Apple announced a lot of new features at its recent World Wide Developers Conference, but it seems there were some innovations which didn鈥檛 appear at the event. A new report says they鈥檙e on their way.
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In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg鈥檚 Mark Gurman has talked about the secret new features which Apple hasn鈥檛 talked about yet. He refers to two: live translation for AirPods and a neat, new Wi-Fi feature.
鈥淎t WWDC, Apple was careful not to announce anything that wasn鈥檛 close to shipping (either in the first version of iOS 26 or an update soon after). The company didn鈥檛 want to risk repeating WWDC 2024, where it announced several features 鈥 including some tentpole technology 鈥 that were ultimately delayed by months or have yet to arrive,鈥 Gurman said.
By 鈥測et to arrive,鈥 he mostly means the new Siri which was headlined last year, which leverages what the iPhone knows about you to deliver much more personal help. It did look amazing, and led to a (later-pulled) commercial showing how it could help, but it hasn鈥檛 landed yet.
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Apple said that of the entire 2024 WWDC event, only four minutes鈥 worth of features haven鈥檛 yet arrived.
It鈥檚 also worth noting that while it鈥檚 true that Apple hasn鈥檛 delivered this feature yet, no other company has come close to launching anything similar.
鈥淭here are at least two capabilities that weren鈥檛 announced at WWDC that I expect to come this year: live translation of conversations via AirPods and the ability to sync your wireless network login information at a hotel or gym across devices. I reported on both features before WWDC,鈥 Gurman went on.
You could be forgiven for thinking the translation element was announced: in fact, though there were several translation features announced by Apple, the one for the AirPods wasn鈥檛 one of them.
As it hasn鈥檛 been mentioned yet, it鈥檚 possible that Apple won鈥檛 talk about this feature until the launch of the iPhone 17 series in September 鈥 read this for exactly when.
The Wi-Fi feature, which will be handy for anyone with multiple devices wanting to log in seamlessly, also went under the radar, but, 鈥渢here also have already been hints related to the Wi-Fi feature hidden within iOS 26 code,鈥 according to Gurman.
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