Apple WWDC 2018: iOS 12, macOS Mojave & More

Apple's worldwide developers conference just drew to a close, and here is a quick rundown of everything that was announced today -
  • iOS 12 update with many under the hood performance improvements, redesigned Stocks, and Apple Books apps, and an updated Photos app with facial recognition features that brings sharing suggestions for people detected in the shot.
    • Third-party navigation support in CarPlay.
    • Improved notification control with grouped notifications and granular do not disturb modes (called Quiet notifications)
    • Updated digital well-being features that track summary of user activities (opening apps, duration etc.) and set time limits
    • New parental controls to monitor and restrict usage (apps used, for how long, downtime and blocking inappropriate content) via Allowances
    • New Animojis (including Animoji of yourself, called Memoji) and effects in Messages camera.
    • Workflow integration (sort of!) with a new Shortcuts app that lets users track their weight, ETA to home, among others.
    • Group FaceTime with up to 32 people!
    • SMS one-time passcodes will appear automatically as AutoFill suggestions in Safari/apps.
    • ARKit 2.0 with multiplayer support that allows two or more people to share data (using a new iOS zero compression, unencrypted zip archive file format called USDZ) to see the same object or play the same game within a virtual environment.
    • A new augmented reality-based Measure app that makes it possible to measure objects and walls in real time.
  • watchOS 5 with new health and fitness features, walkie-talkie like capabilities to talk to one another through Apple Watch, and view web-pages (!).
  • Apple TV (tvOS) update with Dolby Atmos support.
  • macOS Mojave with dark mode, improved screenshot features, redesigned Mac App Store, new Apple News, Stocks and Voice Memos apps ported from iOS, dynamic desktop wallpaper, ability to block social networks like Facebook from tracking you across the web using "like" buttons on Safari and group files on Desktop into Stacks.
  • Boasts of 20 million registered developers on iOS, collectively making about US$ 100 billion in revenues, with the App Store bringing in some 500 million visitors per week.

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