Get ready for WWDC 2022, with a jam-packed, keynote address, an all-online experience coming to you live from Apple Park on June 6th at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. You can watch Apple’s keynote address live, right on this page.
We will add our live notes on this page as well.
The 2022 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting reveals, inspiration, and new opportunities to continue creating the most innovative apps in the world. Join the worldwide developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS — directly from Apple Park.
WWDC 2022 launches with a first look at groundbreaking updates coming to Apple platforms later this year. The keynote address will be available via apple.com, the Apple Developer app, the Apple TV app, and YouTube, with on-demand playback available after the conclusion of the stream.
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MacDailyNews WWDC 2022 Live Notes (in reverse chronological order):
• End of event.
• Developers get all OS betas today, public betas next month, public release “this fall.”
• Cook recaps today’s announcements
• AAPL: $145.68, +$0.30 (+0.21%) @ 02:46PM EDT
• Drag and Drop across displays
• With external display, you can increase your screen real estate (up to 8 apps running onscreen simultaneously)
• Create your own ideal workspace, including overlapping windows
• Resizable windows come to iPad in iPadOS 16
• Full external display support
• Stage Manager windowing system comes to iPadOS
• iPadOS adds support for virtual memory swap (up to 6GB memory to the most demanding apps)
• Display scaling come to iPad Air and iPad Pro
• iPad Pro gets Reference Mode for color reference
• New APIs let developers build these features in their apps
• iPadOS gets customizable toolbars
• Files gets many updates
• Game Center improvements also coming to iOS and macOS
• SharePlay makes it simple to share gaming experiences in multiplayer games via Game Center
• Game Center gets Activity in its dashboard
• Background download API
• iPadOS 16 offers Metal 3
• iPad provides a great gaming experience
• Collaborate live on a Freeform board (like a virtual whiteboard)
• New app: Freeform (for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS) – comes later this year
• Collaboration API for devs
• Much easier for groups to collaborate (document in included in the collaboration)
• Collaboration: instantly kick off a collaboration when using the Share Sheet
• WeatherKit for developers to add weather to their apps
• iPadOS 16 gets Weather app (finally!)
• iPadOS 16
• Belkin working with Apple for iPhone stands for Mac displays – come this year
• Desk View shows both your (physical) desktop and you – using iPhone’s camera
• Mac FaceTime apps automatically detects and uses iPhone camera
• Continuity Camera: Use iPhone superior camera as your webcam
• Mac automatically recognizes and active FaceTime call on your iPhone
• Handoff extended to FaceTime
• Continuity
• Resident Evil Village comes to the Mac later this year
• A new day for gaming on the Mac
• Fast resource loading API lest games load faster
• MetalFX Upscaling lets devs render faster
• Metal 3 brings new features
• Gaming
• Apple looks forward to working with developer to arrive at a password-free future
• Securely synced across devices
• Passkeys are created with FaceID and TouchID
• Safari in macOS Ventura aims to replace passwords with Passkeys
• New way to chare content: Shared Tab Groups (share all the tabs in one place)
• Safari in macOS Ventura is the world’s fastest browser and the most power efficient
• Search in Mail is now more capable (also coming to iOS and iPadOS)
• Mail gets Undo Send, Schedule Send, etc.
• Take actions like starting a timer or running a Shortcut right in Spotlight (also coming to iOS and iPadOS)
• Peek at Spotlight results in Quick Look
• Spotlight gets a big update
• Multiple apps can be linked in Stage Manager
• Stage Manager lives in Control Center (other apps move to left of display, “offstage”)
• Stage Manager helps you when you have many open windows, lets you focus on the app you’re using
• New way to automatically keep everything organized: Stage Manager
• macOS 13 Ventura
• M1 MBA stays in lineup at $999 ($899 for education)
• Starts at $1299 ($1199 for education)
• Starts at $1199 ($1099 for education)
• Up to 20 hours of video playback
• M2 is also coming to the 13-inch MacBook Pro
• MacBook Air ad being shown (so light it floats)
• Supports Fast Charge
• Up to 18 hours video playback
• Fan-less, silent design
• Force Touch trackpad
• Keyboard: full heigh function row
• Speakers and mics completely integrated into keyboard – supports Spatial Audio
• Camera: 1080p camera, 2X the resolution and 2X low light vs. previous MBA
• 1 billion colors
• 500 nits
• Liquid Retina display (with notch)
