WWDC is Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference where developers can attend sessions and meet with Apple Engineers. In this year 2020, it is also there to showcase some new updates and results of what Apple developers created. It is scheduled from June 22, 2020.
So, here's everything that Apple announced at WWDC 2020:
iOS 14
One of the major changes that iOS 14 carries over iOS 13 and all previous iOS versions are the addition of the App Library view that groups multiple apps automatically on one, single screen. The experience seems similar to multiple folders on a home screen. In addition, the apps will be in a sorted manner.
"We created an easy way to hide out pages", said Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple, while announcing the App Library in iOS 14.
Widgets
Here a lot of widgets are provided just to tap and hold to one to get onto your home screen. So, now you can track anything just by you and it also provides some customizations to our layout pages. Instead of being that boring screen, it will become an interesting one.
Picture-in-Picture
So, here's everything that Apple announced at WWDC 2020:
iOS 14
One of the major changes that iOS 14 carries over iOS 13 and all previous iOS versions are the addition of the App Library view that groups multiple apps automatically on one, single screen. The experience seems similar to multiple folders on a home screen. In addition, the apps will be in a sorted manner.
"We created an easy way to hide out pages", said Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple, while announcing the App Library in iOS 14.
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| App Library |
Widgets
Here a lot of widgets are provided just to tap and hold to one to get onto your home screen. So, now you can track anything just by you and it also provides some customizations to our layout pages. Instead of being that boring screen, it will become an interesting one.
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| Widgets placed onto the home screen |
There is a feature introduced c/a Picture-in-Picture by Apple. This with automatically make a playing video to get into a smaller sized pictured view as you go to the Home.
Siri
This is one of the best updates what Apple users really want, it is so disturbing according to the user when Siri takes the whole screen to take commands. But, now it will take a few inches below to the screen so as to get better user experience.
Translate
When talking to someone with another language Siri can help in translations. Then because of this Apple introduced "Translate" which helps to translate a language into another. It can work completely offline and keeping your conversations private. Using advanced on Device Machine Learning and the powerful Neural Engine you can translate your voice and text between any combination of top 11 languages.
Messages
Apple is introducing a new way to let you stay connected to the most important conversations by letting you pin them at the top of your list so you can always get to them. If we talk about Groups, Apple is adding Inline replies that let you reply directly to a specific message you can view full replies in the full conversation or you can view them as their own threads you can focus in on the specific topic to make it even more clear who a message was meant for, Mentions is introduced. You can type someone's name to send a direct message to them. Now you'll also have the ability to notified only when you're mentioned (just like SLACK).
Cars interface update and lock/unlock via iPhone
EV routing in Maps, if you've electric car maps is going to help eliminate range anxiety and there are a bunch of new wallpapers to set according to your mood. There is additional support for new categories of care play apps like Parking, AV charging and quick food ordering.
Now you can let your keys at home and unlock and start your car with your iPhone, actually, it uses NFC and you just tap to unlock.
App Store
App Clip is introduced which is a small part of an App which initiates with a card and when it is clicked then app pops up, that is with just a tap you can launch the app clip. No need to app credit cards because it uses apple pay to pay anywhere, to launch it superfast the app SDK is less than 10MB.
iPadOS 14
I) Calls - An iPad call covers the whole big screen which is not so cool, now introducing a short call notified version, which notifies near you notification panel and has access to take up and deny the calls.
II) Search - Apple just rebuild the search from the group up to be a universal search, it is a single destination where you can access all your searches. It can majorly access Apps, Contacts, Documents
III) Pencil - Apple is introducing Scribble, so you can handwrite to convert anything as text. Scribble recognises both English and Chinese. Everything is detected e.g if you wrote the number for a phone call or address to show the directions.
Airpods
Starting with automatic switching - let's say if you just finished listening to a podcast and you pick up your iPad to watch a show AirPods will magically switch over.
Apple Watch
Now the watch faces get to the watch or you can add it from a third party website too. Dance is added to the workouts section which is actually a full-body workout. Sleep tracker gets also updated into it. Hand wash timers are also there to detect and tell you to proper hand wash.
macOS - Big Sur
Here apple brought up a control centre in macOS, this makes you adjust anything so easily at one place. Notifications and widgets placed together decently to manage easily.
Safari (Apple's Browser)
For the browser lovers safari is there to work 50% faster as compared to chrome and native translation capabilities are into it now.
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These all major announcements were done by Apple Officials in WWDC-2020
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