A quick high-level summary of what was announced in Apple’s WWDC 2022
Abstractly ordered as announced in the event
> Intro by Tim Cook
iOS (Enter Craig)
iOS 16 features:
- Lock Screen updates video with loads of personalization
— customization of every single element on the screen,
— Like Watch faces, you can now have multiple lock screens,
— Notifications are shown only at the bottom of the screen,
— Live Activities API (real-time info like match updates, drive location updates, health metrics updates, etc)
— a Full-screen now-playing music app view
— Focus updates:
— Focus filters to focus on one single activity at a time
— Focus API to implement in the app
- Messages Updates:
— You can edit the messages that are already sent
— You can undo/delete the messages
— Mark any thread as unread
- Shared with You: APIs for developers to integrate into the apps
- SharePlay (watch/play together with anyone)
— integrated into FaceTime
— integrated into Messages
- Dictation updates: Voice & keyboard can be used in-conjunction
- App Intents API — shortcuts work with zero setup
- Live text updates:
— Interact with text in the video by pausing it
— Converting currency and translating a foreign language with just a tap
— Live Text API for 3rd party apps
— Visual look-up (details of objects in an image) [introduced last year] but now extended, take any object from an image and put it into the Messages app
- Wallet updates:
— Keys integration with multiple products
— Apple pay:
—> tap to pay, contactless payments with no additional hardware or payment terminals
—> Apple Pay later, lets you pay in four equal payments spread over 6 weeks with 0 interest & no fees → for developers, no extra effort is required, it just works with the standard Apple Pay integration
- Order tracking directly in the wallet by the merchants
- Maps updates:
— Added support for more than 20+ countries
— Multi-stop routing — add up to 15 stops
— Transit costs estimator
— MapKit updates with light & dark modes, look around, and server-side APIs to build faster & flexible ways of building maps experience
- Sports updates
- Family sharing, parental controls, approve requests from the Messages app, iCloud shared library (adds automatically based on the rules)
- Privacy
- Introducing Safety check — stop sharing locations, reset privacy permissions
- Ecosystem:
— Home — automation updates
— CarPlay updates
- Personalized spatial audio — can now be customized/precise even further by using the true depth camera on iPhone tuned just for you
- Quick note
- More Memoji customizations
Apple Watch / watchOS9:
- New watch faces — shows cloud coverage around the world, lunar calendar, playtime, metropolitan
- New Siri UI, new banner notifications, and active apps pinned to the top of the dock for quick access
- New Share sheet & photos picker APIs, with CallKit call directly from the watch
- Fitness updates: Vertical oscillation detection using accelerometer & gyroscope (used to help wasteful vertical movements while running)+ other metrics, multi-sport workouts
- Sleep updates: sleep stages (awake, REM, core, deep),
- heart stroke detection (Atrial Fibrillation),
- medications tracker
Mac / macOS Ventura:
- Introduced M2, metrics improvement in comparison with others
- Introduced new Macbook air & MacBook Pro, MagSafe is back
- Stage Manager: Focuses on the current app and organizes all the windows of a single app
- Spotlight: take a peek at the results with a tap on the space bar, live text: search text inside the image, and create a timer right from the search, this feature is also coming to iOS & iPadOS, on iOS spotlight entry point is placed just above the dock
- Mail App updates: search typo fix changes
- Safari app updates: shared tabs with live status of who’s looking now
- Passkeys (Apple’s password replacement approach): create a passkey with just the biometric, passkeys are used only for the site it was created for, passkeys can be phished/leaked since it never leaves the devices, synced only via iCloud, works cross-platform by signing in with the iPhone via QR code(presented on any other platform device)
- Gaming:
— Metal3: metal FX upcoming — to render complex scenes faster, fast resource loading API — minimizes wait by providing a path from storage to the unified memory system
- Handoff comes to FaceTime
- Continuity Camera: use the iPhone camera with a stand on top of the Mac and it gives these features: center stage, portrait mode with blur effect, studio light, desk view
iPadOS16:
- All iOS features
- Weather app — weather kit to integrate into 3rd party apps
- Collaboration — work with others across a variety of apps and it’s coming to iOS & macOS as well
- Freeform app — an all-in-one app (more like a Notion competitor) for all apple platforms
- Gaming — background download API, jump into the app/game w/o creating an account via GameCenter account, GameCenter dashboard
- Desktop Class apps — undo/redo across the system, updates to Files app, redefined find & replace the experience that works inline, customizable toolbars, desktop-class app APIs
- Reference color, Reference mode
- Stage Manager: same features as macOS, connect to an external display,
> Outro by Tim Cook
Earlier posted on my blog: https://saru2020.blogspot.com/2022/11/wwdc-2022-keynote-summary.html