• 11.3mm thin, 2.7 pounds
• 20% reduction vs. previous MBA
• Built to last
• MagSafe
• Four colors: Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, Midnight
• Square-edged design (see MacBook Pro)
• All-new M2 MacBook Air
• Capable of playing multiple streams of 4K and 8K video
• Next-gen Secure Enclave and Neural Engine (up to 15.8 trillion operations per second; 40% more than M1)
• Next-gen GPU – up to 10 cores (vs. 8-core in M1)
• Next-gen CPU: 4 high performance cores, 4- high efficiency cores
• Up to 24GB of unified memory
• 100GB/s of unified memory bandwidth
• M2 is 5nm, over 20 billion transistors
• M2 offers power efficient performance
• M2 is second-gen Apple Silicon
• M2 Soc
• Health data is encrypted on-device
• Alerts if there are any medication interaction issues
• Use iPhone camera to scan medication labels to easily create your personalized list
• New Medications app lets you track meds, vitamins, and supplements (log them, receive notification for taking meds)
• New AFib History can track the amount of time your heart shows signs of AFIb
• Apple Heart and Movement Study participants can choose to offer Sleep Stages data
• Health app has a new Sleep Stages section
• watchSO 9 Sleep app gets Sleep Stages to detect which sleep stage you’re in, for how long, and when
• iOS 16 fitness app comes to iPhone users (meant for those who don’t have an Apple Watch)
• Multi-sport workout type for Triathletes
• You can now create Intervals (finally!) with targeted heart rate and more
• Heart Rate Zones let you quickly see what zone you’re in during your workout
• Workout app in watchOS 9: Running form metrics track how efficiently you run directly from your wrist
• Podcast app allows you to discover new podcasts
• Rich complications come to more watch faces
• Four new Watch faces: New Astronomy face, Lunar face, Play Time – animated numbers, an Metropolitan face
• watchOS 9
• Federighi quickly covers additional iOS 16 features
• Next-gen CarPlay comes to vehicles that start to be announced late next year (so don’t hold your breath, it’ll be awhile)
• Customize your control clusters with curated control schemes
• Tune radio, control climate settings; CarPlay even powers instrument cluster, on-device, privacy-friendly
• CarPlay come to all of the drivers’ screens in the vehicle
• Apple has been working with automakers to revolutionize in-vehicle experience
• CarPlay: available on over 98% of cars in the U.S.
• Coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Redesigned tiles
• All-new navigation for Home app
• Overview of each category
• New categories
• See entire home in a single view
• Completely redesigned
• All-new Home app
• Simple to set up and easy to use accessories
• Over 130 products in the pipeline from Matter member companies
• HomeKit is the foundation of the Matter standard
• Home: Apple joined Matter smart home connectivity consortium
• Federighi stresses Apple’s commitment to user privacy
• Quickly turn off access in abusive relationships using Safety Check; stops location sharing, resets privacy permissions, etc.
• Privacy: Personal Safety – lets you tun off other people’s access called “Safety Check.”
• If members in your shared library are nearby, the photos can be automatically shared to the Shared Library
• In the Camera app, you can send shots to shared library as you take them
• Photos: iCloud Shared Photo Library – a separate iCloud library shared with up to 5 people
• Family Checklist helps parents setup parental controls more easily
• Just bring your device near the one you need to manage and Quick Start guides parents
• Set age-appropriate settings easily
• Family Sharing in iOS 16 lets users manage kids accounts even easier
• Favorites seamlessly synced with Apple TV, across all Apple devices
• Follow your favorite teams in My Sports in Apple News+
• Sports: Apple TV apps uses Live Activities to brings scores to your Lock Screen
• MapsKit for developers; adds cities and Look around
• Transit shows fares
• Multi-stop routing comes to Apple Maps
• Las Vegas comes to Maps, plus 6 cities coming this year
• Apple Maps: 11 more countries and regions to get new maps data
• Apple Pay Order Tracking for merchants (secure and private)
• Apple Pay Later lets you split Apple Pay costs into 4 payments without interest, no additional costs
• Tap to Pay on iPhone starts this month; lets small merchants accept iPhone to iPhone payments
• Digital keys: sharing gets easier via Messages, Whatsapp, etc.
• Wallet IDs and digital IDs are coming to more U.S. states
• Apple wants to replace your physical wallet
• Apple Wallet
• Visual Lookup goes even further: Touch and hold on a subject in an image and you can take it out of the phot and place it in, for example, a Message
• Pause any video with text and Live Text makes it selectable, copyable, etc.
