I hope that if the Health app is getting some attention this year, it means that it and the full Fitness app (with workout history) are coming to iPadOS and macOS, finally.
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Gurman: iOS 16 to Feature 'Significant' Improvements to Notifications, New Health-Tracking Features, But No Major Redesign
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Why wouldn't be easily turned off? You don't have to link them now.
I don't want texts on my ipad either. If I'm using it, it's usually because I'm reading or watching something and don't want to be bothered.
Texts on the mac are great, I see it quick, can fire off a quick response if need be, get back to working, without having to move or touch my phone.
Mark Gurman made all this public in his latest Bloomberg article - Apple Sets the Date for Another Virtual WWDC—Here’s What to Expect - April 10th
Now, what about the actual substance of the conference? Apple originally had big plans to use WWDC 2022 as the launch event for its long-in-the-works mixed-reality headset. But I wrote a few months ago that Apple would likely miss that date for the hardware’s debut and would instead announce the product at the end of this year or next year.
As far as I know, a full-blown introduction of the mixed-reality headset is still probably out of the question in June, but I am told that beta versions of iOS 16—codenamed Sydney—are chock-full of references to the headset and its interactions with the iPhone.
That indicates that the headset will launch during the iOS 16 cycle, which kicks off in June and will last until iOS 17 comes in the fall of 2023. But it may also suggest that Apple could preview some of its upcoming augmented and virtual reality software earlier. Perhaps we could even get a peek at the headset’s rOS, short for reality operating system.
In any case, there could be other hardware news. Apple is gearing up to launch some new Macs in the next few months. What better place to do so than WWDC? That’s the same venue where the Mac’s transition from Intel to Apple’s own chips was announced two years ago.
I’m told there are two new Macs coming around the middle of the year or early in the second half. One of those is likely to be the new MacBook Air. Other models in the works include an updated Mac mini and 24-inch iMac, as well as a low-end MacBook Pro to replace the aging 13-inch model. And let’s not forget that new Mac Pro and iMac Pro models are in development.
But let’s get back to the bigger focus of WWDC: software. Apple’s iOS 16 (Sydney), watchOS 9 (Kincaid), macOS 13 (Rome) and tvOS 16 (Paris) will obviously be the highlights of the conference.
On the iOS side, I’m looking for some fairly significant enhancements across the board, including an update to notifications and new health-tracking features.
I’m not expecting an end-to-end redesign of iOS’s interface, even though it hasn’t changed much since iOS 7 nearly a decade ago. But there might be a new iPadOS multitasking interface. The Apple Watch, meanwhile, may get major upgrades to activity and health tracking.
Of course, you can expect many more details on the software updates to trickle out over the next two months. There’s a long way to go before Tim Cook reaches the virtual WWDC stage.
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So likely Apple will be talking up about AR Creation tools in WWDC 2022
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https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/tools/
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One addition I can think of for Health would be the ability to log food directly in the Health app. The app right now is great for tracking calories out but has no native integration for calories in. Maybe they could focus on nutrition or something. I log my meals with another app but having native integration would be nice.
Agreed. Fixing HomeKit + Siri would be great. Their transcription is great, so no real good. reason for this.
iPadOS is lacking on the Pros. We need true backgrounding and a real macOS level Finder app.
Would be cool to have Terminal app and other macOS Pro apps.
I turn almost all of them off.
Most users are young tho.
i am waiting for sound correction(equalizer) per audio device instead of one setting for all devices. and i believe, all iPhone and iPad processors can handle 12band eq or even more
Notification channels like Android would be a start. Have apps not just push notifications but also force them to group them by type / channel and make that channel list known to the OS so the user can turn off annoying ones like ads. As it stands app developers have to provide said functionality in-app, which they barely do.
This is one of the changes I would certainly welcome, indeed.
Since the widgets changed on iOS 14 and they became just shortcuts to the app itself, I’ve been wanting them to be interactive again.
However, I’ve read you saying we need an iOS UI overhaul just because it ”looks like the same and it is boring”. Well, I have to disagree with you on that. An operating system doesn’t have to be constantly changing to “entertain” the customers with something new each year (or even every few years). An operating system, especially mobile ones, have to be reliable and just work, quickly, snappy and without issues.
And right now, the operating systems are reaching the maturity where they just need refinements and a few more features.
YES. I’m so tired of Apple's stubborn adherence to this bad layout idea. Home screen is still one area Android is better and Apple could fix that easily
Woah, don’t you think that’s going too far? I’ve never seen anyone here hit anyone that far below the belt
Waiting to see when we stop referring to iOS/iPadOS being the same for iPhones and iPads? They have the same builds, you can't keep this up if you want to focus more on iPads as running more like a computer. Its like you don't need to be able to use Safari on a IPad and be able to view a webpage either as a mobile webpage or desktop webpage do we? Also if they do come out with a new iPadOS multitasking interface you don't necessary want to that be part of iOS do we?
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At this point I’m just hoping the original HomePod receives a version 16 update.
Apple Music on the Mac is truly, genuinely awful software for music library management. It’s great for super casual Apple Music subscribers who just want to find one song or album they’re looking for, but the searching and organization features are god awful in it. You can’t even sort or filter the results of a search, or choose secondary sorting. I can’t even highlight multiple items to edit within a search. It’s so incredibly bad compared to iTunes.
I have only one wish from iOS 16. It is a smooth version like its predecessor iOS 6, which was released 10 years ago. Anyone who knows iOS 6 knows, I think it's the most perfect iOS version ever released. It was the pinnacle of classic iOS releases. iOS 16 should be the pinnacle of modern iOS releases.
iOS versions often carry the same mission as their predecessors, which came out with the same number 10 years ago. For example, the focus of iOS 14 and iOS 4 was almost the same. iOS 4 was a version that gave importance to folders and home screen design. In iOS 14, it appeared as an update that gave importance to folders and home screen design in the same way. With iOS 4, folders came, and with iOS 14, the application library. They have a broadly similar purpose.
I hope there will be a version like iOS 6 in this context in iOS 16. I don't remember using another smooth and near-perfect iOS version like iOS 6 for 10 years.
iOS versions often carry the same mission as their predecessors, which came out with the same number 10 years ago. For example, the focus of iOS 14 and iOS 4 was almost the same. iOS 4 was a version that gave importance to folders and home screen design. In iOS 14, it appeared as an update that gave importance to folders and home screen design in the same way. With iOS 4, folders came, and with iOS 14, the application library. They have a broadly similar purpose.
I hope there will be a version like iOS 6 in this context in iOS 16. I don't remember using another smooth and near-perfect iOS version like iOS 6 for 10 years.
True. iPadOS files app can't even format disks. Or eject them safely. What a joke.
Dark Mode was first on macOS, came to iOS a year later. Apple is also known for its design consistency across platforms.
I’m so used to using it on iOS and it not having it that I didn’t even bother to check. Thanks for letting me know!