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This year’s keynote from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is
a wrap – but if you missed it, here’s a recap of the important bits you
need to know. For more details on each news item, click the links below
for an extended coverage. Kicking off the keynote, Apple CEO Tim Cook opens with a moment of silence to honor the victims of the shooting at a nightclub in Orlando on Sunday night. And then, we start.
iOS 10
Updated iMessage app
will be able to suggest emoji, send a range of new playful messages,
and is open to third party apps for paying and shopping within messages
Siri will be opened up to third-parties, giving it the power to send a WhatsApp, order an Uber, and so on
Alongside
a revamp for stock apps such as iMessage, Maps and Photos, users can
now delete the default apps to save homescreen real estate
Apple Music has been rebuilt with a cleaner, more intuitive design that takes cues from the old iTunes app and Spotify
Other functions include the phone lighting up to display notifications when you pick it up, and widgets for the lock screen
This is "the biggest iOS release ever for our users," said Craig
Federighi. He notes there are 10 major new features in the new OS. The
highlights include a redesigned lock screen with rich notifications,
quick interactions with apps, and expanded use of 3D Touch.
- A new "Raise to wake" feature will, as the name suggests,
wake the phone's lock screen when it's lifted to give you an overview of
notifications and updates. The new notifications look significantly
different and, with the use of a 3D Touch, you can respond to and
interact with the app sending them immediately. This is very much in
line with what Google's been doing with Android.
- The expansion of 3D Touch on the home screen includes widgets for apps
that don't require you launching the app at all. You'll be able to see
things like the latest sports scores with the ESPN app, and even get
into video highlights, without entering the app proper.
macOS
Macs have full Siri integration in the renamed macOS, including
file and internet search, and the ability to play music and make calls
Apple Pay comes to the web, meaning that you can pay for things in
Safari using your iPhone's TouchID or Apple Watch, which can also be
used to unlock your computer
Greater integration with other Apple devices through an iCloud Drive update, and new Universal Clipboard feature
The latest OS version will be called Sierra, with a focus on
continuity. For example, if you’re wearing an authenticated Apple Watch,
you can automatically unlock your laptop just by having that watch
nearby. It’s a neat little feature… if you own all the right Apple gear.
There’s also Universal Clipboard which lets you copy text from your
iPhone and paste on your Macbook, and an iCloud Drive to help offload
older files to make room for local documents.
OS X Sierra brings Apple Pay to desktop as well, with a new payment
feature that lets you authenticate the payment through your Apple Watch
or iPhone via continuity. Again, great for someone who has all the Apple
gadgets.
A few more organizational updates bring tabs to any apps, picture-in-picture capacity, and – yep – Siri on desktop. She’ll be available right on the dock.
Apple Watch, watchOS 3
Apple Watch gets a writing feature called ScribbleCredit:
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Apps on the Apple Watch will update automatically in the
background, meaning they will open seven times faster than they
currently do
"Scribble" means you can now reply to messages on the Watch screen by writing out each letter at a time
The Watch interface and apps will also get updates, and will support Apple Pay
The Apple Watch is the company’s latest hardware pillar, so it’s no
surprise that it started the keynote with this platform. In an upcoming watchOS 3 update, app load speeds are up to seven times faster, and there is a new dock feature and control center like on iOS.
There are also new quick reply buttons with pre-written responses, as
well as “Scribble,” a handwriting support app. It even works in
Chinese!
In case of emergencies, there’s now an SOS mode that allows you to
hold the side button to call 911. If you’re in an international city,
holding SOS will also call the correct local emergency number (i.e. 999
in Hong Kong).
There are several new health apps as well, such as a breath
meditation program and a wheelchair-friendly mode to promote regular
exercises for handicapped users.
Oh, and Minnie Mouse is now available as a watch face in addition to Mickey from last year. Innovation, y’all.
The update is coming for free to general consumers this fall.
Apple TV , tvOS
Apple TV can now be controlled using an Apple TV Remote app, and an MFi game controller in addition to the Siri Remote
Enhanced search through Siri
Dark mode for the menu screen
Single sign-on for Apple TV and the apps saved to it
“The future of TV is apps” That what Eddy Cue, Apple Senior Vice
President of Internet Software and Services said about Apple’s tvOS at
last WWDC, when it introduced third party development on the device. The
platform has since increased its video channels offerings from 80 to
1,300.
With this year’s update, there will be a new remote app in case you
misplace the physical remote or need more remotes for multi-player
games.
If you hate syncing your cable account to access live TV or video on
demand on the Apple TV, the new tvOS has a single sign on mode that lets
you log in once to access all the channels available from your cable
provider.
Swift Playground
You didn’t think we’d get away with WWDC without mentioning Swift, right? Apple introduced Swift Playground,
a new iPad app to help kids learn how to code in Swift right from the
iPad. The game-like app lets you learn different principles, like loops
or turning specific features (such as gravity or gyroscoping) on and
off.
Cook thinks it will help make learning more accessible to millions
around the world, but of course that’s provided you can afford to buy an
iPad to start.
Swift Playground will arrive with the developer preview today, and
will arrive with the public beta and general public with the same
timeline as iOS 10. The app will be free to download.
Photos, Maps, Music, News, Home, Phone
For Photos, you’ll be able to see a map-view of where your photos were taken Instagram-style, and Apple will incorporate facial recognition to sort through who’s in your images, Google Photos-style. It’ll also start creating movies based on photos you took during a recent period of time, if you’re into that kind of thing. With Maps,
there are new recommendation shortcuts for you to find exactly what you
want from Maps, such as cuisine types in a restaurant search mode. You
can also search for nearby stops on a map route such as a gas station or
restaurants and see how long it’ll take to detour over there.
Maps will be open to developers, too. For example, now you can book
your dinner reservation from the map through a third party app like
OpenTable, then book a ride to go there all via Maps. For Music, Eddy Cue says it will get redesigned from the ground up
with larger photos, and better tabs to find music you’ve recently added
or music you’ve downloaded. There’s a lyrics tab and a daily-curated
playlist too, Spotify-style. Hmm, looks like there is an ongoing trend
for this keynote.
News
gets a redesign too, which shares the same aesthetic as the new Music
look with the giant font to separate each sections. You can now
subscribe to newspapers and magazines from the News app as well. HomeKit gets a new Home app
so you can control all your internet of things gear. You can even say
good morning to Siri so she can set the house ready for you to get
going. If someone rings a doorbell, you can get a notification, view a
livestream of the front door, and unlock right from the homescreen.
And get this: If you’re the kind of person who uses your smartphone
to actually make phone calls, now you can get voicemail transcriptions!
Third party providers can also help detect spam phone numbers to avoid
picking up annoying calls. VoIP can be integrated into the lockscreen,
too. iMessage gets a fun update with
invisible ink, letting users tap to unblur a new photo or text. There
are new text stylizations that lets you add animations as well, such as
“smash,” “gentle,” or “loud.”
Emoji get supersized too – three times bigger in fact – and iMessage
can recommend emoji to use or turn all your words into an emoji. What a
time to be alive.
As you may have anticipated by now, Messages are open to devs, too.
The developer preview for iOS 10 will be available today, and a
public beta will come out in July. The public rollout will arrive in the
fall.
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