What will be announced at wwdc 2018

That was just one use case of what could be a massive potential app ecosystem, and Apple wants to get ahead of that with robust development kits that will keep users on iPhones with better augmented reality experiences.

With iOS 12, Apple focuses on performance. What Apple announced : Apple loves to talk about how its new OS generations, including iOS 11, have the highest adoption rate among smartphones — as well as show off a graphic that shows how bad Google is at that with Android.

But it spent a lot of time today talking about how efficient its next OS, iOS 12, will be on older phones like the iPhone 6. Apple got in trouble for not notifying users that it was slowing phones with older batteries down , and if it wants to keep people in the ecosystem — and eventually upgrade — it still has to keep those users with older phones excited about the Apple ecosystem amid a ton of competition.

Apple is giving users a way to create a customized avatar for themselves that will behave exactly like an Animoji, its animated emoji that moves around as you move your head. Plus you can stick out your tongue and your Animoji will do the same, for some reason. Apple obviously needs iMessage to succeed because it continues to create iOS lock-in, and having these kinds of customized avatars can make the experience more robust.

Apple is adding group FaceTime video calls to iOS Why it matters : Apple is adding group FaceTime video calls to iOS 12, where you can chat with up to 32 people! This is an interesting and obvious move for Apple to port over the capabilities of Houseparty, an app that tapped a weird zeitgeist around multi-user video streaming. It's about time Apple takes this chip beyond simply making Apple Pay payments. But we didn't see that on stage at WWDC, at least not this year. Then there were more long-shot features: an always-on display for the iPhone X would be a great way to show off the OLED screen technology, and we had hoped that Apple would offer the ability to change cameras settings directly in the camera app instead of having to dig through one phone settings menu after another.

Unfortunately, with security and performance taking the lead roles in iOS 12, we may see the company push the more exciting features to iOS 13 including a rumored paid subscription to a premium version of Apple News in The Apple Watch 3 just came out a few months ago, with a focus on the LTE model and running, but Apple is building on its wellness-focused features even further in WatchOS 5 will once again give you plenty of health and fitness support, bringing challenges to groups of friends for bespoke fitness competitions between pals.

Yoga exercises can be tracked based on heart rate, hiking makes use of heart rate and altitude, while there's a rolling mile pace tracker for running in Workouts. All of this is great news for runners, helping them to better pace their runs.

Podcasts is also coming to your wrist, syncing your spot in audio across devices, while there's a Siri face, intelligently knowing to activate the voice assistant automatically once a fresh notification comes in. Working over both cellular and Wi-Fi connections, you'll get a haptic feedback alert when someone wants to have a quick chat.

Showing support for the LGBT community, there will also be a new rainbow-themed band and watch face. Dolby Atmos object-based audio is coming to the Apple TV set-top box, bringing you overhead sounds as well as standard surround sound provided you've got compatible Dolby Atmos speakers , of course , making Apple TV 4K the only box that's both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos certified. If you've got existing titles that support Dolby Atmos in your iTunes library they'll automatically be upgraded to support the new audio format.

The animated screensaver 'Aerial' is getting upgraded, letting Siri offer locations and info on places of interest from across the globe with a tap of the remote, as well as a high-altitude Earth cam filmed by astronauts stationed on the ISS. Apple has already started toying with original content, with Carpool Karaoke as an example. So it may be holding back a little bit more information for further down the line.

What kind of content can more than a billion dollars create? Deadline recently reported Apple's plans for a new animated series called 'Central Park' with some star power behind it. Moving from the mountains inspiring recent Mac software updates to the deserts of the Mojave, Apple's new MacOS release has been revealed, with lots of exciting new features for Mac fans.

But perhaps the biggest feature of all will actually be coming to developers in , with new features letting iOS apps be easily ported to Mac. It was simply a tease at this stage, but Apple's already putting it to work with its own first-party apps. It's long been rumored, but come this time next year, expect the worlds of iOS and Mac to be more closely aligned than ever before. A new 'Dark Mode', which makes all Apple first-party apps take on a darker hue, is also on the way.

Easy on the eyes for late night use, it'll also be useful for photo editors and developers, with the former often preferring the punchy colors against a darker background, the later taking advantage of the more clearly visible color distinctions in code groups during Xcode usage. Messy desktop?

No problem in MacOS Mojave — it's introducing Desktop stacks, which group together related icons into piles, auto-tidying your desktop, expanding with a tap. You can also scrub through a stack with gestures to scroll to an individual file that you're seeking out. Your desktop wallpaper can be set to change over the course of a day too — new Apple-designed options of, say, a desert panorama, will change from morning through to noon, evening and the dead of night as time in your local location changes.

Who wants more metadata? You do, that's who. The Gallery View will now give quick actions that you can instantly fire up contextual information. Making changes on documents is also getting easier thanks to some Finder upgrades. Screenshots and screenshot editing is getting similarly streamlined. Next year, he says that Apple will start letting third party iOS developers create apps that also work on Macs. Cough cough Facebook cough. Otherwise, feel better about your webcam not spying on you!

First of all—and perhaps most refreshing—is the fact that iOS 12 will work on all the same devices as iOS Apple also says it will make these devices noticeably faster. Apple also announced a major upgrade for Siri in the form of Shortcuts.

Now, you can program your own Siri commands that work with native Apple apps as well as third party apps. Apple is here to fix that problem with a few new features in iOS You can also set allowances for people in your family, so that Junior only gets to drool over Snapchat for one hour a day. The next version of iOS has a few minor updates, too: Apple News gets a refresh, with a brand new design for the iPad.

The iPad will support voice memos and the Stocks app for the first time, and iBooks has been officially rebranded as Apple Books. The updates to watchOS 5 are all focused on staying active. New fitness features let you challenge your friends to an exercise competition, and offer better workout detection for activities like yoga and hiking.

Siri works better on Apple Watches now, too. You can raise your wrist to ask Siri a question, or customize the Siri watch face to surface your heart rate or sports scores. Last year, Apple introduced 4K capabilities to its TV device. Apps on iOS will now need explicit permission to use the camera, microphone, location data, mail, messages, and more.