WWDC 2019

2019 Apple Design Award winners announced

Apple's Design Awards 2019 banner

Every year, during the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple takes some time to celebrate some of the apps the company has discovered out of the App Store. The annual Apple Design Awards is meant to celebrate the apps and games, along with the developers, for their artistry and technical achievements. This year is certainly no different, as the company has announced the winners of the award.

Apple finally brings a native Calculator app to the Apple Watch in watchOS 6

One of my biggest beefs with the Apple Watch for the longest time has been the lack of a native Calculator app much like what you’d expect to find on your iPhone’s Home Screen. Fortunately, Apple is finally resolving this issue with watchOS 6, which Apple announced today at WWDC 2019.

As shown in the screenshot example above, watchOS 6 will incorporate a full-blown calculator interface into the Apple Watch, allowing you to perform basic mathematic calculations right from the comfort of your wrist. The interface should look mostly familiar to iOS users, as it gets many of its design cues from the iPhone’s Calculator app.

Cydia Impactor doesn’t work on the macOS 10.15 Catalina beta (yet)

Among the plethora of upcoming software updates Apple announced for its mobile and desktop platforms at the WWDC 2019 Keynote event on Monday was macOS 10.15 Catalina, which promises to make Mac computers significantly more potent with literally dozens of new features.

Apple’s upcoming Mac-centric software update sounds incredibly tempting at first glance, but jailbreakers may want to pay particular attention to the update’s fine print. As it would seem, macOS Catalina drops support for outdated 32-bit apps in favor of newer and faster 64-bit alternatives, and this includes Saurik’s vital Cydia Impactor tool.

macOS Catalina announced with new apps, iPad as secondary display feature, Activation Lock, and more

Rounding out its WWDC keynote this morning, Apple unveiled the future of its Mac platform by way of an update it's calling macOS Catalina. As you'd expect, the update brings about a number of new features and improvements including new apps like ScreenTime and Find My, a new feature called Sidecar that lets you use your iPad as a secondary monitor, and much more.

Apple makes iPad a standalone platform with iPadOS

Apple has announced that it is breaking out its iPad platform into its own standalone OS called...yep iPadOS. The move is a significant one, as it underlines how different the tablet is from its smartphone sibling, and the update brings about a number of new features and improvements.

Apple shines a light on a pair of developers ahead of WWDC 2019

Erika Hairston will be attending WWDC for the first time this year

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, June 3, this year. On that day we will get the typical keynote speech where Apple will talk about what's coming next for its major platforms, including iOS. But the conference itself is still meant to focus on developers, what they can create (both for Apple directly and their own efforts), and more.