WWDC 2020 Keynote - Summary
iOS14:
App Library - Organisation of apps into a single page onto the home screen
Widgets - On Home screen, In any sizes you want
Picture in Picture(PIP) - Across the system
Siri:
25B requests/ month
Send messages via Siri directly
Supports translations
Answers to common queries by browsing through the web for you
Calls won’t block the whole app but come with a compact notification
Translation App:
Language translation
Supports audio & text
Supports 11 langs
Messages:
Memoji: More ways to style/design your memories
Inline replies (Finally)
Member mention in the group (Notified only when you’re mentioned)
Maps:
Privacy priority/matters as usual
Looks like they’ve copied most of the features that google maps already has for years (Finally)
Cycling/ Elevations
EV routing
CarPlay:
95% in the US | 80% new cars worldwide
New apps: Parking, EV Charging, Food Ordering
iPhone is your car key: Digital version of Car keys (2021 BMW 5 Series)
Keys can be shared with your co-drivers
U1 Chip - Helps with the spatial awareness that enables virtual keys possible
App Store:
App Clip -
Discover/Identify an app easily with just a click from the app store |
Integrates with App Library |
Removes the need to install the full app
App Clip Stickers formats that could be attached to the product
App Clip apps could be developed with just the required feature like payment, product search, book tickets
iPad OS:
Same redesigned widgets as on iOS14
Capability to organise photos
Sidebar for apps like Photos, Music to easily access the features
Calls won’t block the whole app but come with a compact notification
Search is not a full-screen experience but more like on macOS and it is Universal Search now
Scribble -
Handwriting to text
Supports all languages
Shape recognition - Converts the hand-drawn shape to a known shape
Copy & Paste, auto converts the handwriting to text
AirPods:
Automatically switches between your devices contextually
Spatial Audio - movie Theatre like experience, Tracks the motion of your head as you have it wear’ ed
Works with 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos
Apple Watch: watchOS7:
Customise watch faces as you like - High customisability
Face Sharing - Share the watch faces from others
Maps: directions, time
Workouts:
Renamed as Fitness
Dance is a new workout, auto-detects the dance types (Hip-hop, etc)
Core Training
Cooldown - Stretches, etc
Sleep:
Wind Down: auto-setup of your phone/watch
Provides data of how well you slept
Wakes you up with just haptic or sounds
Detects the timing of how long you washed your hands and could tell you about how long you should.
Privacy:
Data Minimization:
On-device intelligence
Security protection
Transparency control
Sign In with Apple:
200 million accounts
Allows now to link your existing account with Sign in with Apple
Location: Proximity instead of the exact location
Camera: A new icon appears when recording is on
Tracking: A new permission alert
App Privacy: See exactly how your data is tracked
HOME: Apple TV:
Interoperability with Google, Amazon and many others
After adding an accessory, option to automate it
Adaptive Lightning
Cameras:
Activity Zones - Mark the area where you want the cameras to focus
Face Recognition - Siri tells you who’s at your door
Airplay auto switches b/w devices
A new sci-fi series: Foundation
macOS: Big Sur:
Design:
Redesigned app icons, Rounded corners,
New top to bottom design
Photos: Backed by Metal, hence the animations are smooth
Control Centre on the top right corner
Notification Centre: Grouped by apps, Widgets in any sizes like iOS14
Messages: Search, Photo picker, Edit Memojis, Pin conversations, groups enhancements
Maps: Revamped as on iOS14
Mac Catalyst: Universal Purchase, Mac controls, keyboard shortcuts, multiple windows, etc
Safari:
Faster than Chrome by 50%
Privacy, Cookie blocking
Privacy Report: To see how a site is treating their privacy and blocks if something is following you across the sites
Manage passwords
Extensions:
Discover in Mac app store
You decide which sites the extensions could access
Customizable start page
Take a peek by hovering over the tab
Option to auto-translate the web page
Mac Hardware Changes:
Big Change:
Apple Silicon replacing the Intel
Other Notes:
CPU on the iPhone has improved for over 100x and on iPad for over 1000x over the 10+ years
Common architecture across apple ecosystem
Key Components:
Universal 2 apps - Supports Intel & Apple Silicon
Rosetta: Runs existing Mac OS apps
Virtualization - To run different environments, OSes, etc
Run iPhone & iPad apps on mac
On Betas:
Beta for all OSes from today
watchOS beta from July
Summary:
It looked more like watching a movie for 110mins and definitely avoided a lot of unnecessary walks/runs, instead the movie took us on a tour of the Apple’s new Space ship campus.
Apple seems to be the besets competitor that Google could ever have as they keep on developing features that embrace privacy in everything & anything that they do.
Mac had the most exciting features, especially for developers, IMHO.
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