Apple announced a number of new features for its various software platforms today, but this one kind of flew under-the-radar. During its presentation on HomeKit, the company displayed a slide that seemed to indicate the HomePod will soon be receiving support for third-party music services.
Today Apple hosted its special event keynote and offered an early look at the new software it's bringing to the table later this year, which includes updates for watchOS and the Apple Watch.
The Mac is transitioning to Apple's own silicon, CEO Tim Cook announced at the WWDC 2020.
macOS Big Sur is upgrading the Messages experience quite a bit with the new software.
Apple has filed for dozens upon dozens of California-themed trademark applications for macOS names over the years, some of which like Yosemite, Sierra and Mojave were indeed used for major macOS releases. And today at the WWDC 2020 keynote, software engineering chief Craig Federighi announced that the official code-name for macOS 10.16 is "Big Sur".
I'm not sure if I missed it, but it seems Apple glossed over a fairly important iPadOS 14 feature during its WWDC keynote. On the slide (seen above) mentioning new features for the next version of iPadOS, we spotted an interesting tab labeled 'Set default email and browser apps.'
The next version of iPadOS includes a new feature called 'Scribble,' which recognizes your handwriting and turns it into text. Apple says it has made big improvements to handwriting recognition, and the ability to turn it into text lets you quickly do things like edit, copy and format it.
Apple has introduced iPadOS 14, bringing a variety of new features to the mix, but also focusing quite a bit on the overall experience.
CarPlay is getting plenty of attention at this year's WWDC, including support for digital car keys.
Apple at today's WWDC 2020 online-only event introduced rich and proper widgets in iOS 14 for the Home screen of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — finally!
Apple introduced new iOS 14 features to Messages, bringing quite a few new elements to the mix.
On Monday, Apple announced iOS 14 and, of course, a variety of new features to the mix. That includes one of the more oft-requested features: picture-in-picture.