Apple WWDC 2018 keynote highlights: iOS 12 performance updates, watchOS 5.0, new tvOS updates , macOS Mojave and more announced

​Craig Federighi confirms that macOS and iOS will never be combined.

Apple is however working on a multi-year project that will bring iOS apps to the macOS in 2019.

No, Apple is not merging macOS and iOS.

Updates coming to macOS Mojave: Dark Mode, Continuity Photo, News, Stocks, Safari, Mac App Store

Dark Mode comes to macOS Mojave inspired by the Mojave Desert nights

Xcode also comes in Dark Mode

Dynamic desktop changes according to the time of day

Mojave brings desktop stacks to clean up your desktop

Quick Look integrates Mark Up

Screenshots becomes even more powerful with Mojave allowing users to record animations on screen and more

Continuity Photo lets you share details from your phone to your desktop and more.

News and Stocks now comes to Mac

Voice Memos comes to macOS Mojave as well.

Home also comes to the macOS allowing for Siri voice control via MacBooks and Macs

Safari brings better ad and data tracking protection with better ad blocking

Mac App Store gets a revamp with a new Discover Tab, Top Charts, all inspired by the iOS App Store

There are new Work, Play and Developers tabs.

Video previews also come to the Mac App Store

Also new is a ratings and review API for Mac Apps

Microsoft will bring Office 365 to Mac App Store

The new macOS will have a more comprehensive UI. 

macOS Mojave is going to introduce new data protection techniques.

Ummmm…..

MacOS Mojave to come with Dark Mode

macOS time….

Apple TV and new tvOS updates at WWDC 2018: Dolby Atmos, Live Sports, News

Apple TV 4K brings Dolby Atmos sound

iTunes will provide free upgrades to Dolby Atmos content

Also added is Live Sports and Live News with 100+ video channels

Apple introduces Zero Sign-on with no credential needed.

Apple TV remote now also appears in Control Center

Apple ties up with ISS for Aerials

Next up tvOS for the Apple TV. Looks like this time Dolby Atmos is coming on Apple TV 4K.

Apple Podcasts app is now coming to watchOS 5.0

Apple watchOS 5 updates: New Workouts, Connectivity

Introduces Competitions 

Yoga, Hiking Workout types introduced

Rolling miles pace along with Pace Alerts comes to watchOS 5

Automatic workout detection with retroactive credits

Watch will also detect when a work out ends by tracking user heartrate

​watchOS introduces real time voice with Walkie Talkie

Simply select your friends and press to talk

Watch to watch connects with cellular or Wi-Fi

Siri Shortcuts also comes to watchOS

Finally can use third-party apps to your Siri Watch Face

No longer need to say “Hey Siri”

watchOS 5 brings Interactive notifications to Apple Watch

Can now view integrated web content on your wrist with WebKit on watchOS

​Podcasts comes to watchOS 5

3rd party apps will now be supported on watchOS 5.0 #WWDC2018 pic.twitter.com/hsmFhj0mLS

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) June 4, 2018

watchOS 5 will have a new feature called ‘Walkie Talkie’

watchOS 5.0 will focus on health and fitness

iOS 12 updates: FaceTime with up to 30 simultaneous participants

Go from individual chats to groups chat

Tiles go from bigger to smaller with depending on people speaking in the conversation

Can even access Sticker packs and Animoji from all participants

Group Face Time works across iPhone iPad and Mac

This is #memoji. #WWDC18 pic.twitter.com/bXyM19ydtU

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) June 4, 2018

iOS 12 updates: New Animoji and Memoji

Animoji lets you stick out your tongue

New: Animoji Ghost Koala Tiger and T Rex

Also Apple rips of Samsung with Memoji letting users make diverse custom made Animoji

​Lets you customise everything from freckles to hairstyles to head shapes.

Unlike Samsung’s personalised emoji, you have to create emoji yourself, they are not automatically created.

