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That’s all from us here; if you want this liveblog in a more easily digestible format, my colleague Samuel Gibbs has wrapped the morning’s event up in one lovely piece.
Apple may have had a good morning inside its conference centre, but outside the room, things went less well: the company’s stock is sliding on reports that the US department of justice is considering an investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices.
Before we close the liveblog, one last piece of late-breaking news from the iOS 13 website, of great import: the volume indicator is now being moved to the corner of the screen so that it doesn’t pop-over the video you’re watching and spoil everything.
Tim’s back on stage, thanking everyone, and giving (vague) release dates: A developer beta for the new OSs today, a public beta in July, and the final release in “fall”.Tim’s back on stage, thanking everyone, and giving (vague) release dates: A developer beta for the new OSs today, a public beta in July, and the final release in “fall”.
And that’s that!And that’s that!
More of the developer-focused launches: Swift is getting UI scripting support, with SwiftUI. The developers in the audience are VERY EXCITED about how much less code you need to write a UI compared to before. You can also see the preview update live when you edit the code, which is again VERY EXCITING to the audience.More of the developer-focused launches: Swift is getting UI scripting support, with SwiftUI. The developers in the audience are VERY EXCITED about how much less code you need to write a UI compared to before. You can also see the preview update live when you edit the code, which is again VERY EXCITING to the audience.
We move into the really nerdy bit: new APIs for developers who work with AR or Apple’s programming language Swift.We move into the really nerdy bit: new APIs for developers who work with AR or Apple’s programming language Swift.
Skip this if that makes no sense to you. If it does:Skip this if that makes no sense to you. If it does:
RealityKit and RealityComposer let developers work with AR experiences even if they can’t handle graphics engines or low-level code.RealityKit and RealityComposer let developers work with AR experiences even if they can’t handle graphics engines or low-level code.
ARKit 3 now has automatic “people occlusion”, letting the developer know exactly where a person is and put things in front of or behind them.ARKit 3 now has automatic “people occlusion”, letting the developer know exactly where a person is and put things in front of or behind them.
It also has built-in motion capture.It also has built-in motion capture.
ARKit 3 gets demo’d onstage by (the Microsoft-owned) Mojang, creators of Minecraft, who show off the new Minecraft Earth. You can build a world, walk around inside it, and play with friends. It looks fun, though “it’s hard to believe that there’s nothing on the ground or around us on the stage” has to win the prize for least convincing line delivery of the event.ARKit 3 gets demo’d onstage by (the Microsoft-owned) Mojang, creators of Minecraft, who show off the new Minecraft Earth. You can build a world, walk around inside it, and play with friends. It looks fun, though “it’s hard to believe that there’s nothing on the ground or around us on the stage” has to win the prize for least convincing line delivery of the event.
A big launch for developers: “Project Catalyst” lets developers “quickly and easily develop Mac apps from their iPad apps”. “This means one development team for the first time can build a single app that can span all the way from iPhone to iPad to Mac.”A big launch for developers: “Project Catalyst” lets developers “quickly and easily develop Mac apps from their iPad apps”. “This means one development team for the first time can build a single app that can span all the way from iPhone to iPad to Mac.”
Mac apps that are coming at launch: the game Asphalt 9: Legends, Twitter and Atlassian’s Jira.Mac apps that are coming at launch: the game Asphalt 9: Legends, Twitter and Atlassian’s Jira.
Federighi continues with the new features:Federighi continues with the new features:
Sidecar lets users use their iPads as a second screen for their Mac, or even as a graphics tablet, wired or wirelessly.Sidecar lets users use their iPads as a second screen for their Mac, or even as a graphics tablet, wired or wirelessly.
Voice control lets users with motor impairments control their Mac and iOS devices entirely with their voice.Voice control lets users with motor impairments control their Mac and iOS devices entirely with their voice.
“Find My” combines Find My iPhone with Find My Friends, and even works if the device is offline. How? Your sleeping macbook continues to send out a secure bluetooth beacon, that nearby iPhones – anyone’s nearby iPhone – can pick up, and report to Apple. It’s basically how hardware trackers like Tile works.“Find My” combines Find My iPhone with Find My Friends, and even works if the device is offline. How? Your sleeping macbook continues to send out a secure bluetooth beacon, that nearby iPhones – anyone’s nearby iPhone – can pick up, and report to Apple. It’s basically how hardware trackers like Tile works.
Activation lock: just like on iPhones, you can set your Mac up so that it cannot be even wiped and reused without your password.Activation lock: just like on iPhones, you can set your Mac up so that it cannot be even wiped and reused without your password.
Screen Time is coming to Mac from iOS, so that you can block Twitter from Safari on the desktop as well as on the go.Screen Time is coming to Mac from iOS, so that you can block Twitter from Safari on the desktop as well as on the go.
And finally, macOS! Craig Federighi returns to reveal that the new release is called Catalina, after Santa Catalina Island in California.And finally, macOS! Craig Federighi returns to reveal that the new release is called Catalina, after Santa Catalina Island in California.
