WWDC21

iOS 15

Staying connected

FaceTime – Natural, Comfortable, Lifelike

• Spatial Audio
• Dual-voice isolation (voice highlighting)
• Dual-wide spectrum
• Portrait mode – Portrait mode (background blurred)
• FaceTime Linnks – Similar to attention-gathering links, cross-platform (other platforms using browsers)
• SharePlay – Listen together, Watch togeter, Share your screen

Messages

• Photo stack – Allows you to share multiple photos at once, stacked on top of each other in the form of cards
• Share with You – The link to Share with You will be displayed in the corresponding App. When entering the corresponding page, the sharer (Apple News, Apple Music, Photo, Safari, Podcasts, Apple TV) will also be displayed.

Finding focus

Notification Summary

• Collect notifications and choose when to push them
• Contact notifications do not appear in the digest
• Messages now displays your status automatically when using do not disturb mode

Focus

• Similar to situational mode, allow certain people or applications to disturb you)

Using intelligence

Live Text

• Can recognize the text in the picture, whether in the web page, or in the album, or in the shooting
• Supported English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese
• It can also identify objects, scenes and animals in pictures

Spotlight

• Now you can search for photos
• You can also search for photos by text, place names, etc

Photos Memories

• Photo Recall Enhancement, which automatically adjusts the filters, tones, contrast of each photo to make them look the same, and adjusts the background music

Exploring the world

Wallet

• Financial card, bus card, Disneyland, Key (car, home), ID Card (not available in China), room card (can show room number, need hotel support)

Weather

• Relayout and be able to display more information now

Maps

• Relayout, enhanced road display (foreign), enhanced road details (crosswalks, overpasses, etc., still foreign), can show landmarks (similar to Google Earth),
• When you can’t find your way, scan the surrounding streetscape and use AR navigation to take you to your destination (still abroad) on foot

Other

• Voice Search in Safari
• Cross-app drag and drop (drag and drop between different apps)
• New Outfit Options for Memoji

AirPods

• Conversation Boost (AirPods Pro for slightly hearing-impaired)
• Reduce the amount of ambient noise
• Announce Notifications
• Use Find My (AirPods Pro and AirPods Max only)
• – Added left behind hint (to prevent headphones from being lost)
• Spatial Audio (still only AirPods Pro and AirPods Max) (tvOS will introduce this feature in fall) (M1-chip macBooks will introduce this feature)

iPadOS

Widgets

• You can freely combine widgets
• Larger sizes of small parts are available

App Library

• App Library was introduced
• It can be accessed from the Dock

Multitasking

• There are now new controls at the top of the App that can be tapped to display a multitasking menu
• Click the split screen browsing icon in the menu and the current App will slide to the side of the screen and select the desired App
• To switch apps in split screen mode, simply swipe down and select another App
• New feature: App rack, which contains all Windows that the App has open, including those that are split with other apps

Notes

• You can now @ someone in a shared memo and that person will be notified accordingly
• You can quickly view changes to shared memos (history function)
• New memos tag (#someTag) to classify memos

Quick Note

• Just swipe the Apple Pencil from the bottom right corner of the screen to the top left to call up a quick memo
• It can recognize the App in use, such as Safari, and when you open a quick Memo while browsing Safari, you can easily add an Internet connection to it.
• When you browse the site, a prompt will pop up in the lower right corner, and clicking on it will open a memo with the corresponding link
• After you have added a paragraph of text from the page to the memo, click on the text to quickly move to the corresponding location in the page
• And you can also add links to any third party App (macOS and iPadOS, iOS only for browsing)

Tanslate

• Auto Translate, which automatically listens to whether you’re speaking, automatically detects the language you’re speaking

Swift Playgrounds

• Build Apps on Your iPad – Develop iOS apps and iPad Apps on iPad (using Swift UI)
• Code completion
• Submit to AppStore – After development, you can Submit directly to the AppStore

Privacy

Mail

• Mail Privacy Protection – You can hide IP, hide location information, hide if and when you open email

Safari

• Hide location information by preventing trackers from obtaining your IP
• Generating interception reports

App Privacy Report

• You can see what private data individual apps use and when they use it

Siri

• Audio never leaves Device – now available offline
• Added more variety of sounds

iCloud

Account Recovery

• You can add people you trust to help you get your account back if you forget your password

Digital Legacy

• Digital legacy, access to your account after you pass away

Private Relay

• Safari provides a more secure way to access network resources by encrypting outgoing traffic and encrypting it through forwarding.

Hide My Email

• You can use a virtual random mailbox to receive emails, which will be forwarded to your actual email account and can be deleted at any time

Homekit Secure Video

Health

Mobility – Monitors balance problems and gait disorders

Walking Steadiness

• The iPhone automatically detects walking speed, evenness, step length, time spent on each step and how long your feet are on the ground. To calculate changes in your balance, stability, and coordination, you’ll be notified if those are too low
• The App also provides training methods on how to improve these indicators

Labs

• More detailed health data will now be displayed and what the metrics in the data mean

Trends

• It shows you where your indicators are going so you can know more about what’s going on in your body

Family

• With authorization, you can view the health data of a family member

watchOS

Health

• Improved mindfulness training (breathing, meditation)
• Respiratory Rate – Sleep App now tracks breathing Rate
• Added two daily exercises: 1 tai Chi and 2 Pilates
• Fitness+ has launched a new Fitness program
• Like the dial

Home

Easy to use

• You can use HomePod to evoke Apple TV
• HomePod supports voice recognition for different people
• Siri can now be integrated into third-party devices
• Matter (a Smart Home Industry standard)

Better together

Private and secure

macOS

Universal Control

• It can be used on both the MacBook and iPad using just one set of mouse and keyboard
• You can drag files across devices

AirPlay to Mac

• Mac can now be used as a target for teleportation

Shotcuts (Quick intercept instruction)

Safari

• Brand new interface, brand new tabs
• Extensions – Extensions now support iPad and iPhone as well

Developer Technologies

API

• SharePlay, focus mode, notifications of all kinds, voice highlighting and wide spectrum
• Object Capture – Generate 3D models from a series of 2D images

Swift

• Concurrency – async await actor

App Store

• Multiple custom product pages can be created
• You can use different screenshots, videos, and App ICONS
• Display dynamic activities carried out in the App
• In-app Events – Wonderful Events In App (can be displayed on the App product page, users can subscribe to receive the reminder of the start of the event, or directly join In)

Xcode Cloud

• After submitting the code, it automatically compiles the app (handled in the cloud), and if it fails, all members can see the error message
• Automated testing (simulator) will follow
• After passing the test, TestFlight will automatically deliver a test version (internal or external), and macOS will also introduce the TestFlight App
• Won’t leak the source code
• The grayscale test has been enabled
• It will be fully open next year
• Prices will be released in the fall (for a fee!)