WWDC 2022 Keynote - Summary

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 WWDC 2022 Keynote - Summary


Intro by Tim Cook


iOS (Enter Craig)

iOS 16 features:

  • Lock Screen updates video with loads of personalization
    • customization of every single element on the screen, 
    • Like Watch faces, you can now have multiple lock screens,  
    • Notifications are shown only at the bottom of the screen, 
    • Live Activities API (real-time info like match updates, drive location updates, health metrics updates, etc)
    • a Full-screen now-playing music app view
  • Focus updates:
    • Focus filters to focus on one single activity at a time
    • Focus API to implement in the app
  • Messages Updates:
    • You can edit the messages that are already sent
    • You can undo/delete the messages
    • Mark any thread as unread
  • Shared with You:
    • APIs for developers to integrate into the apps
  • SharePlay (watch/play together with anyone)
    • integrated into FaceTime
    • integrated into Messages
  • Dictation updates:
    • Voice & keyboard can be used in-conjunction
  • App Intents API - shortcuts work with zero setup
  • Live text updates:
    • Interact with text in the video by pausing it
    • Converting currency and translating a foreign language with just a tap
    • Live Text API for 3rd party apps
    • Visual look-up (details of objects in an image) [introduced last year] but now extended, take any object from an image and put it into the Messages app
  • Wallet updates:
    • Keys integration with multiple products
    • Apple pay: 
      • tap to pay, contactless payments with no additional hardware or payment terminals
      • Apple Pay later, lets you pay in four equal payments spread over 6 weeks with 0 interest & no fees —> for developers, no extra effort is required, it just works with the standard Apple Pay integration
      • Order tracking directly in the wallet by the merchants
  • Maps updates:
    • Added support for more than 20+ countries
    • Multi-stop routing - add up to 15 stops
    • Transit costs estimator
    • MapKit updates with light & dark modes, look around, and server-side APIs to build faster & flexible ways of building maps experience
  • Sports updates
  • Family sharing, parental controls, approve requests from the Messages app, iCloud shared library (adds automatically based on the rules)
  • Privacy
    • Introducing Safety check - stop sharing locations, reset privacy permissions
  • Ecosystem:
    • Home - automation updates
    • CarPlay updates
  • Personalized spatial audio - can now be customized/precise even further by using the true depth camera on iPhone tuned just for you
  • Quick note 
  • More Memoji customizations


Apple Watch / watchOS9:

  • New watch faces - shows cloud coverage around the world, lunar calendar, playtime, metropolitan
  • New Siri UI, new banner notifications, and active apps pinned to the top of the dock for quick access
  • New Share sheet & photos picker APIs, with CallKit call directly from the watch
  • Fitness updates: Vertical oscillation detection using accelerometer & gyroscope (used to help wasteful vertical movements while running)+ other metrics, multi-sport workouts
  • Sleep updates: sleep stages (awake, REM, core, deep), 
  • heart stroke detection (Atrial Fibrillation), 
  • medications tracker


Mac / macOS Ventura:

  • Introduced M2, metrics improvement in comparison with others
  • Introduced new Macbook air & MacBook Pro, MagSafe is back
  • Stage Manager: Focuses on the current app and organizes all the windows of a single app
  • Spotlight: take a peek at the results with a tap on the space bar, live text: search text inside the image, and create a timer right from the search, this feature is also coming to iOS & iPadOS, on iOS spotlight entry point is placed just above the dock
  • Mail App updates: search typo fix changes
  • Safari app updates: shared tabs with live status of who’s looking now
  • Passkeys (Apple’s password replacement approach): create a passkey with just the biometric, passkeys are used only for the site it was created for, passkeys can be phished/leaked since it never leaves the devices, synced only via iCloud, works cross-platform by signing in with the iPhone via QR code(presented on any other platform device)
  • Gaming: 
    • Metal3: metal FX upcoming - to render complex scenes faster,  fast resource loading API - minimizes wait by providing a path from storage to the unified memory system
  • Handoff comes to FaceTime
  • Continuity Camera: use the iPhone camera with a stand on top of the Mac and it gives these features: center stage, portrait mode with blur effect, studio light, desk view


iPadOS16:

  • All iOS features
  • Weather app - weather kit to integrate into 3rd party apps
  • Collaboration - work with others across a variety of apps and it's coming to iOS & macOS as well
  • Freeform app - an all-in-one app (more like a Notion competitor) for all apple platforms
  • Gaming - background download API, jump into the app/game w/o creating an account via GameCenter account, GameCenter dashboard
  • Desktop Class apps - undo/redo across the system, updates to Files app, redefined find & replace the experience that works inline, customizable toolbars, desktop-class app APIs
  • Reference color, Reference mode 
  • Stage Manager: same features as macOS, connect to an external display, 


Outro by Tim Cook

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