Apple WWDC 2016 live: New software iPhone, iPad, Macs, Apple Watch and Apple TV to be unveiled – as it happened

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Tim Cook walks off stage after speaking during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, California (Getty)

Apple is holding one of its biggest events of the year, demonstrating all of the software that will soon come to people's devices.

The event will include refreshes of every major piece of software that Apple has, including the operating systems that run its iPhones, Macs, iPads, Apple Watches and Apple TVs.

The company could also unveil some surprise hardware announcements, as well as laying out its plans for things like artificial intelligence more broadly.

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[13 June 2016 18:57 · Andrew Griffin]

You can even use Siri for sending people money.

[13 June 2016 18:58 · Andrew Griffin]

Here's some AI stuff: the phone will be able to tell better what you're talking about, and so provide better suggestions.

[13 June 2016 18:58 · Andrew Griffin]

It knows, for instance, that you're being asked for your location – so you can just click one button and send that.

[13 June 2016 18:59 · Andrew Griffin]

[13 June 2016 19:00 · Andrew Griffin]

Next up: Photos.

[13 June 2016 19:00 · Andrew Griffin]

You'll be able to see all of your photos on a map.

[13 June 2016 19:01 · Andrew Griffin]

But the big news is "advanced facial recognition". It's using special artificial intelligence techniques to pick out who's in a photo and store them that way. It'll also be able to detect things like objects and scenes – it'll be able to see that there's a horse in a picture, for instance.

[13 June 2016 19:01 · Andrew Griffin]

All of this is done on the device – it's never sent to Apple, unlike it is with Google's similar tool.

[13 June 2016 19:40 · Andrew Griffin]

All of it works across the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. (The latter two will be able to receive them al but not necessarily send them.)

[13 June 2016 19:42 · Andrew Griffin]

And now Craig is talking about privacy – this is one of Apple's favourite things, and it's also incidentally one of the big wins it has over Google.