During its WWDC24 keynote Monday, Apple laid out dramatic new software updates coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro — and the awesome Apple Intelligence features that will power them all.
But if you don’t have time to watch the full hour and 45-minute long affair, here it is in just 90 seconds.
Apple WWDC24 recap: Watch the event in just 90 seconds
Click here or in the video player below to watch the highlights:
WWDC24 keynote highlights
Here’s a timeline of how things went down:
- Craig Federighi: “It’s showtime!”
- Tim Cook: “Good morning!”
- Severance season two is coming.
- visionOS 2 brings Spatial Photos, new gestures and a bigger Mac virtual display.
- iOS 18 brings customizable app icon colors, a new Control Center and hidden apps.
- Schedule messages and add new text effects.
- Mail app automatically sorts your inbox, Apple Maps has topographic maps, you can tap to send Apple Cash, and turn on Game Mode for better iPhone gaming.
- The Photos app gets a redesign.
- With AirPods Pro, you can shake your head to decline a call.
- tvOS can show actor and character names in real time and comes with new screensavers.
- watchOS 11 brings a new Photos face, a Training Load feature in Workouts, a new Vitals app, a Translation app and Live Activities.
- iPadOS adds a Calculator app for the first time, and handwriting that’s just as flexible as text.
- macOS Sequoia lets you mirror and control your iPhone, tile windows, remove your background from video calls. Plus, it includes a Passwords app, and supports more games.
- Apple Intelligence — Apple’s spin on AI — draws on your personal context from across your apps, while protecting your privacy. With it, you can summarize notifications, use generative writing tools, create original images.
- Siri is more conversational, can answer more questions, can control your apps, find things for you, and plug into ChatGPT. It’s “AI for the rest of us.”
- Tim: “Thank you so much for joining us.”
D. Griffin Jones is a writer, podcaster and video producer for Cult of Mac. Griffin has been a passionate computer enthusiast since 2002, when he got his first PC — but since getting a Mac in 2008, he hasn’t turned back. His skills in graphic and web design, along with video and podcast editing, are self-taught over 20+ years. Griffin has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and has written several (unpublished) apps for Mac and iOS. His collection of old computers is made up of 40+ desktops, laptops, PDAs and devices, dating back to the early ’80s. He brings all of these creative and technical skills, along with a deep knowledge of Apple history, into his work for Cult of Mac.
