What Apple announced: Apple showed a bunch of new features that will show up in the next generation of the operating system for the Apple Watch.
That includes new features like new workout types like yoga and hiking, challenges for friends, and automatic workout detection.
Why it matters : The most significant of these announcements focused in the health realm, which is where Apple is increasingly positioning itself with the Apple Watch. The updates also include more robust do-not-disturb modes. All this also extends to parental controls for children. Why it matters: Apple is announcing this just after Google unveiled a slew of updates to its new Android operating system that were also focused on digital wellness.
The parental controls part is also significant given that investors questioned Apple when it came to screen time for children. Apple gives users control of Siri with new Shortcuts tool. What Apple announced: Apple is giving its users the ability to create custom commands with Siri. Why it matters : Siri is widely considered to be a much weaker service compared to Alexa or Google Assistant, and it certainly seems like something Apple is not ignoring.
The company argues it works to protect privacy, but that comes at a cost, and Apple has to find a way to ensure that its voice assistant is competitive with other products out there. There are also a bunch of new tools to help users stay a little more organized, such as a new way of viewing files in Finder and stacking documents intelligently. If Apple wants to pitch additional devices like the Watch or the HomePod, it has to convince users to stay within the Apple ecosystem.
That means ensuring its laptop is up to date with new features every year. Working over both cellular and Wi-Fi connections, you'll get a haptic feedback alert when someone wants to have a quick chat. Showing support for the LGBT community, there will also be a new rainbow-themed band and watch face. Dolby Atmos object-based audio is coming to the Apple TV set-top box, bringing you overhead sounds as well as standard surround sound provided you've got compatible Dolby Atmos speakers , of course , making Apple TV 4K the only box that's both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos certified.
If you've got existing titles that support Dolby Atmos in your iTunes library they'll automatically be upgraded to support the new audio format.
The animated screensaver 'Aerial' is getting upgraded, letting Siri offer locations and info on places of interest from across the globe with a tap of the remote, as well as a high-altitude Earth cam filmed by astronauts stationed on the ISS. Apple has already started toying with original content, with Carpool Karaoke as an example.
So it may be holding back a little bit more information for further down the line. What kind of content can more than a billion dollars create? Deadline recently reported Apple's plans for a new animated series called 'Central Park' with some star power behind it.
Moving from the mountains inspiring recent Mac software updates to the deserts of the Mojave, Apple's new MacOS release has been revealed, with lots of exciting new features for Mac fans. But perhaps the biggest feature of all will actually be coming to developers in , with new features letting iOS apps be easily ported to Mac.
It was simply a tease at this stage, but Apple's already putting it to work with its own first-party apps. It's long been rumored, but come this time next year, expect the worlds of iOS and Mac to be more closely aligned than ever before.
A new 'Dark Mode', which makes all Apple first-party apps take on a darker hue, is also on the way. Easy on the eyes for late night use, it'll also be useful for photo editors and developers, with the former often preferring the punchy colors against a darker background, the later taking advantage of the more clearly visible color distinctions in code groups during Xcode usage.
Messy desktop? No problem in MacOS Mojave — it's introducing Desktop stacks, which group together related icons into piles, auto-tidying your desktop, expanding with a tap. You can also scrub through a stack with gestures to scroll to an individual file that you're seeking out.
Your desktop wallpaper can be set to change over the course of a day too — new Apple-designed options of, say, a desert panorama, will change from morning through to noon, evening and the dead of night as time in your local location changes. Who wants more metadata? You do, that's who. The Gallery View will now give quick actions that you can instantly fire up contextual information.
For instance, Finder will now have customizable buttons that could add a watermark automatically to PDFs, once set up. Screenshotting gets improvements too. You'll have greater control over magnification settings, while you'll have to option to screengrab from within a video too. It's also getting some useful stuff, including News and Voice Memos, both of which are essential mobile apps, making the jump to your laptop and desktop too.
Home, controlling your HomeKit enabled smart home gear, will also be coming to Mac machines. Safari is doubling down on privacy features — unsurprisingly, given the year's Facebook scandal and Europe's newly introduced GDPR requirements. Social media and commenting platforms won't be able to drop cookies on your machine automatically any more, while site-to-site tracking, known as 'fingerprinting', will be harder for nefarious ad firms to carry out. These Safari features will carry over into iOS 12 , too.
With the keynote wrapped up, here's some of the predictions we made that didn't make the cut for WWDC But we're still waiting to see Apple can't force everyone to get a smartphone with a 5.
That never arrived. The Eurasian Economic Commission had a number of new iOS 11 devices registered with it recently though. There's a strong record of products leaked by the agency launching within a couple months of registration with the agency, but WWDC proved not to be a grand stage for something to launch. It would be highly unusual for Apple to launch a successor to the iPhone X so soon, especially since the iPhone X itself launched late into That's why the odds are in favor of the device registration pointing towards a new iPhone SE 2 in a variety of sizes and colors.
Though we've been waiting over two years to see an update of the iPhone SE, we may not be waiting much longer. But it didn't have its day at WWDC today.
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