Here are some things that were announced this morning that I think will change the way developers work on Apple platforms.

If I missed something or you caught a typo please leave a comment below.

Let's get into this!

First, the welcome video, now featuring lots of Touch Bar MacBook Pros (spoiler alert: they didn't update the notebook line-up here, having already cleared the decks with the spec bump):

watchOS

New taptic clock chimes (audible if sound is on).

The robins are okay. - Kevin Lynch

New Apps

• Audiobooks
• Voice Memos
• Calculator (with tip/split calculator)

New Developer Tools

• Independent Apps (without iPhone companion)
• Extended Sessions
• Streams Audio API
• Appstore for Apple Watch
  • Dictation search
  • Siri-based search
  • Integrated purchases

iOS

iOS 12 statistics:

• 97% iOS 12 customer
• 85% install base (10% adoption of Android 9)

[unlike] those other guys - Tim Cook

iOS 13

yes, it's iOS 13 - Craig Federighi

• 30% faster Face ID unlock
• app packaging changes - 50% smaller downloads and 60% smaller updates
• 2x app launch speed
• Dark Mode
• swipe type (like GBoard)
• smart photo sharing suggestions
• time synced lyrics in Music
• Safari text-sizing options
• Mail formatting controls and rich fonts
• Notes gallery view, shared folders
• Reminders redesign
  • smart lists
  • iMessage tagging (reminder to talk)
• Maps
  • rebuilt map
  • it'll rollout to the entire US by the end of 2019
  • ETA sharing
  • favorite places menu for easy access
  • collections for lists of favorite places for sharing
  • lookaround view for 3D exploring
  • smooth virtual street navigation

Privacy

Location

• One-time location sharing
• Background location usage reports
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signal access controls

Social Logins

• Sign in with Apple
  • simple API
  • instant Face ID authentication
  • optional private email generation > a unique, random address that forwards to your real address ... you can disable any one of them at any time - Craig Federighi
  • available on the web and all Apple platforms

Homekit

• Homekit Secure Video

  • Cloudless HomePod, Apple TV, or iPad camera analysis
  • 10-day clip storage for free

• Homekit for Routers

  • Firewalls for individual accessories
  • Will be available from Linksys, Eero, ISPs like Spectrum

Messages

• Avatar picture sharing controls

Memojis

• New Memoji options
• Auto-generated Personal Memoji Sticker Packs
• Memoji on all devices with A8 or later

Camera

• High-key mono effect
• Adjustable portrait lightning effect
• Redesigned editing interface for still photos and videos
  • Video rotation

Photos

• Hides duplicates with Machine Learning
• Intelligent photo organization and nicer photo browsing

AirPods

• Siri can announce and read incoming messages from Messages or any SiriKit-enabled messages app
• Audio Sharing

HomePod

• Handoff your music, podcast, or a phone call to HomePod
• Live radio from 100,000 stations through Siri
• Voice recongization/response personalization
  • Includes Apple Music, Messages, Reminders, and Notes actions.

CarPlay

• redesign
  • CarPlay dashboard with Siri, music, maps, and calendar
• Siri third-party integration (starting with Pandora and Waze)

Shortcuts

• Siri shortcut integration with the shortcuts app on all platforms
• Suggested automations create templates based on your behavior in different apps

Siri

• Now a text-to-speech voice entirely generated by a neural network
  • more natural responses

Other features

• send unknown callers to voicemail
• enterprise single-sign-on
• separate iCloud accounts

iPadOS

• a new name!
• tighter Springboard app icon layout
• home screen widget pinning
• Slideover (mini app launcher on the side of the main app)
• multi-window capabilities with individual component drag-and-drop and third-party app support

[shows two Word documents in a split view] I mean that's enterprisey right there - Craig Federighi

Files

• column-view (like Finder on macOS)
• iCloud Drive folder sharing
• SMB server file sharing
• USB drive support
• USB photo loading support for third-party apps (like camera -> Lightroom)

