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My notes for todays Apple WWDC Keynote! I typed this all whilst watching the 2 hour livestream. This was hard work! Enjoy!
Apple WWDC2020 Keynote - 22nd June 2020.
— Event started with Animoji’s around the world... then fell to Earth showing the new Apple campus. They’re just showing off at this point, wow!
— Tim Cook talking now.
- Stream keynote is only available online due to COVID.
- Tim Cook now talking about racism and equality.
- Mentioned George Floyd.
- Apple committed $100million for communities of colour, education and criminal justice.
- New Developer Entrepreneur camp for black developers.
- Thanking healthcare workers battling COVID-19.
- This is a truly unique week for WWDC.
- Dev Conference available to all 23 Million developers + anyone else who is interested.
— Craig Federighi now talking about iOS!!
- IOS14!!
- Talking about home screen. How they added folders and widgets screen etc.
- This year we are doing more!
- HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!
- Showed a video with Widgets all over the damn place! Have them anywhere on any page! (Yes, like Android lol - but better!)
- Organise ALL apps with “App Library” which will automatically organise ALL apps in to special folders.
- Hide pages so you don’t have pages and pages of apps.
- Search the library for the app you want. Categories are created intelligently for you.
- Apps you use most are kept at the top.
- Now talking about Widgets!
- This year widgets are data rich and at different sizes.
- Today view has widgets - you can pick whatever sized widgets you want.
- Tap and hold a widget in Today View and drag it to your home screen and put it anywhere amongst your apps.
- Tap on a widget and scroll through all the looks you can have. You can even have a smart stack with a bunch of widgets in it.
- The Smart Stack can automatically flick through its widgets based on what it knows about you.
- Picture in Picture now coming to iPhone!
- Play a show, then when you go Home the video has its own window. You can drag the picture to any part of the screen. You can even swipe it to the side to keep audio playing! It also has all the controls on it to pause etc.
- Siri will also be updated.
- Siri experience totally redesigned.
- She no longer takes over the whole screen.
- Ask whatever you want and it doesn’t take over everything. Works so well!
— Yale Garten now talking about Siri!
- Siri receives 25 billion requests per month.
- Dictation now runs on device with Neural Engine! NICE!!!!
- Apple Translate - designed for conversations OFFLINE keeping all conversations private. All works ON DEVICE. Just tap, speak and it speaks in the language you want. Then the other person can reply in their language and it translates and talks to you. Perfect! Like Google Translate, but all on device and seems to work perfectly.
— Back to Craig:
- Messages: Memoji and Groups
— Stacey Lysic now talking:
- Pin conversations to the top of your list.
- Memoji: over 1Trillion ways to customise.
- Now 20 new hairstyles etc.
- Facecoverings now added to Memoji!
- More age options.
- 3 new Memoji stickers for hug etc.
- Groups messages: Inline replies that let you reply to specific messages.
- Mentions added to Group messages.
- You can opt to only get a notification when you are mentioned in a group.
- Create a unique identity for your group chat.
— Craig now talking!
- Maps. Oh god here goes...
- Rebuilding from ground up!
- Apple maps is now an actual rival to Google Maps with a MUCH BETTER Privacy Policy.
- IOS14 adds new ways to find places you’ll love.
- (I think I’ll probably still stick to Google Maps... for now).
— Meg Frost now talking about Maps!
- Guides for places to eat, explore, shop etc.
- Save guides.
- IOS14 introduces ways to help reduce carbon footprint. Including maps for cycling etc. It takes elevation in to account too. Tells you about the roads and steep passages, stairs etc. You can even choose to avoid stairs.
- Introducing EV routing for electric cars!!! Maps tracks current charge, weather, charging stops and what charger will work for your specific car.
- Congestion and green zones added to maps for air quality.
- Drivers in China can store their number plate in maps and it will tell them when they are allowed to drive in to city centre.
— Craig back on - Car Play!
- 97% of new cars in US have Car Play! - 80% worldwide.
- New wallpapers for Car Play. New apps like EV charging etc.
- Car keys!!!
— Emily Schubert now talking!
- Unlock and START your car with your iPhone!!
- This is just like what you can do with a Tesla lol - showing this off with a BMW. Nice to see other manufacturers are playing catchup!
- Share keys via iMessage to whoever you want to be able to drive your car. Also restrict driving profiles etc lol. About bloody time! This is great!
— Craig now talking!
- Car keys also works with iOS13.
- Tech will use the U1 chip in the phone.
