WWDC 2020 Keynote - Summary

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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.

Comments

Tarun Kinger said…
Crisp and concise!!
June 22, 2020 at 10:00 PM
Ekambaram said…
Quick recall at any time
June 22, 2020 at 10:59 PM
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