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Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS
Also at its annual developer conference, Apple announced major updates to its other platforms: Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, and Apple Watch. Starting with the Apple TV, the company announced that tvOS is getting a new feature called Live-Tune-In which uses Siri to allow users to simply state aloud what channel they want to watch. The company also announced a feature called Single sign-on, a cable networks feature which will let users sign-in to all their Apple TV accounts more efficiently and easily. There's a new TV Remote app for iPhone as well.
watchOS 3 comes with a range of new capabilities as well. Most importantly, it offers much faster app performance, thanks to something Apple calls Instant Launch. It does the job seven times faster than its counterpart in watchOS 2. The Verge reports about other changes: The updated interface includes Control Center, which is accessed via a swipe up from the bottom of the display. The side button has been remapped to launch the dock of recent and running apps instead of the contacts menu. Apple has also added a few new watch faces, including a Minnie Mouse version and new one that more prominently shows activity progress. Watch faces can be changed by swiping across the display. The Reminders and Find Friends apps have been redesigned, and third party apps can also now run in the dock area. The new Scribble feature lets you draw letters on the screen to type out words. It's similar to a feature recently announced for Android Wear.Coming to iPhone and iPad, they will be getting iOS 10 update later this year. One of its coolest feature lets one automatically download apps across all your devices. Apple has also improved its Continuity effort, allowing users to utilize Universal Clipboard. "Basically, snippets of text, hyperlinks, and the like that you copy on one iOS or macOS device will be available on all the others." There is another new feature called Raise to Wake, which wakes up your iPhone when it is lifted. 3D Touch feature has received some improvements, too. Siri now offers more contextual feedback, and it is likely to get even better as Apple has provided developers with SDK for Siri for the first time. The Verge reports: It makes intelligent suggestions based on your current location, calendar availability, contact information, recent addresses, and more. It's Siri growing more and more into the role of an AI or a bot. And yes, it's based on deep learning just like Google's rival system is.Apple Music has been redesigned from scratch, and Apple Maps and Messages are getting some nifty features, and they are also being opened to developers.
watchOS 3 comes with a range of new capabilities as well. Most importantly, it offers much faster app performance, thanks to something Apple calls Instant Launch. It does the job seven times faster than its counterpart in watchOS 2. The Verge reports about other changes: The updated interface includes Control Center, which is accessed via a swipe up from the bottom of the display. The side button has been remapped to launch the dock of recent and running apps instead of the contacts menu. Apple has also added a few new watch faces, including a Minnie Mouse version and new one that more prominently shows activity progress. Watch faces can be changed by swiping across the display. The Reminders and Find Friends apps have been redesigned, and third party apps can also now run in the dock area. The new Scribble feature lets you draw letters on the screen to type out words. It's similar to a feature recently announced for Android Wear.Coming to iPhone and iPad, they will be getting iOS 10 update later this year. One of its coolest feature lets one automatically download apps across all your devices. Apple has also improved its Continuity effort, allowing users to utilize Universal Clipboard. "Basically, snippets of text, hyperlinks, and the like that you copy on one iOS or macOS device will be available on all the others." There is another new feature called Raise to Wake, which wakes up your iPhone when it is lifted. 3D Touch feature has received some improvements, too. Siri now offers more contextual feedback, and it is likely to get even better as Apple has provided developers with SDK for Siri for the first time. The Verge reports: It makes intelligent suggestions based on your current location, calendar availability, contact information, recent addresses, and more. It's Siri growing more and more into the role of an AI or a bot. And yes, it's based on deep learning just like Google's rival system is.Apple Music has been redesigned from scratch, and Apple Maps and Messages are getting some nifty features, and they are also being opened to developers.
Ooo-la-la!
So Apple named iOS 10, but rename OS X to mac OS. Great naming strategy.
Is iTunes still the most awesome piece of software ever to exist? Or did they improve it?
Emojis for everyone! Auto replace text with Emoji, a most important feature to any Swifty Developer(TM)!
Barf, what a fucking terrible keynote.
Apple Maps will let you pan and zoom while navigating! THE FUTURE IS NOW.
