My WWDC 2022 Recap Notes
If you missed WWDC or the Platforms State of the Union presentations, check out the notes I took below! Table of contents iOS 16 watchOS 9 M2 Chip macOS Ventura iPadOS 16 Xcode Cloud Swift SwiftUI APIs iOS 16 New Lock Screen Ability to change clock font, and add widgets to see info at a …
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Chris C
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06 Jun 2022
If you missed WWDC or the Platforms State of the Union presentations, check out the notes I took below!
Table of contents
iOS 16
New Lock Screen
- Ability to change clock font, and add widgets to see info at a glance
- New wallpaper gallery and live weather wallpapers
Focus
- Can link focus to the lockscreen to show wallpaper and widgets depending on which focus you’re in
- Focus filters
- Let’s you filter out content in Safari, Messages, Mail etc depending on your focus
Messages
- Ability to Edit messages that were just sent
- Undo send to immediately recall a msg
- Swipe to mark message threads as unread
Sharing
- Shared With You API available to devs
- SharePlay in Messages
- Watch something in sync with others while chatting through Messages
Dictation
- New experience that allows you to move between voice and touch typing
- The keyboard stays open during dictation so you can edit and select text
- Automatic punctuation during dictation
Intelligence
- App Intents API
- Now you can implement siri shortcuts with no setup
- Live Text
- Now applies to video
- pause it on any frame and interact with the text on the paused video frame
- Can perform quick actions from live text
- Camera mode in translate app will display live translations as you move your camera
- Live Text API
- Allows devs to grab text straight from photos and videos
- Visual Lookup
- Is an existing app that allows you to look things up using image recognition
- Now you can touch and hold a subject, and “lift” it out of the background and put it into other apps like messages (like automatically removing its background and dragging and dropping the subject into another app)
Wallet
- Driver licenses – Currently rolled out in Maryland and Arizona and more states to come
- Keys are sharable now
- Apple Pay
- Expanded acceptance
- More payment types accepted
- Apple Pay Later
- 4 equal payments, 0 interest
- Manage upcoming payments in wallet
- Order tracking
- receipt and tracking directly in Wallet for Apple Pay orders
- Available with Shopify first
New Maps
- redesigned maps in 10 countries and counting
- more detail, land cover, elevation, better navigation
- Multistop routing
- Plan up to 15 stops in advance
- Transit
- See fares
- add transit card to wallet
- Better MapKit for devs
- City Experience integration
- Lookaround integration
- Brand new serverside APIs
Sports
- Apple News
- Follow your favorite teams and leagues
- My Sports section
- Scores, schedules, standings, Highlights, pro and college leagues
- Free in US UK CA AU
Family Sharing
- Improved parental controls for child accounts
- Simple new device set up
- Family Checklist
- Reminders and tips for managing family accounts
Photos
- iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Now you can have a complete set of family photos in a shared gallery instead of each person having a few photos
- 5 people can share a gallery
- Lots of automated ways to contribute to the gallery
Personal Safety
- Safety Check
- Disable sharing in abusive relationships
- Review and reset the access you’ve granted others
- Resets privacy permissions
- Stops sharing your location
- Protects access to your messages
Home
- new standard called “Matter” enables smart home accessories to work together across platforms
- HomeKit as the foundation for the Matter Standard
- All new Home app
- more reliable and efficient
- redesigned the navigation and UI
CarPlay
- Content for all drivers screens
- Can change temperature or radio
- Widgets powered by iPhone which fit on the cars screen
- Various looks and feels for gauges and visualizations
- Vehicles that support this announced later in the year
More
- Personalized Spatial Audio
- Quick note
- New memoji customizations
watchOS 9
New watch faces
- Astronomy face
- Lunar calendar watch face
- Whimsical and playful
- Metropolitan
Workout App
- Easy to use metrics, views and training experiences
- Run
- 3 new running form metrics
- Ground contact time
- Stride length
- Vertical oscillation
- Heart rate zones
- 3 new running form metrics
- Fitness app available for iPhone users
- Steps, flights climbed
- Contributes to your daily move goal
- Steps, flights climbed
Sleep App
- Sleep stages
- Gives you data as you sleep through the night and how long you spend in each sleep stage
- Can contribute your data through the Research App
Heart Health
- Support once diagnosed with Afib
- Afib history
- Can share with doctor
- Manage factors
- Insight into your Afib
Medications
- Track your medications, supplements
- Receive notifications for medications
- Copmlications on watch face
- Track and manage medications in the Health app
- Scan the label of your medication
- Create a schedule to receive reminders
- Drug-drug interactions
- Receive alert if there’s a critical interaction between drugs
- Health sharing
- You can send family member to share health data with you
- So you can see if they’ve taken their medications
- Health data is encrypted on device
M2 Apple Silicon Chip
M2 Apple Silicon
