Tim Cook To Start Off the WWDC Opening Keynote One More Time
Every year since 2012, Tim Cook has led the opening keynote for WWDC. This may be the last time he will be leading the WWDC, as he will be handing over his responsibilities to the next CEO of the company, John Ternus, later this year in September. In many segments of the keynote video, many […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Get the AirPods Max 2 at $50 Off!
Get personalized Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking from the AirPods Max 2, which places sound all around you for an immersive listening experience when playing music or watching movies. Active Noise Cancellation blocks out 1.5x more outside noise, allowing for full immersion or focus during workouts. The adaptive audio of the headphones adjusts the […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Get the AirPods Max 2 at $50 Off!
Get personalized Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking from the AirPods Max 2, which places sound all around you for an immersive listening experience when playing music or watching movies. Active Noise Cancellation blocks out 1.5x more outside noise, allowing for full immersion or focus during workouts. The adaptive audio of the headphones adjusts the […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Get the AirPods Max 2 at $50 Off!
Get personalized Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking from the AirPods Max 2, which places sound all around you for an immersive listening experience when playing music or watching movies. Active Noise Cancellation blocks out 1.5x more outside noise, allowing for full immersion or focus during workouts. The adaptive audio of the headphones adjusts the […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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OLED MacBook Pro to Start Transition to Hybrid OLED Display for Laptop
The MacBook Pro with OLED is anticipated to be the main hybrid OLED laptop driver in the market, being worth $4 billion. Apple is planning to integrate a hybrid OLED architecture for its first MacBook OLED, merging tandem OLED layers and oxide TFT. Samsung Display is reportedly going to be manufacturing the panels with the […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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OLED MacBook Pro to Start Transition to Hybrid OLED Display for Laptop
The MacBook Pro with OLED is anticipated to be the main hybrid OLED laptop driver in the market, being worth $4 billion. Apple is planning to integrate a hybrid OLED architecture for its first MacBook OLED, merging tandem OLED layers and oxide TFT. Samsung Display is reportedly going to be manufacturing the panels with the […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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OLED MacBook Pro to Start Transition to Hybrid OLED Display for Laptop
The MacBook Pro with OLED is anticipated to be the main hybrid OLED laptop driver in the market, being worth $4 billion. Apple is planning to integrate a hybrid OLED architecture for its first MacBook OLED, merging tandem OLED layers and oxide TFT. Samsung Display is reportedly going to be manufacturing the panels with the […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Apple to Add New Games to Apple Arcade
Nine games have been announced by Apple to be added to Apple Arcade. 4 games have been added to the platform today, featuring My Talking Tom 2+ and FreeCell Solitaire: Card Game+. Mini Football Legends and Coffee Inc 2+. On June 30, Apple will be adding Family Feud Pocket, giving Apple Arcade users a genuine […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Apple to Add New Games to Apple Arcade
Nine games have been announced by Apple to be added to Apple Arcade. 4 games have been added to the platform today, featuring My Talking Tom 2+ and FreeCell Solitaire: Card Game+. Mini Football Legends and Coffee Inc 2+. On June 30, Apple will be adding Family Feud Pocket, giving Apple Arcade users a genuine […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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Apple to Add New Games to Apple Arcade
Nine games have been announced by Apple to be added to Apple Arcade. 4 games have been added to the platform today, featuring My Talking Tom 2+ and FreeCell Solitaire: Card Game+. Mini Football Legends and Coffee Inc 2+. On June 30, Apple will be adding Family Feud Pocket, giving Apple Arcade users a genuine […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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M5 MacBook Pro Sets New Browser Speed Records For Chrome
The browser Google Chrome has broken records for JetStream 3 and Speedometer 3.1 browser benchmarking tools, with the browser getting a Speedometer score of 61, an improvement of 5% over last year, and on JetStream 3 got a 469, a 10% improvement. Google states that they have a dual record for all browsers, outmatching every […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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M5 MacBook Pro Sets New Browser Speed Records For Chrome
The browser Google Chrome has broken records for JetStream 3 and Speedometer 3.1 browser benchmarking tools, with the browser getting a Speedometer score of 61, an improvement of 5% over last year, and on JetStream 3 got a 469, a 10% improvement. Google states that they have a dual record for all browsers, outmatching every […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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M5 MacBook Pro Sets New Browser Speed Records For Chrome
The browser Google Chrome has broken records for JetStream 3 and Speedometer 3.1 browser benchmarking tools, with the browser getting a Speedometer score of 61, an improvement of 5% over last year, and on JetStream 3 got a 469, a 10% improvement. Google states that they have a dual record for all browsers, outmatching every […] The post appeared first on iLounge.

