A better lock screen with always on display would be nice.
watchOS could really use improvements to sleep tracking.
watchOS could really use improvements to sleep tracking.
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Gurman: Apple Preparing to Debut Enhanced Lock Screen, Windowing in iPadOS, Redesigned Mac Apps, and More at WWDC
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All of them can justify their existence.
Stickies are still used by so many people and serve a different purpose than it does now. It’s legacy, but beloved and some know it backwards and forwards.
TextEdit is much less formal and structured than Pages. Pages is template heavy and is almost exclusively RTF text versus the plain text handling in TextEdit. I don’t want to launch Pages to edit a plain text log file.
Not sure why there are so many around here who think consolidating iPad lines and Mac lines and now apps is just a swell idea? Is it an inability to deal with more than one or two things at once? I thought people around here were tech savvy and multi-taskers? Guess not.
This is exactly what we need. I’d also like the ability to have multiple timers running with the ability to save them by name with running history.
Yep. Sometimes it's better for several apps to be good at one thing than for one app to be okay at several things. It's pretty rare that the end user sees tangible benefits from consolidated apps.
Also, now I'll have nightmares about a Pages/TextEdit consolidation. Goodness, that'd be laughably awful.
I’m desperate for the windowing capabilities on iPadOS. But I don’t want it to lose its simplicity. So, hopefully it can be optional. But I just would like some flexibility. In fact, if they improve this, I will likely upgrade to a new iPad next year.
As someone who uses slide-over a lot, I’m really hoping that goes away. I’d like to see a windowed app behave like the quick note window. Free to move wherever, resizeable, and I can easy slide it off screen like a slide-over app. Maybe have multiple windows?
When connected to a external monitor, I’m hoping for a little more flexibility with it.
Of course, I’m also hoping this won’t be M1 exclusive. My 2020 iPad Pro feels like it still has at least 3-4 years left in it.
Timers also need to synchronise between all Apple devices, including HomePods.
Timers could initially be set to personal or silent so they only alert on a device you’re actively using or wearing, otherwise everything rings so someone in the household takes notice and tells you.
Ideally everyone would have an Apple Watch for silent haptic alerts but it’s not realistically going to happen.
I hope this year’s updates won’t be a snooze fest as last year. The way universal control was only interesting feature yet it delayed by months.
Stickies makes notes.
Notes makes notes.
That’s one too many apps that come built in with the only purpose being note taking.
Apple have removed plenty of apps over the years that serve no purpose, or who’s feature set has been duplicated with a newer application, why stop?
Automator certainly will be removed eventually, other apps should follow
Or at least give the option to delete.
I think my favorite feature of the last couple years is synchronization of Do Not Disturb across devices.
All the focus mode stuff though, I honestly wish I could just permanently disable somewhere in settings.
Just always/only have the single "moon toggle" is perfect for me.
All the focus mode stuff though, I honestly wish I could just permanently disable somewhere in settings.
Just always/only have the single "moon toggle" is perfect for me.
I know we love a good rumor, but who on the Apple software team is leaking, and why? These should in theory be the only secrets Apple can still keep because it’s all in-house.
It’s gone largely unnoticed, even amongst Smart Home enthusiasts, but Thread 1.3 adds a number of important features to Thread border routers including HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K (2nd gen).
- Thread over infrastructure (merging separate mesh partitions over Ethernet/Wi-Fi)
- TCPlp (full TCP feature set, should enable bulk transfers e.g. Nanoleaf essentials firmware updates without Bluetooth)
- Service registry (so components either side of the border router can discover each other efficiently)
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It’s possible no one is leaking, pretty much anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to public documents and that has paid attention to how Apple works could make up stuff like this.
For people who want multi-tasking, split-view and side-by-side view on the iPad, hooray that it exists.
But.
Plenty of people loved the simplicity of the early iPad, and are baffled by so many of the new features, and don't understand how to use them. PLEASE Apple make it possible to turn OFF these features to keep things simple.
I work on a daily basis with people in their 60s, 70s and 80s and they all struggle with accidentally entering into split view, or pop-overs. They don't understand it, and it gets in the way. It used to be optional, it is now mandatory. Yeuch.
But.
Plenty of people loved the simplicity of the early iPad, and are baffled by so many of the new features, and don't understand how to use them. PLEASE Apple make it possible to turn OFF these features to keep things simple.
I work on a daily basis with people in their 60s, 70s and 80s and they all struggle with accidentally entering into split view, or pop-overs. They don't understand it, and it gets in the way. It used to be optional, it is now mandatory. Yeuch.
@Floop
110% agree with you
The more stuff they add, the more I want to be able to turn a lot of it off -- especially for my older relatives that I help out who get totally lost and "caught" by multitasking stuff and swiping down/up all over to invoke different things.
110% agree with you
The more stuff they add, the more I want to be able to turn a lot of it off -- especially for my older relatives that I help out who get totally lost and "caught" by multitasking stuff and swiping down/up all over to invoke different things.
One that has caught even me is the "tab search" field in Safari
Very easy to mistake that for the normal URL field ... I've had more than a few older folks get caught there and they think the internet is broken and/or search isn't working!? "nothing is coming up?"
(because they are actually searching through 0 tabs)
One of the biggest reason people love Stickies is its almost nonexistent UI which allows them to organize numerous stickies across their desktop, wherever they like, without extra clutter, along with the ability to have differently colored windows, just like you can with real-life sticky notes.
While Notes does support multiple windows by double-clicking on an individual note, you cannot have multiple empty notes open simultaneously, and the smallest possible window in Notes (380×300) is about 70× larger than the minimum window size in Stickies (54×30). Type customization in Notes is very limited, and of course, you can't set a background color.
Also, Stickies is local to the machine out of the box — no need to fuss around with accounts or System Preferences or the app preferences to get to an “On My Mac” mode. If you don't want or need your notes synced to all your devices, it…just works. Imagine that.
Stickies are a wonderful translation of a real world concept that just works and makes sense for folks.
Horrorsome if true. The i(Pad)OS Settings app is a horrible mess. The macOS settings app defines the ease of use of the Mac. Sure, improvements can be made but that wouldn’t be cloning the iOS app.
There is not a single ported i(Pad)OS app om macOS that works and behaves as you would expect on a Mac. Stop porting this crap Apple, please. The Mac should be the benchmark, not i(Pad)OS!
Agree with you totally
When I see news like this, it really makes me wonder if Apple is just lost on what to do on which platform and why.
If windowing in iPadOS is indeed a thing, then we might finally get the iOS apps that are missing in iPadOS. Iirc, the main hesitation was the silly appearance of a giant calculator/weather app, etc.
Revamping System Preferences in macOS is a bit worrisome; they better not remove options.
Revamping System Preferences in macOS is a bit worrisome; they better not remove options.
I will hate that if it turns out to be true. Having to exit the app I am using to go into a completely different app to change a setting for the app I am already in is not something I will cheer.
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My dad struggles with the iPad after so many years of using Windows at his job before retiring. His use of Safari completely baffles me as I lead so many split window instances open it took me a full 30 seconds to swipe close each one. I’be shown him tabs, but that hasn’t caught on with him. He actually achieved some sort of mode that I didn’t even know existed on iPadOS. I do wish there was a way to keep a simpler mode (At Ease) and yet allow for more advanced users without splitting it into an Easy or Pro mode. Alas, I don’t think that is going to happen.