This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I chased a giant ball that wasn’t really there with a friend. I watched someone puppet a hovering sun with their face, and speak through its mouth. I sat through sessions where Apple employees discussed the importance of …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Four years in, the Apple Watch is still an accessory to the iPhone. But it’s starting to find its own way. WatchOS 6, announced at Apple’s WWDC this week, adds a native Watch App Store, streaming audio, more native apps and better Siri …
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“Apple builds things that people want to buy.” Seems like an obvious sentiment, coming from the executive who leads software development at one of the world’s most successful tech companies. But that comment underscores why Craig Federighi spent so much time highlighting new privacy features in the operating systems that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac at the start of …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I’m scrambling around a wooden floor, trying to fend off a giant virtual ball with my iPad Pro. It’s a bowling alley, but it feels like a basketball court. A crowd cheers. Eli faces off across from me, pushing his iPad Pro forward, launching …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The mobile version of Lightroom is going to get a big step closer to its PC-based big brother with Apple’s decision to let iPhones and iPads connect to storage systems like flash memory cards and external drives. Lightroom, Adobe’s photo editing and cataloging …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose on Monday and threw a lot of new stuff at us, including a Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, iOS 13 with a dark mode, MacOS Catalina, an operating system just for the …
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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 known for slickly produced product launches and, in Steve Jobs‘ time, a singular masterful showman unveiling groundbreaking products including the iPhone and the MacBook Air. But WWDC is when the company lets its hair down and gets geeky with its developers. I finally got …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At $5,999, Apple’s new Mac Pro is quite the investment for creators out there. Apple wants to ease you in, literally letting you visualize your new life with the Mac Pro and $4,999 Pro Display XDR monitor by creating a 3D render you can position …
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Apple’s continued push for privacy control went further than Monday’s WWDC announcement of the new sign-in with Apple offering. In a less publicized update, the tech giant also adjusted its App Store guidelines. Among the new updates, Apple revealed that apps designed for kids or in the “kids” category of the App Store can no longer “include third-party advertising or analytics …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With its Sign In with Apple — an alternative to single sign-on services offered by rivals Facebook and Google, unveiled at the company’s WWDC keynote — Apple says it’s offering a new way to vouch for your identity with your favorite apps or services. But …
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