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How impressed were you by Apple’s AI announcements at WWDC? [Poll]
Ahead of yesterday’s keynote, we asked you how optimistic you were about what the company was likely to announce. The executive summary was that there was absolutely no consensus. Votes were split very evenly between very optimistic, somewhat optimistic and not very. So now that you’ve heard what Apple had to say, what were your impressions … ? more…

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macOS Golden Gate could finally unlock the shackles holding back my Mac
Macworld I recently wrote a couple of articles about the attacks PC makers have made against the MacBook Neo. In both those articles, I responded to criticism from Dell and Microsoft, with the major point being that, in the end, you’re still using Windows, which has so many problems that it makes the argument against Microsoft’s platform very easy to make. However, I have to admit that while Windows is filled with bloatware and performance issues, I have to give Microsoft credit for at least trying to do something substantial and game-changing. Even though you may be sick of hearing it, AI is the future, and Microsoft has attempted to make its Copilot agent the core of Windows. It hasn’t quite worked out, but at least Microsoft is trying. Meanwhile, Google held its own developers conference recently, and it showed off so many AI-based features with its Gemini technology that it was hard to keep track of them all. Many of these features will be available in Chromebooks that compete in the same market as the MacBook Neo. My thinking before the WWDC keynote on Monday was that Windows has Copilot, Google has Gemini, and Apple has… scattered features such as Image Playground and Writing Tools. [Insert sad trombone sound here.] While macOS is head and shoulders its competitors in usability, I couldn’t help but feel like macOS was still in danger of being left behind. Sure, Microsoft had to reassess and scale back its Copilot integration, but they’re clearly doing something to show that Windows is progressing with the times. It’s hard to say that about macOS. We got a glorified makeover last year and an Apple Intelligence false start two years ago. The Siri AI features in the first developer beta of macOS Golden Gate are not yet available.Foiundry So I felt that at this year’s WWDC, Apple had to do something to prove. Based on what was shown in the keynote, it looks like macOS Golden Gate will be the start of a new era of modernization that macOS sorely needs. Siri AI will unlock new levels of user productivity, free users from monotonous tasks, and allow users to try things they’d won’t before. Sure, it would’ve been nice if Apple didn’t have to turn to Google as a starting point, but Apple Foundation Models are still private and steeped in Apple training. And there are flourishes all over macOS 27 that make the entire system more modern. For example, Apple is integrating Siri into the Spotlight search bar for all-over access. You can type any question into the search to start a conversation with Siri, kind of like an iMessage chat, but also extend it to documents and projects with system-wide context menus. As you work, the new Siri will recognize names, places, and messages, give writing suggestions, and help discover things that would normally take hours using Safari. The demo by OS system experience director Justin Titi was impressive and appeared to open up the Mac to a whole new world of possibilities. While I’m excited by the possibilities with macOS Golden Gate, I’ll need to temper my enthusiasm. You can thank the WWDC24 false start for that. Also, as of the very first developer beta that was released on Monday, the new Siri AI features are not yet available–developers have to join a waitlist before they can get access. As of now, it’s very much a “wait until I see it” situation, but I’m optimistic.

