Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Apple's annual developer conference keynote was a strange one this year. The company breezed by its normal slew of operating system upgrades, and talked instead about helping people manage their relationships with their devices, and AI. Lots and lots of AI. On this post-keynote livestream, David Pierce, Hayden Field, and Jake Kastrenakes give their first takes on Siri AI, the Apple Intelligence features coming this fall, Apple's new Screen Time design, and everything else we liked and disliked from the keynote. Including the corner radii. Further reading: ⁠Apple WWDC 2026: The 7 biggest announcements⁠ Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed.We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. (Timestamps are approximate.) 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:00 Why This Keynote Felt Chaotic 00:05:00 AI Takes Center Stage 00:06:00 Apple Plays Catch Up 00:09:00 Privacy and Private Cloud 00:12:00 Useful Versus Creepy AI 00:18:00 Why Apple Went All In 00:25:00 New Siri Voice 00:33:00 Siri App Intents 00:37:00 Vibe Coding Shortcuts 00:39:00 Siri Goes Orb Mode 00:41:00 Too Many Siri Gestures 00:42:00 Apple Trust and Screen Time 00:46:00 Kids Safety and App Responsibility 00:50:00 App Store Dissonance and Regulation 00:52:00 OS 27 Device Cutoffs 00:59:00 Favorite Features and Liquid Glass 01:04:00 Dictation Confusion and Wrap Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for today's show comes from Dell.
0:03.0	Dell PCs with Intel inside are built for the moments you plan, and the ones you don't.
0:10.0	They're there for those all-night study sessions, the moment you're working from a cafe and realize every outlet is taken,
0:16.0	the times you're deep in your flow, and can't be interrupted by an auto update.
0:21.6	That's why Dell builds tech that adapts to you, built with a long-lasting battery so you're
0:26.2	not scrambling for an outlet, and built-in intelligence that makes updates around your schedule,
0:31.2	not in the middle of it.
0:32.8	Find technology built for the way you work at Dell.co.uk forward slash Dell PCs. Built for you.
0:45.9	How many third-party vendors does your company use? 20, 200. Thanks to AI, someone on your team
0:53.4	probably added three more this week.
0:56.1	And your security lead has no idea.
0:59.2	Traditional third-party risk management can't keep up.
1:02.8	Vanta gives you continuous coverage across every vendor, automatically,
1:07.4	so you actually know what's in your stack and what to do about it.
1:11.3	AI on, risk off.
1:13.4	Vanta.com slash TPRM.
1:21.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Private Cloud Compute,
1:27.0	a phrase we heard 650,000 times at today's WWDC.
1:32.0	I'm a friend David Pierce, joining me all the way from New York,
1:36.0	Jay Kasternak is in Haydenfield.
1:37.2	Hi, friends.
1:38.2	Hey, good to be here.
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