This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple on Monday introduced the new Portraits watch face feature, which really makes faces in portrait-mode pictures pop when they’re used as watch faces on the Apple Watch. Photos of people’s faces taken in portrait mode are the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. WWDC21 is happening — watch now. Apple’s big event kicked off Monday with a virtual keynote at 10 a.m. PT. CEO Tim Cook and team are likely to announce iOS 15, a new M2-chip MacBook Pro and new versions of software for most Apple …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s Wallet app is getting a big upgrade in iOS 15. At Apple’s WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple announced that it will be adding support for hotel keys and driver’s licenses to help ditch more physical cards. Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s upcoming MacOS Monterey software will add a new low-power mode to extend your battery life. It’s just like what your phone already offers, but for your laptop instead. Apple showed the feature briefly at its WWDC developer conference on Monday, part of …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. WWDC21 starts Monday June 7 at 10 a.m. PT and Apple is expected to preview the next versions of iOS and iPadOS (likely called iOS 15 and iPadOS 15), I hope the new software for the iPhone 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max and the pro …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has announced that as part of the update to iOS 15, FaceTime will offer spatial audio to make people’s voices appear to come from their position on screen, during its annual WWDC keynote. The feature is designed to make FaceTime “more natural, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is pulling more information out of photos: its new Live Text feature coming to iOS 15, announced at its virtual WWDC developer conference, looks like a variation on Google’s clever computer vision smarts baked into Lens. The feature will recognize text in …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With intense competition in the messaging app market, it stands to reason that Apple would introduce some new features to its homegrown iMessage service at WWDC 2021 to keep ahead of its rivals. For the second year running, WWDC is an online event …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s WWDC events are always software-driven spectacles. Given that they’re targeted towards developers, that makes sense. With the rare exception of the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR in 2019, most recent WWDCs have kept the focus on what’s coming next in platforms …
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Have you been thinking of a shiny upgrade since Apple’s Spring Loaded event? Are you stuck on whether the 13-inch MacBook Air or 24-inch iMac is better for you? After all, for many years we referred to the old Intel-powered smaller iMac “a MacBook on a stand.” They were both entry-level devices that cut features and sometimes had slower processors. I …
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