- Leave phone in pocket etc and car will still start.
— App Store!
- Apps for everything! When you need them! Apps just pop up depending on what you’re doing. “App Clip for that” - what the hell is an “App Clip”.
- An App Clip is a small part of an app thats super fast.
- Card pops up and you tap. App Clip starts and uses Apple Pay.
- You can also launch from the Library. Nice!
- App Clips get you to a part of an app instantly when and where you need them!
- NFC tags on parking meters etc or QR codes, BANG App Clip pops up and you’re sorted! Super fast!
- Looks like this will change freaking everything we do lol - damn!
- Native SDK support for devs and 10mb in size, damn this is awesome!
- Privacy friendly, boom! This is great!!
— iPadOS!!!!!!
- iPadOS14.
- Made for iPad apps.
- (I have an iPad Pro and seriously it changes everything lol! Buy one!)
— Josh Schaffer now talking!
- Redesigned widgets just like iOS14.
- Photos app - easier to browse and organise photos. New sidebar.
- Just drag photos to sidebar and drop in to albums.
- Files app - new sidebar there too! Yes!!
- Other apps also have new toolbars. Makes everything fast and easy!
- Apple Music also updated for iPadOS14.
- Lyrics now included in Apple Music view.
— Craig back on screen!
- Siri update on iPad. Results on bottom right corner.
- Calls take over the whole screen - Not any more!! Calls come in as a compact notification. Tap to answer or flick away to dismiss! Applies to ALL calls. Also applies to iOS calls/Skype etc! NICE!
- Search is no longer full screen, perfect! Search from anywhere without having to get out of your app.
- Universal search for everything. Use it for contacts or even search within apps! Also includes web searches.
- Search makes navigating easy - type a few letters and bang you go in to Safari to your website.
— Improvements to Apple Pencil!!!
- Handwriting is now as easy as typed text!
- Scribble coming to iPad.
- Highlight whatever and it converts to text.
— Jenny Chen showing off Apple Pencil:
- Write what you want, draw etc. When you draw and pause, it converts it to whatever shape you drew.
- Handwriting recognition - you can select written words etc.
- Uses machine learning, all ON DEVICE for privacy!
- You can now also write in to search bars etc!!! Write in ANY text field and it converts it to text! Amazing! Write in Chinese too!
- You can even write a phone number or address, tap it and it’ll place the call etc.
- This is powerful as hell! (Going to use my Apple Pencil more lol!)
— Craig now talking:
- AIRPODS SOFTWARE UPDATE!!!
— Mary-Ann now on screen!
- AirPods now seamlessly move between devices! IPad, Mac, iPhone etc!
- Spacial audio coming to AirPods!!!!!!
- Replicates movie theatre experience!
- Sounds can be played anywhere in space! Nice!!!!
- Sound field stays FIXED even if you move your head!! This is freaking amazing! Sound field stays anchored even if your head moves, or even if you move your device! So you can turn and face a sound behind you and it’ll still be there! You are in the middle of the sounds!
- Works with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 and 7.1! EPIC!!!!!
— WatchOS - Kevin Lynch now on screen!
- ECG, detect falls, call emergency services etc from watch.
- WatchOS7!!! Hell yeah!
- Developers can enable multiple complications!
- New chronograph face etc, loads of them and customisable!
- WatchOS7 allows you to SHARE watch faces! Discover curated faces and download to your watch - even from friends and family.
- Share you watch face with anyone. Send it via iMessage.
- Can also share watch faces over social media! NICE!!
- Maps on WatchOS - can now get cycling directions etc - same as on the iPhone etc.
- Search for and add places optimised for cyclists.
— Julz now talking about Fitness/Workouts:
- DANCE now added as a workout! Workout app now tracks the most popular dance styles!
- Combines data from all sensors to determine calorie burn etc!
- Core training also tracked as workout, and cool down between workouts!
- Track within activity app on iPhone. Perfect!
- Activity app is now called “Fitness”
— Kevin now on screen.
- Sleep tracking!!
— Vera Carr talking about sleep! (Apple WatchOS7).
- Track your sleep, and meet sleep goals.
- Tells you when to wake up / go to bed.
- Bedtime routine.
- “Wind Down” personalised routine. Turns on “do not disturb” and can also use shortcuts.
- Play relaxing music etc! Screen dims and watch goes in to sleep mode!
- When its time to wake, it’ll buzz or alarm, up to you.
- Greets you in the morning with info you want.
- Machine Learning tracks your breathing.
- Health app shows sleep trends etc.