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The market hates Siri AI, so it must be good
Macworld Apple took to the virtual stage yesterday for its annual WWDC keynote and, while it did not go so far as to apologize for anything (please, that would be uncouth), it almost might as well have. Take Liquid Glass. Please. Apple didn’t so much walk back Liquid Glass as it did slide back Liquid Glass by providing a slider that goes from “All your layers are one incomprehensible jumble that we call Liquid Glass Ultra, and we think you’re gonna hate it” to “Oh, thank god, I can see things again”. That slider should make a slide whistle noise. That wasn’t all. Apple de-iconed the menus in macOS, another bone of contention among long-time Mac users, and standardized the corner radii of windows. Now if it would just fix those horrible app icons, it’d be all good. With macOS Golden Gate on the horizon, Tahoe may be the first release of macOS that will never make it onto the Macalope’s primary machine. In a bit of a surprise, Apple spent a good chunk of the early keynote discussing new and greatly needed improvements for parental controls. While they definitely raise concern about potential abuse by parents who are not supportive of kids just being who they are, they attempt to address the needs of parents trying to protect children from overtly sexual, violent or hateful content who have been struggling with iOS’s existing parental controls for years. Thus, it was a bit unusual for a keynote in the Year of our Lord 2026 to get almost 30 minutes in with barely a mention of AI. The first real mention was in the context of parental controls as one of the things parents might be concerned about their kids having access to. Craig Federighi went so far as to say that it often seems like “some are racing ahead with AI for the sake of AI”. Truly helpful AI must be centered around you and your needs. It seems like Federighi saw the same stories about people booing mentions of AI that the Macalope did. Of course then the company spent the rest of the keynote talking about AI, but it did grease the skids for it and couch it in terms of what AI can do for people without sacrificing their privacy rather than just cheerleading AI itself. The first demo for Siri AI was, not surprisingly, very similar to Google’s demo at I/O: planning a party. You may not like or be aware of it, but the big problem people currently have across the globe is, um… party planning. We’ve had two keynotes in two months about it, so it must be. If you’d like to receive regular news and updates to your inbox, sign up for our newsletters, including The Macalope and Apple Breakfast, David Price’s weekly, bite-sized roundup of all the latest Apple news and rumors.Foundry Yes, whether it’s a get-together with neighbors or a World Cup party with friends, the dark art of sending out an email, planning a menu and… whew… making a cringe-worthy image to highlight the event is what the masses are struggling with? The Macalope knows it seems like there’d be bigger problems in the world people were trying to solve, but tech companies seem pretty sure it’s party planning. So, there ya go. Fortunately, they are ON IT. Rest assured, they have been WORKING ON THE ISSUE and have some very exciting solutions to the party planning problem. It’s not that they have this AI technology they’re desperate to sell to people and are just trying to find something, anything, they can do with it. Perish the thought. And Apple’s not showing the same demo with just a different kind of party because it’s using Google’s AI. That’s not it, either. Nope. They’re doing it because none of you dopes know how to make a party happen. Apparently. The company also showed a number of other AI features coming in its new operating system releases. The ability to reframe photos was a particular standout, and the Macalope feels like he could actually use the Safari extension creator and tab organization features. Overall, the horny one thinks Apple hit the right tone with its announcement. If you need any proof, just know this: the stock market hated it! Apple shares dropped precipitously and predictably as soon as Siri demos started. If it wasn’t for the market then it was probably for us. Indeed, while the keynote may have lacked anything huge and saddled with the baggage of trying to finally deliver the stuff they promised two years ago, it focused on tangible benefits and on fixing what currently isn’t working so well. Calling this a Snow Leopard year is far from an insult, it’s a compliment.

