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is just there to increase engagement.
It's the exact same thing
as when you like a post with the #WWDC.
Now Apple has to pay for the hashtag but same idea.
Anyway, yo, what's up? MKBHD here.
So Apple's WWDC was today.
It's their developer conference,
so we know there's gonna be a ton of software announcements,
and there was, but, of course,
we were expecting a little bit of an extra surprise on top,
maybe some hardware, and we got that too.
So there's a lot to talk about today.
Let's just jump right into it, Philip DeFranco.
So the biggest update is what's coming to iOS 16.
This will be coming out eventually
as an update to your iPhone
and launching on the next iPhone
when that comes out in the fall,
and there's a lot of new features here.
So the biggest one, easily, is the new overhaul
to the lock screen on our phones.
So forever, just for the longest time,
our lock screens on our iPhones have been the same thing.
It's the time at the top,
and then just a long list of notifications,
and then whatever your wallpaper was behind all that.
Fine.
In iOS 16, the lock screen is way more,
I think, the word is personalized,
which is actually not typical of what we see from Apple,
but this is a really nice update here.
So you can mess with not just the fonts
and colors of your clock, which is cool,
but it'll even play with your wallpaper a little bit.
So if you have a portrait mode photo
or something with depth in your wallpaper,
that can look really cool.
But most importantly, two things:
One, notifications now will roll in
from the bottom of the display,
It's the opposite of Android right now,
and that's much better for actually seeing your wallpaper.
And it's much more reachable if, say,
Apple is getting ready to sell a bunch
of really big iPhones.
But then also two, widgets on the lock screen.
That, that is some real personality on a lock screen.
It's a welcome feature, of course.
Not only that, you'll also be able
to save multiple different lock screens
with different wallpapers, different clocks,
and different combinations of widgets
and save those lock screens.
So now you can switch between those at any time.
It's like swapping watch faces on your watch.
But then you can also tie a lock screen to a Focus mode.
So if you have your Sleep Focus mode
and you have your Sleep home screen,
you now also have a Sleep lock screen
with your Sleep widgets and your Sleep clock.
And you can have your Work lock screen
and your Do Not Disturb lock screen.
All those things will be synced
when you change your Focus mode.
They'll all have different wallpapers,
different clocks, different widgets, whatever you want.
That is personality.
That is really nice.
Music controls are also at the bottom now, too,
instead of being this massive huge thing
right under your clock in the middle.
Oh, and there's now live updating notifications too.
So you know how some apps
will send you just a bunch of notifications
as things update or as things change?
Maybe a live score update, for example,
sends you one after the first quarter and at halftime.
Well, now there's a new feature called...
What is it called? Live Activities.
But it's exactly what it sounds like.
Now, one notification can continually update
with the latest information
instead of having a bunch of notifications
from that one app.
That is nice,
and I know a bunch of apps that could use that update.
So the lock screen is a big new thing in iOS 16.
But then there's also a bunch of little features sprinkled
within the rest of the OS too.
One of them in messages
is you can now edit iMessage messages.
So that is gonna be hilarious.
I kinda wanna try to see
if there's any sort of indicator next to the message
that's been edited.
I'll play around with this in the beta.
I would say, definitely get subscribed
to see the videos on these new softwares
when I actually get to play with them
and dive into them deep and make my feature reviews.
But yes, you will be able to edit iMessages,
and you'll also be able to undo send
and you can also mark a thread as unread.
And yes, I am a little bit salty
that you can edit an iMessage before you can edit tweets,
assuming that doesn't happen by fall.
There's also a couple new SharePlay experiences
to easily discover things.
You can watch together with someone,
and they dramatically improved on-device dictation.
So you can move back and forth
between voice and touch as you're typing something.
This feature looks really cool.
It actually looks very similar to what Google just did
with the last version of the Pixel,
which made the Pixel the best voice-to-text phone
on the planet and really changed the way I use it,
so I'm looking forward to seeing if this is as good as that.
But that's a welcome feature.
But then there's a couple other highlights.
Do you remember Live Text where you take a picture of a sign
or anything with text in it
and you can always just highlight the text
in that photo straight away?
Well, they're bringing that to videos.
So any video you take with text in it,
you'll be able to pause and live select.
And if that works well,
that's gonna be, I think, incredible.
I mean, I feel like that's low key unreal for students,
like you just recorded your whiteboard after a lecture
and it just makes your notes more useful.
But then they took it another step further
and they also showed a demo
of touching and holding a subject of a photo,
and it lifts the subject into an object
that you can copy and paste like text.
That's amazing, obviously.
It's pretty next level.
It kind of just takes all the work
out of tracing something out
and making it like a Discord sticker or something
we would've used in the past.
So that, again, I wanna try it, but that seems amazing.
Then Apple Maps adds multi-stop routing.
Apple News adds more live sports coverage.
They also overhauled the Home app in a way
that I would very much like Google to copy
with their Home app,
with the organization and filter toggles at the top
and live camera views.
This is a really nice upgrade.
But then that's pretty much it for iOS.
Again, it's not some huge visual overhaul.
That's not what's happening with iOS updates anymore,
even though it did happen with Android,
but lots of neat features stacked on top of each other.
Boom, iOS update.
Can we talk about CarPlay for a second?
So they had this statement on stage that apparently,
79% of new car buyers would only consider a new car
if it has CarPlay in it.
Which, I don't even know if that's accurate.
That seems a little high, but I think the point
that they're trying to make that I agree with
is that most in-car infotainment systems suck.
They've been bad for a long time.
And so just having Apple CarPlay in your car
made the infotainment system much better
and much more usable.
That's what people wanted.
And that was the old CarPlay.
Today, we got a sneak peek at the next generation
of CarPlay coming out later this year,
which not only revamped the UI a bit,
but basically is now able to just take
over a new car's entire software experience on every screen.
Lots of new cars have screens instead of text,
so the screen behind the steering wheel,
the screen to the side of the steering wheel,
and CarPlay will literally just be able
to take them all over and be consistent across everything.
So this is pretty sick.
I've always used CarPlay
when I have the opportunity on a car that has it.
Two things come to mind.
One, why would anyone ever use
the built-in infotainment system in a car
if you have CarPlay just doing everything?
And it seems like there's no motivation now
for car manufacturers to get really good
at making that software.
It's just not gonna be as good as CarPlay.
I don't know, maybe that's a pessimistic view.
But two, hey, Apple,
have you ever considered making the rest of the car?
And this is probably a totally new idea
you've never heard before,
but you've made a bunch of the pieces of the software
and using the car,
maybe the rest, maybe an electric...
It's probably...
Nevermind.
So, okay, when watchOS came up on the screen at the keynote
as the next software they were gonna talk about,
the first thing I thought was group challenges.
Please let us do group fitness challenges.
If they don't do it now, are they ever gonna let us do it?
Please add that feature.
So they added some other more granular information
for tracking certain activities.
So now instead of just doing a running workout
with just distance and elevation like they always do,
this will keep track of not just heart rate
but heart rate zones
and let you set up interval training
if you wanna do that type of stuff,
which I do, that's super useful to me.
Triathlon workouts will now automatically be able
to detect when you switch
from swimming to biking and to running,
so you don't have to do it for you, for yourself.
Cool.
But there's also some more information
that will be tracked with sleep.
So it'll track your sleep stages.
So I do wear the watch to sleep,
and it does give me a very basic overview
of what's happening,
but now it'll tell you all the same stuff
basically Samsung's apps been telling me,
which is if you're in REM sleep, or core sleep,
or light sleep, or deep sleep.
Cool. But yeah, no group challenges.
It never came up.
They talked about fitness all the time,
and you can actually close your rings
with just an iPhone now and no watch.
