Maccast 2016.06.13 - WWDC 2016

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Opening

• My first reaction was this was a very “consumer” focused keynote
  • The flow was focusing on the new features of the various OS’s first
  • Only near the end did they briefly mention how it was relatable to the developers
  • Felt like they weren’t “playing to their audience”
• But in hindsight I see what Apple was doing
  • They showed off the feature, related it to how developers would have access, and then left if for the later session to bring out the details.
  • Makes more sense. Apple also knows press and consumers are watching the keynote intently.
• So the theme of this, if there was any, was opening up the OS features to developers.
  • A really good thing.
• But not totally open, the the “Apple way”.
  • Giving access, but maintaining security and privacy.

watchOS

• Top focus is performance
  • App launch
  • Apps in memory
  • Background updates
  • Instant launch (about 7x faster)

The Dock

• View and launch favorite apps
• Tap side button to activate. How do you access other apps?
• No more ‘Friends’?
• How do you access Digital Touch?
• Seems to combine Glances and recently used apps
  • The key is that apps get snapshots and can have data updated in the background
  • Ready the minute you bring up the controls

Control Center

• Replaces glances as the swipe up gesture
• Mimics the controls of the old “Settings” glance

Messages

• Scribble
• handwriting to text

Watch Faces

• Activity watch face
• Minnie Mouse
• Numerals
• Swipe to switch faces. Edge to Edge.

SOS

• Emergency calls
• Notify emergency contacts

Activity

• Activity sharing
• Wheel Chair support
  • Time to roll
  • Two wheel Chair workouts
  • Activity optimized for wheel chair

Breathe

• Deep breathing sessions
• For stress.

New Apps

• Reminders
• Find My Friends

Developer APIs

• Apple Pay
• Access to real-time heart rate data, the gyroscope, and the all-day accelerometer
• Support for Digital Crown and touch events directly, speaker audio, in-line video, SpriteKit, SceneKit, Game Center for turn-by-turn gaming, and CloudKit for data storage across devices
• Preview release today, upgrade in Fall

tvOS

New Remote app

• All Siri features
• Play games, accelerometer
• Keyboard input

Siri

• Search movies by topic
• Search YouTube

Single Sign-on ( TV Everywhere)

• Sign in once and access all apps
• Shows which ones you have access to
• Adobe is working to incorporate these new APIs into all Adobe Primetime authentication SDKs, ensuring efficient adoption by programmers
  • This system drives 95% of broadcaster and cable network sites and apps in North America today.

Dark mode

Auto app downloads

Developers

• Replay Kit (Twitch)
• Photos
• Peer-to-peer connectivity
• Homekit
• ExternalAccessory
• UserNotifications

Other stuff

• Copy and paste support, I assume Universal Clipboard support, via new Remote App?
• Removed its requirement that all games for tvOS be playable using the Siri Remote

macOS (OS X)

• macOS - Seirra

Auto Unlock

• Using Continuity
• If you’re already authenticated to your Apple Watch
• Uses “time of flight” networking for security

Universal clipboard

• Between iOS and Mac

iCloud Drive

• Desktop and Documents folder are included

Optimized Storage

• Make room for new file by storing older files in the cloud
  • How do you handle backup?
• Removes old files you don’t need
• Caches, inactive downloads, error logs, redundant mail data, older trashed files.
• All of it can be configured.
• Dealing with smaller SSD drives in many Macs, will be a big help.

ApplePay

• ApplePay on the web
• Authenticate with iPhone or double click Apple Watch button
• Uses Continuity

Tabs

• Tabs to all apps, 3rd party apps.
• Supported out of the box.

Picture in Picture for Safari

• Stays in place when switching windows and spaces
• Built in to default HTML 5 video player
• Javascript API for developers to add to custom players

Siri

• Accessed from Spotlight and the Dock
  • Can we switch off the Siri feedback “comments”?
• Pin results in Notification Center
• Click and drag results from Siri, like photos

Other stuff

• Contacts integration for 3rd party messaging and video calling apps
• Live Photo editing for 3rd party apps
• Sell Safari Extension on App Store
• Proprietary plugins like Adobe Flash and Java will be disabled by default when browsing the web in Safari
  • Can “use once” or “use every time”.

Release

• Public Beta July, release in the Fall
• Will run on:
  • Late 2009 & later MacBooks and iMacs
  • 2010 & later MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, Mac minis, and Mac Pros
  • Goes back about six years, not too bad.

iOS 10

• Biggest iOS release ever

User Experience

• Redesigned lock screen
  • Expanded 3D Touch
  • Raise to wake to see lock screen
• Notifications
  • See photos, watch videos, and listen to audio inside a notification
  • Display live information, see when someone is typing
• Control Center
  • Music controls on separate panel, swipe to access
• Slide from right to access Camera
• Widgets
  • Access from Lock screen. Slide from left to access.
  • Seems to replace “Today” view, at least on Lock Screen
  • Widgets above icons in 3DTouch
• This means “Slide to Unlock” is now gone, replaced by widget gesture.
  • “Press Home to Open”
  • In beta 1, just touching Home button only unlocks, but doesn’t open
  • Some are complaining about this, but I hope it’s so you can stay on unlock screen and access widgets, notifications, etc.
  • If you want to unlock and go to home all in one gesture, just use the one Apple says to, “Press Home to Open”.

