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| WWDC Apple developer conference keynote – live! | WWDC Apple developer conference keynote – live! |
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| Camera and Photos are also getting some new features – simple video editing in Photos, a new depth-sensitive filter in the Camera, and a whole new way of browsing photos in the main app: Apple’s going to use machine learning to intelligently hide duplicates, and to select new thumbnails that reflect a given day, month or year. | |
| (It will be interesting to see how good Apple is at selecting these photos without access to the huge personal data stores of Facebook or Google. You may just have told your phone your loved-ones’ birthdays, but can it easily tell a meaningful shot from a half-arsed selfie?) | |
| iMessage users can now choose to share their name and memoji (the dead-eyed avatars that Apple introduced two years ago) with people when they text them for the first time. And memoji get yet more variations: make-up, accessories and a variety of haircuts and colours are added to the options. | |
| If you don’t want to film yourself making odd faces, Apple’s now adding a sticker pack of your own personal memoji letting you send yourself in pre-made poses. (Like Bitmoji, if you’ve ever used that Snapchat feature before.) And those features are coming to any Apple device with an A9 chip or newer – iPhone 6 or later. | |
| And Apple now takes the fight to Amazon and its Ring subsidiary, offering a new API for smart home security cameras. HomeKit Security Cameras will share footage with your Apple devices, in a way that means the manufacturer can’t watch the footage, even if they wanted to. | |
| But not everything is about competition: a new feature for secure routers is being built with another Amazon subsidiary, Eero. | |
| Craig Federighi returns, to hit Google and Facebook with a big stick labelled Privacy. | |
| Users will be able to select a new “just once” option for requests like location tracking. | |
| Apps which try to sneakily find out where you are using Bluetooth or Wifi now won’t be able to get that data. | |
| And Apple introduces a new federated login service, competing with “sign in with Google” and “sign in with Facebook”: “Sign in with Apple”. “Just tap it and you’re authenticated with FaceID, logged in with a new account without revealing any personal information… Some apps may want your name or even your email – you can choose to share your real email address, or you can choose to hide it, and we’ll create a unique random email address that forwards to your real address. And we give each app a new unique random address” | |
| That last one is a big, big threat to the business model of not just Google and Facebook, but a whole host of companies that require all the personal information of their users to monetise their services. | |
| So what does “Dark Mode” mean for iOS? A new wallpaper for the background and slightly darker see-through widgets leaves the lock screen looking barely different, but open an app and the change is more obvious: apps are black, not white. | |
| It’s pretty, but fairly obvious, so it’s no surprising that Craig Fed drops other reveals in the dark mode walkthrough as well: | |
| Swipe-to-type is coming to the iOS keyboard. | |
| Photos will now automatically suggest people to share pictures with, based on who’s in the image. | |
| Music automatically syncs lyrics as you listen. | |
| And then on to the other apps. Mail gets ‘desktop-class formatting’, Notes gets a new filing system, and Reminders gets an almost total rewrite: quick entry, links to people, and an advanced tracking system. | |
| Maps has been rebuilt “from the ground up” (in California), and will be across the US by the end of 2019, and “select other countries” in 2020. | |
| Meg Frost, a director of product research at Apple, works through more changes to Maps. Users can make add favourites to their app, or put locations in “collections”, letting them collect groups of places when, for instance, planning a trip. They can then take a closer look using Street View – sorry, “Look Around”, Apple’s own version of the venerable Google feature. | |
| Tim Cook turns to iOS, with a direct swipe at Google: 85% of iPhone users are using iOS 12, while just 10% of Android users are on Android 9. Ouch. And introuduces Craig Federighi to introduce iOS 13. | |
| Fed says the new iOS is faster. How much faster? 30% faster to unlock with FaceID; 50% smaller app downloads; 60% smaller app updates; 2x faster at launching apps. | |
| But the first big new feature gets introduced with a video of some jellyfish: it’s dark mode. | |
| And there’s more – too much more for Apple to read out, or me to transcribe. Take a look at the feature wall: | |
