Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, Calculator for iPad, and more news from WWDC 2024

The second act of WWDC was the Apple Intelligence show, in which Apple began to unveil its AI strategy. We saw a lot of features and ideas about how things might work — including a new and pretty exciting vision for Siri — but also got a sense of how Apple is planning to approach this potentially disruptive new category. We heard a lot of buzzwords! But also a lot of ideas.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we gather in a house just down the street from Apple Park to sort it all out. We compare Apple’s AI approach to Google, OpenAI, and others in this space. We talk through all the news from all the platforms and discuss why things like RCS and a Control Center redesign could be game-changers. (Here at The Vergecast, we love a customizable widget system.) We also go through the features we’re personally most excited to get on our devices this fall — and the ones we couldn’t care less about. And of course, we talk Calculator.

If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started on all things WWDC: