- At last year's WWDC when Tim Apple got on stage
and proudly announced the transition to Apple Silicon,
it blew the lid off the tech space,
which is why it's so baffling that now
in the exact middle of Apple's two-year transition
away from Intel CPU's, they announced...
(drum roll)
No hardware whatsoever.
So what did they announce?
And should we have bothered to bust our butts
to make this same day reaction video at all?
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WWDC isn't really the place
where Apple announces new hardware
but since they changed that last year,
we had hoped to get some news
about their next-gen SoCs this year.
I mean, those leaked reports
of Apple's big eight performance core Jade C dies
had us salivating at the thought
of high thread count Apple Silicon
but unfortunately, that's not what we got.
Although we did get little hints here and there
about what Apple's doing for their future hardware.
One big indicator is that all of Siri's voice recognition
will now be processed on-device
rather than being sent up to the cloud.
And this is huge, huge,
because it's not only better for privacy
it's a lot faster and a lot more reliable
in areas with spotty coverage,
making Siri way more useful, full-stop.
Not only that, but they're also implementing
what is essentially Nvidia's RTX Voice
and background blurring for FaceTime calls,
along with expanding spatial audio for group calls
so voices appear to come
from where each person's feed is situated on your screen.
Wow, it feels like they're really standing
around me in a circle like they did before the bad times.
There are even more new machine learning features
being rolled out across the whole range
of Apple's new operating systems,
including the ability to detect and recognize
any kind of text in an image,
or even things like dog breeds or plants,
and that information then gets contextualized
and becomes searchable.
If that sounds like a lot of work for a phone processor,
you're right.
So it sounds like Apple's planning
on a pretty big boost to the iPhone soC this fall,
if you ask us.
You probably shouldn't be surprised
that Apple focused on software this morning,
it is the worldwide developers conference after all.
But what's cool is that a lot of the new stuff
they talked about is applicable
across the whole lineup of their products.
For example, SharePlay,
which lets you have listen and watch parties
and screen share all through FaceTime.
And to try and do that before, you needed third-party apps
or at the very least, a good stopwatch, but no longer.
Support for SharePlay is rolling out initially
for services like Hulu, HBO Max and Disney+
with more undoubtedly to come.
Obviously Android users can't join
a SharePlay enabled FaceTime session
but what they can do now, for the first time ever,
is to join a regular FaceTime call using a link.
Wait, so Apple made a FaceTime app for Android?
No, no, no, no.
You have to use the browser because you're poor
but you can still talk to your rich friends, very cool.
Now for groups of friends who all have iDevices,
sharing links, images and other content
has been cranked up to 11
with a new Shared with You section in many apps.
In iMessage, you can now pin specific messages
to read later, which is super useful
to someone like me who leaves people on read
to remind myself to reply later,
but kind of like mark unread an or an email.
And if your device is in, do not disturb mode,
other iDevice users will be able to see that you're busy
and we'll have the option to notify you anyway
which kind of undoes the whole do not disturb thing
but whatever.
I'm sure this will be completely abused
by certain people in your contact list,
and, I don't know how it's going to work
for people not using that device, but hey, it's a thing now
just like our water bottles from lttstore.com
except we know how they work, they hold liquid.
Speaking of do not disturb, it's been incorporated
into a broader feature called Focus
which allows you to set customizable modes
for work, personal time, or say fitness.
This means that you can customize
which notifications will come through and from who,
which apps are shown on your home screen
while it's switched on, and a lot more.
And it can be set either manually or automatically
based on time and location data.
To compliment that, there's a new design for notifications
with larger icons big and profile pictures.
Amazing, 2021.
And the ability to group certain notifications,
like from promotional or news apps
into notifications summaries
that you can receive at the time of your choosing.
This honestly sounds like it could significantly cut down
on notification clutter, and maybe that app
that constantly spams notifications at you for no reason,
but has some useful notifications sometimes that you do want
can finally stop annoying you throughout the day,
I'm looking at you Google News.
Let's, see what else?
Redesigned weather app
with beautiful new animated backgrounds,
new maps designed with crosswalks,
traffic lights and 3D building models.
