Looking forward, apple’s annual WORLDWIDE Developers Conference (WWDC) kicked off in the wee hours of June 5, and after a tumultuous year with iOS 11, people went from expecting cool features in iOS 12 to “less bugs”. As for the macOS, people are clearly looking forward to a Mac hardware update, and the biggest buzz is definitely an iPhone SE2.

So how did Apple respond to expectations at WWDC?

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IOS 12: The key words are Siri evolution and addiction prevention

Let’s get rid of some old problems

Ahead of the release of iOS 12, Apple Vice President Craig Federighi said iOS 11 had an overall 95% satisfaction rate. Well, that’s a statistic that makes the world tolerant and loving.

This time around, Apple is also addressing a historic bug that causes devices to freeze when a new iOS or iPhone is released. As a result, iOS 12 and iOS 11 support the same devices, down to the iPhone 5S and iPad Mini 2, and iOS 12 will perform faster and more sensitive on those devices, even twice as fast. Specifically, the camera will boot up 70 percent faster and the keyboard 50 percent faster.

In the wake of the much-publicized slow gate incident, iOS 12 will also automatically adjust the device’s performance on demand to improve battery life.

With two legacy issues resolved, iOS 12 gets down to business.

AR is very happy

The topic begins with AR functionality.

After leaving Apple on a rainy summer night in Cupertino in 1985, Jobs spent $10 million to buy George Lucas’ computer animation division and found Pixar, which was later acquired by Disney.

Apple and Pixar had a revolutionary friendship because of Jobs, and the latest fruit of their friendship was to collaborate on a new AR format that would make AR technology even better in the future.

This new AR format is called USDZ, and as a newborn born with a golden apple in its mouth, USDZ was initially supported by Adobe Creative Cloud (including Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC, Premiere Pro CC) suites.

This means that creators have great tools to create optimized AR content for Apple from the start.

Apple VICE President Craig Federighi said it would be the largest AR platform if you consider the number of iphones.

Meanwhile, ARKit, a developer suite, has been upgraded to its second generation, with features such as facial tracking, rendering capabilities, 3D detection and shared experiences.

It is reported that netease Games and CCP Games have jointly developed a mobile game based on EVE Online world view, and added AR related gameplay based on ARKit 2.0 technology. The game is currently in development and is expected to launch in 2019, probably next year at WWDC.

To demonstrate the new AR capabilities and effects, Apple brought in lego’s creative director. This is a real lego building based game, up to four people using Apple AR function to play, can simulate a variety of virtual images and buildings in the real environment.

The app is either a super advanced make-believe game (four new iOS devices and a giant Lego, after all) or a silly version of the SIMS.

Album pays Tribute to Google

Until now, if there was a proud component of the Android party, besides its openness, it was the Google Photos app. After all, Google Photos is a lot smarter than iOS’s photo albums feature.

But with iOS 12, Apple is starting to add more features to albums: Albums in iOS 12 will greatly improve search performance, not only by suggesting search ideas, but also by helping you organize photos by subject, such as cats, dogs, flowers, flowers, etc. I just don’t know if apple’s AI will say it supports labels like “fat happy, Daisy debut”.

IOS 12 will also automatically remind you to share appropriate photos with your friends — photo sharing is encrypted end-to-end and very secure. Yes, it’s perfectly safe, not perfectly safe.

Siri is a little smarter

Siri’s satisfaction is as much a mystery to iOS as its answers, and apple has taken a page from Google and Microsoft again to add some new features that look useful: Shortcuts, it will automatically order your coffee, set your calendar and even remind you when you forget your key — assuming it’s electronic.

In addition to Apple’s Shortcuts, users can create their own Shortcuts on Siri.

If you are familiar with Apple, you probably know that Siri’s improvement is probably due to its acquisition of Workflow, a Workflow that uses Siri to wake up.

This Shortcuts Shortcuts will also support HomePod and the Apple Watch, so in theory HomePod could also be smart home control and not just a giant dumb speaker.

I can’t believe the four Losers have updated

The next update is for a few of the less popular iOS apps: News, Stocks, Voice memos, and iBooks. With iOS now able to remove (hide) native apps, a few of them are probably the first to hide.

Apple has made a few functional updates to keep the old tree growing:

  • News has a new sidebar on the iPad that makes browsing easier and highlights curated content.

  • Stock market interface reconstruction, you can see the stock trend throughout the day, and open the News app, convenient to watch financial News.

  • Voice memos now support iCloud.

  • IBooks is now called Apple Books.

