WWDC 2022 Day 1, 2, 3 and 4 Part 2

 Apple WWDC 2022 event at Steve Jobs theater unveiled updates to Watch OS, iPad OS, CarPlay, Maps, X Code cloud, new Gaming with Metal 3 and Swift UI.

Day 1 Part 2

WatchOS 9:

"watchOS 9 introduces enhanced and modernized complications on some of the most classic watch faces, such as Utility, Simple, and Activity Analog, along with background colour editing for Modular, Modular Compact, and X-Large for additional personalisation. 

The Workout app, one of the most popular apps on Apple Watch, has been updated to provide richer metrics for measuring performance, as well as new training experiences to help users reach fitness goals.

Focus now allows users to select an Apple Watch face to automatically appear when they start a specific Focus on iPhone, such as the Photos face during a Personal Focus, helping users stay in the moment.

Swimmers can now track their efficiency with a SWOLF score — a stroke count combined with the time, in seconds, it takes to swim one length of the pool.

Fitness+ subscribers without Apple TV can now use AirPlay to stream workouts and meditations with on-screen metrics to compatible third-party TVs and devices, allowing them to train anywhere, anytime.

Sleep tracking in watchOS 9 provides even more insights with the introduction of sleep stages. Using signals from the accelerometer and heart rate sensor, Apple Watch can detect when users are in REM, Core, or Deep sleep. Users will see sleep stage data on Apple Watch in the Sleep app and can view more detailed information, like time asleep, alongside additional metrics, like heart rate and respiratory rate.

The new Medications experience on Apple Watch and iPhone helps users manage and track their medications, vitamins, and supplements, allowing them to create a medications list, set up schedules and reminders, and view information on their medications in the Health app."

watchos 9 is updated with innovative new features that even Android's wearos lack off with analytics positioned fitness matrices for swimmers, new sleep tracking, better control over medications tracking and finally AirPlay streaming integration to Fitness+. Another new feature is Apple Watch Mirroring for using AirPlay integration to more out of fitness matrices.

iPad os 16:

"Taking advantage of the power of the M1 chip, Stage Manager brings a new way to multitask with multiple overlapping windows and full external display support. Collaboration is easier than ever with new ways to start working with others in apps across the system using Messages, and the new Freeform app provides a flexible canvas to brainstorm on together. New tools in Mail help users be more productive, Safari adds shared Tab Groups to browse the web with others, and the browsing experience gets even more secure with passkeys. The new Weather app takes full advantage of the stunning iPad display, and Live Text now interacts with text in video. New pro features — including Reference Mode and Display Zoom — make iPad an even more powerful mobile studio."

iPad os 16 brings multitasking and focused productivity features with a new feature Stage Manager, free-form collaboration and external display support. Apple also introduced iCloud Photo Library for smarter photo storage and viewing experience. Apple also unveiled iOS' Live Text for translating text off videos and images and there is also Visual Look up that erases subjects off images or videos for creating a new image.

Day 2

Swift UI upgrade, Xcode Cloud and Xcode 14 improvements:

"Built into Xcode, Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery cloud service designed specifically for Apple developers. It enables developers and teams of all sizes to build, test, and deliver high-quality apps even more efficiently by automatically building apps in the cloud to free up their Mac for other tasks.

Xcode 14 features new enhancements to further improve developer productivity. Project builds are up to 25 percent faster, thanks to improved parallelism, and the Xcode application is now 30 percent smaller to download, with downloadable simulator runtimes for watchOS and tvOS. The new multi-platform target creates a single SwiftUI interface for use across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS. Developer code is easier to maintain yet highly customization to take advantage of each platform’s unique capabilities. SwiftUI live previews are now interactive by default in Xcode, so changes are immediately live, and developers can create variants of each preview without writing any code, altering the colour scheme, text size, device orientation, or accessibility modes."

Apple launched Xcode Cloud that is more secure and easy to host Xcode 14 apps for build, test and deploy. Apart from Metal 3, Apple also announced new unity plugin Core Haptics for building games in 3D with Apple frameworks. Apple announced SwiftUI live previews for previewing projects live in Xcode.

Day 3

ARKIT 6 and APP Shortcuts:

"Geometry is updated, the anchor rotation is updated as well to reflect the new orientation of the plane. With iOS 16, we introduce a cleaner separation between plane anchors and their plane geometry.

