Apple's WWDC 2020 Keynote in Just 16 minutes
This was my 16-minute, tech-focused edit of Apple’s WWDC 2020 keynote (the video shows Apple’s presentation itself, not my commentary). Here are the main announcements.
iOS 14
- Home screen: a new App Library at the end of your home screen pages that automatically organizes your apps (with a search field and an A-to-Z view), and redesigned widgets in different sizes that you can drag onto the home screen, with a Smart Stack to swipe through them.
- Picture in picture for video, and compact Siri and incoming call interfaces that no longer take over the whole screen.
- Siri has far more facts than three years ago, and dictation now runs on device (accuracy and privacy). A new Translate app handles text and voice across 11 languages.
- Messages: pinned conversations, more Memoji options, inline replies, mentions, and a redesigned group view.
- Maps: cycling directions, EV routing (it factors in charge, elevation and weather and adds charging stops for compatible chargers).
- CarPlay: new wallpapers and app categories (parking, EV charging, food ordering), and Car Keys: unlock and start a compatible car with your phone, shareable over iMessage with restrictions like a teen driver profile.
- App Clips: small pieces of an app that launch from a card, using Apple Pay, from the web, Messages or Maps.
iPadOS 14
- Designs made for the iPad: sidebars in Photos, Notes, Files and Music, streamlined toolbars and drop-down menus.
- Compact Siri and call interfaces, and a redesigned Search that works from anywhere and also navigates to websites.
- Scribble: handwrite into any text field with the Apple Pencil and have it converted to text.
AirPods
AirPods will switch between your devices automatically, and spatial audio uses directional audio filters and head-motion tracking to place sounds around you for a surround-sound experience.
watchOS 7
Multiple complications, face sharing, new dance workout tracking, sleep tracking (with a wind-down screen) and automatic hand-washing detection.
Privacy
Apple described four principles (data minimization, on-device intelligence, security, transparency and control). New features: sharing only your approximate location with apps, an indicator when an app uses the mic or camera, and App Store policy requiring apps to ask before tracking you across other companies’ apps and websites, with developers self-reporting their data practices.
macOS Big Sur
A refreshed design: new app icons, a new sidebar design, compact toolbars and color back in the UI. Control Center comes to the Mac (drag controls to the menu bar), notifications and widgets are in one view, and Messages gets powerful search, a redesigned photo picker, Memoji editing and pinned conversations. Mac Catalyst lets developers fully use the Mac’s native resolution. Safari is, Apple says, on average more than 50% faster than Chrome, with a privacy report button and support for the web extensions API.
The big one: Apple silicon
Apple announced the Mac is transitioning to its own Apple silicon: highest performance at the lowest power consumption, using the same architecture as the iPhone, iPad and Watch, a family of SoCs for the Mac line, with advanced power management, a secure enclave and a high-performing GPU. Universal 2 binaries run on both Intel and Apple silicon Macs, and Rosetta 2 automatically translates existing Mac apps. macOS Big Sur adds virtualization (for Linux or Docker), and Mac users can run iOS and iPadOS apps directly. The developer transition kit is a Mac mini with an A12Z (like the iPad Pro’s). Apple expects to ship its first Apple silicon Mac by the end of the year, with a transition taking about two years, and will keep supporting Intel Macs for years.
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