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WWDC20 Keynote News — Next big updates…
Burcu Geneci
22 Jun 2020
WWDC... Best time of the year… Apple introduces great technologies both on mobile, watch, Mac, and for home. It is a really important event for developers, Apple, and it’s users.
First, iOS 14!
The new iOS 14 has new capabilities such as App Library, Wider, and Rich Widgets Apps on the home screen, App clips, and more.
App Library encourages organized apps. A- Z listing on Search. App Library supports App suggestions and recently-added-group of apps.
Widgets among Apps! Widgets are now beautiful, wider, and data-rich. They can have a variety of sizes. Developers will have so much power on their widgets.
🤩 Smart Stack, If you have lots of app widgets on your iPhone. Smart Stack organizes them as a Bunch of Widgets. It can be controlled by tap and drop. You can pick the one that you want. It can do it automatically, morning news, meetings, evening activity.
Lots of apps are redesigned. Siri gets an updated UI, Apple Maps gets EV routing. iMessage now has inline messaging, mentions, and pinned conversations.
🔊Speech recognition is better and with Neural Engine, now it is running on-device. Of course with improved accuracy and privacy.
🥳 We see the new Translate App for the first time. The Translate app is specially designed for conversations. It can also work offline. Also, it has on-device machine learning and Neural Engine. It is now available for 11 languages which are English, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian.
Now with Picture in Picture, we can watch videos on the home screen, with other apps, also we can drag it, pinch to zoom, we can swipe it to the side and the audio keeps playing when it’s off-screen.
App Clips
“Today no matter what you want to do, there’s an app for that”
Now, you can slice your app as a quick instance app. Users just tap and use your app in Safari, Messages, Maps, by using NFC Text(tags), QR Codes, and App Clip Code. It’s easy to discover. Your app should be less than 10 MB and can be integrated with apple pay and apple ID.
iPad OS 14!
The New iPad OS has new Sidebar support for apps and toolbar on the top. iPad apps now look like Mac applications. iPad widgets are redesigned as well.
Universal Search offers a full-screen search experience. iPad OS has a search experience like as MacOS spotlight has. Now we can search directly into apps like Keynote, Mail, Messages…
Scribble for Apple Pencil. We can now write directly to the text field, it can be a search bar? Or a reminder. It automatically converts your handwriting. Supports more than one language in the same line. (On-Device Machine Learning recognize handwriting). It has auto detectors to detect addresses, phone numbers, and directions.
macOS — Big Sur
Now it’s official. Big Sur is the brand new macOS version. Mac Apps are redesigned. Each app has its key color and is combined with the new rounded row selection style. These changes are not making a world of difference but we will see redesigned apps like Calendar and notes — Icons, Colors, Background, Surfaces.
The Menu Bar also getting more useful includes wifi, sound options like we have it on the iPhone and iPad. Control Center included. And both are easy to customize and make adjustments. Now you can customize the menu bar by dragging the options that we want from the Control Center.
👉Mac Catalyst
Bring your iPad app to Mac. Mac Catalyst app family getting bigger and bigger. We’ll see many more catalyst app showcases in WWDC20 week.
With improved Catalyst, as developers, we will be able to fully utilize the native resolution of the Mac screen, new menu and keyboard APIs, and updated controls like checkboxes and date pickers.
A big fan of Memojis? You can create a Memoji of yourself on Mac if you want to. 😎
and, Mac Hardware updates…
Apple switching Mac’s processor Intel to Apple Silicon. The transition will be completed in 2 years. They have a converter for compiled apps already. Rosetta 2 converts compiled apps to new binaries, compatible with Apple Silicon.
iPad and iOS apps on Mac
Apple Silicon supports key capabilities, Mac computers now can have virtualization, you can use iPad and iOS apps on Mac and also Linux operation system as a part of virtualization.
Apple Silicon — New Chip will be a game-changer? 🧐 We’ll see it. It looks very promising and will be publicly in use in Fall.
Exciting news will be here in WWDC week long. 🥳 Stay tuned! 🤓
— Monday Hero Team.