WWDC 2021: Check out all the news Apple has announced

a an Apple On Monday (7) the inaugural WWDC 2021 annual developer conference was held which presents major news in terms of software to the public.

Among the news, the official announcement and news of iOS 15, advanced camera functionality, Apple Maps with improved augmented reality and greater virtualization, as well as news related to other iGadgets. Now check out a summary of the major announcements Apple made at WWDC 2021.

iOS 15

a iOS 15 is finally confirmed by Apple And now the beta phase for developers begins. The system is supposed to get a public beta next month, and while it didn’t get any good news, it’s packed with small additions that reinforce Apple’s proposal for a system increasingly focused on user convenience.

Apple FaceTime

a FaceTime was one of the features that received the most news. It’s got support for Space Audio from Apple and promises clearer conversations, as if it was a physical connection with you.

In addition, Apple’s video calling has borrowed a number of features from competitors such as The Google meet, zoom e Facebook social networking siteIt now allows selecting who is speaking on a conference call, allows direct links to meetings (which also works across the web for Android and Windows) and can blur the background.

The Apple Share Play system is also integrated into the communication device and allows you to listen to music, watch movies, and share the screen with your contacts quickly and easily. It’s a basic viewing party that works with services like Disney+, tik tok and HBO Max and supports Picture-in-Picture.

shared with you

This is “Apple Pocket” and it works with incoming links through Messages, has a dedicated Apple News section for it and also works with Apple Music, Photos, Safari, and Apple TV. The idea is to make it easier to access everything they share with you as well as save the links you find on the Internet.

Pictures

Great Highlight live text account, style system google lens Capable of reading and extracting text information contained in images or on the camera (such as a restaurant name or a phone number).

Another novelty worth remembering (literally) is Memories: a feature similar to the Google Photos function of the same name, it creates automatic collections with old photos and videos saved in the Photos app on iOS. This feature aggregates a clip, with music and everything, to package recordings from the past.

Smart Notifications

It’s now possible to mark your status as Do Not Disturb in Apple Messenger so you don’t get notifications when you need to stay focused. Your contacts will be notified of this status and if there is any urgent need they can send a notification to your device anyway.

AirPods

Anyone using an AirPod will get a huge boost with targeted acoustics and an enhanced layer of external noise isolation. The new additions also include improved support for Find My, which now warns you when your headphones are too close to each other (something capable of preventing you from missing an item in a pair without you noticing). Apple’s spatial sound system now also works on AirPods Paired with macOS computers and Apple TV (tvOS) devices.

Apple Maps

Looking to shorten the distance to a Google competitor, and Apple Maps now offers more street details And institutions, extending the virtual representation of the representations made on the map. This, Apple guarantees, should help drivers better understand the road resources available to them while traveling by car. Maps now includes an augmented reality system that also improves pedestrian navigation around the city.

Safari

Promising a better one-handed browsing experience, Safari was also updated by Apple on Monday. The big news here is the feature called Tab Group, which brings together open tabs and provides improved syncing with other devices in the Apple ecosystem, such as iPads and Macbooks. Additionally, the browser now supports extensions on iOS and can have a custom home screen.

Weather and notes

For those interested in the weather, the Weather app has been revamped in iOS 15 to make the information more prominent. Clima received new animations, more elements to provide the desired forecast and backgrounds that represent the searched site. On top of that, Maps also gives it a boost, with dynamic maps showing temperature, chance of precipitation, and other details.

In the course of this renewal, Notes has also received a great revamp. The app looks more in line with other Apple apps, and allows quick notes with “Quick Notes” and notes with the Apple Pen on the iPad, while Iphone Receive tags to indicate and notify colleagues in shared files and tags, to rank each block.

Privacy

Privacy took up a lot of space in the presentation. For Apple, the right to privacy should be universal and that vision reflected in its products. So the company has improved speech recognition that fits inside the iPhone by default, freeing users from sending their speech to servers, and in parallel significantly reducing latency.

The email app has also been enhanced with Mail Privacy Protection, which are additional security layers responsible for preventing monitoring attempts by the sender. Additionally, app tracking transparency is now accompanied by the Apps Privacy Report, a dashboard detailing how apps authorized to access system resources (camera, microphone, personal files, photos, and contacts) have used the permission over the past seven days as well. Similar to the Android 12 privacy panel.

iCloud +

An iCloud subscription has become more useful, too. The service now includes what Apple calls it iCloud +, which integrates Hide My Email, improvements to HomeKit Secure Video, a service to enhance security and privacy while browsing the web, and private paging, which hides the origin of access and redirects browsing packets, as a service VPN. Best of all? The complete package will be included at no additional cost.

iPad 15

As usual, iPadOS will come with iOS and will also reach version 15. The Apple tablet will receive valuable features that will give the user more space for multitasking, an application library (just like the iPhone) and many additions from the mobile operating system, including FaceTime and Live Text that Significantly revamped, to analyze content and text from the camera.

Still in productivity, iPadOS has received a powerful Do Not Disturb mode to help focus on tasks. The translation app has also been improved, now with better screen use. For programmers, Swift Playgrounds has officially arrived on the tablet, allowing code to be generated directly from it and uploaded to the App Store without the need for a computer.

If that’s not enough, there is also Universal Control (or “Universal Control” in the free translation). The feature allows users to use the same keyboard and mouse to control their iPad and Mac, iMac or Macbook, as if they were both the same device. With this feature, in addition to uninterrupted browsing, files can be transferred from one device to another with just a drag of the mouse.

watchOS 8

watchOS 8 improves on everything that was good in previous versions and adds interesting functionality to the wearable. The watch system is packed with tools to improve wellbeing discovery, combining various features already in place into more complete reports.

You will also get more space for memorable photos in . format Apple Watch. The smartwatch uses artificial intelligence to recognize faces in photos taken on iGadgets and highlight them on the home screen. Everything good in the photos is synced to wearable devices, including collections and memories. File sharing has not been ruled out, and with the update, users will be able to send items via message and email just by browsing the watch thanks to the new sharing sheet.

Mac OS Monterey

To charge computers and leave them on the same page as other systems, Apple announced macOS Monterey. The program isn’t much different from its predecessor, macOS Big Sur, but it doesn’t leave the Apple computer behind, as it offers the same new features found in iPadOS and iOS: FaceTime, no-distraction mode, global control, etc. .

The evolution of integration is a highlight, but the company’s software has been adapted to larger screens. New Apple Maps features are also available on macOS, plus Live Text, iCloud +, and spatial audio (for compatible devices) thanks to CPU Apple M1.

tvOS 15

Along the same lines as macOS Monterey, there is tvOS 15, without major exclusive additions, but it accompanies its sister systems in introducing features and in the evolution of integration. And the most special new, in turn, is the spatial sound, which is ideal to accompany a good movie due to the accuracy in the direction of the sound.

Also here are the FaceTime improvements, including the invaluable add-on for SharePlay, for watching movies and series, listening to good music or mirroring the screen alongside friends in a video call. Currently, the system is already in beta 1 for developers.

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