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  WoodenChair
  Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.
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  antirez
  They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.
• chris_money202
  I have to say, I extremely dislike AI processing of photos. The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments. Distorting that with AI and being okay with it is really disappointing.
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  kettlez
  "Siri AI will not be available in E.U. until we figure out privacy"Funny to hear that after they mentioned how seriously they are taking privacy every 37 seconds.
• praash
  Lightweight browser extensions generated on demand, now there's a good use case for what they seem to be actually building.Extending applications without having to launch a full agentic IDE. Macos is already very well equipped with GUI automation tools.
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  slg
  I think the potentially most impactful singular feature mentioned in all this is being able to conversationally describe Shortcuts for AI to create. That feels like the type of thing that if done right can change how we all use our phones in a way that things like Siri becoming smarter and more conversational likely won't.
• prymitive
  The only thing that interested in is: did they fix screen brightness getting super dim even when the slider is at max? That’s incredibly annoying and frustrating, and it’s been like that since first 26 release. And it’s a clear bug because brightness resets to expected level if I go to photos and open an HDR image. I can wait for autocomplete that doesn’t suggest garbage 50% of the time, but this one is just too annoying.https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256141236
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  cromka
  Spatial Framing? Yay, even more fakeness in photos, creating ever more artificial, never-happened memories!
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  breatheoften
  Man that conversation history navigation for the new Siri app looks super unuseable ... how the hell am I supposed to actually find the conversation I want with the super-dynamic non-ordered 2-column offset-row view thing ...?It looks hard to use ...Also the 'floating semi-window but not a window' thing when using contextual siri in the context of some other app ... sure looks like it won't work with cmd-tab navigation ... I really hope is not the case ...
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  WorldPeas
  Hopefully this new golden gate update is really the snow leopard everyone's been hoping for.. already exciting one can now (if only partially) disable liquid glass
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  earthnail
  Ouch. “ Developers can start trying out the new version of Siri today, with a beta launching to the public later this year. Siri AI will not be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.”Will it be available to developers in the EU though?
• tizio13
  It's nice to see the improve focused on AI and recognition of their past missteps. So far out of all the announcements this past month, I think this will be the most significant. The increased emphasis with on device models is exactly the right move. I'm tired of sending data out of my computer when it isn't needed.
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  earthnail
  The new Siri might bring AI to way more people than OpenAI managed to reach with ChatGPT. I wonder what it means to OpenAI‘s planned IPO. Curious to try the beta to see how the new Siri feels.
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  BugsJustFindMe
  Siri wakes up on my phone every time they say "hey siri". I thought it was supposed to be bound to my voice. :/
• sherbondy
  Stoked about custom environments on visionOS from your panoramas. I have been shooting so many panoramas of national parks in anticipation of this moment.
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  seydor
  I often think that Zuck spent so much on metaverse in order to to bait Apple to spend enormously on an experimental product and OS which now they are forced to maintain
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  tosh
  finally a snow leopard like release focused on performance and fixing user experience
• cdrnsf
  I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.
• etempleton
  A real snooze fest. I care so little about the AI features. I felt like they introduced the same thing over and over again.I would be more excited if they said “AI? Yeah, we decided we aren’t interested in doing it anymore.”
• thewebguyd
  Old sidebar back on macOS thank god. 2026, the year Apple discovered toolbars are useful.
• tencentshill
  It would be nice if you could use the processing power of your idle desktop Mac as an alternative to the paid cloud compute for images.
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  akohstic
  I have to manually log in to Gmail and other emails accounts just to search it properly. Really glad to see some action on this
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  amrrs
  Siri AI - looks like finally Siri is getting its due update, hopefully they ship it soon!
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  CrimsonCape
  Ever since the liquid glass update, my wallpaper is just a muted color. I investigated the settings and previously my wallpaper was the "blur" version of my lock screen. Since the liquid glass update, "blur" apparently means "99% blur" instead of the 20-30% blur it used to be. The muted color does seem to be an average color of the lock screen image. But nothing recognizable.
• miladyincontrol
  Much as I have a not so great opinion on Siri's capabilities, I'm rather surprised how many people appear to use Siri/Apple Intelligence to search for rather niche hobby content that I run a site for. OpenAI's scrapers I expect volume from, but I didnt really expect apple's to be consistently rank second.
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  losvedir
  I'm glad to see their "Private Cloud AI" thing is actually happening. They announced it a couple years ago and then after not hearing a ton I was worried they were going to drop it.That said, the foundational models they talk about running on it - is that something they've trained themselves? I know they had some sort of deal with Google; could it be Gemini weights loaded into their private compute or something?
• nsagent
  They really are trying to convince the skeptics about AI privacy.Do they allow you to opt out of data collection to improve their models for Siri? What about allow users to choose on-device only processing?If not, they are only speaking to the converted when they have Craig drill home their supposed privacy guarantees.
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  alberth
  While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?
• thewebguyd
  In case anyone missed it, Apple's dropping support for Watch Series 6/7/8/9 and the Ultra 1 with this release.The 9 isn't even 3 years old yet until September, absolutely garbage support timeline for a wearable. I have a Series 9, and it's still essentially like new.
