WWDC 2024 to Take Place From June 10 to June 14: All You Need to Know

WWDC 2024 is ready to happen in June, Apple introduced on Wednesday. The annual builders convention usually takes place at Apple’s headquarters and a web-based telecast of the occasion provides builders internationally an opportunity to take a look at new software program options and enhancements that the corporate is engaged on for the approaching yr. This yr, the iPhone maker is predicted to unveil new synthetic intelligence (AI) options and experiences which are prone to make their technique to Apple’s upcoming software program updates.

Apple announced that WWDC 2024 will start on June 10 and shall be a web-based occasion with entry to video periods. The keynote occasion can even have an in-person expertise on the primary day — Apple says house for the occasion is proscribed, and fanatics and builders can apply to attend through the Apple Developer app and the corporate’s website. Winners of Apple’s Swift Pupil problem can even be eligible to use for the in-person expertise, in line with the corporate.

Whereas Apple doesn’t usually reveal too many particulars forward of its occasions, earlier studies have given us an concept of what to anticipate from WWDC 2024. The corporate is predicted to catch as much as Samsung and Google this yr, including new generative AI-powered features to its smartphones and computer systems. Apple is reportedly contemplating partnerships with AI companies like Google and Baidu in an effort to present help for cloud-based GenAI options.

This yr, Apple is predicted to announce particulars of its subsequent main working system updates — iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18. A minimum of a few of these updates are anticipated to convey AI options and experiences, a few of these cloud-based, and others on-device. iOS 18 will reportedly function a updated interface and permit customers to place icons wherever they want on the display. We’re unlikely to see new Apple Silicon chips being unveiled at WWDC, as the corporate introduced the M3 chips a lot later final yr, at its ‘Scary quick’ occasion in October 2023.

Whereas Apple often launches new {hardware} at separate occasions held all year long — latest studies counsel the upcoming launch of new iPad Air and OLED-sporting iPad Pro fashions — the corporate might additionally announce some new gadgets at its annual developer convention. Final yr, the agency unveiled the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, its first wearable blended actuality headset, at WWDC 2023, and new gadgets, or equipment — just like the rumoured AirPods models, could possibly be introduced on the occasion.