Keynote

iOS 14

• Home screen updates
  • App Library. Auto organizes apps at the end of your home screen pages
  • Hide app pages you don’t need
  • Updated widgets. Multiple sizes. Add to home screens
  • Smart stack widget: Auto switches between relevant widget through the day
• Picture in picture for playing videos, regardless of app.
• Siri
  • No longer full screen, just overlays
  • Run dictation on device
  • Translate app. Offline, basically kills iTranslate converse
• Messages
  • Pinned conversations
  • Memoji updates, new options
  • Groups
    • Threaded replies
    • Mentions
    • Updated group header, custom icons
• Maps
  • Updated in more countries
  • Guides
  • Cycling directions, in specific cities (NY, LA, SF)
  • Electric vehicles: tracks car charge and factors in charging stations
  • Congestion centers and green zones
• Car key support in car play (only 2020 bmw so far)
  • Disable via iCloud
  • Share via messages, can set restricted driving profiles
• App Clips
  • Light and fast mini-apps, discovered from safari, messages, NFC tags, QR codes, Appclip codes
  • Less than 10MB, part of an app, built with xcode

ipadOS

• App sidebars
• Incoming call notifications instead of full screen (iphone as well)
• Universal search
  • Search is also an overlay instead of full screen
  • Kind of like spotlight, I guess
• Apple pencil
  • Scribble: handwrite into any text field
  • Shape recognition / cleanup
  • Handwriting selection/copy/paste
• Airpods
  • Automatically switch between devices
  • Spatial audio (Pro only)

WatchOS 7

• Complications
  • Apps can have multiple complications on the same face
  • Redesigned complication selector
  • Complications with swift ui
  • Watch face sharing. Safari, messages, etc
• Adding dance workout
• Activity app renamed to fitness
• Sleep tracking
  • Wind down helps for creating a bedtime routine
• Handwashing detection and timer

Privacy

• Convert an existing account to “Sign in with apple”
• Can share “approximate location” with an app
• Require apps to ask to track you across apps and websites
• “Nutrition facts” summary of privacy policies, on app store pages. (Self-reported by developer)

Home

• Amazon / Google alliance to improve compatability
• Adaptive lighting controls your color lights like night shift
• Cameras / doorbells
  • Activity zones and face recognition
  • Connected to apple tv and homePod
• Apple tv
  • Multiple users
  • More game controller support
  • Tv plus: Asimov’s Foundation

macOS Big Sur

• Big visual design change “Biggest since macOS 10”
• Uses SF Symbols text icons on the mac, to match mobile
• Updated all system apps to match and icons
• Translucent menu bar, larger menu items, control center
• Combined notification center and widgets
• Updates to Mac catalyst to allow more native look and feel
• Safari
  • Privacy report
  • Extensions: Web Extensions Api, privacy protection, allow / deny per site
  • Customizable start page
  • Tabs: hover to see preview, close to the right
  • Built in translation

Apple Silicon

Dropping intel proccessors, moving to internal apple silicon. A4 through A13 iphone chips focused on performance per watt. Mac will do the same.

• “Universal 2” Single binary that will work on intel and Apple Silicon
• “Rosetta 2” Will drive intel apps on macs with apple silicon
  • Translates at install time
  • Support for JIT
  • Transparent to users
• New virtualization technologies?
• iPhone and iPad apps will run natively
• Developer quick start program, including hardware

Expect to ship by end of the year, transition to take about 2 years. Expect to continue to ship updates for intel macs for “years to come”. Even still have new intel hardware updates still in the pipeline.