- Set schedules etc.
— Kevin now on screen.
- Hand washing!
- WatchOS7 - watch detects when you start washing hands. A countdown appears for how long you wash your hands!! It even tells you to KEEP WASHING if you don’t wash long enough lol! Amazing!!!!
— Craig now back on screen!
- PRIVACY!!!
- Privacy is a human right.
- Privacy matters now more than ever.
- Data minimisation. On Device intelligence. Security. Transparency and control.
- No other devices come close for Privacy!
- “Sign in with Apple” is designed for Privacy.
- Devs can now allow people to convert sign ins to Sign In with Apple.
— Katy Skinner on screen.
- Location - you can change it to only share APPROXIMATE location.
- Camera and mic now notifies you if its being used!
- Tracking prevention! Apps now HAVE TO ASK to track you!
- Apps HAVE TO tell you what they track etc BEFORE you download them!
- The app has to tell you WHAT DATA is collects about you, and WHO they share it with!!!!
- ALL apps stores will now do this! AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!!!!
— Craig back on screen.
- Home.
- (Is this finally a HomeKit update???)
- Privacy - Siri requests use a random ID not your own ID!
— Yah Cason.
- SMART HOME!! (Yay this will help me I have way too many smart home devices!)
- Partnered with industry leaders for smart home!
- HomeKit - new standard!
- Home app - adding devices is easy.
- IOS14 suggests automations! Hell yes!
- HomeKit homepage updates! FINALLY!
- IOS14 Adaptive lighting though-out the day!! Epic!
- Cameras - HomeKit secure video, totally private!!
- Add activity zones etc for alerts!
- Face Recognition coming to HomeKit cameras!! AWESOME!!!!!! Can even announce who is at the door and a live view when someone rings the doorbell!
- Home view added to TVOS as well so camera automatically comes up when motion or doorbell press is detected!
— Cindy Lin talking Apple TV.
- 4K HDR Dolby Vision/Atmos.
- Access Apple Music with Lyrics.
- Games / Apple Arcade.
- Multi-user support for Games.
- Support for Xbox Elite 2 and the Xbox Adaptive Controller!
- Tracks workouts on AppleTV and also has Picture in Picture!!!
- Airplay improvements for whole family at 4K!
- AppleTV+ update - Apple originals. On all your devices.
- New AppleTV+ Original - Science Fiction series... “FOUNDATION!!!!”
- Trailer for Foundation being shown now.
- From writers of The Dark Knight ad Batman Begins.
- Novels of Isaac Asimov.
- Coming in 2021!!
— Craig’s back on screen! - macOS!!!!!!
- MacOS BIG SUR!!!!!!!!
- “Unmatched levels of POWER!” Lol.
- Video showing off new macOS!
- More clarity to design.
- Refinements to controls.
- Light and Dark themes.
- Focus on content.
- Unified space for notifications and widgets.
- (I don’t use macOS, but I do wish Windows was this damn beautiful! Seriously).
- Craig showing macOS demo:
- New dock design.
- New icons in dock.
- Finder has a new design.
- Mail redesigned.
- Photos app on macOS updated too. Uses Metal for processing for a smooth experience.
- New version of iWork.
- Panels are translucent.
- Control centre reworked - a whole control centre now on macOS.
- Customise the Control Centre to suit you.
- macOS has a proper notification centre too.
- Widgets also coming to macOS. Edit widgets etc.
- Developers can also add widgets.
- Apps:
- Messages - works seamlessly with all devices. Search in Messages. Photo Picker. Memoji. Memoji Stickers. Messages effects. Pin conversations (across all devices) etc.
- Maps - ALL NEW version of Maps for macOS. New design, favourites, create own guides for places you want to visit, airport gates, “look around” (basically street view), see where friends are and all other features.
- Mac Catalyst: Convert iPad apps to macOS. Developers can optimise apps for macOS. New API’s for developers. Apps run natively on macOS when converted from iPad/iOS (more on this later, huge news, keep reading!)
- Safari: - State of the art privacy. The worlds FASTEST browser. Page loading is also faster. 50% faster than Chrome. Intelligent tracking prevention. It also tells you how websites are trying to track you. It also monitors safe passwords and tells you if you have been breached.
- Extensions for Safari!! Nice!!! - In other browsers extensions can see everything you do. In Safari, you choose what you want to share and when! More great news for Privacy!
— Beth Dakin now talking about Safari.
- Safari has a new look.
- Customisable Start Page.
- Add a background image etc.