So they do want people closing their rings
and feeling motivated by the rings,
but, yeah, no group challenges.
There's gotta be a reason they haven't added it yet, right?
But then we got to our first bit of hardware at WWDC,
which is the second generation of Apple silicon in the Mac,
the M2 chip.
It is officially unveiled,
and we'll get to hear all about it.
Now we knew the Apple silicon transition
because they told us would take about two years, right?
So the only computer that hasn't transitioned
from Intel stuff to Apple silicon is the Mac Pro.
That'll probably happen sometime in the next few months.
We didn't get a teaser of it or anything,
but that's the last one.
But this M2 is basically just a second generation
of the baseline bottom end of the Apple silicon lineup.
So M1 Pro and M1 Ultra are still higher-end chips than this,
but M2 is replacing M1.
And it's interesting.
This is the first time they're gonna be able
to compare a new Mac chip to themselves,
to something that they've done in the past,
so it'll be interesting
to see what type of performance gains to expect.
And there's some decent numbers.
So it's a new generation, still 5-nanometer chip,
with 20 billion transistors, which is 25% more than M1.
The unified memory bandwidth
is now 100 gigabytes per second, which is 50% more than M1.
It supports up to 24 gigs of unified memory,
which, again, is 50% more than M1.
And CPU performance is generally about 20% higher,
while GPU performance is about 35% higher.
And the media engine gets a huge upgrade as well.
So while this is the lowest-end chip in the lineup,
this is absolutely gonna get
some claimed performance improvements over the M1.
I could do a whole separate video on the graphs
and the performance stuff.
I might actually do that.
Obviously, that's down the road.
But you do need a new machine to put these new chips in,
and so we got that too.
Actually, we literally got two,
but the one that most people are gonna care about
is the new MacBook Air.
It's a new redesign.
It comes in four colors now,
and it's got a brand-new refreshed look.
It's not a wedge shape anymore.
It's absolutely more flat,
and it's looking much more similar in aesthetics
to the other new MacBook Pros.
It's still extremely thin,
11.3 millimeters thick and 2.7 pounds
and overall 20% less internal volume
than the last MacBook Air,
but it gets a new MagSafe port for charging on the left,
along with two Thunderbolt ports.
And on the right there's a high-impedance audio jack.
The keyboard now has a full-sized function row at the top
with a TouchID button,
along with a new quad speaker set up and new microphones.
But the biggest change is actually the display.
It's a larger 13.6-inch screen
in almost the same footprint as the last MacBook Air.
It gets brighter now, up to 500 nits,
matching the M1 MacBook Pro.
But you can see it has a new notch.
The aesthetic Apple is slowly getting us used to
with their new laptop form factor,
which includes a new 1080p webcam.
This is a large and overall, I think,
quite nice set of updates
for the world's most popular laptop,
the new chip and all the new designs
and things surrounding it.
But definitely get subscribed.
I'm going to be making a full entire video
on my more dedicated, detailed thoughts
and breaking down this new laptop and all the changes
and what I think people will like about it
and what I like about it,
including why I think the new Midnight color
might not actually be the best color to pick.
But overall, really good laptop.
Maybe a little bit on the other end of the spectrum
is the new M2 MacBook Pro also unveiled.
I say that because that is basically the same exact machine
as the M1 MacBook Pro
but just with an M2 chip inside it now.
That's it, same exact thing.
And that's not a bad thing.
That's obviously already a very good laptop
that I liked a lot,
but it just feel like it didn't get the same amount of love
as the other new MacBook Pros,
so that was interesting to see.
So the new M2 MacBook Air starts at 1,199,
so the price does go up.
But they are keeping the M1 MacBook Air around,
which is a couple years old,
but they're keeping it at that 999 price.
So you can still get into a MacBook Air at 999.
And then the new M2 MacBook Pro is 1,299.