Updated with details on 4K video, expanded video and capture capabilities with support for HDR video and high-resolution background image capture, Motion Capture improvements, and Location Anchors in new cities.

Developers can now use App Intents to enable their apps to be used with Siri and Shortcuts, with no user setup required."

ARKIT 6 is an incremental update with new ground breaking feature of 4K video capture support for HDR video and image capture of AR content. Apps shortcuts are updated with Siri integration without extra programming. 

Day 4

Vision Enhancements:

"What is great about this Quick Look Preview support is that we've removed the need for you to write a variety of utility functions to visualize the results. They can be overlaid directly on your images in the debugger or in an Xcode Playground.

Vision is updated with enhancements for better detection update for imaging sensors along with new introduction of Quick Look Preview that launches fast debug without writing utility functions. 

WWDC 2022 Apple Event Day 1 Part 1

 Apple announced a new hardware Macbook Air 13.6 with all new M2 SoC and also Macbook Pro 13 inch with M2 at WWDC 2022 day 1 aimed for developers for both online and after event meet-ups to journalists and tech bloggers. Apart from new hardware, Apple introduced iOS 16 with new features of Maps app finally adding multiple journey points, homescreen customization and more. Apple also announced new iPad os 16, Carplay update, Spatial Sound update and brand new Mac os Ventura.

Macbook Air and Macbook Pro:

"With an all-new, strikingly thin design and even more performance, MacBook Air also features a larger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, four-speaker sound system, up to 18 hours of battery life,1 and MagSafe charging. It is now available in four finishes — silver, space gray, midnight, and starlight. M2 also comes to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s second best-selling laptop — delivering incredible performance, up to 24GB of unified memory, ProRes acceleration, and up to 20 hours of battery life,2 all in a compact design. "

After new M1 Pro and M1 Max options for Macbook lineups unveiled at first quarter of first Apple hardware event, Apple launches new groundbreaking M2 SoC powered Macbook Air 13.6 inch that offers 5-nanometer technology powering an 18 percent faster CPU, a 35 percent more powerful GPU, and a 40 percent faster Neural Engine while 50 percent more memory bandwidth compared to M1, and up to 24GB of fast unified memory. Apple also updated FaceTIme to full HD camera, four speaker sound system derived from M1 Max Macbooks and also improved battery life, all new 35W charging option with two USB-C ports for 2 devices charging and also 67W charging with 50 percent charging in just 30 minutes. 

Macbook Pro 13 inch with M2 offers similar features with more battery life and compact design.

macOS Ventura:

"macOS Ventura includes powerful features and new innovations that help make the Mac experience even better. New tools like Stage Manager make focusing on tasks and moving between apps and windows easier and faster than ever, and Continuity Camera brings new videoconferencing features to any Mac, including Desk View, Studio Light, and more,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “With helpful new features in Messages, state-of-the-art search technologies in Mail, and an updated design for Spotlight, Ventura has so much to offer and enriches many of the ways customers use their Macs.”

Apple's latest macOS Ventura is an incremental update to Monterey os for multitasking innovated to new tools of Stage Manager for focused productivity experiences, updated Contiunity that upgrades video conference to imaging effects with Studio light and a new Desk view and also updated Spotlight for easy searches and discovery.

iOS 16: 

“iOS 16 is a big release with updates that will change the way you experience iPhone,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “We have reimagined how the Lock Screen looks and works with exciting new features that make it more personal and helpful, introduced iCloud Shared Photo Library for families, streamlined communication through new capabilities in Messages and Mail, and harnessed enhanced intelligence with updates to Live Text and Visual Look Up.”

iOS 16 is also unveiled with brand new features like Live activities for more smarter homescreen, link focus for Homescreen more user friendly to user moods. The big updates also arrive for Safari with shared Group Tabs for productivity based websites grouping and a ground breaking Passkeys that stores on a device for an unhackable Safari browsing experience. Siri adds the ability to run shortcuts as soon as an app is downloaded without requiring upfront setup. Users can add emoji when sending a message, choose to send messages automatically — skipping the confirmation step — and hang up phone and FaceTime calls completely hands-free by simply saying “Hey Siri, hang up.”

Apple News introduces a new My Sports section to easily follow favorite teams and leagues; receive stories from hundreds of top publishers. Personalized Spatial Audio enables an even more precise and immersive listening experience. Listeners can use the True Depth camera on iPhone to create a personal profile for Spatial Audio that delivers a listening experience tuned just for them.