WWDC — 2018 What’s New?

Hitendra Solanki
Swift India
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3 min readJun 4, 2018

4th June 2018 10:30 PM GMT 5:30+

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- Hitendra Solanki inspired by Charles Darwin

iOS

  • iOS 12 — Smooth and faster performance
  • New USDZ File Format — 3D Object file of AR
  • iOS12 Navtive “Measure App
  • ARKit 2 — improved face tracking, 3D Object Detection and more
  • Reimagined Photo App — We can search in photo now!
  • Shortcuts App — Siri — Enable custom search phrases, Shortcuts. We can simply consider it Group Actions
  • Redesigned stock app, now available on iPad too.
  • Redeveloped Voice memo app, now available on iPad too.
  • Apple Books — yes you read it correct, RIP iBooks App.
  • Car play — Now supports third party Navigation Apps, Welcome google map :)
  • Do not Disturb little bit smart now.
  • Notification Center — Group Notifications
  • Personalized iDevice usage Analytics — Now you can set App usage time limit, helpful to stop our overlimit usage of Facebook and Instagram.
  • App Usage perental control :) Parents can manage child device remotely.
  • Memoji — Yes you read it right, next level of enimoji with tongue detection
  • FaceTime — Group Call with 32 people in a single call, biggest update of FaceTime

Apple Watch

Watch OS 5

  • Redesigned, reimagined Activity app
  • Updated workout app — Automatic workout Start|Finish detection!
  • Introduced Walky-Talky :D
  • Actionable Notifications
  • WebKit is now available on WatchOS for quick web-content view
  • Podcast now available on WatchOS
  • Now 3rd Party Apps can play audio in background :)

Apple TV — tvOS

  • Introducing Dolby Atmos and 4K HDR
  • Introducing ZERO Sign-in

Mac OS Mojave

  • Most awaited Dark Mode is here now!
  • Dynamic Desktop — Changes based on timing!
  • Desktop Stack — Item Groups
  • Finder — Gallery View :)
  • Improved Quick Look of files
  • Improved Screen Shoting
  • MacOS and iDevice Camera improved continuity.
  • News App — Now available on Mac OS Mojave
  • Stocks App — Now available on Mac OS Mojave
  • Voice Memo App — Now available on Mac OS Mojave
  • Home App — The power of HomeKit is now available on Mac OS Mojave
  • Improved user privacy via additional Permission APIs.
  • AppStore is redesigned with App Stories.
  • Now you can submit video previews for the Mac OS Apps.
  • Microsoft Office, Lightroom CC and many more great apps are coming on MacOS AppStore this fall.
  • Now you can add additional +eGPU
  • CreateML — Train your model with custom data
  • CoreML 2 — Now 30% faster
  • MacOS AppKit + UIKit coming for developers in 2019, currenty in Phase-I testing by Apple
XCode with Dark Mode.! Cheers for Developers!

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Hitendra Solanki
Swift India

Software Engineer, {Self-taught Developer by passion, Quick Learner, Mentor, blogger, TeamLead} GitHub: https://github.com/hitendradeveloper