28: Down Deep Below the Surface

Part II of the WWDC 2020 extravaganza!

Part II of the WWDC 2020 extravaganza!

Topics:

WWDC 2020

Keynote

AirPods - Craig & Mary-Ann Ionascu (Senior Engineer, AirPods Firmware)

EVEN MORE MAGIKS TO AIRPODZ!!?
Automatic switching
AirPods will switch all over the place
Spatial audio (AirPods Pro)

watchOS - Kevin Lynch (VP, Technology)

Damn, Apple has a nice health center
Complications

Multiple complications per app
Vic needs glo-baby 🤨
New Chronograph face
New way to reconfigure faces
SwiftUI complications

Faces

Face-sharing (sounds creepy)
Curated faces from App Store, friends & family

Offers download of apps you don’t have on shared faces
Devs can offer pre-configured faces from apps

Maps

Cycling directions

Fitness - Julz Arney (Senior Manager, Fitness Technologies)

Dance workout

Finally Vic can get fit again

Core training
Strength training
Cool-downs
Activity app is redesigned for workout data and renamed to Fitness
Kevin can’t dance

Sleep - Vera Carr (Manager, Health Software Engineering)

Sleep duration goal

When to wake up
Getting to bed on time

Wind Down

Vic will never use this 😒
A calm lock screen experience
Shortcuts to sing to you like your mommy did

Sleep mode automatically dims the screen (auto-theater mode)
Alarm, audible or taptic
Uses breath and movement info
Health app tracks sleep over time

Hand washing (Apple Wash) - Kevin

Privacy and transparency - Craig, Katie Skinner (Manager, User Privacy Software) & Erik NeuenSchwander (Director, User Privacy)

Across all products
Sign In with Apple
Can upgrade accounts to Sign In With Apple
Location data transparency
Camera and recording indications
Safari tracking blockers & controls

Sites have to ask

Apps

Apps have to show what type of data they track
Self-reporting model
App tracking practices will be shown on app pages in the App Store

Home - Craig & Yah Cason (Senior Engineer, HomeKit Software)

Ease of use
Open sourced HomeKit to make it easy to build devices
Tap or scan to set up an accessory
Home app will suggest automations for new accessories
New status of accessories that most need attention
Lights

Adaptive lighting - right color for the right time

Cameras

Define activity zones
Can limit motion alert areas
Facial recognition
HomePod can announce who’s at the door
Cameras can go onto Apple TV quickly

tvOS - Cindy Lin (Director, Program Management for Media Products Engineering)

PiP across tv
Better AirPlay to TV
Foundation on Apple TV+

macOS Big Sur - Craig

The Crack Marketing team 😂
Entirely new design - Alan Dye (Vice President, Human Interface)

Start Up Chime is back and other new sounds
SF Symbols comes to mac
Many elements of iOS design come to the Mac

Translucency
Depth
Shading
Reduced visual complexity (Overly Minimalist???)
Corner Radius
Buttons and Controls

Control Center comes to the mac
Unified Notification and Widget view
iOS 14 style Widgets
All new Mac Icons & Dock
More Translucent menu bar

Redesigned System Apps - Craig

Finder
Mail
Photos
Calendar
Notes
Podcasts
Music
iWork
Messages Catalyst App

Finally will have feature parity with iOS
effects
memoji
new photo picker
pinned conversations and iOS group features

Maps Catalyst App

Catalyst Updates

Full Screen
New menu and keyboard api
New UI Controls

Switches
Pickers
Check Boxes

Multiple Resizable Windows
Keyboard Shortcuts

Safari - Craig & Beth Dakin (Manager, Safari Software Engineering)

Continues to lead the pack in performance and efficiency
More Privacy

Privacy Report
Checks for compromised passwords

Web Extensions API support
Extension Category in MAS
Better control of extensions privileges
Customizable Start page
New look for tabs
Built in translation

Apple Silicon for Mac - Tim

Johny Srouji is under water, according to Tim Cook
Apple SoC design summary - Johny Srouji (SVP, Hardware Technologies)

Apple has been doing custom silicon for over a decade
A4 in 2010 to A13 in 2019
iPad was A5X to A12X (and Z)
1000x GPU performance improvement in 10 years
Apple has shipped 2 billion SoCs in 10 years.

Srouji claims Apple Silicon will bring a whole new level of power to the Mac, considering both performance and power
Better performance, lower power
Custom technologies just for Mac - power management, Secure Enclave, high performance GPU, neural engine & ML accelerators
SoCs specifically for the Mac, common architecture across product lines
This guy keeps bouncing his hands up and down while talking. Does emphasizing points with hand waving mean anything if you do it after every word?
Native apps - Craig

Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are native now.
Xcode is ready to compile Mac apps to Apple Silicon.
Universal 2 - universal binary that works on Intel and Apple Silicon

Microsoft and Adobe are working on their apps
Craig called Microsoft his friends
Craig shows off Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. He shows off some Metal 3d animations
LR and PS native on Apple Silicon
Apple promises quick and easy recompilation, of course

Rosetta 2 **- Andreas Wendker (VP, Tools & Frameworks Engineering)

Automatically translates apps at install time or at first run time, or dynamic translation for JIT apps
Virtualization (docker, Linux)
Rosetta 2 performance demos

Maya
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Linux VM in Parallels

iPhone and iPad apps run natively & unmodified on ARM Mac “Most apps will just work” (little vague there)
Quickstart program - Craig & Tim

Documentation & sample code
Private forums
Hands on labs
Developer Transition Kit hardware

Mac mini w A12Z, 16 GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Big Sur beta, and Xcode

2 year transition

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