- Add new sections to the Start Page.
- Extensions - Web Extensions. Extensions have their own buttons in the toolbar. You also have to grant permission to the extension to work. Awesome.
- Private life stays PRIVATE.
- Tracking prevention and it informs you what the site is trying to track. Gives you a privacy report too!
- New tabs. Sizes adjust to fit more tabs. Cleanup tabs / close all tabs etc.
- Built in language translation. All text gets translated dynamically.
— Tim Cook back on screen! (BIG NEWS).
- Today is a “HISTORIC DAY”.
- Mac is going to a “whole new level!”
- HUGE LEAP FORWARD: MAC is transitioning to... APPLES OWN SILICON!!!!!!
- Finally, I predicted this!!!!!! Apple are LEAVING INTEL and making their OWN processors for Mac!!! This is HUGE (and I expected it but whatever this is awesome!)
— Apple Labs is beneath the Apple Site lol wtf!
- Johnny Srouji now talking about Apple Silicon!
- It all started with the iPhone. The A4 processor all the way to A13 processor. iPhone performance is ahead of ALL other phones due to this custom Apple Silicon.
- Architecture was scaled up for iPad. A5X and onwards. - Wider GPU and memory subsystem.
- Apple Watch also uses custom Apple processors that are best in class for any watch. Industry leading!
- Apple has shipped over 2Billion chips so far.
- All this expertise now being used for Mac silicon!
- Scalable architecture has a lot of custom technologies - allowing Apple to have best in class security and performance. Goodbye Intel! (I hope people who had shares in Intel sold them before this was announced - ouch!)
- New Mac processors will have a common architecture to all Apple devices, allowing developers to create for all devices easily.
— Craig back on screen!
- macOS Big Sur - Apple Silicon.
- Native apps are BUILT FOR the custom silicon!!
- Xcode is used for development of these apps.
- Open and recompile in Xcode.
- Universal 2 - works on Intel based Macs and Apple Silicon! All within the same binary.
- Microsoft is working on Office for the Mac and they are also working with Adobe.
- Showed a mac using an Apple A12Z processor.
- Just told EVERYTHING we just saw on macOS was using Apple custom silicon!
- Microsoft already has Office running natively on Apples custom silicon! Wow!
- He just showed off PowerPoint, Office, Excel etc. Everything works!
- Now showing off Adobe Lightroom running super fast on Apple silicon.
- He also showed off a 5GB photoshop project working on the Mac natively on Apple silicon!
- Final Cut Pro playing 4K video full res - apply filters in real time etc with no slowdown to live playback.
- Also uses Apple Neural Engine. Play back 3x streams at 4K simultaneously with no slowdown! Amazing.
- Transition for users is seamless.
- Even apps that have not been updated for Apple Silicon work on the new Macs. This uses Rosetta 2 to translate existing apps to work on Apple Silicon! They are translated at point of install and on the fly when needed.
- Performance is “Amazing”.
- “Virtualisation” also works.
— Andreas Wendker now showing off Rosetta 2.
- Showing Maya with 6million polygons.
- He added textures and shading. All works fine. Performance is perfect.
- Showed Tomb Raider running perfectly as a Translated app.
- Now showing a Linux Virtual Machine. All works.
- IPhone and iPad apps run NATIVELY on the new Macs because its the SAME Silicon Architecture! Brilliant!
— Craig back on screen.
- Starting Day One you can download the apps and they’ll just work.
- QuickStart Program for developers. Also giving devs a development kit with Apple Silicon and Big Sur dev beta.
- Apply today!
- Shipping units THIS WEEK.
— Tim Cook now back on screen.
- First Mac with Apple Silicon is out THIS YEAR.
- Intel based Macs are still coming till then.
- IOS and iPadOS beta available TODAY.
- Public beta in JULY.
Keynote END!
My thoughts on this: That was freaking incredible! THIS is how a livestream should be handled! Take note! The advances in iOS, iPadOS, macOS are pretty damn impressive. Apple moving to its own custom silicon for Mac is HUGE (bad news for Intel investors though! First AMD kicks them in the balls and now this! Ouch!). Privacy has always been a big deal when it comes to Apple devices, and to see them pushing ahead even more for user Privacy is outstanding - and its something ALL manufacturers should be doing! This keynote was perfection and I am now excited more than ever for all this to come out soon this year!! Nothing else comes close, and I can say that with confidence!
Note to CS: I don’t usually post my notes on here. I should lol. I write notes for all Apple keynotes, Xbox events, PlayStation events etc. I hope you guys find this useful.
