Apple Intelligence is coming for your wrist this WWDC
Apple’s upcoming watchOS 12 update is getting dressed up with something new: a dose of AI — or at least, that’s how the company wants it to appear. According to Mark Gurman, the software will introduce a small collection of features branded as « Powered by Apple Intelligence », though the reality is a bit more nuanced.
Unlike the iPhone or iPad, the Apple Watch doesn’t have the horsepower to run advanced AI models locally. So while the branding suggests that generative AI is coming to your wrist, what’s really happening is a more cloud-dependent approach. These features might technically be enhanced by AI on the backend, but the Watch itself isn’t doing any of the heavy lifting.