• Live Text in video
• Over 15,000 apps work with Siri
• Dictation automatically adds punctuation
• New Dictation lets you move fluidly between touch and voice
• Dictation used over 18 billion times each month (happens entirely on device)
• Dictation get updated
• SharePlay comes to Messages
• Shared With You API for developers
• Messages gets 3 new features: Edit Message you just sent, Undo Send messages, and mark any thread as Unread
• Work Focus Filter, for example, can limit Safari to just work-related sites
• Focus can carry into the app with Focus Filters
• Focus comes to Lock Screen: Your Lock Screen(s) can be tied to specific Focus
• New Music can show the album art
• Live Activities and Live Activities API
• Notifications now roll in from the bottom of the Lock Screen
• WidgetKit for developers
• Photo Shuffle shuffles thru selected photos throughout the day
• New Wallpaper Gallery
• Add Widgets to Lock Screen via Widget Gallery
• Press and hold to customize clock styles, change fonts, font colors, add temperature, calendar and other data sources
• Complications (widgets) are customizable
• Customize and personalize Lock Screen
• All-new Lock Screen: Biggest update ever.
• New personalization features
• iOS 16
• Super hero “Hair Force One” animation
• Craig Federighi
• There are now over 34 million Apple developers
• Apple Developer Academies – 17 across the world
• Cook touts new Apple Developer Center open across from Apple Park
• Welcome developers!
• Apple CEO Tim Cook
• Video of Apple Park campus
• Event begins
• AAPL: $145.88, +$0.49 (+0.34%) @ 12:55PM EDT
• AAPL: $145.92, +$0.54 (+0.37%) @ 12:50PM EDT
• AAPL: $145.90, +$0.51 (+0.35%) @ 12:45PM EDT
I am watching on Apple TV. Is it my imagination or is the sound out of sync ??
seems normal on my MacBook
All voices are overly-synthesized, that is, the way that most folks speak, with no fully realistic tonal sounds. Also, humanity is filtered out replaced with disconcerning uniformity as in a lock-step fashion. The irony is that Cook went to great lengths to include diverse human types as presenters on stage to produce a jarring incongruity between folks and their voices.
I watched on my Macbook connected to a bluetooth speaker, it was in sync but the volume levels were way off between presenters and product videos which were way too loud.
Total waste of time so far
These WWDC’s remind me of Hollywood milking a successful blockbuster hit movie that then gets followed by sequel after sequel after sequel with each sequel losing some of the mystique and magic that made the original so grand and enjoyable.
Would I still feel this way if Master of Ceremonies was still being done by the superb showmanship and salesmanship of Steve Jobs? I don’t know.
All I do know is that this WWDC, as the past few, had some hits, some misses and a lot of fluff regarding its software announcements.
A very comprehensive view of many new software features that I am not sure most people will use. The world has gone bat poop bonkers over zoom. Every sales person I talk to now wants to zoom conference, even just for phone calls. I like the new iPad Os multitasking features, but most of it, while terribly, bored me to sleep.
For persons with disability, there are some great new features that make their lives easier (live captions in FaceTime, for people with hearing loss, door alert, for people with vision loss, etc).
This is where Apple truly shines. It is so far ahead of all other OSes when it comes to assistive technologies, and support for the people with disabilities.
Federighi seemed to suggest that Stage Manager was somehow tied M1 and reserved “our most advanced/pro users” or something like that. Though hobbled like everything Apple does with the iPad, I hope it isn’t limited to the latest iPads, it’s basically just an “always on” and relocated app-switcher view.
Nice fake out when he started talking about “desktop-class apps” leading one to think Final Cut might finally arrive, instead we got… reference color mode 🙄
I skipped a couple of WWDC vids, I guess. This was incredibly awful, and seemed wildly disconnected. I have nothing against Federeghi, but his personality and “jokes” as distracting as the damn music cues.
The virtue signaling and gimmicky nonsense is getting in the way of what the WWDC broadcast once was. Comprehensive Development and Product Announcement. Trim about 1/3 and it tightens up.
As for the products and features. Meh. I am probably in the minority. Give me a device that lets me do things without getting in the way.
And don’t f’ing change everything around. I wasted more time in the past 3 years explaining all changes to my parents, more than at any time before. Few things look like a button… “top left, click that… yes, that’s a… it IS a button, mom!”
Fewest clicks to get to my music or podcasts or audio books? Thing of the past. Play/control buttons that are big enough for me to push? Naw, artwork, we focus on artwork… for the past 10 years… yup, focus focus focus.
Why do I want a 3D stylized replica of a map? I don’t care. Will it eat my battery faster? Then I don’t care. The KISS method is a dying art.
Other than that, neat features that are probably useful for [insert target audience with most money]. And do I want them? Some, sure, but that also means updating my computing devices to the almost latest (today), and every 3 years to stay current. Not gonna do that.
I also don’t want integration for that very reason. All I heard was a very non-committal “very eager to participate” (read: no commitment) for announced technology features.
The biggest chuckle was Resident EVill-Agé. Last of Us 2 wasn’t available?
And yes, drowned out the amazing upscaling technology mentioned.
Rename it to World Wide Consumer Conference, and we’re good.