Thank you.
Apple WWDC2020 Keynote - 22nd June 2020.
— Event started with Animoji’s around the world... then fell to Earth showing the new Apple campus. They’re just showing off at this point, wow!
— Tim Cook talking now.
- Stream keynote is only available online due to COVID.
- Tim Cook now talking about racism and equality.
- Mentioned George Floyd.
- Apple committed $100million for communities of colour, education and criminal justice.
- New Developer Entrepreneur camp for black developers.
- Thanking healthcare workers battling COVID-19.
- This is a truly unique week for WWDC.
- Dev Conference available to all 23 Million developers + anyone else who is interested.
— Craig Federighi now talking about iOS!!
- IOS14!!
- Talking about home screen. How they added folders and widgets screen etc.
- This year we are doing more!
- HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!
- Showed a video with Widgets all over the damn place! Have them anywhere on any page! (Yes, like Android lol - but better!)
- Organise ALL apps with “App Library” which will automatically organise ALL apps in to special folders.
- Hide pages so you don’t have pages and pages of apps.
- Search the library for the app you want. Categories are created intelligently for you.
- Apps you use most are kept at the top.
- Now talking about Widgets!
- This year widgets are data rich and at different sizes.
- Today view has widgets - you can pick whatever sized widgets you want.
- Tap and hold a widget in Today View and drag it to your home screen and put it anywhere amongst your apps.
- Tap on a widget and scroll through all the looks you can have. You can even have a smart stack with a bunch of widgets in it.
- The Smart Stack can automatically flick through its widgets based on what it knows about you.
- Picture in Picture now coming to iPhone!
- Play a show, then when you go Home the video has its own window. You can drag the picture to any part of the screen. You can even swipe it to the side to keep audio playing! It also has all the controls on it to pause etc.
- Siri will also be updated.
- Siri experience totally redesigned.
- She no longer takes over the whole screen.
- Ask whatever you want and it doesn’t take over everything. Works so well!
— Yale Garten now talking about Siri!
- Siri receives 25 billion requests per month.
- Dictation now runs on device with Neural Engine! NICE!!!!
- Apple Translate - designed for conversations OFFLINE keeping all conversations private. All works ON DEVICE. Just tap, speak and it speaks in the language you want. Then the other person can reply in their language and it translates and talks to you. Perfect! Like Google Translate, but all on device and seems to work perfectly.
— Back to Craig:
- Messages: Memoji and Groups
— Stacey Lysic now talking:
- Pin conversations to the top of your list.
- Memoji: over 1Trillion ways to customise.
- Now 20 new hairstyles etc.
- Facecoverings now added to Memoji!
- More age options.
- 3 new Memoji stickers for hug etc.
- Groups messages: Inline replies that let you reply to specific messages.
- Mentions added to Group messages.
- You can opt to only get a notification when you are mentioned in a group.
- Create a unique identity for your group chat.
— Craig now talking!
- Maps. Oh god here goes...
- Rebuilding from ground up!
- Apple maps is now an actual rival to Google Maps with a MUCH BETTER Privacy Policy.
- IOS14 adds new ways to find places you’ll love.
- (I think I’ll probably still stick to Google Maps... for now).
— Meg Frost now talking about Maps!
- Guides for places to eat, explore, shop etc.
- Save guides.
- IOS14 introduces ways to help reduce carbon footprint. Including maps for cycling etc. It takes elevation in to account too. Tells you about the roads and steep passages, stairs etc. You can even choose to avoid stairs.
- Introducing EV routing for electric cars!!! Maps tracks current charge, weather, charging stops and what charger will work for your specific car.
- Congestion and green zones added to maps for air quality.
- Drivers in China can store their number plate in maps and it will tell them when they are allowed to drive in to city centre.
— Craig back on - Car Play!
- 97% of new cars in US have Car Play! - 80% worldwide.
- New wallpapers for Car Play. New apps like EV charging etc.
- Car keys!!!
— Emily Schubert now talking!
- Unlock and START your car with your iPhone!!
- This is just like what you can do with a Tesla lol - showing this off with a BMW. Nice to see other manufacturers are playing catchup!
- Share keys via iMessage to whoever you want to be able to drive your car. Also restrict driving profiles etc lol. About bloody time! This is great!
— Craig now talking!
- Car keys also works with iOS13.
- Tech will use the U1 chip in the phone.
- Leave phone in pocket etc and car will still start.
— App Store!
