Every long time Android user knows Apple does have a history of “borrowing” features from Google's OS, sometimes multiple years after they first became available. This trend has slowed down in recent years, with iPhones and non-iPhones getting a lot more similar, but the WWDC 2024 keynote did feature a bunch of announcements Android users will be pretty familiar with.
A lot of these features are, frankly, long overdue. The kind of things that make you wonder “what took you so long, Apple?”. Apple is definitely playing catch-up, but in some of these places it’s also adding its own improvements and flourishes — which should hopefully come to Android one day.
