![]() ![]() You will be able to customize clock faces with more information from different apps. You will actually be able to use collections of photos to switch between the. I see a lot of people using that creatively. One of the cool things it is going to have is the ability to use photos as the background for a clock face. Now it is going to include some new features. Of course now there are three operating systems and there was a lot of talk about the next version of the Apple Watch operating system called Watch OS 2. It is going to be really interesting to see Apple's take on this kind of common app genre and whether or not this News app takes over from all the 3rd party apps that already do it. Then it will customize a little bit more as you select and read different things and you can also browse. It is basically a news aggregator not too different than a lot of things out there now like Flipboard will you will be able to select news sources or topics and it will show you news for today and you will be able to go through them. That is going to launch with only limited cities and they will just keep adding cities to it.Ī new app that was talked about a lot today is called News. ![]() The Maps app is going to have a whole new view called Transit which will have things like bus and subway schedules and be able to coordinate your movements there. For instance the Notes app is going to have some new features like formatting and the ability to have images and links embedded in Notes. The interesting thing for me was they didn't talk about iOS apps or Mac apps they just talked about apps meaning that most of these, I gather, are for both systems. Now the next part the Keynote dealt with apps. ![]() Looks like it works very similar to the way the Mac split screen view does. So the iPad era 2, of course, is going to have to have the processor power to be running two apps simultaneously. Sure enough there will be a split screen view that will be available only with the latest iPad. Many people have been predicting for a long time that we will be able to see more than one app at a time on the iPad. So you can search for something and find an item inside of an app that is not an Apple app, it is a 3rd party app if the developer supports it. There is also going to be some good hooks for developers to be able to hook into search. When you say do something with this it will refer to what you are currently looking at, an email, a message, a location on a map, something like that. Some of the stuff I liked was that Siri will now understand the word this a little bit better. ![]() Now a lot of usability features in iOS 9. Right now it will be available for developers and all will have the free upgrade in the Fall. Just like with El Capitan, iOS 9 will be available as a public beta later this summer. Now, of course, they also talked about iOS 9. Then we'll have it sometime this Fall and like all the recent versions of OS 10 it will be a free upgrade for everybody. Now El Capitan is going to be out in July as a public beta. But this split screen view looks rather interesting and pretty useful as well. You can do a full screen view now and you can have a desktop with a lot of apps. The ability to have this split screen view. Also some really cool new features in Mission Control. Also some neat things like being able to swipe do swipe gestures in mail. Some general stuff like the ability to use a lot of natural language when doing searches. It will include a lot of new usability features. The big reveal was the name of Mac OS 10.11. So the first part of today's announcements involved Mac OS 10. On today's episode let's run down some of the announcements from today's Worldwide Developers Conference Keynote. Check out WWDC 2015 Announcements: El Capitan, iOS 9, Apple Music at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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