- Apps for everything! When you need them! Apps just pop up depending on what you’re doing. “App Clip for that” - what the hell is an “App Clip”.
- An App Clip is a small part of an app thats super fast.
- Card pops up and you tap. App Clip starts and uses Apple Pay.
- You can also launch from the Library. Nice!
- App Clips get you to a part of an app instantly when and where you need them!
- NFC tags on parking meters etc or QR codes, BANG App Clip pops up and you’re sorted! Super fast!
- Looks like this will change freaking everything we do lol - damn!
- Native SDK support for devs and 10mb in size, damn this is awesome!
- Privacy friendly, boom! This is great!!
— iPadOS!!!!!!
- iPadOS14.
- Made for iPad apps.
- (I have an iPad Pro and seriously it changes everything lol! Buy one!)
— Josh Schaffer now talking!
- Redesigned widgets just like iOS14.
- Photos app - easier to browse and organise photos. New sidebar.
- Just drag photos to sidebar and drop in to albums.
- Files app - new sidebar there too! Yes!!
- Other apps also have new toolbars. Makes everything fast and easy!
- Apple Music also updated for iPadOS14.
- Lyrics now included in Apple Music view.
— Craig back on screen!
- Siri update on iPad. Results on bottom right corner.
- Calls take over the whole screen - Not any more!! Calls come in as a compact notification. Tap to answer or flick away to dismiss! Applies to ALL calls. Also applies to iOS calls/Skype etc! NICE!
- Search is no longer full screen, perfect! Search from anywhere without having to get out of your app.
- Universal search for everything. Use it for contacts or even search within apps! Also includes web searches.
- Search makes navigating easy - type a few letters and bang you go in to Safari to your website.
— Improvements to Apple Pencil!!!
- Handwriting is now as easy as typed text!
- Scribble coming to iPad.
- Highlight whatever and it converts to text.
— Jenny Chen showing off Apple Pencil:
- Write what you want, draw etc. When you draw and pause, it converts it to whatever shape you drew.
- Handwriting recognition - you can select written words etc.
- Uses machine learning, all ON DEVICE for privacy!
- You can now also write in to search bars etc!!! Write in ANY text field and it converts it to text! Amazing! Write in Chinese too!
- You can even write a phone number or address, tap it and it’ll place the call etc.
- This is powerful as hell! (Going to use my Apple Pencil more lol!)
— Craig now talking:
- AIRPODS SOFTWARE UPDATE!!!
— Mary-Ann now on screen!
- AirPods now seamlessly move between devices! IPad, Mac, iPhone etc!
- Spacial audio coming to AirPods!!!!!!
- Replicates movie theatre experience!
- Sounds can be played anywhere in space! Nice!!!!
- Sound field stays FIXED even if you move your head!! This is freaking amazing! Sound field stays anchored even if your head moves, or even if you move your device! So you can turn and face a sound behind you and it’ll still be there! You are in the middle of the sounds!
- Works with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 and 7.1! EPIC!!!!!
— WatchOS - Kevin Lynch now on screen!
- ECG, detect falls, call emergency services etc from watch.
- WatchOS7!!! Hell yeah!
- Developers can enable multiple complications!
- New chronograph face etc, loads of them and customisable!
- WatchOS7 allows you to SHARE watch faces! Discover curated faces and download to your watch - even from friends and family.
- Share you watch face with anyone. Send it via iMessage.
- Can also share watch faces over social media! NICE!!
- Maps on WatchOS - can now get cycling directions etc - same as on the iPhone etc.
- Search for and add places optimised for cyclists.
— Julz now talking about Fitness/Workouts:
- DANCE now added as a workout! Workout app now tracks the most popular dance styles!
- Combines data from all sensors to determine calorie burn etc!
- Core training also tracked as workout, and cool down between workouts!
- Track within activity app on iPhone. Perfect!
- Activity app is now called “Fitness”
— Kevin now on screen.
- Sleep tracking!!
— Vera Carr talking about sleep! (Apple WatchOS7).
- Track your sleep, and meet sleep goals.
- Tells you when to wake up / go to bed.
- Bedtime routine.
- “Wind Down” personalised routine. Turns on “do not disturb” and can also use shortcuts.
- Play relaxing music etc! Screen dims and watch goes in to sleep mode!
- When its time to wake, it’ll buzz or alarm, up to you.
- Greets you in the morning with info you want.
- Machine Learning tracks your breathing.
- Health app shows sleep trends etc.
- Set schedules etc.
— Kevin now on screen.