Safari

• Desktop-class browsing (with automatic resizing and touch optimization)
• Download manager
• 30+ new keyboard shortcuts

Writing and Apple Pencil

• Custom fonts on the App Store
• Multi-touch navigation
  • for document scrolling
  • cursor position dragging
  • editing gestures:
  • three-finger-pinch copy
  • three-finger-pinch paste
  • three-finger-swipe undo
• screenshot/photo markup gestures (with full document capture mode in Safari)
• resizable keyboard gesture swipe (thumb typing)
• 20 millisecond to 9 millisecond latency
• redesigned editing palette
• PencilKit editing palette API for app developers

Mac

New Mac Pro

• modular design
• top case handles
• up to 28 core 300+ watt Xeon processor with great cooling
• 6 channels of ECC RAM, up to 1.5 terabytes
• 8 PCIe expansion slots
• IO Card: two Thunderbolt 3 ports, one USB-A port, audio jack, two 10 gigabit Ethernet ports
• supported graphics through up to two Mac Pro Expansion Module (MPX): Radeon Pro 580 X, Radeon Pro Vega || (two supported)
• "Afterburner" module (6 billion pixels per second of hardware accelerated video editing)
• optional wheels for transport
• can drive six 6K displays
• Fall release starting price: $5999

Live Demo

• 1,000 audio tracks + software instruments in Logic
  • Simultaneously playing 3 streams of 8K ProRes RAW footage

Pro Display XDR

• 32-inch LCD
• 6K Retina
• superwide viewing angle
• anti-reflective coating
• nano-texture matte glass panel option without haze effect
• 1000 nits of indefinite full-screen brightness for HDR
  • peak of 1600 nits
• 1 million to 1 contrast ratio
• rotation to portrait mode
• Fall release starting price: $4999
  • nano-texture version: $5999

macOS Catalina

iTunes split - Apple Music, Podcasts, TV

How about calendar in iTunes? ... How about Mail in iTunes? And maybe Safari in iTunes! ... Well of course we'll add a dock ... Nailed it! - Craig Federighi

Music

• Unobtrusive device syncing from Finder
• New sidebar and recommendations

Podcasts

• Machine Learning-informed search for spoken content

TV

• Contains purchased movies, subscribed channels
• 4K HDR playback
• Dolby Atmos spatial audio

Sidecar

• Use iPad as a second Mac display
• Precise input with Apple Pencil in several macOS apps

Accessibility

• Voice Control for iOS and Mac.
  • Text correction/editing
  • Open apps
  • Scroll instructions
  • Tab-based navigation
  • Button clicking
  • Field navigation
  • Maps grid view
  • Volume control
  • Local processing

Find My

• Find my iPhone + Find My Friends
• Available on Mac and iOS
• Offline location detection through secure distributed Bluetooth relay through other's Apple devices

Activation Lock

• Supports all T2 Macs
• Locks the boot and OS install processes with your credentials

Project Catalyst (Marzipan)

• Start with a "Mac" checkbox in Xcode and build iPad and macOS apps simultaneously.
• Early adopters:
  • Asphalt
  • Twitter
  • Atlassian

ARKit 3

plus a Minecraft Earth Live Demo

• People Occlusion
• Motion Capture support

Just to be clear no chickens were harmed on stage at WWDC - Craig Federighi

Swift

New UI Framework: SwiftUI

• declarative, expressive UI
• size classes
• automatic animation
• automatic Dark Mode support
• live UI preview in Xcode
• drag and drop component ("view") library with code generation
• smart view inspect menu
• built-in localization
• live, on-device code editing
• modular adoption (one view or full application)
• runs natively on watchOS and every Apple platform, and binds to every native control

Release Dates (all platform announcements)

Developer beta: Today
Public seed: July
General user availability: Fall

Check out all the new stuff on Apple's website, which was recently updated with the announced Macs:

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