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO. That's something you can't really do on any other platform today and works especially well for Apple since so many Mac users also own an iPhone and/or iPad. When Apple first released "Continuity" - I found it an interesting concept, but lacking in many ways. (Heck, it wasn't even compatible with the older versions of Bluetooth found in many Macs - so many people couldn't even begin using it when it was released.) The ability to copy content from my iPad or iPhone and simply paste back into any app on my Mac, though? That's quite useful. The iPad Pro, especially, is a better artistic tool than any Mac if you're using the Apple Pencil with it. Now, it can truly feel like an accessory for your Mac instead of operating in an island.
watchOS 3 looks FAR better than what we've got now for the Apple Watch too. (In this case, I'd argue we're finally really getting what it should have had originally, or at LEAST by the second OS update. But glad to see it's becoming reality, regardless. Just like with the original iPhone, the watch is a much better product when Apple allows apps to fully run on it.)
I'm also happy to see the "Home" app coming to iOS to control HomeKit. The HomeKit standard was definitely released too quickly and with too little forethought by Apple. The glaring omission was not having one central management app for it built into the OS, so again -- about time!
I gotta say though? I'm just not at all excited by the changes for Photos. I just don't know why most users would find it that compelling to let the computer try to analyze a bunch of aspects of the photos in a collection and try to organize them for you? I see that as potentially slowing down the software (while lightning fast scrolling through thumbnails and opening/editing photos is usually considered a high priority), and I'd become frustrated when photos I *knew* I took weren't appearing in certain collections, every time the Mac didn't properly figure out they were part of certain groups. IMO, the most "surefire" way to know that a group of photos belongs together is by the date/time-stamp -- and we've had that feature for a long time now.
Especially with the discontinuation of the "pro" quality Aperture software, I was hoping Photos would add more "pro" level features to compensate, instead of all of this "auto sorting" and "automatic memory video making" stuff.
...these all look like anti-features to me.
Siri, your creepy, obsessive friend who is always listening, digs through your stuff, and shares it all with anyone who asks.
Just what I always wanted.
Scenario:
I have multiple accounts for an iOS app that I use which I store on 1Password app.
Right now I just switch to 1P, copy pwd for relevant account, then switch back and paste.
(yes, for websites, I use the 1P safari extension).
Will this password be exposed to all my other devices (many of which are mostly used by my wife/kids)? Can I expect I'll have to a) stop copy/pasting passwords or b) disable Universal Clipboard?
Make sure everyone's vote counts: Verified Voting
First I had to get up and cross the room to change the channel.
Then I had to push a button on the remote to change the channel.
Now I have to speak to change the channel!?
What version of tvOS will allow me to think to change the channel?
Though, now that I think about it that might not be such a good thing.
Wife: "What is wrong with the TV? Why does it keep flipping to the Playboy channel?"
WWDC keynotes are a shit. If I were Tom Cook, I would worry more about the consistent problems year after year about streaming the event for all iThings. For instance, since Steve Jobs died I have not been able to see it in my Apple TV. As for using the WWDC keynote for making a statement about gay, blacks, and fat rights...it may not be the right place for it, Tim! And once again they made publicity for the Weekend...it him the new Tim cook boyfriend?
The really big under-the-hood change in macOS appears to be a completely new file system. There was a mention on MacNN but not a lot of details yet.
New version iOS == slow old phones to a crawl. So will any iphone 5 be usable, how about iphone 6?
that must be the third or forth WWDC without any major innovations. Meanwhile their products lack stability and crispness.
Apple have announced an app that's going to show me how to breathe! I couldn't do anything without apple telling me how! /joke
Tim to suck some Cook
homo-fashion
Bet you still can't remove facebook or twitter....
I know... Let's put a mac with the new OSX^H^H^H MacOS side by side with a Windows 10 machine. That way Siri and Cortana can commiserate about how nobody actually wants them.
Seriously, the last thing I need is to have half the office staring at me worriedly because I'm screaming at Siri because it made a reminder for me to "Eat Up Martha" instead of what I actually wanted.
Good job Apple. You had me worried. Now, go forward and be a leader again. Make Americ... er rather - Make the company great again.
ios8 -> ios9 on my ipad
the update successfully slowed down my ipad and i had to go buy a new one.
what will happen when 9->10 update is applied on my new ipad?