WWDC — 2018 What’s New?
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3 min readJun 4, 2018
4th June 2018 10:30 PM GMT 5:30+
Only the strongest apps will survive
- Apple Inc.
Only the greatest developers will survive
- 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