CarPlay opened

CarPlay has become more open. Google Maps, which was abandoned by Apple, Waze, Google’s son map, and Amap, a mysterious force from the East, are the first third-party navigation supported by CarPlay. From now on, “Zhiling sister will guide you” will always accompany the owners of Lincoln Navigator, and the Chinese dream and the American dream will be realized together.

Preventing phone addiction is key

Which brings us to the focus of iOS 12: Addiction prevention. As smartphone addiction has become a social issue, both Google and Apple have added “anti-addiction” to their system updates this year:

  • The Do Not Disturb function will turn off the phone’s visual notifications so incoming emails won’t Disturb the silence or darkness of the night when someone thinks of her or dreams about her.

  • Deliver Quietly, it doesn’t appear on the lock screen, or make a noise, or put red on the top right corner of the app.

  • Grouped Grouped Notifications, the wechat group chat messages no longer felt like a bombardment.

  • Reports can be in the form of weekly Reports, telling users what apps they use the most, which apps get the most notifications, and what apps they open first in the morning.

  • App Limits allow you to set Limits on how long an App can be used. Of course, this is not mandatory.

  • Allowances (Allowances?) It’s a new feature for parents to limit their children’s use of the app.

Facial expressions and chat

Emoji has become the new esperanto, and Apple has gone out of its way to support them. Animoji, for example, was one of the first Face ID features to be introduced, and now detects the movements of your tongue.

There are four new Animoji emojis (Ghost, Koala, Tiger, and TYrannosaurus rex), and you can also customize Animoji for a variety of scenarios — a new Memoji technology.

There’s now An Memoji option for FaceTime with up to 32 people. Here’s Apple CEO Tim Cook talking to people in an Memoji and FaceTime mode.

At this point, the iOS update 12 basically about, this version of the update, mainly solves some problem left over from the past, and then updated at that point in the function of many small, even to such as News and the stock market unpopular application to move the knife, on the one hand may be because the iOS is more and more perfect, on the one hand is the apple in stability.

Of course, the small surprise is a few new features to prevent phone addiction, which are both practical and user-friendly, which is probably the first reason many people choose to upgrade to iOS 12.

If you search the wechat official account Aifan and reply “iOS 12” in the background, you can experience the latest iPhone system first.

WatchOS 5: It’s all about you moving

Apple Watch can be said to be a representative of hardships and hardships. At the beginning, it was not promising, but then it was optimized generation by generation and finally became the leader of smart wearable devices. This story is quite inspirational in Apple system.

As the Apple Watch grows, so does its operating system, watchOS, which has been upgraded to its fifth generation.

After the failure of trying to replace the phone or become another phone, the Apple Watch’s features are moving in the direction of movement, and the current trend is good, so the watchOS 5 update is also focused on movement.

The watchOS 5 will have a 7-day challenge where you can invite your friends to complete the challenge to earn new MEDALS.

After the update, the Apple Watch will also be able to automatically track your activities. It will automatically start counting when you start exercising and stop recording when you finish.

One of watchOS 5’s small surprises is that it turns the Apple Watch into a walkie-talkie. The app is called the Walkie Talkie.

The aforementioned Siri Shortcuts are also coming to the Apple Watch and will work as a Watch dial, which will also start supporting third-party apps for exercise information, map navigation, heart rate, and more. During the wake up phase of a conversation with Siri, the watchOS 5 lets Siri wake up with a wrist lift instead of having to say, hey, Siri, every time.

Apple Pay has long been supported on the Apple Watch, but it’s clear that the Watch can do more with notifications, like checking in and scoring payments to didi drivers. The Watch is no longer just a notification device, but can also do some light interaction.

With the watchOS 5 update, there’s good news and bad news. It’s actually news that we can browse the Web on the Apple Watch.

On the one hand, Apple Watch is dedicated to your health, and on the other hand, it wants to mercilessly destroy your eyes and neck. In addition, watchOS 5 also supports podcasting.

Near the end of watchOS 5’s introduction, mobike, a third mysterious force from the East, was unlocked by Apple Watch in Keynote as a typical application scenario.

If you look at the Chinese apps featured at WWDC, autonavi, Didi and Mobike are all mobility related, and it looks like Apple is determined to get people out and about.

WatchOS 5’s final blockbuster feature is the ability to turn the Apple Watch into a Student ID card, allowing students to pay for meals, laundry and shopping at six universities, including Duke university.

Finally, a little surprise is the new rainbow band and rainbow dial. The rainbow band is also the only “hardware” in WWDC 2018.

