WWDC - 2018

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This year WWDC was focussed around performance and developer’s productivity. Apart from these two areas, the key focus was around AR (ARKit) and Machine learning enhancement in the platform. We also saw some convergence this year with some common theme - shared AR experience and Digital Well Being, similar to what  Google showcased in Google I/O this year.  Let’s quickly glance through some of the key updates in each area.


iOS 12 Updates:
  • Introduced CoreML 2 and ARKit 2.0
  • ARKit 2.0, includes a new USDZ file format developed with Pixar and available now for Adobe creative cloud.
  • New Siri Shortcuts capability and app to directly perform app actions.
  • CoreML 2 is faster and now its lot easy to train a model using Create ML
  • Broad device compatibility. All device released from 2013 gets iOS 12 updates
  • CarPlay now has support for third-party navigation apps
  • Lots of performance improvement in the platform.
  • Group FaceTime with up to 32 simultaneous people. Plus, it's integrated with Messages.
  • Animoji now with Tongue Detection, Welcome to the era of Memoji
  • Messages now has effects, stickers and so on for its camera that supports Memoji
  • Photos get search suggestion, event indexing and a single tab with all its automated suggestions.
  • Apple News on the iPad gets a navigation sidebar, and the Stocks app has been redesigned to include it.
  • iBooks becomes Apple Books and offers bookmarking.
  • Voice Memos come to iPad and sync across iCloud.
  • New Measure app for finding the dimensions of real-life objects
  • Apple's response to Phone addiction is Screen Time, a weekly activity summary of your usage and App Limits to limit how long you can spend, plus downtime and Allowance for unplugging your kids
  • Notifications earn Do Not Disturb during bedtime and DND end times, as well as lock screen notification tuning and group notification with grouped dismissal.

WatchOS 5 Updates :
  • No more "Hey Siri”. Just talk
  • Walkie-Talkie brings voice real-time messaging
  • Interactive notifications and WebKit integration to view web content
  • Runner cadence and more types of tracking for various activities, including automatic workout detection
  • Activity tracker helps you celebrate your goals, coaching, seven-day competitions and more
  • Sports scores, heart rate, maps and more on the watch face, including Siri Shortcuts and third-party apps
  • The Apple Podcast app comes to Apple Watch

OS X Update - MacOS Mojave (12.14)
  • Bringing iOS app to MacOS
  • A new dark mode because it's about time and dynamic desktop where it changes with time of day.
  • Safari will block more tracking objects on web pages, reduce unique identifiers that can be used for fingerprinting. On iOS 12, as well
  • Mobile-like security opt-ins for camera, mic, backups and more.
  • Automatically created Desktop Stacks for your icon-cluttered desktop with video-thumbnail-like scrubbing.
  • Finder finally gets a gallery view that's more photo-friendly with support for related Automator actions.
  • Quicklook integrates document markup, video trimming and more.
  • Faster screenshot annotation and HUD for screenshot options, plus screen capture for video.
  • Continuity Camera lets you shoot photos, pictures of documents and video directly into the current document.
  • Apple News, Stocks, Voice Memos and Home come to the Mac. 
  • The Mac App Store interface finally gets some love with higher-profile ratings and reviews.


Interested to Learn more - Watch :

Augmented reality
One of Apple's key focuses for iOS 12 has been augmented reality. Apple released details of ARKit 2, a set of tools for developers to create AR experiences for their apps. Apple says the new version has improved face tracking and allows for multiple people to collaborate, using a number of iPhones or iPads, to view the same AR experience.
Apple also announced a new file format – USDZ – which is designed for AR.  

Interested to know details about ARKit 2.0. Watch What’s New in ARKit 2.0


Create ML
Apple debuts Create ML for simple machine learning training
Apple - “All built-in Swift, Create ML lets you train vision and natural language data without being a machine learning expert”

Interested to know details about Create ML.  Watch Introduction to Create ML 

Siri
Since Siri launched back in 2011 it has been overtaken by Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant. 
In iOS 12, Siri will provide suggestions for app actions you may want based on the location or time of day. Apple said Siri will suggest calling people if your calendar knows it is their birthday, or remind you to turn off notifications when you're at the cinema.
Siri will also be able to create routines for the first time so it will be possible to automatically send a message to your friends or family when you start your journey home from work.

Interested to know details about Siri Shortcuts. Watch Introduction to Siri Shortcuts



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