With a date now set for this year's WWDC, the countdown to our first official look at iOS 18 has truly begun. We're used to seeing previews of Apple's upcoming software update during its annual developers conferences. But there's a special anticipation for WWDC 2024 given all the hype around iOS 18.
Specifically, iOS 18 figures to show off Apple's first concerted efforts to extensively include features backed by artificial intelligence. And that change has convinced some people that iOS 18 will be a pretty big deal. "I’m told that the new operating system is seen within the company as one of the biggest iOS updates — if not the biggest — in the company’s history," Bloomberg's Mark Gurman wrote in an addendum to a January 2024 column detailing what Apple has in store.