Apple Wallet is getting a house key and personal ID support
that totally won't be a security concern.
Auto translation, that's actually really cool
but there's not much to say about it.
New memoji outfits?
hearing about privacy features during these event things
is usually a bit of a slog
but Apple made this one a bit more interesting
by essentially introducing what is a VPN, or two VPNs?
Because the new iCloud+ subscription
includes something called Private Relay,
which bounces your internet traffic, not once but twice
so not even Apple knows what you're doing out there,
presumably.
You can also create single use email addresses
to give to sketchy companies when you make an account,
and on some plans, get unlimited storage for video
from HomeKit enabled security cameras.
And this feels like a slog again, let's move on.
Oh, the iPad.
Apple's brought the home screen up to parity
with the iPhone.
Widgets can now be placed anywhere
and there's an app library
that can live on the dock for quick access.
What's more, you can easily hide rearrange home screens now
which Android's had for a while, but hey,
better late than never.
More importantly, multitasking sucks less,
a new floating menu makes it a bit easier to split screen
and app windows can be minimized to a shelf
and then can be added to a new split-screen workspace.
Combine that with the new Universal Control feature
that lets you share input between multiple Macs or iPads
and you've got a formidable multitasking setup
if your workflow includes the iPad.
Universal Control is actually really cool
and it's basically a refined
Apple flavored version of Synergy
that automatically arranges and extends
to devices immediately nearby.
presumably only those signed into the same Apple ID,
you know, for security,
But this is wild,
you can drag and drop content between your devices
and even across a device to a third device,
so your weird iMac, MacBook, iPad desk setup
will finally make some sense, at least to you.
Seriously though, this could be
a pretty dang useful feature,
and when that compliments another new feature,
Airplay to Mac.
Now, we just did a video on Luna Display,
a dongle that allows you to connect a Mac or iPad
as a secondary display, similar to Apple's own Sidecar.
What we liked about Luna Display was it's flexibility.
Apple hasn't offered a way to make another Mac a display
since target display died off,
and we weren't happy about it.
And then they go ahead and Sherlock it
with their own implementation.
That video isn't even on YouTube yet
so the timing is just fantastic, thank you, Apple.
No word on compatibility yet though
but presumably you'll need the latest release of macOS
which Apple has dubbed Monterey, after the bay.
Monterey supports virtually
all of the new features we've talked about so far,
and some we haven't.
Quick Notes are one of them, and they're on iPad 2.
Basically these are context sensitive notes
that you can take quickly and have synced
across sessions and devices
that lets you do things like
skip through web pages with copied text,
save specific snippets from apps,
and search through them using Spotlight.
It's a pretty smart feature and one that
along with tags and mentions for groups
should help with making the notes app itself more useful.
Shortcuts are also coming to macOS
and since shortcuts are basically
a more user-friendly version of Automator,
macOS users will be able to import Automator scripts
until Apple phases out that old lame not colorful enough app
in about two years, I'm guessing.
speaking of old lame app designs,
Safari looks way better now.
They've moved the address/search bar
directly into the active tab itself
and the tab bar is located at the top of the window
as if it were the title.
The tabs themselves are made smaller
and they can now be grouped
without the need for an external extension,
with those groups extending across all devices.
And speaking of extensions, iOS and iPadOS
will now also fully support Safari web extensions,
meaning things like Honey
can now be installed on those platforms.
On the iPhone where the tab bar doesn't really exist,
the old address bar is now near the bottom of the screen
where you can swipe left and right
to quickly switch between tabs,
or swipe up for an overview.
Seems pretty slick, but we'll have to get our hands on it
to know for sure, so make sure you hit subscribe
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Developers are getting access
to all of these fancy OS changes this month,
while next month public betas go live,
and final releases will presumably coincide
with another Apple event in the fall.
There's obviously more things here
that we don't have time to talk about
like new HomeKit stuff,
the AirPods enhancements including Find My support,
and the health stuff but this video is already long enough.
WWDC was a nearly two hour stream
and we're still kind of processing all of it
so maybe you can check out our Mac Address channel
where Jonathan almost certainly
has different perspective on things,
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