Apple Keynote Summary
23 min
What's new in
iOS 15
FaceTime
- Spatial audio
- Voice isolation via machine learning
- Wide spectrum - pick up everything around you
- Grid view for group calls
- Portrait mode
- Face time link (share links to invite) - not limited to Apple devices join from Android, web browser (end-to-end encrypted)
- SharePlay - listen music together, watch movies, share screen in FaceTime (plays same content for everyone, doesn't actually lose quality)
- SharePlay API - needs to be integrated by developers in order to support SharePlay
Messages
- Collage design, stack for photos
- Shared with you section - messages shared will show in News app, Apple Music, Photos, Safari, Apple podcasts, Apple TV depending on the link that is shared
Focus
- Notifications are redesigned
- Notification summary - can be arranged to come at any time on the day, it uses on device learning
- Do not disturb will show in Messages but can be bypassed if really required
- Focus is a new way to choose what you gonna focus on. Once set it will be set on all devices.
- Work - notified only by coworkers, by specific apps etc. You can organize pages. (similar to profiles)
- Personal Life
- Fitness
- Sleep etc
- LiveText (in right bottom of photo)
- Take a photo and copy text directly from the photo
- Select text on any photo
- Understands 7 languages
- It can recognize objects on the photos (dogs, cats) — similar to Google Lens
Spotlight improvements
- Search photos from spotlight (like in Photos app), it can even find text in photos
Photos
- Improvements for Memories tab, add songs
- See shared photos directly in gallery at one place
Wallet
- Adding car keys improved
- Unlocking house
- Adding badge for entering office
- Adding hotel room keys (with additional information)
- Identity card (stored securely) - needs to be supported by institutions
Weather
- Redesigned
- Added graphs
- New animated backgrounds
- Weather maps
Maps
Only for specific cities
- New landmarks
- 3D objects
- Improved nighttime mode
- See bus lanes, zebras
- Makes overlapping lanes visible in 3D
- Improved transit
AirPods
- Conversation Boost
- Announce Notifications
- Improved find my AirPods - they should emit sound even if they are not in the case
iPadOS
- Larger format for widgets just for iPadOS
- App library for iPad from dock
- Multitasking control
- Tapping navigation shows controls
- Swipe down from navigation to close window
- Dragging app from one to another from app switchers creates multitasking split view
- Notes
- Tags
- Improved sharing with mentions
- Activity for shared notes
- Quick note
- Swiping from bottom right corner with Apple Pencil
- Content aware
- Highlighting content on the page
- System-wide translations
SwiftPlaygrounds - Xcode for iPad
- Build apps on iPad using SwiftUI
- Submit it to the App Store
Security
- Mail privacy protection - do not allow mails to track your IP address, read status, did you open email etc.
- App Privacy Report
- How app uses your information with domains where they sent this information
- Siri - On device processing, no need to have internet access to use Siri anymore, improved speed of Siri requests
- iCloud
- Add recovery contact, call it to get access code to unlock your account
- Legacy contacts - allow others when you are gone to unlock your data
iCloud+
Same price as before
- Private Relay
- Encrypt data when leaving device so no one knows which site we are visiting (pretty much VPN)
- Hide my email - create mails (like 10 minute email)
- HomeKit Secure Video
Health
- Mobility - Walking Steadiness - notifies about risk of fall depending on your stability
- Labs - lab results with more information
- Trends - Notification if you've made more steps or higher heart rate etc
- Share health data with health provider (doctor) - depends on integrations by clinics
- Family health sharing - get information about family health, be notified about changes etc
watchOS
- Mindfulness app
- Breath
- Reflect
- Respiratory rate for sleeping
- Portrait watch faces - use portrait mode photos to create watch face that can be partly over time
- Improved home app
macOS - Monterey
Same as on iPhone, iOS, iPadOS
- Focus mode
- Notes - quick note
- FaceTime
New on macOS
- AirPlay to Mac
- Shortcuts for Mac
Universal Control
- Single mouse and keyboard for iPad/mac that moves between devices
- Take files from one device and move it to another (dragging from screen to screen)
Safari
- New tab design
- Tab groups
- More useful space - content is all that matters, everything else is hidden
- Content aware tab
- Search is integrated in active tab
- Sharing tab groups
- Tab bar in Safari is moved to the bottom of the screen on iOS
- Safari extensions can be installed on iPhone and iPad (same code)
Developer Technologies
- Object capture - take 2D photos to create 3D model, useful for creating objects that can be shown using AR
- Swift concurrency - async, await, actor
App Store
- Dynamic app store app icons, screenshots etc. Find out what users like most (A/B testing)
- In-App Events can be shown in App Store
Xcode cloud
Build → Test → Deliver
- Build the app in the cloud
- Run tests in parallel on multiple devices
- Distribute test to test list
- TestFlight for the Mac (test Mac apps)