Apple Intelligence, which was announced at WWDC 2024 last week, isn’t a feature exclusive to a single product, or even a single line of products. It’s a platform-agnostic raft of features that will be common to the newest editions of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. As such, it stands to have a major impact across great swathes of Apple’s ecosystem. In short, it’s the future of everything,
But there’s one important part of the ecosystem that won’t be affected, at least not in the first wave of implementation: the Apple Watch. The watchOS 11 announcement covered customizable Photos faces, updated fitness metrics, a smarter Smart Stack, and a new Vitals app, but Apple Intelligence will be kept off the wrist for now.
There are reasons why Apple may have felt obliged to make this decision, including the watch’s generally weaker specs and connectivity, and its lesser ability to handle the processing tasks involved. But it still strikes me as a shame, because the Apple Watch is where real intelligence would be most valuable.
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