Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Sunday Reboot: The WWDC hangover and Siri AI blindspots
Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps.WWDC was all AI, almost all the time.WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features.Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big thing, and that was its whole artificial intelligence push. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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iPhone Fold, touchscreen MacBook evidence mounts in iOS 27, macOS 27
As is often the case, Apple has leaked its own hardware. Here are the signs that the folding iPhone and MacBook Pro with touchscreen are coming, and where they are.A render of a potential iPhone Fold design - image credit: AppleInsiderThe release of the first developer betas of macOS 27 Golden Gate, iOS 27, and others was followed by the inevitable deep dive into the changes. All to find out what Apple is planning for the future.In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman lays out multiple items that were found in the initial betas relating to inbound hardware. He refers to them as the first real evidence from Apple relating to the iPhone Fold and a MacBook with a touchscreen. Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Siri AI success could embolden Apple to charge a subscription
It's obviously speculation, and repeated at that, but a new report argues that it's more likely that Apple will eventually charge a fee for Siri Ai now that Apple Intelligence has improved so much.For now, Siri AI is free, although iCloud+ subscribers get higher daily usage limits.Apple has long been predicted to introduce a subscription version of Apple Intelligence, and a new report chiefly repeats speculation from 2024. However, the new claim comes after the launch of Siri AI in beta, and Bloomberg's Power On newsletter argues that it has made subscriptions more likely.That's because even in beta form, the new Siri AI is described as adequate now, and will clearly improve in the future. The speculation is that over the next 12 months, the feature will improve enough, and become popular enough, that a subscription version could be a success. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Apple still has three unannounced iOS 27 features in the pipeline: report
Apple wrapped up its WWDC 2026 keynote this week, outlining all of its major new software features for the coming year, with Siri AI and improved stability taking the spotlight. That said, there are a few new features that are reportedly still in the works, and we should still see them by September, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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Today in Apple history: Paul McCartney is unlikely star of iTunes ad
On June 14, 2007, Paul McCartney sang his song "Dance Tonight" in an iTunes ad, as icy relations between Apple and The Beatles thawed. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

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Siri AI is already smarter than your average Swiftie
Macworld As you already know by now, iOS 27 comes with a new version of Siri that’s built entirely on a new AI foundation. And this has finally unleashed the potential of Apple’s virtual assistant, since it’s no longer limited to answering trivial questions or performing basic tasks like setting timers or creating reminders. The new Siri is more context-aware than ever. It can read through your emails, calendar events, files, messages, and more to provide you with the best answers. And thanks to advanced AI models, you can talk to it using natural language. That’s all impressive on paper, but it’s another thing to start using it. I already have early access to Siri AI thanks to the iOS 27 developer beta, and I’ve tried out some pretty specific commands. And almost immediately, I was able to use the new Siri to do things I couldn’t before. Putting Siri to the test Of course, the old version of Siri has long been able to play songs on Apple Music, but the commands are quite limited. You can ask for things like “play this song” or “play songs by this artist,” but nothing too complicated. That’s changing with the new Siri AI. Siri AI now has an extensive knowledge base to find song, artist, and album information that might not be in Apple Music’s metadata. It’s LLM can also use reasoning to understand more complex queries and add songs to my Apple Music queue. That means I shouldn’t need to manually create my own playlist or filter the songs I want to listen to. I’m a huge Taylor Swift fan, and I love listening to the setlist from The Eras Tour, which is already a playlist on Apple Music. But I wanted to put Siri to the test to see how much it could do inside Apple Music. Siri Ai was able to understand a complicated question about Taylor Swift’s music in natural language and deliver accurate results.Foundry I started by asking Siri, “Play songs from the Lover album that were part of the The Eras Tour setlist.” This is more complicated than it sounds and way too advanced for the old Siri. For one, Swift went through several incarnations of the Eras Tour, including removing one of the “Lover” songs from the setlist midway through the tour, and for another, she has several variations of the “Lover” album. But Siri was able to quickly identify all five “Lover” songs that were played during the tour’s main setlist (not including acoustic tracks). Then I asked it to add those songs to a playlist on Apple Music, which it did. Apple Music already has a feature called Playlist Playground for creating playlists with AI, but being able to do this on the fly with specific voice commands changes everything. It’s a stark difference from the old Siri, which often plays the wrong songs on my HomePod. Siri’s knowledge base is current enough to know Taylor Swift was at the Knicks game less than 24 hours ago.Foundry I didn’t stop there. To put Siri’s knowledge of all things Taylor Swift to the test, I also asked some pretty specific questions, like “What did Taylor Swift do this week?” Siri AI gave me the right answer. It knew she attended the NBA Finals in New York the night before and that she had released a new song last week for the “Toy Story 5” soundtrack. Siri even knew what she was wearing: “a blue T-shirt with “Stevie Knicks” printed in orange lettering—a playful mashup of Fleetwood Mac icon Stevie Nicks and the New York Knicks. She paired the shirt with black Area slit jeans and wore her hair pulled back in a braid adorned with a blue ribbon.” Not enough to prove Siri’s a real Swiftie? I asked Siri what surprise acoustic songs Taylor performed on the second night of The Eras Tour in São Paulo, the show I attended. Not only did it get the songs correct, but Siri was also able to find and play both songs on Apple Music. Of course, Siri AI is still in beta, and it will likely remain that way for a while, possibly even after the first general release arrives later this year. But the results are already quite impressive for a first beta, and it shows that Apple has finally succeeded in delivering the new AI-powered Siri it promised back in 2024. Siri AI will be available on all devices compatible with Apple Intelligence, which means the iPhone 15 Pro or later, or an iPad or Mac with the M1 chip or later. The iOS 27 update will be available to the public this fall.

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Crime blotter: Arrested NFL star accused of biting iPhone
An employee disappearing with a MacBook, a man convicted of tracking a woman with an AirTag, and a woman who used an AirTag to track her husband in ICE custody, all in this week's Apple Crime Blotter.Man in cuffs - Image Credit: PixabayThe latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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