This years WWDC keynote from the San Jose Convention Centre is just wrapping up.
Tim is no Steve when it comes to presentations so say thanks to goodness for Craig Federighi. There were some fascinating announcements though, right here are a few of the highlights in our usual cheat sheet…
HomeKit
HomeKit secure video – personal processing & encrypted storage
10 days of recording included in iCloud account
HomeKit coming to Routers – from eero, Linksys & ISPs
iOS
Also coming in iOS 13…
Faster all round
App downloads 50-60% smaller
Dark Mode
Swipe typing
Mail, Safari & notes all updated
Reminders app – new from ground up
New Maps (USA by end of 2019)
New Maps ‘look around’ (Street View)
Privacy focus – more securities around Location
Stopping rogue apps inspecting WiFi / BT for your location
‘Sign in with Apple’ to 3rd celebration apps without exposing personal details
Per app random email address you can dump at any type of time
Improvements to portrait lighting
New controls to edit video (rotate, filters etc)
New ‘Days’ & ‘Years’ views in pictures app
Uses machine discovering to select finest pics as well as filter out the rest
AirPods – tap to share audio with other iphone users
Handoff from EarPods to HomePods with a tap
Neural TTS for more natural speech
CarPlay – new redesigned CarPlay screens
Siri now works with 3rd celebration CarPlay apps like Waze
Send unknown callers directly to voice mail
iPadOS
New iPadOS
New house screen
New Multi tasking
Trying to make iPad more capable
More utilize of split view
(2 notes open at when got applause)
File view & quick Actions
Folder Sharing in iCloud Drive
SMB data sharing supported
You can now plug in a USB drive
Directly import data to 3rd part apps
‘Desktop-class browsing’ on Safari on iPad
New download manager
30 new keyboard shortcuts
New downloadable fonts
New scroll bars to navigate long docs
New 3 finger cut, paste as well as undo gestures
watchOS
Independent watch apps coming in v6
New watch apps store
Purchase & set up apps directly from Watch
Noise app looks for loud volumes that might damage hearing
New menstrual cycle tracking
New Streaming Audio API
New activity patterns views
Many new watch faces
Voice memos coming to Apple Watch
Calculator coming to Apple Watch
tvOS
Apple TV now has Multi individual support
XBox as well as PS4 game controllers supported
New Mac Pro
Reimagining of the cheese grater
Modular Construction
CPU – Intel Xeon as much as 28 cores
Afterburner card processes 6 billions pixels per second
Plays 3 streams of 8k ProRes raw simultaneously (100 million pixels)
1.4kW power supply
300 cubic feet of air flow from 3 fans
MPX module for GPUs
up to 1.5 TB of RAM
8 PCI Slots
2 x 20Gb Ethernet Ports
Optional Wheels
Rack version too
Starts $5,999
Available this Autumn
New pro screen XDR
New 32″ 6K Retina Display
XDR = extreme dynamic Range
New Backlit Process
P3 10-bit colour
Designed to complement the Mac Pro
1,000 nits constant, 1,600 nits peak
1,000,000:1 contrast Ratio
Rotates to portrait mode
$4,999 – £5,999 (+ $1,000 for the stand!)
macOS
MacOS ‘Catalina’
iTunes replaced – now 3 new apps…
Apple Music
Apple Podcasts
Apple TV
Sidecar – utilize iPad as 2nd screen for Mac
Accessibility – new Voice manage (coming to iOS too)
Find My – new finder for Macs as well as iPhones
Activation Lock for lost Macs
Screen time coming to Mac (share limits from iOS)
Project Catalyst – devs can quickly convert iOS apps to mac
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