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00:07Hey, what's up, guys?
00:09I'm Khabib Hd here, and today was Apple's online-only WWDC 2020, the Worldwide Developer
00:17Conference where they, of course, typically have a lot to say about software.
00:22There's sometimes some hardware surprises.
00:24There was no hardware this year, but they did have some good announcements.
00:27There's some cool new features, and there was a bigger announcement at the end.
00:32But first, can I just say, as a video nerd, the production was A+.
00:37I was kind of wondering leading up to it, how would Apple do an online-only WWDC keynote?
00:44They've been the gold standard for live events for years, and we've seen that excellence,
00:48but now that they can't have people there, will they still do it onstage like that, but
00:53with nobody clapping?
00:55Would it be kind of awkward?
00:56But they nailed it.
00:57Essentially, it was a prerecorded presentation, so it was a little more dynamic with some
01:02varied locations around Apple campus, some variety of presenters, same style, but they
01:08kept up the pacing and kept down the awkward jokes, and they still got to flex their production
01:13muscle a little bit with some pretty wild, over-the-top, but still tasteful transitions
01:19thanks to some drone work.
01:20I don't know if the Apple team watches these recap videos ever or even cares what people
01:24think of it, but bravo, bravo.
01:28So it started, it kicked off with iOS 14, and there's some new features and some fresh
01:34new looks, and there's a sort of a theme to it.
01:40Don't worry, you'll pick up on it.
01:41So first off, in the iPhone, there's what's called the app library, basically an app drawer
01:45that's organized by categories, recently added, etc., helps you see everything in one place
01:50instead of having to swipe, swipe, swipe through all of your pages of apps.
01:53And what I thought was nice is now, since you have that all app view, you can actually
01:58hide some of those extra pages of apps that you don't need just sitting over there.
02:03So you go into what they called, I swear they called it on stage, jiggle view.
02:06I just go into jiggle mode.
02:08And then tap the dots at the bottom, and then just uncheck the pages that you don't want
02:12to see anymore.
02:13Nice.
02:14Then they also added widgets to the home screen.
02:17So they're taking them out of the today-only view on the side, and you can put those widgets
02:23anywhere on your home screen.
02:24Well, actually, not quite anywhere on the home screen.
02:26I still think they're pinned to the top.
02:28So you can't truly put them anywhere on the whole grid, like free placement, like a certain
02:33other OS with widgets.
02:35But nevertheless, widgets are welcome.
02:37They're rich.
02:38They have plenty of information in them.
02:39Plus there's this new smart stack widget, which essentially changes what widget it is
02:44throughout the day.
02:45So it starts off as like your calendar widget in the morning, but through the day as things
02:49happen or as it knows what you want to do, it'll switch to your news briefing during
02:53the day, or maybe turns into a summary of your fitness activity in the afternoon.
02:57Like, hey, get a workout in.
02:58So home screen customization, an app drawer, widgets on the home screen.
03:05Just stop me if you've seen this before.
03:07They also added picture-in-picture video support much more generally, and that's something
03:11that's been sorely missed for a while in iOS.
03:14That's been in other OSes.
03:16And then Siri has a UI overhaul.
03:18It's not full screen anymore, but it's a much smaller portion along the bottom of the screen
03:23now.
03:24You know, kind of like the Google Assistant with, I don't know.
03:27It's kind of like Android crawled so iPhone could run.
03:30But for real, Siri should have way more answers in her knowledge graph now.
03:34So she can hopefully answer way more questions instead of just telling you, here, I looked
03:40that up for you, or here's what I found.
03:41And then there's a few more things like a new translate app that they're adding, which
03:45will hopefully let you have conversations back and forth in different languages.
03:50You know, if only there was some other industry standard translate app I could compare that
03:54to.
03:55Okay, I'll stop.
03:56And then there's also something called App Clips, and they basically let you interact
03:59with small parts of apps that you don't even have installed, and it'll plug into Apple
04:04Pay and sign in with Apple and everything else, and you can really quickly do stuff
04:09that you couldn't do without that app, and they've made it easy for developers to build
04:12in.
04:13And then you have, okay, Android's instant apps.
04:16Basically the theme, of course, is we're going to see a lot more overlap with these two mature
04:20OS's, iOS and Android.
04:23It's just funny that so many of these new features in iOS 14 have been around since
04:29like the beginning of Android, but that's not to say there weren't some other features
04:32that weren't in Android, and hey, maybe they should copy these features.
04:37In the messaging app, for example, you'd be able to pin conversations to the top, and
04:41they added inline replies in group chat and mentions in a thread, so you can have a group
04:46chat that only sends you notifications when someone mentions your name, kind of like Slack.
04:50That's pretty sweet.
04:51Apple Maps has now added a couple new countries and a dedicated cycling mode for when there's
04:56bike routes, and also a new EV routing mode, where it knows, once you tell it, what type
05:01of electric car you have, and then can route you along the way where you have compatible
05:06chargers for your car.
