Apple Intelligence translation for users, new AI tools for developers coming at WWDC

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Apple will be concentrating its Apple Intelligence launches at WWDC 2025 on developer tools, and wide-ranging translation for users, including live translation via AirPods.

Craig Federighi launching Apple Intelligence in 2024 -- image credit: Apple

This latest of many pre-WWDC leaks concerns the much-anticipated next announcements regarding Apple Intelligence. After last year's launch, it had been expected that WWDC 2025 would be light on Apple Intelligence news.

However, according to Bloomberg, Apple has two major focuses for Apple Intelligence this time, and two more minor ones.

The major focus for users will be on translation. It's reported that Apple Intelligence will bring translation features across more of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Specifically, it will be used in automatically translating Messages -- as previously reported -- and also live translation of phone calls.

Apple is also said to be working to launch live conversation translation via AirPods. Previous reports on this have further claimed that the feature will automatically recognize the language being spoken, too.

The other major feature is for developers, who are again said to be getting access to Apple Intelligence tools. This would mean developers being able to use the same AI tools that Apple has for Genmoji and Writing Tools.

Genmoji is also the one of the smaller areas of focus for Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025. It's claimed that they will get a small upgrade that will see Genmoji able to combine existing, standard ones into new images.

Then alongside these specific features, Apple is expected to upgrade its Shortcuts app, giving it tools to help users more easily make automations on their Macs, iPhones, and iPads.

These features are all now expected launch alongside a considerable redesign of macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. It is all to be revealed during the WWDC opening keynote on June 9.

Rumor Score: Likely

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massiveattack

According to Bloomberg:

• Huge redesign across all OS’s, with emphasis on buttons, redesigned app icons, tool bars, etc

• Same shape icons on iOS

• All apps have a new design language, but Phone, Safari, and Camera app will change the most

• Unified Look in phone app (voicemail, calls together)

• Messages getting polls and updated backgrounds that can be set (WhatsApp style; backgrounds will sync so both see the same thing)

• Revamped multitasking on iPad (Mac-esque)

• Preview app for iPhones and iPads.

• System wide AI translation

• Apple’s models will be opened up to be used by Devs

• Gemini being added (supplement ChatGPT)

• No big new AI showcase (or showcases of personal context/semantic index) because it’s not ready

If that´s true, Apple offers extremely limited contents. 

Apple is the only idiot, who is still not on track, especially considering the rapid pace of innovation by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI.

This WWDC 2025 will be a "nothing burger" event. What a stone-aged event...

Just imagine that Apple presents what Alphabet presented at Google I/O. Apple Stock would skyrocket by 15%. 

stabitha_christie

MassiveAttack said:

According to Bloomberg:

• Huge redesign across all OS’s, with emphasis on buttons, redesigned app icons, tool bars, etc

• Same shape icons on iOS

• All apps have a new design language, but Phone, Safari, and Camera app will change the most

• Unified Look in phone app (voicemail, calls together)

• Messages getting polls and updated backgrounds that can be set (WhatsApp style; backgrounds will sync so both see the same thing)

• Revamped multitasking on iPad (Mac-esque)

• Preview app for iPhones and iPads.

• System wide AI translation

• Apple’s models will be opened up to be used by Devs

• Gemini being added (supplement ChatGPT)

• No big new AI showcase (or showcases of personal context/semantic index) because it’s not ready

If that´s true, Apple offers extremely limited contents. 

Apple is the only idiot, who is still not on track, especially considering the rapid pace of innovation by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI.

This WWDC 2025 will be a "nothing burger" event. What a stone-aged event...

Just imagine that Apple presents what Alphabet presented at Google I/O. Apple Stock would skyrocket by 15%. 

Please get some new material, your trolling game was never good and now it is not very good and really stale. 

edited June 6

dutchlord

No Apple Intelligence on my device nor in my region. Disappointing. Apple stands still compared to the competition.

stabitha_christie

dutchlord said:

No Apple Intelligence on my device nor in my region. Disappointing. Apple stands still compared to the competition.

Crazy, I thought Photo Clean Up, Focus,  Genmoji and features that weren’t langue dependent had been rolled out everywhere with some of language dependent features being held up. 

blastdoor

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/swift-6-llms

Gruber talks about the productivity disadvantage for developers using Swift 6 because Apple doesn’t have AI assistance for developers and the lack of open source swift 6 code means other AI developer tools also don’t support swift 6 well.

apple is falling behind in a serious way here