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WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?
I picked the worst time to do a WWDC coverage.
All I could hear was Craig Federighi saying NEXT, NEXT, NEXT while my fingers are trying
to catch up on the notes.
Did someone manage to count the number of presenters that came out during the event?
It was such a jam-packed event that the new M2 MacBook
Air was introduced as if it was a new Apple Watch complication.
At one point a Japanese person came out and told us something too fast to read, let alone
write.
Anyway, I’ll go through the even as it was presented to the world and I’ll share with
you what I am most excited about.
As always, I’ll be suffering through the unofficial public releases as soon as they
come out so if you’d like to see what it’s like to live with the new software features
and their implementations, subscribe to the channel, and let’s get right to it.
Good luck to all the developers BTW.
iOS 16 killed it with the new lock screen options.
The new iPhone OS will allow us to customize the phone screens as if we are creating an
Apple Watch complication.
The depth effect that we enjoyed on the watch is here and personalization is vast, including
fonts.
We can have multiple lock screens that can include various designs, including widgets.
I think I enjoyed the weather one the most.
The animations upon unlocking are fantastic BTW.
Notification will now roll from the bottom so that they don’t obscure the screen and
live activities like watching game results will be a glance away too.
I’ll probably end up enjoying the new Apple Music activity, which embraces album art just
right.
We will also be able to use toggle between Focus modes thanks to the lock screens.
Because of my time zone BTW, I relish all keynotes at night.
On the following day, one of my favorite post Apple event moments is reading all the reactions
from people and the media.
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OK…so Messages can finally be edited and UNDO is a fact - take note Twitter.
Any thread can be marked unread which is probably the most exciting feature for me.
Inviting someone for SharePlay lives in messages too, which is like sending the simplest of
invites for a group experience.
I love it.
Dictation is now perfect in iOS 16.
We can now write, record, re-write, re-record, or all while composing text all while the
keyboard stays open.
Any text can be selected and replaced with voice.
Live text now works for the video which means I no longer need to take a screenshot of something
I’d like to copy.
This feature should work across video platforms too.
A quick showoff was being able to separate an image from the background as a feature
that is built into the platform.
I am sure many separate apps that do that immediately went back to the drawing board.
The Apple wallet got a well-deserved upgrade where we will be able to share keys with people
including those that don’t have an iPhone.
What I was most excited about however was the tap to pay functionality where if you
are a small business you can take contactless payments without the need of a terminal.
Apple Pay Later was extremely clever too where merchants that use Shopify, for example, will
be able to provide more customer flexibility without lifting a finger BTW - all taken care
of by Apple.
Very impressive.
To be honest I quickly got distracted and missed what Craig said about apple Maps because
he then wore a dashing track suite.
Family sharing was something to appreciate too.
There will be a wizard to help set age-appropriate restrictions and also being able to bring
an iPhone nearby a kids iPad and set the permission on the air and on the fly.
Screen time allows will be done via Message too - neat.
Talking about family sharing, iCloud photo sharing library will allow us to send the
photos we take directly from the camera app, saving time and ensuring that everyone has
the precious moments on the device without having to Airdrop or iMessage moments like
crazy.
An important upgrade to the home app was the new home connectivity standard called Matter.
It is privacy-oriented and allows various accessories to communicate with each other.
The Home app itself is overhauled which I think was long overdue and will now make sense
thanks to the clever breakdown and new categories like climate, lights, security, and others.
CarPlay was shockingly good but a bit misleading.
At a glance, it will be the ultimate vehicle upgrade - a consistent interface that can
spread around multiple car displays, widgets, instrument cluster options, and even themes,
but it wasn’t clear what it means for the average Joe who has only one screen and a
car from like 2 years ago.
Does Joe get any cool new features?
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There are of course lots of other upgrades that we will have time to ding in like personalized
spatial audio profiles and a quick note.
Something that I talked about in my recent ULTIMATE iPhone home screen BTW.
I’ll link the video at the end of this one.
Watch OS 9 introduced 4 new watch faces and banner notifications similar to the iPhone.
One thing that stood out to me was the option to mute yourself from the watch while in a
meeting.
The rest of the announcements were focusед on the active people and the new abilities
to track your runs.
I liked that we will be able to create custom workouts - definitely something I’ll utilize,
especially the race against the last workout.
I admired the health aspect of the Apple watch too.
I have huge respect for the ability to monitor AFib history.
Medications are also something that is fantastic even for people that take vitamins and supplements.
I can’t imagine how useful that would be for those that have to make sure they take
their life-dependent medication.