And then we jump straight in to an obituary for iTunes. Federighi gently mocks the app’s history, uttering the definitely-not-true line that “Customers Love iTunes”, and that they’ve been asking whether it can do “even more”, joking that the next version will have a calendar and web browser as well.And then we jump straight in to an obituary for iTunes. Federighi gently mocks the app’s history, uttering the definitely-not-true line that “Customers Love iTunes”, and that they’ve been asking whether it can do “even more”, joking that the next version will have a calendar and web browser as well.
In fact, it’s being split: Music, Podcasts and TV will replace the single iTunes app. Phone management, meanwhile, will occur in the Finder for the first time.In fact, it’s being split: Music, Podcasts and TV will replace the single iTunes app. Phone management, meanwhile, will occur in the Finder for the first time.
Music and Podcasts look very similar to the old iTunes, although Podcasts gains a new auto-transcription feature letting you search the contents of podcasts. And the TV app looks basically the same as the TV app on Apple TVs and iPads.Music and Podcasts look very similar to the old iTunes, although Podcasts gains a new auto-transcription feature letting you search the contents of podcasts. And the TV app looks basically the same as the TV app on Apple TVs and iPads.
We get a price and release date! The Mac Pro will start at $5999, this autumn. (Expect that to be £5999). And the pro display will start at $4999, with an anti-glare version for $5999, and will also be available this autumn.We get a price and release date! The Mac Pro will start at $5999, this autumn. (Expect that to be £5999). And the pro display will start at $4999, with an anti-glare version for $5999, and will also be available this autumn.
There’s also a new Apple Pro display. It’s HDR enabled. It has a cheesegrater back, just like the new Mac Pro. It has a 6K resolution and a 32” panel. It looks a bit like an iMac.There’s also a new Apple Pro display. It’s HDR enabled. It has a cheesegrater back, just like the new Mac Pro. It has a 6K resolution and a 32” panel. It looks a bit like an iMac.
Apple is launching it by comparing it to a $43,000 reference monitor, which is some interesting anchoring. Anything will look like good value when it’s compared to the price of a mid-sized car.Apple is launching it by comparing it to a $43,000 reference monitor, which is some interesting anchoring. Anything will look like good value when it’s compared to the price of a mid-sized car.
There’s a lot of specs coming for the Mac Pro: it has a 28 core Intel Xeon, with 300 watts of power, supporting 1.5TB of Ram, and 8 internal PCIe slots. It has built in ethernet, four Thunderbolt 3 slots, two USB-A slots and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
It also has a new built-in graphics module, the MPX, that lets users dock powerful AMD graphics cards in a… new fancy way. But they can also dock normal graphics cards in a normal way.
There’s also another card called Afterburner, which users can buy purely to speed up their video rendering and playback.
And it has wheels.
Back to Tim, who turns us towards the Mac – and the first new hardware of the day: the Mac Pro.
It no longer looks like a small wastepaper bin. In fact, it looks like… the old Power Mac:
Moving on to the newest OS in Apple’s line-up: today is the 0th birthday of iPadOS! Happy Birthday iPadOS!
Why the spin-off? Because as the iPad has become more and more of a computer, it’s got more and more features to itself.
Features like:
You can pin widgets to your homescreen.
Slide-overs get their own multi-tasking. Think of it as a mini iPhone on your iPad.
Multi-window capability comes to iPad apps. You can run two copies of the same app side-by-side, or run a third copy (or a fourth, or a fifth) alongside other apps at the same time.
The Files app has a Column view! Someone in the audience cheered for this!
Files also gets file sharing through iCloud Drive – and access to thumbdrives for the first time.
Safari gets an update to force websites to serve the desktop version to iPads. That includes web-apps like Google Docs.
Safari also gets a download manager, keyboard shortcuts “and more”.
Designers will be happy: you can now download custom fonts from the app store.
Try remembering this one: a three-finger pinch is a new gesture for copying text, and a three-finger spread for pasting – with a three-finger swipe for undoing.
Apple Pencil latency will drop from 20ms to 9ms. And 3rd party apps will now get to develop directly for the pencil.
And again, we get the round-up of things that just missed the keynote:
Now for the accessory roundup!
Airpods: Siri can read messages as soon as they arrive and you can instantly respond. And if two people have airpods and iPhones, they can now share audio just by tapping phones together, and listen at the same time.
Homepod: Get home and put your phone near the homepod to hand off music or a phone call to the smart speaker. It’s also getting live radio for the first time via Tune-In. And the speaker can personalise responses based on who is speaking for messages, reminders, notes, music and more.
Carplay: You can now have music and maps visible at the same time. Siri is now a popover, with the screen remaining visible when the voice assistant is active.
Siri: Last year’s Shortcuts feature will get an upgrade, giving you suggested Siri shortcuts automatically. And Siri is getting an AI voice for the first time, ditching the old human recordings for good. It sounds better!
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.