Solomon

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 • Updated on Jul 23, 2022 • Originally published at blog.solomonvictorino.com

The WWDC 2019 Keynote Highlights in 5 minutes

#wwdc #apple #news #mac

Here are some things that were announced this morning that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

If I missed something or you caught a typo please leave a comment below.

Let's get into this!

First, the welcome video, now featuring lots of Touch Bar MacBook Pros (spoiler alert: they didn't update the notebook line-up here, having already cleared the decks with the spec bump):

watchOS

New taptic clock chimes (audible if sound is on).

The robins are okay. - Kevin Lynch

New Apps

Audiobooks
Voice Memos
Calculator (with tip/split calculator)

New Developer Tools

Independent Apps (without iPhone companion)
Extended Sessions
Streams Audio API
Appstore for Apple Watch
- Dictation search
- Siri-based search
- Integrated purchases

iOS

iOS 12 statistics:

97% iOS 12 customer
85% install base (10% adoption of Android 9)

[unlike] those other guys - Tim Cook

iOS 13

yes, it's iOS 13 - Craig Federighi

30% faster Face ID unlock
app packaging changes - 50% smaller downloads and 60% smaller updates
2x app launch speed
Dark Mode
swipe type (like GBoard)
smart photo sharing suggestions
time synced lyrics in Music
Safari text-sizing options
Mail formatting controls and rich fonts
Notes gallery view, shared folders
Reminders redesign
- smart lists
- iMessage tagging (reminder to talk)
Maps
- rebuilt map
- it'll rollout to the entire US by the end of 2019
- ETA sharing
- favorite places menu for easy access
- collections for lists of favorite places for sharing
- lookaround view for 3D exploring
- smooth virtual street navigation

Privacy

Location

One-time location sharing
Background location usage reports
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signal access controls

Social Logins

Sign in with Apple
- simple API
- instant Face ID authentication
- optional private email generation > a unique, random address that forwards to your real address ... you can disable any one of them at any time - Craig Federighi
- available on the web and all Apple platforms

Homekit

Homekit Secure Video
- Cloudless HomePod, Apple TV, or iPad camera analysis
- 10-day clip storage for free
Homekit for Routers
- Firewalls for individual accessories
- Will be available from Linksys, Eero, ISPs like Spectrum

Messages

Avatar picture sharing controls

Memojis

New Memoji options
Auto-generated Personal Memoji Sticker Packs
Memoji on all devices with A8 or later

Camera

High-key mono effect
Adjustable portrait lightning effect
Redesigned editing interface for still photos and videos
- Video rotation

Photos

Hides duplicates with Machine Learning
Intelligent photo organization and nicer photo browsing

AirPods

Siri can announce and read incoming messages from Messages or any SiriKit-enabled messages app
Audio Sharing

HomePod

Handoff your music, podcast, or a phone call to HomePod
Live radio from 100,000 stations through Siri
Voice recongization/response personalization
- Includes Apple Music, Messages, Reminders, and Notes actions.

CarPlay

redesign
- CarPlay dashboard with Siri, music, maps, and calendar
Siri third-party integration (starting with Pandora and Waze)

Shortcuts

Siri shortcut integration with the shortcuts app on all platforms
Suggested automations create templates based on your behavior in different apps

Siri

Now a text-to-speech voice entirely generated by a neural network
- more natural responses

Other features

send unknown callers to voicemail
enterprise single-sign-on
separate iCloud accounts

iPadOS

a new name!
tighter Springboard app icon layout
home screen widget pinning
Slideover (mini app launcher on the side of the main app)
multi-window capabilities with individual component drag-and-drop and third-party app support

[shows two Word documents in a split view] I mean that's enterprisey right there - Craig Federighi

Files

column-view (like Finder on macOS)
iCloud Drive folder sharing
SMB server file sharing
USB drive support
USB photo loading support for third-party apps (like camera -> Lightroom)

Safari

Desktop-class browsing (with automatic resizing and touch optimization)
Download manager
30+ new keyboard shortcuts

Writing and Apple Pencil

Custom fonts on the App Store
Multi-touch navigation
- for document scrolling
- cursor position dragging
- editing gestures:
- three-finger-pinch copy
- three-finger-pinch paste
- three-finger-swipe undo
screenshot/photo markup gestures (with full document capture mode in Safari)
resizable keyboard gesture swipe (thumb typing)
20 millisecond to 9 millisecond latency
redesigned editing palette
PencilKit editing palette API for app developers

Mac

New Mac Pro

modular design
top case handles
up to 28 core 300+ watt Xeon processor with great cooling
6 channels of ECC RAM, up to 1.5 terabytes
8 PCIe expansion slots
IO Card: two Thunderbolt 3 ports, one USB-A port, audio jack, two 10 gigabit Ethernet ports
supported graphics through up to two Mac Pro Expansion Module (MPX): Radeon Pro 580 X, Radeon Pro Vega || (two supported)
"Afterburner" module (6 billion pixels per second of hardware accelerated video editing)
optional wheels for transport
can drive six 6K displays
Fall release starting price: $5999

Live Demo

1,000 audio tracks + software instruments in Logic
- Simultaneously playing 3 streams of 8K ProRes RAW footage

Pro Display XDR

32-inch LCD
6K Retina
superwide viewing angle
anti-reflective coating
nano-texture matte glass panel option without haze effect
1000 nits of indefinite full-screen brightness for HDR
- peak of 1600 nits
1 million to 1 contrast ratio
rotation to portrait mode
Fall release starting price: $4999
- nano-texture version: $5999

macOS Catalina

iTunes split - Apple Music, Podcasts, TV

How about calendar in iTunes? ... How about Mail in iTunes? And maybe Safari in iTunes! ... Well of course we'll add a dock ... Nailed it! - Craig Federighi

Music

Unobtrusive device syncing from Finder
New sidebar and recommendations

Podcasts

Machine Learning-informed search for spoken content

TV

Contains purchased movies, subscribed channels
4K HDR playback
Dolby Atmos spatial audio

Sidecar

Use iPad as a second Mac display
Precise input with Apple Pencil in several macOS apps

Accessibility

Voice Control for iOS and Mac.
- Text correction/editing
- Open apps
- Scroll instructions
- Tab-based navigation
- Button clicking
- Field navigation
- Maps grid view
- Volume control
- Local processing

Find My

Find my iPhone + Find My Friends
Available on Mac and iOS
Offline location detection through secure distributed Bluetooth relay through other's Apple devices

Activation Lock

Supports all T2 Macs
Locks the boot and OS install processes with your credentials

Project Catalyst (Marzipan)

Start with a "Mac" checkbox in Xcode and build iPad and macOS apps simultaneously.
Early adopters:
- Asphalt
- Twitter
- Atlassian

ARKit 3

plus a Minecraft Earth Live Demo

People Occlusion
Motion Capture support

Just to be clear no chickens were harmed on stage at WWDC - Craig Federighi

Swift

New UI Framework: SwiftUI

declarative, expressive UI
size classes
automatic animation
automatic Dark Mode support
live UI preview in Xcode
drag and drop component ("view") library with code generation
smart view inspect menu
built-in localization
live, on-device code editing
modular adoption (one view or full application)
runs natively on watchOS and every Apple platform, and binds to every native control