- Hand washing!
- WatchOS7 - watch detects when you start washing hands. A countdown appears for how long you wash your hands!! It even tells you to KEEP WASHING if you don’t wash long enough lol! Amazing!!!!
— Craig now back on screen!
- PRIVACY!!!
- Privacy is a human right.
- Privacy matters now more than ever.
- Data minimisation. On Device intelligence. Security. Transparency and control.
- No other devices come close for Privacy!
- “Sign in with Apple” is designed for Privacy.
- Devs can now allow people to convert sign ins to Sign In with Apple.
— Katy Skinner on screen.
- Location - you can change it to only share APPROXIMATE location.
- Camera and mic now notifies you if its being used!
- Tracking prevention! Apps now HAVE TO ASK to track you!
- Apps HAVE TO tell you what they track etc BEFORE you download them!
- The app has to tell you WHAT DATA is collects about you, and WHO they share it with!!!!
- ALL apps stores will now do this! AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!!!!!
— Craig back on screen.
- Home.
- (Is this finally a HomeKit update???)
- Privacy - Siri requests use a random ID not your own ID!
— Yah Cason.
- SMART HOME!! (Yay this will help me I have way too many smart home devices!)
- Partnered with industry leaders for smart home!
- HomeKit - new standard!
- Home app - adding devices is easy.
- IOS14 suggests automations! Hell yes!
- HomeKit homepage updates! FINALLY!
- IOS14 Adaptive lighting though-out the day!! Epic!
- Cameras - HomeKit secure video, totally private!!
- Add activity zones etc for alerts!
- Face Recognition coming to HomeKit cameras!! AWESOME!!!!!! Can even announce who is at the door and a live view when someone rings the doorbell!
- Home view added to TVOS as well so camera automatically comes up when motion or doorbell press is detected!
— Cindy Lin talking Apple TV.
- 4K HDR Dolby Vision/Atmos.
- Access Apple Music with Lyrics.
- Games / Apple Arcade.
- Multi-user support for Games.
- Support for Xbox Elite 2 and the Xbox Adaptive Controller!
- Tracks workouts on AppleTV and also has Picture in Picture!!!
- Airplay improvements for whole family at 4K!
- AppleTV+ update - Apple originals. On all your devices.
- New AppleTV+ Original - Science Fiction series... “FOUNDATION!!!!”
- Trailer for Foundation being shown now.
- From writers of The Dark Knight ad Batman Begins.
- Novels of Isaac Asimov.
- Coming in 2021!!
— Craig’s back on screen! - macOS!!!!!!
- MacOS BIG SUR!!!!!!!!
- “Unmatched levels of POWER!” Lol.
- Video showing off new macOS!
- More clarity to design.
- Refinements to controls.
- Light and Dark themes.
- Focus on content.
- Unified space for notifications and widgets.
- (I don’t use macOS, but I do wish Windows was this damn beautiful! Seriously).
- Craig showing macOS demo:
- New dock design.
- New icons in dock.
- Finder has a new design.
- Mail redesigned.
- Photos app on macOS updated too. Uses Metal for processing for a smooth experience.
- New version of iWork.
- Panels are translucent.
- Control centre reworked - a whole control centre now on macOS.
- Customise the Control Centre to suit you.
- macOS has a proper notification centre too.
- Widgets also coming to macOS. Edit widgets etc.
- Developers can also add widgets.
- Apps:
- Messages - works seamlessly with all devices. Search in Messages. Photo Picker. Memoji. Memoji Stickers. Messages effects. Pin conversations (across all devices) etc.
- Maps - ALL NEW version of Maps for macOS. New design, favourites, create own guides for places you want to visit, airport gates, “look around” (basically street view), see where friends are and all other features.
- Mac Catalyst: Convert iPad apps to macOS. Developers can optimise apps for macOS. New API’s for developers. Apps run natively on macOS when converted from iPad/iOS (more on this later, huge news, keep reading!)
- Safari: - State of the art privacy. The worlds FASTEST browser. Page loading is also faster. 50% faster than Chrome. Intelligent tracking prevention. It also tells you how websites are trying to track you. It also monitors safe passwords and tells you if you have been breached.
- Extensions for Safari!! Nice!!! - In other browsers extensions can see everything you do. In Safari, you choose what you want to share and when! More great news for Privacy!
— Beth Dakin now talking about Safari.
- Safari has a new look.
- Customisable Start Page.
- Add a background image etc.
- Add new sections to the Start Page.
