Apple today announced a series of new Apple Intelligence updates across its apps at WWDC 2026, including Safari tab management, one-tap password updates, cross-app contextual awareness, and natural language AI-powered shortcut creation.
Safari introduces AI-powered tab management that automatically groups tabs by topic. You can also suggest related tabs and add them to existing groups. The company also plans to add a page monitor to Safari that will notify you when it detects changes, which will help you keep track of prices, news articles, and other time-sensitive things. Apple says Safari also lets you create custom extensions to modify web pages using text prompts, a feature that previously required developers.
The company is adding a one-tap way to update compromised passwords, with Apple handling the process for you through AI and Safari. No need to log in manually.
Messages now has AI-powered reply suggestions and new features that show photos based on text descriptions, so you can find what you’re looking for without scrolling. Calendar now allows users to create events by entering natural language. Just mention the person and time, and Apple Intelligence will take care of the rest.
Perhaps the most important update for power users: Apple announced that the Phone app can now retrieve context from other apps like Mail and Messages during a call. For example, if you’re on the phone with an airline, your email may show you flight details in real time. This is Apple’s answer to Google’s similar “Magic Cue” feature, and suggests that the AI assistant wars are increasingly being fought at the operating system level, with personal data as a differentiating factor.
The company is also overhauling shortcuts with AI-powered creation. Rather than manually piecing together workflows step by step, users can now describe their wishes in plain language, and the app automatically builds shortcuts, effectively bringing vibecoding to mainstream iPhone users.
Image Playground has also been significantly updated, making natural language editing easier and adding new models to produce more photorealistic images. Users can now select and edit individual objects using taps, circles, or brushes, as well as adjust the dimensions of the generated images to fit different formats. This feature could be used by developers as soon as Apple opens image generation to third parties through a new API. The app also adds the ability to generate wallpapers and contact authors.
Finally, Apple has updated its Photo Cleanup tool to improve embedding, perform high-quality object removal, and add an AI-powered enhancement tool that lets you extend the edges of your photos. A new feature called Spatial Reframing combines on-device spatial models and image generation models to reposition subjects and objects within the frame to convincingly fill in new viewpoints. Apple says it also supports older photos. This means that existing libraries may be subject to this type of retroactive editing.
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