Last Monday evening, Apple broadcasthis WWDC 2021 opening presentation. During this event, the Californian firm announced the major new features of the next Apple OS: iOS 15, watchOS 8, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey. There were no hardware announcements. However, the keynote lasted more than 90 minutes and was full of demonstrations and explanations of the changes to come. But perhaps you were not able to attend the live broadcast or you were not able to follow our live text, or you would like to watch the presentation again, or some extracts from it. Hence the interest of this article listing different videos allowing you to catch up.
Below you can find the entire conference, a summary of it, but also videos highlighting a specific new feature. By the way, don't missour full conference summarydetailing all the announcements.
Relive the presentation: in full or in summary
Apple offers the full video of the keynote on its official YouTube channel, with the added bonus of paragraphs allowing you to easily navigate to points of interest: iOS, iPadOS, confidentiality, Health, etc.
The video is not short, count 106 minutes of viewing time. If you don't have that time available, you can thank MacRumors, which, as with every keynote, has published a condensed report of Apple's announcements. Result: less than 10 minutes of video (in English only unfortunately for those who do not master the language of Shakespear).
Excerpts from the presentation
The CNET Highlights YouTube channel broadcast excerpts from the conference highlighting certain new features unveiled by Apple. Practical, to calmly discover or rediscover the major improvements of iOS 15, iPadOS 15 or even macOS Monterey.
macOS Monterey and the Universal Control feature
One of the most stunning new features of macOS. This involves being able to use the same keyboard and mouse on multiple Macs and even an iPad, with support for a drag-and-drop file transfer function. The name of this function:Universal Control. Here it is detailed below among other changes to macOS Monterey.
The new Safari
Safari will see great improvements on iOS 15 and macOS Monterey. These include a design change, but also a tab group function, which seems very practical!
Live Text on iPhone
Live Text is a new feature that allows you to extract text from photographs taken on the internet or taken with your iPhone's camera. Big potential for this feature!
New developments regarding HomeKit and home automation more broadly
For the connected home, some welcome new features were mentioned, including the possibility for third-party manufacturers to take advantage of Siri, which will therefore no longer be exclusive to Apple devices.
What's new with watchOS 8?
On watchOS 8, we note advances in health, but also a new Portrait dial.
iPadOS 15 is not left behind
On iPad, multitasking is more powerful and some ergonomic improvements should be noted, including the appearance of a large format widget for the home screen.
The new special AirPods functions
AirPods gain accessibility features, for people with hearing impairments for example, with more precise voice targeting.
Apple Wallet and house key and ID upgrades
In the United States, Wallet will be able to hold a driver's license and other identification documents.
Le redesign d’Apple Plans
Apple's mapping application benefits from new 3D designs, in addition to a new night mode and better directions for road and pedestrian routes.
Improvements for Messages
The big new thing for Messages is the “Shared with You” function, which allows you to share content in Messages conversations, content that we will find in the applications in a dedicated section.
FaceTime and some great new features
FaceTime wants to catch up with the competition by welcoming a new mode for managing surrounding noise, but also the SharePlay function for sharing multimedia content during FaceTime calls.
That's it for the video conference.
If you want to know more about the announcements made on Monday, do not hesitate to consultour full summary of the keynoteand to follow us, we will continue to detail the different announcements in the coming days.
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