![]() The spatial audio feature makes the voices appear to come from the direction of a tile. All participants show up in their own tile and the speaker is highlighted. Like Zoom meetings, FaceTime now gets grid view. Everyone sees the same thing at the same time, hears music simultaneously, and any one of the viewers or listeners can take control. SharePlay is a new feature in FaceTime letting users enjoy movies, TV shows, or songs in a shared screen-in-screen experience. Connectivity: FaceTime with Screensharing, Spatial Audio, and Android/WindowsĪpple realizes that the COVID-19 transition to work from home changed the way we use our devices, so the company revealed new features in FaceTime for both work and play. While it’s compatible with all of these devices, some new features (spatial audio, the Maps app City Experience, Live Text in Photos, Visual Look Up, and the new Weather app) require an iPhone with an A12 Bionic Chip or later. iOS 15 runs on any of these devices: iPhone 12, 11, and XS series, iPhone X and XR, iPhone 6, 7, and 8 series, iPhone SE (both generations) and iPod touch 7th generation. With more iPhones loose in the world than Macs and iPads put together, it’s not surprising that Apple focused on iOS first. Many of iOS 15’s new features in one big slide. Generally, iOS and iPadOS are available in September macOS release might coincide with a fall release of new Macs. A public beta begins in July, with availability of the final versions in “the fall”. Availability of OS Changes Announced at WWDC21Īll of the new operating system features and some of the developer APIs were available for beta test yesterday at WWDC21. With that, let’s get into detail on what was highlighted during the keynote. I’d conjecture that Apple wanted to keep the focus on developers, operating systems, and developer tools, and they did a great job of that. The big surprise? Not one announcement of new hardware at WWDC21. Improved support for Always-On apps in watchOS.Widgets and improved multitasking in iPadOS.A better Weather app incorporating elements of Dark Sky.What I Predicted Correctly for the WWDC21 Keynoteįor those of you who read last week’s pre-keynote predictions, I was actually on target for several announcements: As expected, there were some total surprises among the announcements during the almost two-hour video event as well as descriptions of some “not-so-big” changes in Apple operating systems. ![]() The WWDC21 Keynote is over, and it’s time for us to take a closer look at the announcements that came out of the event.
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