WWDC 2016 keynote: As it happened

“watchOS, tvOS, macOS, iOS: Four great platforms that become even more capable by working with you,” says Cook.

Looks like its a wrap! Tim Cook back on stage after that AV

Swift Playgrounds app will be available for free

Swift Playgrounds: Developer Preview, Public Beta in July and Shipping in Fall.

Swift Playgrounds also lets you learn Advanced coding as well

Swift Playgrounds: Lets you learn to code, using simple tutorials

“Swift Playgrounds will let you learn how to code. This makes it instantly accessible to millions across the world. We feel its the best way to teach people how to code” says Cook

New app for iPad – Swift Playgrounds!

Tim Cook is back on stage. Talking about Swift. More than 100,000 apps using Swift code. Swift is no. 1 language project on GitHub

Developer Preview for iOS 10 today; Public Beta: July; Free Upgrade for all users: This Fall

Great Features AND great privacy. says Fredrighi

Differential privacy – Uses crowd sourced learning while keeping user information private.

End to End Encryption in native apps. On-device intelligence. No user profiling. Differential privacy

Live Photos Editing, Split view in Safari on iPad, Notes collaboration

10 major features in iOS 10

Messages is open for Developers as well

You can react to individual messages in a group chat

Bubble effect lefts you choose between 5 effects

Handwriting recognition, digital touch, you can send a message which takes up the whole screen as well with Full screen effects

Animations on texts, photos to convey emotions, is a cool feature

Emojifying feature will let you highlight words which can be replaced with emojis. Just tapping the highlighted word, replaces it with images

You can take images from camera right from within Messages and sliding right with take you gallery

10. Messages: Most frequently used app on iOS. Rich links enabled in iOS 10. Video can play inline.

VoIP API which lets you see the caller on the lock screen for calling apps such as WhatsApp

Extension APIs, where third parties can let you know about third party phone spam calls

9. Phone: You can get voice mail transcription of your incoming calls

Home COntrol support on iPhone, iPad and now on the Watch as well

You can also give Siri voice commands. Home controls built right into your Control centre. You can also get video feed from your door camera on your lock screen when someone rings a bell

New app called Home, which will be there on your home page. It gives you a simple UI to adjust your HomeKit connected devices

8. HomeKit: Garage Doors, Thermostats, ACs, Cameras, Door locks: Every major maker of home accessories have anounced partnerships with HomeKit. Even home builders are onboard.

Breaking news notifications will be delivered to your lock screen

Apple News to get Subscriptions for magazines and newspapers

Top Stories, trending, All topics you follow, New topics

7. News: Apple has over 2000 publications in Apple News. 60 million monthly active users. News also gets an all new design

Radio is live in 100 countries. You can see upcoming shows, and features shows. Listen on demand. Listen to non-stop  music by going to Stations.

For You has a Discovery Mix to let you discover new music. there are also daily curated playlists.

Lyrics will be pulled in to the song data

Apple Music shows a simplified user interface. Library will be upfront – Downloaded music will also get a separate section

6. Music: 15mn paid subscribers. Apple music redesigned from the ground up

Apple Maps is open to developers. Make reservations using apps such as Open Table. Zomato gets a mention as well

Maps available on CarPlay as well.

5. Maps: All new design for Maps. Proactive maps. Slide up from bottom to see suggestions. Gives you restaurant recommendations. More information on navigation – traffic on route

5, 6, 7 will be demoed by Eddie Cue.

You get the option to change the mood in the slideshows to give you another Slideshow from the same trip

iPhone can automatically do slideshows of photos – which is pretty much most Android phones such as Sony, Samsung, HTC have been doing for years now. ‘Isn’t that great?’ asks Fredrighi. No, frankly it isn’t

Apple Photo update is taking features already seen on a lot of Android devices. But it adds a feature of relating albums based on people and location.

Cluster photos based on locations, scenes, people. Spot Trips (Auto Awesome on Google Photos), Highlight reels (there in Google Photos), Pull it together into an intuitive user experience – basically what Google Photos has been doing for a while now

Facial recognition in 2016?! C’mon Google Photos had that since 2013-14

4. Photos: See your photos on a map. Advanced computer vision – facial recognition to the iPhone. Locally on the device.

Siri has got a major update boost in iOS 10

Siri can do responses more intelligently. Siri can also offer contact information. Siri can also automatically create calendar event. Siri can also multilingual typing

Siri Intelligence to the keyboard. Deep learning  to give Intelligent suggestions

Send a WeChat to someone with a voice command. Book a Ride on Uber, Lyft. Photo search on apps like Pinterest. Map your Workouts or even send Payments via Square and AliPay. Do voice calling via Skype, Cisco etc.

