at last year's wwdc when tim apple got on stage and proudly announced the
transition to apple silicon it blew the lid off the tech space which is why it's
so baffling that now in the exact middle of apple's two-year transition away from
Intel cpus they announced
no hardware whatsoever so what did they announce and should we have bothered to
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wwdc isn't really the place where apple announces new hardware but since they
changed that last year we had hoped to get some news about their next-gen socs
this year i mean those leaked reports of apple's big eight performance core jade
sea dyes had us salivating at the thought of high thread count apple
silicon but unfortunately that's not what we got although we did get little
hints here and there about what apple's doing for their future hardware one big
indicator is that all of siri's voice recognition will now be processed on
device rather than being sent up to the cloud and this is huge huge because it's
not only better for privacy it's a lot faster and a lot more reliable in areas
with spotty coverage making siri way more useful full stop not only that but
they're also implementing what is essentially NVIDIA's rtx voice and
background blurring for facetime calls along with expanding spatial audio for
group calls so voices appear to come from where each person's feed is
situated on your screen wow it feels like they're really standing around me
in a circle like they did before the bad times there are even more new machine
learning features being rolled out across the whole range of apple's new operating systems including the ability
to detect and recognize any kind of text in an image or even things like dog
breeds or plants and that information then gets contextualized and becomes
searchable if that sounds like a lot of work for a phone processor you're right
so it sounds like apple's planning on a pretty big boost to the iphone soc this
fall if you ask us you probably shouldn't be surprising
that apple focused on software this morning it is the worldwide developers
conference after all but what's cool is that a lot of the new stuff they talked
about is applicable across the whole lineup of their products for example
shareplay which lets you have listen and watch parties and screen share all
through facetime and to try to do that before you need a third party apps or
the very least a good stopwatch but no longer support for shareplay is rolling
out initially for services like hulu hbo max and disney plus with more
undoubtedly to come obviously Android users can't join a shareplay enabled
facetime session but what they can do now for the first time ever is to join a
regular facetime call using a link wait so apple made a facetime app for Android
no no no no you have to use the browser because
you're poor but you can still talk to your rich friends very cool now for
groups of friends who all have idevices sharing links images and other content
has been cranked up to 11 with a new shared with you section in many apps in
imessage you can now pin specific messages to read later which is super
useful to someone like me who leaves people on red to remind myself to reply
later like kind of like mark on red and email and if your device is in do not
disturb mode other idevice users will be able to see that you're busy and will
have the option to notify you anyway which kind of undoes the whole do
not disturb thing but whatever i'm sure this will be completely abused by
certain people in your contacts list and i'm i don't know how it's going to work for people not using now device but hey
it's a thing now just like our water bottles from ltteststore.com except we
know how they work they hold liquid speaking of do not
disturb it's been incorporated into a broader feature called focus which
allows you to set customizable modes for work personal time or say fitness this
means that you can customize which notifications will come through and from who which apps are shown on your home
screen while it's switched on and a lot more and it can be set either manually
or automatically based on time and location data to complement that there's
a new design for notifications with larger icons and
b profile pictures amazing 2021 and the
ability to group certain notifications like from promotional or news apps into
notification summaries that you can receive at the time of your choosing
this honestly sounds like it could significantly cut down on notification clutter and maybe that app that
constantly spams notifications at you for no reason but has some useful
notifications sometimes that you do want can finally stop annoying you throughout
the day i'm looking at you google news let's see what else uh redesigned
weather app with beautiful new animated backgrounds new maps design with
crosswalks traffic lights and 3d building models apple wallet is getting
house key and personal id support that totally won't be a security concern auto
translation that's actually really cool but there's not much to say about it new
memoji outfits
hearing about privacy features during these event things is usually a bit of a
slog but apple made this one a bit more interesting by
essentially introducing what is a vpn or two vpns because the new icloud plus
subscription includes something called private relay which bounces your
internet traffic not once but twice so
not even apple knows what you're doing out there presumably you can also create single
use email addresses to give to sketchy companies when you make an account and
on some plans get unlimited storage for video from home kit enabled security
cameras and this feels like a slog again let's move on
oh the ipad apple's brought the home screen
up to parity with the iphone widgets can now be placed anywhere and there's an
app library that can live on the dock for quick access what's more you can
easily hide or rearrange home screens now which Android's had for a while but
hey better late than never more importantly multitasking sucks less a
new floating menu makes it a bit easier to split screen and app Windows can be
minimized to a shelf and then can be added to a new split screen workspace
combine that with the new universal control feature that lets you share
input between multiple macs or ipads and you've got a formidable multitasking
setup if your workflow includes the ipad universal control is actually really
cool and it's basically a refined apple flavored version of synergy that
automatically arranges and extends to devices immediately nearby presumably
only those signed into the same apple id you know for security but this is wild
you can drag and drop content between your devices and even across a device to
a third device so your weird imac macbook ipad desk
setup will finally make some sense at least to you seriously though this could
be a pretty dang useful feature and one that complements another new feature
airplay to mac now we just did a video
on luna display a dongle that allows you to connect a mac or ipad as a secondary
display similar to apple's own sidecar what we liked about luna display was its
flexibility apple hasn't offered a way to make another mac a display since
target display died off and we weren't happy about it and and then they go
ahead and sherlock it with their own implementation that video isn't even on
youtube yet the timing's just fantastic thank you apple
no word on compatibility yet though but presumably you'll need the latest
release of macOS which apple has dubbed monterrey
after the bay monterey supports virtually all of the new features we've
talked about so far and some we haven't quick notes are one of them and they're
on ipad too basically these are context sensitive notes that you can take
quickly and have synced across sessions and devices that lets you do things like
skip through web pages with copy text save specific snippets from apps and
search through them using spotlight it's a pretty smart feature and one that
along with tags and mentions for groups should help with making the notes app
itself more useful shortcuts are also coming to macOS and since shortcuts are
basically a more user-friendly version of automator macOS users will be able
to import automator scripts until apple phases out that old lame not colorful
enough app in about two years i'm guessing speaking of old lay map designs
safari looks way better now they've moved the address search bar directly
into the active tab itself and the tab bar is located at the top of the window
as if it were the title the tabs themselves are made smaller and they can
now be grouped without the need for an external extension with those groups
extending across all devices and speaking of extensions iOS and ipad os
will now also fully support safari web extensions meaning things like honey can
now be installed on those platforms on the iphone where the tab bar doesn't
really exist the old address bar is now near the bottom of the screen where you
can swipe left and right to quickly switch between tabs or swipe up for an
overview seems pretty slick but we'll have to get our hands on it to know for
sure so make sure you get subscribed so you don't miss that coverage developers
are getting access to all these fancy os changes this month while next month
public betas go live and final releases will presumably coincide with another
apple event in the fall there's obviously more things here that we don't
have time to talk about like new home kit stuff the airpods enhancements
including find my support and the health stuff but this video is already long
enough wwdc was a nearly two hour stream
and we're still kind of processing all of it so maybe you can check out our mac
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