The most revolutionary animoji technology as per Apple is tongue detection and memoji. Wow.

More Animojis for iOS 12.

Addicted to your smartphone? iOS 12 can help you time your usage of apps.

Apple introduces its version of the digital detox in iOS 12: DND, Grouped Notifications, Screen time

DND works better and shows lesser notifications when activated

Instant Tuning for notifications from the locksreen

Finally, grouped notifications!!!

Single swipe lets you triage a group of notifications from an app

Screentime shows you how you use your phone.

App Limits lets you set your own limit helping you spend less time on some apps.

Limits also sync across devices.

Parents can create allowances for their kids with features like Downtime, Always Allowed, Content and Privacy

Indeed, there is a lot being pulled off from Google’s Android P here.

Finallyyyyyyyyy….. Grouped notifications coming to iOS 12.

Apple CarPlay to now support third-party apps.

iOS 12 updates: News, Stocks, Voice Memos, Apple Books, CarPlay

There’s a new sidebar in the News app.

Stocks finally gets some love with a completely design app.

Apple news comes to stocks. With Top Stores featuring business news.

More love! Stocks finally comes to iPad

Voice Memos finally comes to the iPad, with iCloud support.

Finally! iBooks is now Apple Books also gets a major revamp on iOS 12

A new store for ebooks and audiobooks

CarPlay gets support for third-party navigation apps on iOS 12

Apple News now coming to Stocks and Stocks will now also come on the iPad.

What do you think about the updates to Photos app in iOS 12?

Improvements to Photos search. That’s actually really fascinating to me. With years and years and years of photos, being able to actually find the right photo, is a big deal. #WWDC

— Stephen Staver (@sstaver) June 4, 2018

iOS 12 update number 3: Siri

New feature called Shortcuts

Siri can also suggest and place a regular order

Siri will suggest app actions

Turning DND on during movies

Users can even create custom shortcuts

There’s a new Shortcuts app, letting you make custom steps using the Siri Shortcuts Editor

What do you think about the updates to Photos app in iOS 12?

Improvements to Photos search. That’s actually really fascinating to me. With years and years and years of photos, being able to actually find the right photo, is a big deal. #WWDC

— Stephen Staver (@sstaver) June 4, 2018

iOS 12 update number 2: Photos

Search suggestions will now show places, people and places.

Photos indexes up to 4 million events 

A new tab called For You that has Featured Photos, Effects Suggestions and more.

Sharing also gets better with iOS 12 with Sharing Suggestions

Will recommend sharing full resolution photos, with friends in the photos

The system is built around iMessage and works with Machine Learning

iOS 12 will be improving the Photos app.

What is iOS 12 all about? Here are your answers

AR Kit 2 brings shared experiences

Martin Sanders of Lego gives a live demonstration on stage

3D object detection brings Lego models to life.

Lets 4 users play in the same AR space

Some more AR on stage here at WWDC. 

So here are some of the improvements for the ARkit 2.0

AR is going to be Apple’s key focus on iOS 12

Craig Federighi back on stage to introduce a new app called ‘Measure’ to measure objects in the real world

Measuring real world objects is easy with Measure.

Can automatically detect rectangles

Automatically detects measurements of photos

USDZ can be experienced in news articles as well

Works well with the web as well.

Some AR related updates on iOS 12. The first one is called ‘Measure’

Apple announcing "Measure" app, which makes it easy to get dimensions for AR. So your $1,000 iPhone X is now a 20 cent tape measure. #progress #WWDC

— Jeremy Kaplan (@SmashDawg) June 4, 2018

Abhay Parasnis from Adobe takes to the stage to explain USDZ

Adobe announces native USDZ support to Adobe Creative Cloud.

Familiar apps will be used to create new AR content

Indians, Indians everywhere**….** good to see

Craig Federighi finally comes to the new iOS 12 features: AR

Augmented reality

Partnered with Pixar to create a new file format for AR called USDZ

USDZ files can be shared over messages, mails and more.

