Keynote

iOS 15

• FaceTime
  • Spatial audio
  • Voice isolation (disableable)
  • Grid view
  • Portriat mode, blurs background
  • Facetime links, generate and share to invite.
    • Join via browser, for non-apple devices
  • SharePlay
    • Bring in music and movies into a facetime call
    • Share screen
    • Stuff will stay in sync
    • API for developers to integrate with
• Messages
  • Picture collages/stacks
  • Shared with you
    • News, photos, music apps will highlight things shared with you
    • Safari, tv, podcasts as well.
• Notifications
  • Summary
  • When DnD is on, imessage users will see you are busy
  • Focus
    • Can choose a “mode”, allow apps and contacts you want to use
    • Ie, personal, work, sleep
    • Customized home screens for each
    • Can suggest focus, ie “gym”, based on location
    • Syncs across devices
• Live text
  • Select text from camera, or existing photos
  • Copy, look up, call, etc
  • Visual look up, breed of dog, type of flower, landmarks
  • Photos search from spotlight
• Photos memories
  • Brings music into memories
  • Adjust mixes and themes
• Wallet
  • Tap to unlock your house, workplace, hotel rooms
  • Identity cards, scan your drivers license (participating states)
    • TSA will be the first place that you can use this securely
• Weather: more data points, widgets, and maps
• Maps
  • Interactive globe
  • In a few major cities
    • New landmarks, elevations, trees, parks etc
    • Driving has more road details, crosswalks, lanes, lines, highway interchanges
    • Transit improved
    • Augmentented reality navigation
• Airpods
  • Conversation boost, ie hearing aid mode
  • Improved siri reading messages
  • Pro and max pods will work with find my

iPadOS 15

• Widgets and app library, just like iphone last year
  • Library will be in the dock
• Multitasking menu
  • Buttons to put apps side by side
  • Minimizing on “the shelf” ie all open windows of an app
  • New keyboard shortcuts
• Notes
  • Mentions, Activity, Tags
  • Quick note
    • Swipe from corner to jot down a quick note
    • Context aware
• Translate coming to iPad
  • Practice handwriting in another language with pencil
  • Side by side with webpages
  • System wide, select and translate, even in “live text”
• Swift playgrounds
  • ==Build apps on iPad==!
  • With SwiftUI
  • Run full screen,
  • Submit to app store

Privacy

• Mail privacy protection
  • Hides ip and location
  • Prevents open email notifications
• App privacy report
  • Reports how often apps have used permissions you’ve granted
• Siri
  • Many new voice options
  • On device speech recognition
    • Avoids concerns of “always listening”
    • Make many requests without internet
    • Faster

iCloud

• Account recovery
  • Create recovery contact list, get recovery code
• Digital legacy
  • Legacy contacts, can request access after
• iCloud+
  • Private relay
    • Two secure bounces on safari
    • Prevent many kinds of tracking
  • Hide my email, get random emails @icloud.com
  • More cameras on HSV
  • Not changing prices at all!

Health

• Mobility, walking steadiness
  • Tracks walking cadence
  • Notification if your fall risk increases
• Labs
  • Health app includes information about lab results
• Trends
  • Insight about long term changes in your metrics
• Share data with healthcare providers in their EMR system
• Family sharing
  • Health sharing to help care for your parents or children
  • Similar notifications about changes and alerts
  • Launch a message to ask them how they’re doing
  • Permissions to choose what to share

WatchOS 8

• Health
  • Mindfulness app
    • Breathe enhanced
    • Reflect is similar, with prompts
  • Sleep
    • Tracks respiritory rate
• Fitness
  • New workout types: tai chi, pilates
  • Fitness+
    • New instructor series
    • Music artist series
• Portrait watch face
  • Uses foreground/background data to create depth
• Improved typing interface
  • Combines scribble and dictation
  • Scroll to move cursor

HomeKit

• HomeKeys, see above
• Ask siri on homepod to play things on apple tv
• For all of you, combined reccomendations
• Use homepod mini as the speakers for apple tv
• Siri to third party devices
  • Flow to the homepod
  • matter a new industry collaboration standard for communication
• Improvements on apple watch
• Display multiple cameras, and easily control nearby lights

MacOS Monterey

• Many cross features from things above
• Universal control
  • Single mouse and keyboard swaps between mac and ipad
  • Just by setting ipad next to laptop
  • Drag and drop between devices
  • Even more than two devices, all link together
• Airplay to Mac, from other devices
• Shortcuts, just like for iphone coming to mac
  • Looks like modernized automator
  • Import from automator. automator still supported (for now)
• Safari
  • Completely new tab design
  • Integrated tab bar and search bar
  • Tab groups, save tabs and get back to them
  • Most buttons moved to the dropdown menu
  • (Also on ipad, iphone on bottom)
  • Extensions coming to ipad/iphone

Developer Technologies

• Many, many, new Apis. Much covered above, also
  • Object capture, use a series of images to create 3d objects
• Swift
  • Concurrency using async, await and actors
• App store
  • AB testing for app product pages, images etc
  • In-App events, promote your events on your product page and search
• Xcode cloud
  • Builds, tests, etc
  • Results displayed in xcode
  • Distributes to testers
  • TestFlight for the Mac
  • Limited free beta, available to all next year. Cost TBA