| Health and fitness on the Apple Watch gets a whole sub-keynote: | Health and fitness on the Apple Watch gets a whole sub-keynote: |
| Activity Trends is coming to the Activity app on the iPhone, showing Watch users how their recent activity habits compares with the past year. | Activity Trends is coming to the Activity app on the iPhone, showing Watch users how their recent activity habits compares with the past year. |
| A new Noise app will use the watch’s microphone to warn you if you’re in a loud environment where your hearing health is under threat. | A new Noise app will use the watch’s microphone to warn you if you’re in a loud environment where your hearing health is under threat. |
| And cycle tracking comes to the Apple Watch. “A simple, discreet way to visualise your menstrual cycle right on your wrist”. The feature is also being (re)launched in the Health app on iOS. | And cycle tracking comes to the Apple Watch. “A simple, discreet way to visualise your menstrual cycle right on your wrist”. The feature is also being (re)launched in the Health app on iOS. |
| Moving quickly on to the Apple Watch, then. Cook introduces Kevin Lynch to run through the new features of watchOS 6: | Moving quickly on to the Apple Watch, then. Cook introduces Kevin Lynch to run through the new features of watchOS 6: |
| New watch faces! Some purely visual updates, others with a few more smarts, including a solar clock | New watch faces! Some purely visual updates, others with a few more smarts, including a solar clock |
| “Taptic chimes”: the watch will buzz your wrist on the hour. It will also, if you want to be hated, play audible birdsong on the hour. | “Taptic chimes”: the watch will buzz your wrist on the hour. It will also, if you want to be hated, play audible birdsong on the hour. |
| New apps: a calculator, voice memo, and audiobook apps. The calculator can automatically add a tip and split the bill. | New apps: a calculator, voice memo, and audiobook apps. The calculator can automatically add a tip and split the bill. |
| And a new App Store, just for the Apple Watch, letting you install Apps directly on your watch. | And a new App Store, just for the Apple Watch, letting you install Apps directly on your watch. |
| The nerdy bit: The app store is necessary because app developers can now make apps that run fully on the watch for the first time. They’re also now allowed to stream audio directly from the internet, as well as access have longer access to sensors than previously. | The nerdy bit: The app store is necessary because app developers can now make apps that run fully on the watch for the first time. They’re also now allowed to stream audio directly from the internet, as well as access have longer access to sensors than previously. |
| Cook runs through the tvOS features himself: | Cook runs through the tvOS features himself: |
| Multi-user support for tvOS, letting the company personalise recommendations to each member of the household. | Multi-user support for tvOS, letting the company personalise recommendations to each member of the household. |
| Support for the XBox One and PlayStation 4 controllers on Apple TV, letting users who already have game consoles in the house use their own controllers on the box. | Support for the XBox One and PlayStation 4 controllers on Apple TV, letting users who already have game consoles in the house use their own controllers on the box. |
| And… new screensavers filmed underwater. | And… new screensavers filmed underwater. |
| Cook opens by running through the services that Apple already announced earlier this year: Apple News+, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and so on. Some of these won’t be arriving until “fall”, likely alongside iOS 13, so don’t expect much more on them today. | Cook opens by running through the services that Apple already announced earlier this year: Apple News+, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and so on. Some of these won’t be arriving until “fall”, likely alongside iOS 13, so don’t expect much more on them today. |
| Other, that is, than a new trailer for a fun-looking alt-history series, For All Mankind, coming exclusively to Apple TV+. The show imagines a world where the space race never ended after a Soviet cosmonaut became the first man on the moon. | Other, that is, than a new trailer for a fun-looking alt-history series, For All Mankind, coming exclusively to Apple TV+. The show imagines a world where the space race never ended after a Soviet cosmonaut became the first man on the moon. |
| But really, that’s just a segue into the first item on the agenda: tvOS. | But really, that’s just a segue into the first item on the agenda: tvOS. |
