After two years of purely digital WWDC conferences, developers and journalists were back live in California on Monday when Apple CEO Tim Cook presented the innovations for iPhone, iPad, Mac computers and the Apple Watch computer watch.
The new iOS 16 can do that
On the iPhone, the new operating system iOS 16 brings, among other things, more options for personalizing the lock screen with so-called widgets for functions such as displaying the weather forecast. Smartphones with the Google Android operating system have long been able to display widgets on the lock screen. Apple will also offer developers a live interface, which can be used to display the arrival time of a ride service or the status of a game on the lock screen in real time, for example.
In the Messages app, iOS 16 makes it possible to edit messages later or undo sending.
The iPhone maker also announced that it would allow purchases through installment payments. The offer will apply wherever Apple’s payment system Apple Pay is accepted. Users could split sums of money into up to four separate payments – without interest or fees. In the Corona crisis, the business with installment payments (buy now, pay later – BNPL) boomed, but in view of rising interest rates and high inflation, reports of repayment problems by individual customers are now increasing.
Apple’s announcement that it would better align its software to the needs of car manufacturers and better integrate it into the dashboard also attracted attention. For the first time, the application can display information about speed, direction and fuel information. Ford plans to use the new software and equip cars with it from next year, Apple said.
The operating system iOS 16 – the new functions:
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new chip
Apple continues to add in-house processors for its computers. The presented next generations of the Macbook Air and Macbook Pro laptops will be the first to receive the new M2 processor.
With the new processor, the chip system should offer more power than Apple’s first M1 chip, even with the same power consumption. Among other things, the M2 has a quarter more transistors, as the responsible Apple manager Johny Srouji emphasized at the start of the WWDC developer conference. With the M1, Apple turned its back on processors from the industry giant Intel and brought all of its devices from the iPhone to the Mac onto a technological basis. Experts praised the efficiency of the Mac models with Apple chips, and the chip group Qualcomm Intel now wants to take more shares in the PC market.
The Apple keynote in the video:
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