Everything Apple introduced in WWDC 18

Highlights from the WWDC 2018 keynote

iOS 12:

• Better performance
• 40% faster to open apps like a rocket
• Shared augmented reality experience
• I love the group FaceTime I have been requesting for all my iOS life.
• Siri Shortcuts help make an app Siri enabled as a piece of pie 🥧
• Camera app opens 70% much faster as lightning speed
• 50% faster speed is appended into the keyboard
• iOS 12 brings much faster speed from the iPhone 5s to iPhone X in once in a blue moon
• ARKit 2 brings augmented reality to many apps than just a small cheese
• Apple partners with Pixar to improve ARKit
• Memoji adds personality to Animoji and Animoji gets more animals in the iPhone X
• Detection in tongue movements and winks are added
• Siri Shortcuts help complete compulsive tasks as time flies
• Photos now has a for you tab, and it suggests photos to share and groups specific photos
• There’s a better search tool on the photos app. For example, you can search for photos that have an Apple Watch in them.
• Screen time let’s you check how long you’ve been playing Fortnite on your big iPhone 7 Plus, and not let your iPhone bother you so much during bedtime.
• iBooks is now Apple books
• Privacy gets more secretive and more secure
• Siri can support more than forty languages in pairs
• Apple Pay now supports all types of ID cards  in iPhone and Apple Watch
• Effects and stickers in the camera app
• Measuring with augmented reality
• Organized notifications in several clusters and groups
• Do not disturb settings
• Now on iPad: stocks and voice memos

watchOS 5

• Significant update to the Apple Watch
• Mostly focused on health and activity
• Activity sharing notifications
• Activity competitions
• Can detect workouts automatically by Apple Watch movements
• Yoga and hiking workouts
• Cadence in running metrics
• Pace and unit rate alarm for running
• Walkie talkie for two Apple Watch users
• Podcasts come to the Apple Watch
• Siri face gets more suggestions with rigorous machine learning
• Rich notifications
• ID cards in Apple Pay
• Pride Apple Watch face and matching pride Watch nylon band available
• Marine green, peach, and sky blue Apple Watch bands available
• Safari on Apple Watch
• No more support for the original Apple Watch from 2015, so if you have one of these, upgrade it once it’s September.

macOS Mojave

• Many new pro features
• Dark mode for nighttime and to bring a dramatic look to the iMac Pro
• Stacks feature helps the Mac desktops look tidy and not like a hodgepodge
• FaceTime group calling
• Mac App Store gets a major redesign like the iOS 11 App Store
• Apple news, voice memos, home and stocks come to the Mac
• Scan documents with your iPhone and iPad
• Markup tools now available
• Dynamic desktop changes the look of the wallpaper as the crow flies by
• Metadata in apps

TvOS 12

• Dolby audio gets added to Apple TV 4K
• Charter is now providing the Apple TV 4K to their customers and the Spectrum TV app to tvOS 12
• New space themed screensavers that’s stunning as diamonds
• AT&T & DirecTV is also providing Apple TV 4K in America as well
• Apple TV app rolls out into iOS 12
• Remotely autofill passwords from iPhone
• HomeKit control is now available in Siri


Resources

Apple previews iOS 12 - Apple Newsroom, June 4th, 2018
https://apple.news/AsrVTq8B1QduIW-LZUr-7VQ

watchOS 5 adds powerful activity and communications features to Apple Watch - Apple Newsroom
June 4th, 2018
https://apple.news/AxaMSGPPZRvCnknOt560vRA

Apple introduces macOS Mojave - Apple Newsroom, June 4th, 2018
https://apple.news/AQMB0RZLOTra2gTtAjL1jHw

Apple TV 4K delivers highest quality cinematic experience with tvOS 12 - Apple Newsroom

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