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.