2. Siri: Siri opened up to developers

3D touch to let you know notification details on apps by a hard press. Works with 3rd party apps as well.

Clear All notifications with a hard press. Control centre available from the bottom swipe – Swipe right to get a bigger music interface – Swipe right to get camera – Swipe left to get widgets

You can interact with notifications using 3D Touch – respond to messages from the lock screen. Animated status update from Uber demoed

1. User Experience: Redesigned lock screen, rich notifications, raise to wake and much more

iOS 10: Huge release for developers, biggest iOS release ever for users.

iOS time

macOS Sierra: Public Beta in July, Free upgrade to everyone in Fall

The PIP window can be resized and repositioned

Fredrighi demoing Siri on macOS Sierra, also showing off some Continuity features – Yes, again something Windows has already done a generation ago with Continuum and Cortana for desktop

Apple finally gets Siri to the macOS, generations after Microsoft got Cortana on the Windows desktop OS.

Siri is also coming to the Mac in macOS Sierra

Picture in Picture: You can watch videos while working on the side with the new PIP feature

Apple pay in these countries and more: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, China, Singapore, Switzerland and more countries

Apple Pay will come to the Web: “Now when you are shopping online you get a Pay with Apple Pay. Use Continuity using your iPhone with TouchID. It works with Apple Watch as well”

Optimised Storage: Get rid of files you’ll never use again, automatically

Universal Clipboard: Copy and paste works across devices 

iCloud Drive: All your documents and your desktop available everywhere

Auto Unlock: Will let you authenticate your Macbook to your Apple Watch

OS X is now called macOS Sierra

The name of the desktop operating system is now macOS

Craig Fredrighi on stage to talk about OS X – OS 10

tvOS coming this Fall

Dark Mode – lets you darken the background

Single Sign on: Sign in once in your Apple TV and you get access to all network apps

Live channels: Live Tune in just lets you give commands to the remote with voice

Now you can search movies by Topics in the new Siri for tvOS, says Cue

Apple TV Remote app updates: New version of the remote app for the iPhone. All features of the Siri remote, Touch for navigation, Siri for voice commands and uses phones gyroscope to play games

NBA 2K, Minecraft Story mode, Sketch Party – all coming to Apple TV

There are over 1300 video channels on Apple TV. Over 6000 native apps in 7 months.

Preview release available today, free upgrade this fall

“Response to Apple TV has been incredible” says Cue  while reading out CEO and game developers’ reviews

Support for SpriteKite and SceneKit, native crown control, speaker audio, inline video

Eddie Cue on stage to talk about tvOS

New API for developers, Apple Pay in third-party apps

Kevin Lynch back on stage, “WatchOS 3 is a giant step forward for you as developers”

Set smart notifications to remind you to breathe, turn the crown to set how long you want to breathe for, close your eyes and haptic feedback will guide you

New fitness app: Breathe

 “Time to stand” will be replaced with “Time to roll!” notification

Appple has worked with organizations dedicated to promoting physical activity for wheelchair users

Send your heart rate and smack talk with your voice

Introducing activity sharing in watchOS 3! Get an upclose look at the activity rings of your friends and family and even communicate with them! Smart Replies included!

You can communicate directly with the people you’re sharing with right through Messages

Share activity data with ‘Activity Share’ among friends and family

Medical ID is a new feature in watchOS 3 and will even know which emergency numbers to call in another country!

The SOS feature with the new watchOS 3.0 will work globally

SOS feature will send a message to your friends and family as well as your location

SOS feature on the Watch, press and hold on the side button to call 911

Workout is also easier to launch 

Apple adds edge-to-edge swipes to watchOS 3

Changing watch faces is a lot easy

Third party apps can now be on the watch’s dock, like Uber and Lyft

A new Minnie Mouse face !!

Swipe up from the bottom on Watch for a mini control center, like the iPhone

Seven times faster but it feels like a million times faster

Added a simple new watch face called ‘Numerals’ in watchOS

watchOS 3: Keep apps in memory, background refresh of data

Apple introduces Scribble to watchOS.

The event is under way. Tim Cook on stage. “Apple has 13 million developers and 2 million apps on the iTunes store

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Here’s what we are expecting from the WWDC 2016 keynote. Let us know your expectations in the comments section.

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