance to recent
13:47
releases of Chat GPT Apple still refuses
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to make an open-ended conversational
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chatbot due to concerns over
13:55
hallucinations and philosophical
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differences among executives but any
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improvement to the underlying foundation
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model will improve the quality of every
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Apple intelligence feature from better
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output from the writing tools to more
14:10
accurate summarizations and more apple
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continues to work on the so-called LLM
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Siri the groundup reimagining of the
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much maligned voice assistant but it
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probably won't be ready this year it
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just got new management as recently as
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March a new Siri feature dubbed
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knowledge would be able to pull in data
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from the open web much like chat GPT
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this would probably mean asking Siri an
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open-ended question to have it search
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the web for you process the top results
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and give you a summarized
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answer however Robbie Walker is in
14:48
charge of this project the very same
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person who previously fumbled the ball
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on Siri and supposedly the knowledge
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project is already running into
14:58
development problems so don't hold your
15:01
breath the translate app might be
15:03
integrated inside AirPods for realtime
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live translation your Apple Watch will
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be getting realtime transcriptions of
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what people are saying around you swift
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Assist the AI programming tool that can
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write or refactor your code for you that
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was announced last year is supposedly
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still in development and might get an
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update and finally Bloomberg says that
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Apple might quietly rebrand several
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existing features in apps like Safari
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and Notes as being AI powered possibly
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to make it seem like the Apple
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Intelligence team has been more
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productive than they really have and on
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that depressing note we have our roundup
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