I'll get more into this in the other video,
but I feel like there's not a whole lot of people
that I would recommend at the M2 MacBook Pro to.
You're giving up MagSafe.
You're giving up the new display.
You're giving up the new speakers,
the new webcam, the new fast charging,
all to just have slightly better sustained performance,
which, you probably should end up getting
a 14-inch M1 Pro at that point.
But, again, I'll get more into that in the other video.
But, of course, we were all wondering
what the name of the software would be
that they would run on these new Macs.
They do this whole big reveal
for the software name every year.
And so the new version of macOS for 2022, macOS Ventura.
So they walked us through it.
Ventura, again, is not so much an aesthetic change
as much as it's a bunch of useful features
put together in one place.
A couple of the stock apps get better.
The Mail app has better search features finally.
FaceTime handoff between devices is super dope.
You get home, you're on a FaceTime on your phone,
you wanna switch to the computer,
one button shows up and it's a click away.
That's awesome.
But probably the most interesting feature
that I'm definitely gonna wanna try
is called Continuity Camera.
And as you can probably understand by the name,
that is literally just using the cameras
on the back of the iPhone as your webcam.
So there's this optional Belkin-made MagSafe mount
coming out later at some point this year.
And I'm sure tons of other companies are working
on some version of this also.
But basically when it's enabled and your phone is stable,
your Mac will just see all the cameras
on the back of your iPhone as webcam options.
Basically admitting that, "Yeah, webcams usually suck,
so here's an actually good camera."
But the craziest part,
this is actually probably the one feature
that actually really surprised me
and blew me away on stage.
So it's facing you, it's the webcam, right?
It's got the ultrawide here as well.
It will see that ultrawide camera
and because it's so wide
and it's facing down in front of you,
it can actually take the edge of that frame
to see what's in front of you,
cut it out, flip it over, stretch it, and do some processing
to give you a straight up top-down view
of what's on your desk.
It's called Desk View, and damn, that is cool.
I wanna try to see exactly how it's creating that angle.
I really wanna try this
and see how close to the computer I can get with the phone
that it'll actually see the keyboard
and everything in front of me.
But that is some impressive
and clever processing happening right there.
Well played, Apple. Well played.
The Mac also got this feature called Stage Manager.
I found it kind of odd on the Mac,
but I think it'll make a little bit more sense in a second.
Basically, it's this side-dock-looking thing
for your active windows,
and it keeps the app or apps
that you're working on front and center, so on-stage.
It's basically acting like another set
of window management tools.
I'm personally probably gonna stick with Spaces
the way I use that on the Mac already.
But this feature is also coming to iPadOS 16,
so the iPad gets this.
So there were a lot of rumors.
People talking about the iPad,
is it finally gonna get this overhaul
to be more of a computer?
WWDC, that would be the time to do it.
And this is kind of along those lines.
So the M1 iPads will now let you extend your display
onto an external display instead of mirroring,
and then Stage Manager acts
as a sort of window management system.
So for the first time on an iPad,
you can have overlapping windows
and move them around like this
and actually resize them.
And you can also pair things up,
move them off to the side,
and have a total of up to eight active windows open:
four on the iPad and four more on the external display,
all in the foreground.
That is definitely something to keep an eye on.
I like the way the iPad sort of slowly evolves
towards being a more capable computer.
It is frustratingly slow,
but I think that's something I'm gonna be giving a shot.
I'm gonna dive into the betas, get to know the features,
and actually tell you guys
if they're worth knowing about and using or not.
But, yeah, that's about it for new software stuff.
That's iPadOS and that's dub-dub.
Oh, wait, one more thing, sorry, I almost forgot.
The iPad finally gets a Weather app.
(Marques applauds)
Finally, they did it.
They decided it was good enough.
Yeah, I don't know if a calculator's happening anytime soon,
but bravo, Weather.
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That's all I gotta say for this video.
Stay tuned. Catch you guys in the next one.
Peace!
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