| As ever, we open with some natty promos: first, a cute animation featuring a load of emojis scrolling across the screen (a reminder, perhaps, that the small icons are the single best thing Apple has to get people to update their iOS), and then a classy black-and-white video showing developers working on their apps deep into the night (a reminder that this is, after all, the worldwide developers’ conference). And then Tim Cook takes the stage, thanking “the millions of incredible Apple developers across the world”. | As ever, we open with some natty promos: first, a cute animation featuring a load of emojis scrolling across the screen (a reminder, perhaps, that the small icons are the single best thing Apple has to get people to update their iOS), and then a classy black-and-white video showing developers working on their apps deep into the night (a reminder that this is, after all, the worldwide developers’ conference). And then Tim Cook takes the stage, thanking “the millions of incredible Apple developers across the world”. |
| iOS 13: the headline will be a new dark mode for iPad and iPhone, letting users turn everything shady with one click. Elsewhere, look for new Siri integrations, an upgrade to Find My iPhone, and maybe the death of 3D Touch. | iOS 13: the headline will be a new dark mode for iPad and iPhone, letting users turn everything shady with one click. Elsewhere, look for new Siri integrations, an upgrade to Find My iPhone, and maybe the death of 3D Touch. |
| iPadOS: a last-minute leak suggests the iPad version of iOS is being spun off into a whole new line, letting Apple more easily launch features that only affect iPads or iPhones, rather than lumping everything together. What sort of features? Well, maybe real app windows (that’s a lower-case W) for iPad users who want to get real work done. | iPadOS: a last-minute leak suggests the iPad version of iOS is being spun off into a whole new line, letting Apple more easily launch features that only affect iPads or iPhones, rather than lumping everything together. What sort of features? Well, maybe real app windows (that’s a lower-case W) for iPad users who want to get real work done. |
| Mac Pros: Don’t expect a release, or even a release date, but if Apple doesn’t at least give a glimpse of the long-awaited upgrade to its most powerful computer, then something’s gone wrong. | Mac Pros: Don’t expect a release, or even a release date, but if Apple doesn’t at least give a glimpse of the long-awaited upgrade to its most powerful computer, then something’s gone wrong. |
| MacOS 10.15: Marzipan, marzipan, marzipan. That’s the codename for the project to port iOS apps to the Mac, and expect that to be front and centre of the conference. The most obvious outcome? The (overhyped) death of iTunes. It’s not really going anywhere (the core app is probably just being renamed Music), but features including Podcasts, TV and the App Store are all likely to be spun-off into their own apps. | MacOS 10.15: Marzipan, marzipan, marzipan. That’s the codename for the project to port iOS apps to the Mac, and expect that to be front and centre of the conference. The most obvious outcome? The (overhyped) death of iTunes. It’s not really going anywhere (the core app is probably just being renamed Music), but features including Podcasts, TV and the App Store are all likely to be spun-off into their own apps. |
| WatchOS 6: Period tracking could go prime-time, as Apple finally graduates reproductive health from an embarrassed sub-menu in its Health app to a full-blown feature in its own right. The name “Cycles” is being suggested. | WatchOS 6: Period tracking could go prime-time, as Apple finally graduates reproductive health from an embarrassed sub-menu in its Health app to a full-blown feature in its own right. The name “Cycles” is being suggested. |
| Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s liveblog of Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. We’ll be kicking off at 10am Pacific Time – that’s 6pm UK time, and 3am in New South Wales if you’re staying up for all the latest news. | Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s liveblog of Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. We’ll be kicking off at 10am Pacific Time – that’s 6pm UK time, and 3am in New South Wales if you’re staying up for all the latest news. |
| If you want to watch along live, Apple is streaming the event on its website. Otherwise, stick around, and we’ll digest two hours of back-slapping, stat-crunching and buzzword-dropping into one easy feed. | If you want to watch along live, Apple is streaming the event on its website. Otherwise, stick around, and we’ll digest two hours of back-slapping, stat-crunching and buzzword-dropping into one easy feed. |