- Focus on power efficient performance
- up 24GB of unified memory
- 50% more memory bandwidth than M1
- 18% faster CPU than M1
- 2 more GPU cores than M1
- 25% higher graphics performance using same power
- at max, up to 35% more graphics performance than M1
- 40% more operations per second than M1
Macbook Air
- First to get M2 chip
- 20% reduction in size
- 11.3mm thin, 2.7 lbs
- 4 finishes Silver, space grey, midnight, starlight
- Magsafe, 2 thunderbolt ports, Audio jack
- Liquid retina display
- 13.6 inch display with thinner borders
- 500 nits. 25% brighter than before
- 1080p facetime hd camera
- 20% faster than M1 macbook air
- Fan-less, silent design
- Battery – 18 hours video playback
- Supports fast charge
- Starts at $1199
13” Macbook Pro
- M2 chip
- 40% faster in photo editing compared to M1
- 20 hours of video playback
- Starts at $1299, available next month
macOS Ventura
Stage Manager
- Manage your open windows
- Activate from control center
- Automatically arranges windows off to the side
Spotlight
- Can find images
- Can search for live text in image
- Can run shortcuts and timers right from spotlight
- Rich results for sports, movies, news
- Undo send
- Scheduled send
- Follow up suggestions
- Remind me later
- Search
- See recent docs and files
- Offers suggestions as you type
- Typo correction
Safari
- Shared Tab Groups
- Share all the tabs in a group
- Collaborate on a set of tabs for trip planning
- Passkeys
- Uses touch ID in place of a password
- Can’t be phished or leaked
- Works cross platform using iPhone to authenticate
Gaming
- Metal 3
- MetalFX Upscaling
- Fast resource loading API
- Better texture loading
Continuity
- Handoff
- Works with Facetime now
- Seamlessly handoff a call to a different device
- Continuity camera
- Use iPhone as your webcam
- Need separate mount to mount the iPhone on top of your monitor or laptop screen
- Center Stage
- The camera follows you without moving the camera
- Studio Light
- Brightens you and dims background
- Desk view
- Makes it look like you have a dedicated overhead camera
- Can see your face and also your desk, hands and keyboard
- Works seamlessly because iPhone camera has wide angle lens
- Use continuity camera with all conferencing apps like Zoom
iPadOS 16
Weather App
- Now on iPad
- WeatherKit
- Build weather into your app
Collaboration
- New live collaboration features within Apple apps
- Collaboration API so you can integrate it into your own app
Free form
- Digital white board that you can open up during a Facetime that everyone can collaborate on
- iPadOS, macOS and iOS (later this year)
iPad Gaming
- Background download API
- Start a Shareplay session and play with others
iPad Pro and Air
- Display scaling
- Increase pixel density for more screen real estate
- Virtual memory swap for better performance
- Stage manager to iPadOS for better multi-tasking
- Resize windows for apps on iPad
- Multiple Overlapping windows
- Full external display support
Xcode Cloud
- Xcode Cloud available today
- 25 hours/ month free until end of Dec 2023
- Other tiers available
Swift
- Swift Concurrency
- async algorithms
- distributed actors
- Regular Expressions
- Swift now has regex support
- Regular expression literal
- Checking regex syntax in IDE
- Regex Builder
- Generics
- some, any keywords
- Swift Package Manager
- Package Plugins
- Build Plugin (run at build time)
- Command Plugin (run on demand)
- Package Plugins
- Under the hood improvements
- Faster swift build times
- Launch time faster on iOS 16
SwiftUI
- App Navigation
- NavigationStack
- Grid
- Custom Layout (Flow, Radial)
- Half sheets
- secondary views that slide up for more info
- Share sheet support
- Swift Charts
- Line, bar, heatmap, stream graphs and more
- Chats have accessibility support
- Animateable
- ViewThatFits
- NavigationSplitView
- Can easily add multiple destinations in project properties
- Can write platform specific code
New APIs
- Lock Screen
- WidgetKit
- Circular widgets
- Rectangular widget
- Inline widget
- Can create widgets for IOS and watchOS using the same code
- Live Activities in WidgetKit
- Keep up with info in real time from the lock screen (status of a sports game, progress of a ride share)
- Collaboration
- Messages Collaboration API
- Can be started via Share sheet or Drag and drop
- Collaboration Popover allows people to get back to Messages or Facetime
- Integrate your app into Messages and Facetime
- App Intents Framework (39:00)
- Makes your app’s features available to the system so users can interact with your app via shortcuts and Siri
- App Intents + Shortcuts = App Shortcuts
- Before you had to set up shortcuts manually
- Now in iOS 16, it can be automatic
- Can use with Siri right away without any setup
- Your shortcuts will show up in spotlight, shortcuts app
- Demo showing how to make your app invokable with Siri is in WWDC video
- Passkeys
- Ready to implement and build on
- Skipped iPadOS, watchOS, Metal talks
- Mapkit
- New Apple Maps Server APIs
- Geocode, reverse geocode, search, estimated time of arrival
- New Apple Maps Server APIs
- Apple Weather Service
- Variety of weather data over REST API
- For select countries
- Available through WeatherKit
- LiveText
- VisionKit: 2 new APIs
- Live Text API
- Interact with text in images and paused video
- quick actions
- Data scanner API
- Live camera experience
- Both APIs support auto detection of 9 languages
- Live Text API
- VisionKit: 2 new APIs