TvOS: The urine burns a little

Compared to iOS, watchOS and macOS, tvOS updates are always the pee spot of WWDC. This year, there is still not much time left for TV, but fortunately, the focus is on audio-visual experience, which is a return to the roots of TV.

On the new tvOS, users can upgrade to 4K HDR (High dynamic Range) for free for brighter colors and lifelike details. In addition, the new tvOS also supports Dolby Panorama sound, providing a more surround and immersive sound.

The sound here is also one of the hottest moments of WWDC, and I wonder how many HomePods it would take to make that sound.

It needs to be noted that whether 4K HDR or Dolby panoramic sound, it needs the support of tvOS, Apple TV, TV, audio and video sources, otherwise relying on a system is also a smart housewife without rice.

In addition is the source channel update, there are login methods and so on the details of the update.

The final big update to tvOS is a new screensaver for the astronaut’s view of the Mediterranean Sea from space. The triangular island of Sicily is becoming a tvOS legend.

MacOS: Will not merge with iOS

In fact, for most people, the biggest suspense of the macOS update is what the new OS will be called.

The answer: macOS Mojave, which translates as the Mojave Desert, is located in southwestern California, between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

With Mojave, Apple has added a nighttime theme for use in low-light environments and revamped the Mac App Store interface, changes that even Cook calls a “huge leap forward” for Apple.

Night mode/dynamic desktop

Many users can use a computer below dark light environment, even if it is to adjust the screen brightness to the lowest, also hard to avoid meeting because white background color is the theme that gives priority to and feel dazzling. In this update, macOS Mojave has added a new set of dark themes. Instead of the current option to turn menus and application bars dark, the new system has a set of global dark themes, even in folders and applications, the main color is black.

In addition, the system can automatically adjust the desktop according to the time change, the system is normal theme during daytime use; When used at night, the system automatically switches to the dark mode theme. At this point, the audience of developers broke out a burst of cheers, probably this theme can promote the happiness of programmer friends to work overtime at night.

Intelligent classification

This feature is perfect for users whose desktops are often cluttered. The user simply clicks Organize on the top bar of the desktop, and the system sorts files into a “stack” that is separate from folders. For example, when I have scattered images, videos, and PDFS on my desktop, I can organize them with a few clicks of a button.

In addition, new files downloaded from the Internet to the desktop are automatically added to the stack classification, eliminating the need for a second manual classification.

New Finder feature

Visit to the system in this update is not much, just for the picture view added “gallery view” function. Through “gallery view”, users can browse and visit the contents of pictures in folders more easily and quickly. Meanwhile, there is also a built-in image metadata display window inside the function, users can learn about the details of pictures with the help of the data window, and can quickly edit pictures.

screenshots

This time, macOS Mojave has added a “system level” feature that allows users to simply tag a screenshot after taking a screenshot. In fact, many social apps already have screenshots and tags, and the experience is pretty good.

It’s better than nothing, but it’s better than nothing.

Security control

When you open a newly downloaded app on iOS, a pop-up window will pop up asking you to allow the app to access user information and the phone’s hardware. This time, Apple has moved its security controls from iOS to macOS. When a user opens a website or program, the system will pop up a “Allow access” window to obtain user approval. It may also be an echo of the recent tightening of privacy policies.

Several iOS programs running on macOS

The idea of running iOS apps on macOS is something many gamers have flirted with. With the new macOS, apple has added iOS apps like news, stock, home and voice memo, which allow users to read news on their desktop and control their home devices.

While only four iOS apps are currently available on macOS, it’s a good start, and Apple says it will help developers port iOS apps to macOS at the development level, but not until next year. Does that mean macOS and iOS will be the same? At the scene, Apple also issued a big “No” denial. Apple believes iOS has good features that can be ported to macOS, but macOS also has extenuating advantages like keyboards and mice that iOS can’t match in many areas.

So, is Apple not thinking about the iPad when they say these things?

A new Mac App Store layout

The App Store on macOS has been criticized for being outdated and poorly designed, and for not being as good as the App Store on iOS. With this update, apple has redesigned the macOS version of the App Store. For example, the interface of apps has been redesigned, and the categories of apps have been reorganized. The new categories include discover, create, work, play, develop, categorize and update, making the App Store feel more like iOS.

No new iPad Pro, no iPhone SE2, no new MacBook with 8th generation Core. The only thing that was “hardware” was a new rainbow watch band.

Today, the Apple ecosystem has evolved, and perhaps apple product managers can’t think of any amazing features to wow people. As visitors and users, can only accept such a reality.

By the way, consider buying legos and AR apps that can be played by four people instead of saying there’s nothing new and ignoring it at the same time.