The Most Exciting Features from the WWDC 2018 Keynote

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This year’s WWDC Keynote was all about software, and it had updates for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Here were my favorites.

iOS


Share back in photos
Siri shortcut integrations
Shortcut editor
Travel plans
Heading home
Screentime
Time limits
Allowances
Memoji
Personalized animoji
Group FaceTime with up to 32 people
Pivot directly from Messages to group FaceTime
Automatic workout detection, which is retroactive, and also works for stopping workouts
Lift to talk, no hey Siri
Walkie talkie
Siri shortcuts on Siri watchface


tvOS


Dolby Atmos
Zero auth


macOS


Mojave
Dark mode
Xcode in dark mode
Desktop slowly changes during the day
Desktop stacks
Gallery view
Video screen grabs
Continuity camera
News to the Mac
Voice memos to the Mac
Voice memos in cloud
Shutting down share and comments to avoid tracking
Avoiding fingerprinting by looking like everyone else
New mac app
0365 on the way
CreateML with custom data you can mess with in code playgrounds
UI kit iOS apps on Mac

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Thank you,

Daniel