Siri+Apps

• Apps integrate using an extension that communicates with Siri.
  • Apps register domains and intents
  • Ride Booking, Messaging, Photo Search, Payments, Audio or video calling, Workouts, Climate and Radio (CarPlay)
• For developers
  • Messaging

QuickType

• Siri intelligence
• Suggestions based on context
• Pre-fill calendar events

Photos

• Advanced computer vision
• Face recognition
  • Done locally on the device
• Object and scene recognition
• Memories
  • Can combine recognition into collections
  • Uses AI on the device
  • Events, places, people, and topics
  • Auto creates movies (slideshow)
  • Control length and “mood” (music)
• These features come to Mac and Apple TV as well.
• Edit RAW, FINALLY
  • Third party developers will be able to shoot and store raw photos
  • work with the rear camera only
  • iOS can handle shooting in RAW and JPEG simultaneously
  • available to apps running on the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, SE, and the 9.7” iPad
  • Will use the Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) file format

Maps+Apps

• All new design
• Proactive
  • suggests relevant apps and services based on current location
  • Parked car feature. Done automatically for a trip that does not end at your home address.
• Navigation
  • Traffic on route
  • Dynamic view
  • Search along route
  • Alternate routes
• Open up to developers, via Maps extensions
  • Apps that offer ride booking, restaurant reservations, and other location-related services
  • Can handle booking, tracking, and payments.

Music

• 15 Million paid subscribers
• All-new design
  • My Music once again “Library”
    • Downloaded Music, just what’s on your device
    • Lyrics
  • For You
    • Personalized playlists
    • Discovery Mix
    • Connect has been moved here
  • Browse
    • Replaces the “New ” tab
    • Apple editors select most recent and important
    • Top Charts, curated playlists etc.
  • Radio

News

• Featured Stories (editors)
• Subscriptions
• Break news notifications

HomeKit

• Supports camera and doorbell accessories a
• Home app. What happened to the old “Home” app?
• Built in to Control Center on iOS
• Live notifications
  • For things like doorbells and front door camera
• Apple TV remote access and automation
  • Geofences
• Support for Apple Watch

Phone

• Voicemail transcription
• VOIP API, for 3rd party apps
  • Lock screen integration
  • Recents
  • Favorites
  • Contacts can remember how you like to call individual people (Phone, Skype, Slack, etc.)

Messages

• Rich links
• Emoji
  • 3x bigger emoji
  • Emoji predictions
  • Tap to replace emoji
• Bubble effects
  • Add emphasis to bubbles (animated)
  • Invisible ink, swipe to reveal
• Handwritten messages
• Digital Touch
• Full screen effects
• iMessage Apps
  • App Store for iMessage
  • Expose app features inside messages, like Square Cash payments.
  • Stickers, can be for purchase inside Messages
• Mac and Apple Watch can receive the content, not create.

Other features

• Notes collaboration
• Live Photo editing
• Split pages in Safari, two windows side by side

Privacy

• On-device intelligence
• No user profiling
• Differential privacy, a way to get patterns among users while keeping individual user identities private.

Release

• Beta for Devs now, public beta soon, release in the Fall
• Runs on iPhone 5 and newer, iPad 4th gen and newer, 2nd gen iPad minis, all iPad Airs and iPad Pros, iPod Touch 6th gen and newer

Other

• No Game Center app in iOS 10 beta 1
  • Apple confirmed the stand alone app is being killed, but the service will continue
• Delete bundled apps
  • Not all of them but most
  • Contacts (iPhone only)
  • Contact data will be maintained in the Phone app
  • Obviously most saved data will be deleted
  • Could be issues for other integrations
    • Delete Weather app and many other apps, complications, widgets may lose their data as well?
  • There are some obvious ones on the chopping block
    • Stocks, Tips, Compass?
• Flashlight icon in Control Center now gives you the option to turn on your LED flash at low, medium or high intensity.
• Bedtime in Clock app
  • Meant to help with sleep patterns.
  • The feature runs through a quick setup and then it will remind you when you should go to bed and help you wake up easier.

Swift 3

• 100,000 apps with Swift
• Number 1 language project on Github

Swift Playgrounds for iPad

• Public beta next month

New filesystem

• Apple File System (APFS)
• Designed to replace the ancient HFS+ system
• Optimized for Flash/SSD storage, and engineered with encryption as a primary feature
• Can be used on conventional disks
• Has some severe limits for now
  • Won’t work on hybrid Fusion Drives or on startup disks
  • Time Machine and FileVault aren’t yet supported
  • Filenames are case sensitive
• Some big advantages
  • “Space Sharing” will however allow multiple file systems to share the the same storage blocks,
  • Change volume sizes without re-partitioning
  • A “cloning-system”, only write changes to a cloned file to new locations.
  • Has snapshots and Fast Directory Sizing
  • Focus on encryption
• There is a developer preview in macOS Sierra, but it’s not expected to launch before 2017.

Not announced

• No new hardware
  • No Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, or Apple TV/ Siri box
  • I assume they will come in the Fall announcements?
• No iMessage for Android
  • I think this has to be coming.
  • This would be another great “halo” effect app.
• Some Siri enhancements, but maybe not enough
  • Were was all the cool VocalIQ stuff
  • AI, better handling of accents, etc?
• A HomeKit app, but no hardware.