- Extensions - Web Extensions. Extensions have their own buttons in the toolbar. You also have to grant permission to the extension to work. Awesome.
- Private life stays PRIVATE.
- Tracking prevention and it informs you what the site is trying to track. Gives you a privacy report too!
- New tabs. Sizes adjust to fit more tabs. Cleanup tabs / close all tabs etc.
- Built in language translation. All text gets translated dynamically.
— Tim Cook back on screen! (BIG NEWS).
- Today is a “HISTORIC DAY”.
- Mac is going to a “whole new level!”
- HUGE LEAP FORWARD: MAC is transitioning to... APPLES OWN SILICON!!!!!!
- Finally, I predicted this!!!!!! Apple are LEAVING INTEL and making their OWN processors for Mac!!! This is HUGE (and I expected it but whatever this is awesome!)
— Apple Labs is beneath the Apple Site lol wtf!
- Johnny Srouji now talking about Apple Silicon!
- It all started with the iPhone. The A4 processor all the way to A13 processor. iPhone performance is ahead of ALL other phones due to this custom Apple Silicon.
- Architecture was scaled up for iPad. A5X and onwards. - Wider GPU and memory subsystem.
- Apple Watch also uses custom Apple processors that are best in class for any watch. Industry leading!
- Apple has shipped over 2Billion chips so far.
- All this expertise now being used for Mac silicon!
- Scalable architecture has a lot of custom technologies - allowing Apple to have best in class security and performance. Goodbye Intel! (I hope people who had shares in Intel sold them before this was announced - ouch!)
- New Mac processors will have a common architecture to all Apple devices, allowing developers to create for all devices easily.
— Craig back on screen!
- macOS Big Sur - Apple Silicon.
- Native apps are BUILT FOR the custom silicon!!
- Xcode is used for development of these apps.
- Open and recompile in Xcode.
- Universal 2 - works on Intel based Macs and Apple Silicon! All within the same binary.
- Microsoft is working on Office for the Mac and they are also working with Adobe.
- Showed a mac using an Apple A12Z processor.
- Just told EVERYTHING we just saw on macOS was using Apple custom silicon!
- Microsoft already has Office running natively on Apples custom silicon! Wow!
- He just showed off PowerPoint, Office, Excel etc. Everything works!
- Now showing off Adobe Lightroom running super fast on Apple silicon.
- He also showed off a 5GB photoshop project working on the Mac natively on Apple silicon!
- Final Cut Pro playing 4K video full res - apply filters in real time etc with no slowdown to live playback.
- Also uses Apple Neural Engine. Play back 3x streams at 4K simultaneously with no slowdown! Amazing.
- Transition for users is seamless.
- Even apps that have not been updated for Apple Silicon work on the new Macs. This uses Rosetta 2 to translate existing apps to work on Apple Silicon! They are translated at point of install and on the fly when needed.
- Performance is “Amazing”.
- “Virtualisation” also works.
— Andreas Wendker now showing off Rosetta 2.
- Showing Maya with 6million polygons.
- He added textures and shading. All works fine. Performance is perfect.
- Showed Tomb Raider running perfectly as a Translated app.
- Now showing a Linux Virtual Machine. All works.
- IPhone and iPad apps run NATIVELY on the new Macs because its the SAME Silicon Architecture! Brilliant!
— Craig back on screen.
- Starting Day One you can download the apps and they’ll just work.
- QuickStart Program for developers. Also giving devs a development kit with Apple Silicon and Big Sur dev beta.
- Apply today!
- Shipping units THIS WEEK.
— Tim Cook now back on screen.
- First Mac with Apple Silicon is out THIS YEAR.
- Intel based Macs are still coming till then.
- IOS and iPadOS beta available TODAY.
- Public beta in JULY.
Keynote END!
My thoughts on this: That was freaking incredible! THIS is how a livestream should be handled! Take note! The advances in iOS, iPadOS, macOS are pretty damn impressive. Apple moving to its own custom silicon for Mac is HUGE (bad news for Intel investors though! First AMD kicks them in the balls and now this! Ouch!). Privacy has always been a big deal when it comes to Apple devices, and to see them pushing ahead even more for user Privacy is outstanding - and its something ALL manufacturers should be doing! This keynote was perfection and I am now excited more than ever for all this to come out soon this year!! Nothing else comes close, and I can say that with confidence!
Note to CS: I don’t usually post my notes on here. I should lol. I write notes for all Apple keynotes, Xbox events, PlayStation events etc. I hope you guys find this useful.
Thank you.