Oh, and Drug - drug interactions sound an alert if there is a critical interaction between
medications - kudos Apple.
Meanwhile, just like that, a new M2 entry-level processor was introduced.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take mister Strougi's presentation any day of the week, but I wasn’t
ready for hardware at this point.
M2 offers faster 18% faster performance than M1, a 10-core GPU with 25% higher graphics,
up to 24GB of unified memory, and support for a 6K external display all in the body
of the new MacBook Air.
The new Air takes the design queues from the latest generation of Pro laptops but it comes
with only 2 USB-C ports yet 4 colors.
The display is now larger at 13.6 inches with of course the notch.
It is light at 2.7 pounds and it has MagSafe.
Battery life with the new performance on paper should be around 18 hours of video playback
but what went most people’s radar maybe was the new compact power adapter.
It has 2 USB C ports that can charge two laptops at the same time and fast charge with 50 percent
of juice in 30 minutes.
Pricewise it sits between the current date generation of Airs and the 13” Pro which
honestly makes no sense.
I mean, I get the old Air that stays available for schools and businesses, but the old-school
Pro makes no sense.
And now, I’d like to take a second and ask the question - in the WORLD OF LEAKERS, WHO
CAME UP WITH THE NAME MAC OS MAMMOTH?
macOS venture is here and introduces a new way of interacting with windows called Stage
Manager.
Think of it as your normal way of interacting with windows, but limited and more organized.
This feature is useful BTW and it is the cornerstone for iPadOS which came later in the presentation.
Think of the Stage Manager as the ultimate Dock assistant that lives on the left.
Which makes me think what happens if you keep your dock on the left?
Can you choose where the Stage Manager displays?
We’ll find out soon enough.
Anyway, Safari gets a revamp in the sharing department and specifically the ability to
share tabs with people.
This comes in handy for teamwork and let’s say organizing family trips.
What I am most interested in was the next-gen credential method that Apple called Passkeys.
This new standard combines Cryptographic with biometric options to deliver the most secure
way to store access.
Passkeys can’t be psyched nor leaked.
You can use a QR code for cross-platform support.
Metal 3 came in at one point which I am honestly too blown away to talk about.
And there came Continuity.
Handoff on FaceTime was something that I could only dream of.
Imagine talking with someone and then switching seamlessly from the iPhone to the iPad or
the Mac.
Not only that but the iPhone can now be used as a web camera, which BTW requires NO SETUP
WHATSOEVER.
The Mac recognizes the iPhone automatically.
Center stage and portrait mode have never looked so good.
Studio light was something that got me too.
What floored me however was the feature called Desk view - the ability to see yourself and
the desk that you work on all from the cameras of the iPhone.
As far as I can tell it uses the front-facing camera of the iPhone meshed with some AI to
deliver this dual camera goodness which I am honestly too impatient to try at this point.
I’ll never forget iPad OS because as soon as I close my eyes I’ll be seeing Craig
running for the rest of my life.
The MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE OF IPAD OS 16 IS THE FACT THAT WE NOW HAVE A WEATHER APP ON
THE IPAD.
It even has tappable modules.
All jokes aside (weather app not being a joke of course) there will be global operating
system functionalities like undo redo, extensions, folder size information, global find and replace,
duplicate, export, and my favorite a customizable toolbar.
I’d like to give a huge shoutout to the option to change the display scaling which
finally gives the option to optimize the space and take full advantage of the 12.9-inch iPad
Pro.
Of course, Stage Manager is a huge deal of the window operation on iPadOS 16 where we
finally have full external display support.
Windows can be resized and various layouts and app groupings can be created.
At a glance, it all looks very intuitive but we’ll have to wait and see how the gentle
overlapping windows work in real life.
On the secondary external display, we will be able to create groups of 3 or 4 windows
and have up to 8 apps running at the same time.
Drag and drop across displays across the displays will work seamlessly.
All this means is that it is time for a dedicated iPad desk setup.
During the keynote, there were quite a few topics that were left for future releases,
one called Freeform.
This will be the ultimate virtual whiteboard where people on a Facetime call can meet and
collaborate on - Drawing, sketching, writing, placing photos, playing video, audio, and
PDF, including links - this could be the ultimate feature to elevate the FaceTime status as
a fully-fledged and capable business alternative to let’s say Zoom.
Collaboration across all platforms was another focus during WWDC, where anything can start
from a Message or a Facetime call.
With collaboration, everyone can join a presentation for example and edit and work on the project.
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It’s 3:00AM for me, yet it has still been an absolute pleasure,
Time to go to bed This is E
Over and out