Apple really has nothing new to show this year it seems

40 percent faster keyboard launches…. meh!

Is Android vs iOS really conclusive?

iOS 12 will be about performance

Faster and more responsive

iOS will be available on all the same devices as iOS 11

The largest base supported yet.

iOS vs Android. No competition really….

Craig Federighi takes to the stage to explain the new features of iOS 12

Updates are free

And all improvements are delivered via software updates

“We love the way customers rush to update their devices”

The mandatory jab at Android’s slow updates!!!

iOS Time……… Obviously it is iOS 12.

$100 Billion from developers???

“The App is the world’s largest app market place and we now welcome over 500 million visitors”

The money created by app developers now tops 100 billion dollars!

Tim Cook emphasizes on Swift and how easy the product is to use.

“it is the fastest programming language out there!” says Cook

Apple CEO, Tim Cook takes to the stage and welcomes the student developers

“We have developers from 77 countries”.

“We now have over 20 million Apple developers the world over”

And its show time! Aaaannnnd it starts off with an emphasis on developers.

While Microsoft’s Build 2018 attracts less of a consumer audience every year, Apple and Google are building their consumer audiences year on year thanks to more consumer facing products and software.

But 2018 also saw some good news for Apple when it won its case with arch rival, Samsung over smartphone patents

After nearly five days of deliberations, a US jury on 25 May said that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd should pay $539 million to Apple Inc for copying patented smartphone features, according to court documents, bringing a years-long feud between the technology companies into its final stages.

Apple was also hit with a class action lawsuit over its fault keyboard.

A class action lawsuit was filed against Apple in a federal court in California for allegedly using a flawed keyboard design in its MacBook variants since 2015 and deciding to go ahead with the design despite being aware of the flaw.

After severe backlash from customers, Apple finally issued an apology:

“About a year ago in iOS 10.2.1, we delivered a software update that improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. With the update, iOS dynamically manages the maximum performance of some system components when needed to prevent a shutdown. While these changes may go unnoticed, in some cases users may experience longer launch times for apps and other reductions in performance,” said Apple adding that replacing the older battery with a new one would bring back the performance to normal levels under standard operating conditions.

Apple has seen a rough start in 2018 when the company admitted to intentionally slowing down iPhones.

Benchmarking platform Geekbench ran tests to demonstrate that older iPhones do show a drop in single core scores after the iPhone 6s was updated from iOS 10.2.0 to 10.2.1 and with the iPhone 7, a similar drop was noticed when moving from iOS 11.1.2 to 11.2.0.

The event is about to begin at San Jose. Looks quite packed.

While we wait for the event to begin, here’s what we expect to see at this year’s WWDC 2018.

Nimish Sawant is at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center and he caught up with some developers at the crack of dawn just to get the best seats! Here’s what they were kicked about! 

We're only a few hours away from @Apple #WWDC2018 and @nimsaw caught up a few app developers in San Jose to find out what they're most excited about. #ARkit, #CoreML #Celebs #LessBugs #Networking is what's trending! pic.twitter.com/yWot5Ul5vb

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) June 4, 2018

The San Jose McEnery Convention Center is the biggest convention center in Silicon Valley at 550,000-square-feet and its loaded to the brim with developers at the moment.

Developers, Developers, Developers!! Everywhere you look at the @Apple #WWDC18 pic.twitter.com/GrevoDeDCt

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) June 4, 2018

And we are live from the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California!

A couple of hours to go got the @Apple #WWDC18 to begin, and the developers are being let in. We will be bringing you all the live updates from the venue. pic.twitter.com/bxmoVnmFqY

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) June 4, 2018

Welcome one and all to the LIVE blog of Apple’s annual WWDC 2018 event. We shall be providing you on the ground coverage of the event along with the latest updates. Apple is expected to make mostly software announcements and we can look forward to iOS 12, watchOS 5, macOS 10.14 and tvOS 12.