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Siri AI? I’ll believe it when I see it
Macworld Apple’s WWDC keynotes are usually reminiscent of a painstakingly curated meal at a high-class restaurant. Perhaps a little iPad software as an amuse-bouche, sir? Then, can I recommend the iPhone as your starter, the Mac for the main course, a small dish of Apple Watch to clear the palate, and finally just a soupçon of Vision Pro as dessert. WWDC26, which saw the various OSes crammed together willy-nilly, was more like the anarchy of an all-you-can-eat hotel breakfast. Partly, this seems to be the result of Apple not having all that much to say about each product in isolation. As in September 2023, when Apple suddenly cared passionately about the environment, the company’s lengthy discussion of the (undoubtedly important) subject of child safety was a giveaway that its commercial priorities didn’t merit as much stage time as usual. But mainly it was because the feature that did need extensive discussion, Siri AI, is integrated across the ecosystem. Siri AI’s alluring promises are relevant to nearly every Apple customer. Personally, though, I’ll believe it when I see it. We’ve been here before: two years before, to be exact, when Apple Intelligence was unveiled at WWDC24. Apple was adamant that a new contextually aware version of Siri would be ready in time for iOS 18 and the 16-series iPhones, and even made a commercial showing this off. In the end it turned out that building a contextually aware Siri was quite a bit harder than the company expected, and it had to pay compensation to iPhone 16 buyers who felt ripped off. Did Siri AI look decent in the demos? I suppose it did. As I’ve explained elsewhere, it doesn’t exactly feel like a cutting-edge voice assistant, with what seemed to be distinctly mediocre performance on the speed front without any stand-out features you can’t get from any number of other chatbots. But it looks a lot better than current Siri, and that’s what I wanted. Apple was keen to emphasise that Siri AI is significantly more accurate than its predecessor. It has the contextual awareness we were promised in 2024, which makes it far more powerful and capable; instead of having to begin from scratch each time you make a query, you can depend on the software keeping in mind the context of previous comments, along with relevant personal data, information, and images onscreen, and the content of your emails and messages. It’s easier to have a conversation with someone who’s well informed. For the first time, Siri is getting a dedicated app. This means you can easily access previous conversations and the information contained within, and carry on where you left off. Better still, you can start a conversation on your Mac at work and then continue this on your iPhone on the train home. And Apple says the new version of Siri can perform actions in more apps, giving it agentic powers to accomplish multi-step tasks. As I say, very little of this is new in the wider sense. While Siri AI has access to parts of your iPhone that no other AI agent has, I wouldn’t expect the average AI enthusiast to get excited. But current Siri has set the bar so low that these moderate upgrades are hugely appealing to me. The problem is that at this point, so much is still unsure. Those demos, for example. How legit are they? Is Siri AI actually that reliable, or did they have to run multiple attempts and take the best? Are we sure that was even live software and not a simulation like in the commercial? One of the biggest negatives of the switch from live to recorded event presentations is that demos become essentially meaningless as a measure of a feature’s real-world experience. There are political uncertainties, too. Apple says Siri AI won’t initially be available on iPhone or iPad in the EU because of the Digital Markets Act and admitted that “there is currently no timeline” for this to happen. For now, it can only handle English; the company says it “will quickly expand support for more languages,” but again, doesn’t offer a date. Privacy is central to Apple’s marketing of Siri AI, but that too is a point of uncertainty. We know that some user data will be processed on Google servers, but it isn’t clear exactly how this will be protected. Apple has its own Private Cloud Compute technology but this doesn’t appear to offer good enough performance, so Nvidia’s “confidential computing” feature may have to do the job instead. Does that meet Apple’s privacy standards, or is this simply the most convenient option? Siri AI will launch to users “later this year” (how much later? Does this mean it may not be part of iOS 27.0?), but it will be classified as a beta, which is often a sign that we should expect suboptimal performance. In the meantime, developers can test out its features, but there’s a waiting list to get in. And so for now, we have to take a great deal on trust, and that’s not easy when you’ve been let down so many times before. Foundry Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too. Top stories from WWDC 2026 iOS 27’s Siri AI is actually going to change how Felipe Esposito uses his iPhone. Apple’s new Siri doesn’t feel very new. Apple just killed Alex Blake’s Apple Intelligence dreams. Mahmoud Itani’s fingers already love this macOS 27 Safari feature. With its watchOS 27 announcement, Apple just made about a million Apple Watches obsolete. You can catch up on all of yesterday’s announcements, along with our reaction as they happened, with our WWDC26 liveblog. Have your say: AI haters, unite! I expected pushback after lambasting AI hype in the last Apple Breakfast, but was pleasantly surprised by your supportive messages. “Thank you for a wonderful pre-WWDC piece!” wrote Garry H. “Agree that the best AI is no AI.” John S., meanwhile, said AI has not been well thought out in its use cases, and expressed a hope that Apple doesn’t follow Microsoft down this path. “Unfortunately,” he added, “the tech companies see a need to recoup the huge investment. If Apple does go down the AI rabbit hole, all I ask is that it gives users an opt-out.” Michael, finally, wants to make use of AI, “but not until we apply effective guardrails in its access and application, and until we massively rethink environmentally and economically how to power it. Right now, the overlords’ myth of inevitability is driving this false need to force adoption at the expense of… well, everyone and everything.” Video of the week @macworld.com The new Siri AI voice is almost TOO good #apple #ios27 ♬ original sound – Macworld – Macworld In iOS 27 Siri gets a new voice. And it’s good! Check it out. For more short videos, follow us on TikTok and Instagram. And with that, we’re done for this week’s Apple Breakfast. If you’d like to get regular roundups, sign up for our newsletters, including our new email from The Macalope–an irreverent, humorous take on the latest news and rumors from a half-man, half-mythical Mac beast. You can also follow us on Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, or X for discussion of breaking Apple news stories. See you next Monday, and stay Appley.