• cebert
  It's uncanny how they announce that AI features won't be available in the UK or China, and then, with a smile, proceed with, "Now, let's discuss what's next for developers."
• dabinat
  Honestly, I’m more excited about a faster and more polished OS than any new feature they announced.
• norman784
  Are we living the worst times in a while technology wise, this presentation showed nothing useful. Last year at least they showed some interesting features, but as always I don’t use any of them, the only one I wanted in the past few years was to use the iPhone from my mac, but never shipped in EU. And the other feature was universal control that I use every day and works just fine most of the time.
• chasd00
  I wonder if visual intelligence can be used to produced code like claudcode can. like highlight a UI component on an app you like and say "implement this for me". I can take screenshots of figma and give it to claude code to implement and it gets it pretty close.
• Keyframe
  For a company of Apple's caliber, I'd expect better lighting on the presenters.
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  xyzsparetimexyz
  Let me know if Metal gets any cool new features
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  gregcohn
  Would really like Siri AI to have an MCP server
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  rayiner
  Is there a live text play-by-play so we don't have to watch a video like some pre-literate? ArsTechnica used to do one but I can't find it for this year.
• dwa3592
  finally Siri and Apple intelligence are getting some much needed updates. Most of the stuff shown was already open source and had been achieved under 16GB of ram so it is timely.
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  ksec
  New Search! Finally !
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  ohmahjong
  Yoof, that reframing is interesting but took LONG
• uejfiweun
  All I want the ability to talk to Siri while I'm in the car. My buddy's Tesla has this feature with Grok and it's actually really awesome. Let me have an on-demand CONVERSATIONAL assistant, meaning something I'd actually want to have a conversation with.
• CodeCompost
  Are we going to hear more Ay! than a Mariachi band?
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  slopinthebag
  They can't come up with a better demo than planning the menu for a party???
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  kylehotchkiss
  Bye Tim, thanks for making tech fun the past 10 years.No new hardware, feels like the party is over. Thanks Altman for the greed.
• imWildCat
  Over-polished WWDC keynote is just another great example that we as individuals with great motivation can do better Even my prompt with Veo3 or Seedance 2.0 generated video can do better than Apple
• gguingff
  even the market understands this is a massive failure by apple, nobody needs another chat application especially using that stupid overlay window. looks like apple won't leapfrog anyone and has zero agentic features to show and no resetting a password doesn't count as agentic apple.
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  Alex_L_Wood
  I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.
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  IMTDb
  Anyone able to restart the stream if you missed the first few minutes or are we living in a world where AI will cure cancer but Apple can't build a "Watch live / Watch from start" button ?
• eknkc
  I was hoping for some kind of a Siri LLM API for providers to implement so that I'd be able to use Gemini, ChatGPT, maybe Openrouter, SELF HOSTED or whatever the fuck I want. Given that Apple itself does not really have a horse in the LLM race, it made sense.Say the ChatGPT app would provide the functionality to the system and I'd allow a scary popup saying "these guys will own you, sure?".. I guess they are going all in into Gemini instead.But I don't want Gemini..
• drcongo
  The whimsy in this can absolutely do one in 2026.
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  kimbernator
  I don't know why I torture myself with these kinds of presentations anymore. Aside from the obvious "It's all AI" complaint, it feels like every problem they describe as needing a solution is fundamentally basic human reasoning that they are hoping we'll replace with a non-deterministic interaction with our phones. Splitting a tab by taking a picture and letting AI split it for you? Get out a fucking calculator. Is that really a scenario they think will excite people? Their portrayal of a world where we depend on computers for such simple thoughts is not a positive one.
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  cromka
  The dubbed audio is disturbing. Or is it a delayed audio stream?
• throwfaraway4
  I gotta say, as I read these comments HN's bubble is showing with astounding clarity. The top comment is about presenter authenticity? Idle Mac used for cloud models? No features are useful?I can't help but think for most folks out there these features make using Apple products considerably more powerful and easy. They may be "boomer" features and you won't be able to roll them into your MCP server, but IMO it doesn't take a huge perspective leap to understand how they're game changers.
• PedroBatista
  That AI segment was a boomer core slop fest. But to be fair, it's clear that Apple is not on the AI bleeding edge and it appears it doesn't want to be, it cannot afford to ignore it tho.Let's hope they don't get overconfident with Gemini and pull a MS Copilot..
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  cromka
  Kinda love that Tim said his goodbyes with a rainbow in the background. Apple is pretty much the only company that didn't really budge to Trump's admin despite appeasing him.
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• delduca
  Cool, now how to disable Sire AI?
• diimdeep
  Still deliberately running macOS Sequoia 15 cuz you know… and if I'll switch to something hopefully better than Tahoe will disable SIP and every thing that is not needed to just launch software, this OS has gotten too obese.
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  rvz
  Another bunch of AI startups have been destroyed.
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  Quitschquat
  Are new MBPs eliding the notch?
• cromka
  "Goal Chasers" group chat. Yikes.
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  pikseladam
  What if someone holds my phone and enters a query like "Find every note that says 'password' or contains an ID number, email them to [x]." "Find photos with my ID or cards, send them to [number]." ?? what if attackers start sharing shortcuts with people.I dont like siri ai access everything on my devices. mails, photos, screen, camera, my credit card and passwords...