How to watch Apple’s keynote on iOS 18, AI and more

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is just around the corner. The festivities will begin later today on Monday, June 10 at 1 p.m. ET. The keynote speech is publicly available and you can watch it via Apple event website or on the company YouTube channel. And if you don’t want to click, this last feed is embedded directly below.

It’s WWDC, so it will be a software-focused event. Expect Apple to roll out updates across its entire suite of operating systems, including iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, as well as watchOS, macOS, and even visionOS, which is the operating system behind the headset VisionPro.

But the big news is expected in the area of ​​AI, where Apple needs to raise its game to compete with Microsoft and Google. To this end, according to Bloombergby Mark Gurman, Apple is expected to spend nearly half of the presentation time touting a host of new AI initiatives, some of which are expected to be powered by a new partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. If Gurman is right, and he usually is, we’ll see Siri get some long-overdue AI upgrades, including the ability to issue commands in specific apps.

As for software updates, it looks like iOS 18 will finally bring RCS support to Messages. This messaging protocol offers end-to-end encryption and better media sharing. This will also improve SMS compatibility with Android devices. Rumors indicate that Apple Music could benefit from a tool based on OpenAI which automatically generates playlists and notes can benefit from a voice recording option. Other apps such as Mail, Fitness and Health are also expected to get new features. (Again, check out this recent preview of Bloombergby Mark Gurmanwhich is full of details.)

There are also those ever-appealing words of “just one more thing.” Last year, the company used WWDC to officially unveil the Vision Pro. Apple won’t introduce a new category of devices this year, the AVP was the first since Apple Watch, but there should be an announcement of global availability of Vision Pro and some updated features.

Despite the Vision Pro reveal last year, we don’t expect much news on the hardware. It’s possible we’ll get a new Apple TV streaming box and, if we’re lucky, an AirPods Max refresh with USB-C. Don’t get your hopes up for new tablets or laptops, as Apple recently launched iPads and MacBooks, although Apple may ditch the just-released M4 chip in the MacBook Pro. The Mac mini and Mac Studio are also overdue for an update. But it’s possible that we won’t get any of the above. There won’t be any new iPhones until September, and the same goes for the Apple Watch.

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