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Apple @ Work Podcast: What role will MCP servers play in Apple device management?
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. In this episode of Apple @ Work, Aaron Morin and Lance Crandall from Iru join the show to talk about all things MCP servers and Apple device management. more…

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Foldable iPhone gets biggest clue yet in iOS 27 beta
Hidden code in the first iOS 27 beta offers Apple’s strongest software hint yet that its long-rumored foldable iPhone is getting closer to launch. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

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Apple left some major folding iPhone hints in the iOS 27 code
Macworld Rumors that Apple is working on a foldable device have been swirling all year, with all of them pointing to the launch of the Phone Ultra later this year. And although Apple has never said a word about it, iOS 27 has just given us a major clue that this new foldable device is indeed coming later this year. After digging through parts of the iOS 27 code following WWDC 2026, developer Sam Henri Gold discovered new internal references tied to device folding states. Macworld was able to independently confirm the findings, and some of these references are extremely difficult to explain away as anything other than foldable device support. Specifically, the code includes references to “foldState” and “angleDegrees,” internal status values apparently designed to tell apps whether a device is folded and at what angle. That may not sound particularly exciting at first glance. But here’s the important detail: no current Apple device uses these states. To add fuel to the fire, Macworld also found internal code suggesting that Apple has been testing a device that features both Dynamic Island and Touch ID – a combination that doesn’t exist in any device today.  Given these references, it’s clear that iOS 27 is ready for a new category of device. One that likely features a foldable display. Apple left some pretty clear signs that the folding iPhone Ultra is indeed coming soon.Foundry Apple is clearly preparing apps for foldable displays During the Platforms State of the Union session at WWDC, Apple repeatedly encouraged developers to stop designing apps around fixed screen assumptions. Instead, developers were told to ensure apps can resize dynamically and adapt fluidly to different screen configurations. On its own, that advice sounds fairly generic. Apple has spent years pushing developers toward responsive layouts across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. But in the context of the newly discovered fold-related APIs, those comments start sounding very specific. There’s more: with iOS 27 and macOS 27, users can finally resize iPhone Mirroring to any size they want, making an iPhone app the same size as an iPad app on the Mac. It’s almost as if iOS were ready for an iPhone capable of running apps on both screen sizes. Apple rarely announces entirely new product categories without first quietly preparing its software ecosystem behind the scenes. For example, back in 2014, before the iPhone 6 was announced, Apple encouraged developers to make their apps more flexible when it came to screen sizes. Of course, there were already two different iPhone sizes at the time, but the company was clearly looking ahead to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and later, the iPhone X. We also saw similar groundwork years before the Vision Pro launched, with Apple gradually introducing spatial computing frameworks into its developer tools long before the headset was official. The folding iPhone is rumored to open up to a screen that’s roughly the size of an iPad mini.Foundry Apple’s foldable strategy is finally taking shape Of course, hidden code references don’t guarantee a product launch anytime soon. Apple constantly experiments internally with hardware and features that never see the light of day. And it’s entirely possible that these code references are related to early prototypes. But taken together, the evidence surrounding iOS 27 feels unusually specific. There are references to folded mode, APIs for detecting display angles, Apple encouraging developers to create resizable interfaces, and internal flags suggesting the existence of a device with a Dynamic Island but without Face ID, which fit rumors of the so-called iPhone Ultra. And if iOS 27 is already laying the software groundwork, the first folding iPhone may be just around the corner.

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