Apple announced a broad set of Apple Intelligence updates at WWDC 2026 on June 8, 2026, expanding AI capabilities across Safari, Messages, Calendar, Photos, Shortcuts, and the Phone app.
Safari is gaining AI-powered tab management that automatically groups tabs by topic and can suggest related tabs to add to existing groups. A new page monitor will alert users when changes are detected on a webpage — useful for tracking prices or news stories. Safari can also generate a custom browser extension from a plain-text prompt, a capability previously limited to developers. Separately, Apple is introducing one-tap password updating for compromised credentials, with Apple handling the process through AI and Safari without requiring a manual login.
Messages will offer AI-powered reply suggestions and the ability to surface photos using a text description, removing the need to scroll through a library. Calendar is adding natural-language event creation — users can type out who and when, and Apple Intelligence builds the event automatically.
The Phone app is receiving what may be the most significant update for frequent users: mid-call context pulled from other apps like Mail and Messages. If a user is on a call with an airline, for example, the app can surface relevant flight details from their email in real time. Apple described this as its answer to Google’s similar “Magic Cue” feature, suggesting the competition between AI assistants is increasingly playing out at the operating system level.
Shortcuts is being overhauled so users can describe a desired workflow in plain language and have the app build it automatically, rather than constructing it step by step. Image Playground is gaining natural-language editing, a more photorealistic generation model, object-level selection and editing, adjustable image dimensions, and a new API that will open image generation to third-party developers. The app can also generate wallpapers and contact posters.
In Photos, Apple is improving its existing cleanup tool with better object removal and adding an AI-powered edge-expansion tool. A new feature called Spatial Reframing uses on-device spatial models combined with an image-generation model to reposition subjects within a frame — and Apple says it works on existing photos already in a user’s library.
Source: TechCrunch