05:08That's something Google Maps should add.
05:09And then underrated, CarPlay gets a nice fresh UI overhaul with wallpapers.
05:14A good wallpaper just really sets your mood for the day, not gonna lie.
05:17But maybe the most impressive demo of them all was using the iPhone as car keys.
05:23So the first car that's gonna be compatible with this is the 2021 BMW M5, which they had
05:28there, and there'll be more cars in the future compatible with this, but it will literally
05:31use NFC to turn your phone into your car keys to unlock the car and then dock it and start
05:37up and drive away.
05:38So on the one hand, it's like, oh, great, okay, if I lose my phone, now I also lose
05:41my car keys.
05:42But on the other hand, if I lose my phone, I was already losing my wallet, my phone,
05:48my camera, my communicator, I might as well add car keys to that list, I guess.
05:53So then next up was iPadOS 14, and that got a lot of the same improvements you saw with
06:00iOS.
06:01So the new widgets with the customizations, Siri is now in the bottom corner.
06:05So again, it's not taking up the whole screen to tell you that it's gonna look for something.
06:09Now when calls come in, they don't take up the entire screen too, just another small
06:13notification, thank God.
06:15And there's a smaller universal search bar, you know, it's a lot of the same stuff we
06:19saw with the iPhone.
06:20But some of the next level stuff came with the Apple Pencil.
06:24So Scribble lets you handwrite in any text field, and any text you write or take notes
06:28in will automatically be converted to text that you can then copy and paste into other
06:33places and search with universal search.
06:36Super powerful OCR, really useful, kind of similar to what we saw with the Galaxy Note.
06:41But of course now, it's all on your iPad and the iPhone and the Mac.
06:46Another fun one, you can draw a simple shape and then pause at the end, and it'll automatically
06:51draw a perfect version of that shape.
06:53One thing that I tweeted about during the keynote that I think got a lot of attention,
06:56but it's really one of those examples of why Apple's ecosystem is so important to them
07:01is because they have this integration where it's a new AirPods feature, and if you're
07:05listening to AirPods and you have your iPhone out, it can tell now with iOS 14 when you
07:10put down your iPhone and pick up your iPad, and it'll switch your AirPods audio straight
07:16away to whatever you start doing on that iPad.
07:18And if you put down the iPad and start using the Mac, it'll know that too and switch your
07:22audio, all of that automatically.
07:25That's the kind of stuff you look forward to.
07:26Oh, and another one of those things that sort of slept under the radar, but it was on that
07:30slide that they put at the end of some of the sections where there's some stuff they
07:33didn't get to talk about.
07:35And that is you'll be able to set a default email and browser app on the iPad and the
07:42iPhone.
07:43Finally, again, this has been something you could do on other OS's, but hey, Gmail as
07:48a default, Chrome as a default, you can now actually do that.
07:53I'll probably do a sort of a roundup of the best features of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.
07:57The betas are out now.
07:59You can grab them right now.
08:00I probably will as soon as I'm done shooting this.
08:02But similar to what I did with Android 11, maybe leave a thumbs up below if you're interested
08:06in seeing a video like that.
08:07I feel like a lot of people are just interested in seeing how the widgets will actually work,
08:11but let's move on because they moved on to watchOS 7.
08:16This is a lighter update.
08:17They had some new features.
08:18You can now do watch face sharing, so you can share via messages to contacts or to social
08:24media if you want to share your watch face and you can now do multiple complications
08:28from one app, which is nice, but it's still not a totally custom third party watch face
08:33like we want.
08:34Oh, and there's also now, this is the most 2020 thing ever, automatic hand washing detection.
08:40As you start washing your hands, it hears with the microphones the sound of soap and
08:45water and will start a countdown timer and won't stop until you get to 20 seconds encouraging
08:51you to wash your hands properly.
08:53This is one of those things we're going to look back at like, wow, what a time to be
08:57alive.
08:58But the biggest feature for sure on the new Apple watchOS is sleep tracking.
09:02This is something we kind of wondered about since the Apple watch first came out.
09:06It's one of those big features other fitness bands had.
09:09There's not going to be sleep tracking on the Apple watch, which brings up the question,
09:13when do you charge it?
09:14And I think the answer unofficial, maybe officially, but the answer is in the morning.
09:18So if you wear the Apple watch all day, you typically get about two hours of two days
09:22of battery life with it.
09:24So you wear it all day, then you wear it all night.
09:26It tracks your sleep.
09:27The screen is off.
09:28It can wake you up with a haptic vibration so you don't wake up other people around you.
09:33And then you charge it like briefly for like a half an hour in the morning, and then you
09:38put it back on and you start your day with a full battery.
09:40I think that's how it should work, or you could just not have it track your sleep if
09:45you're not into that.
09:46All right, the biggest update in my, well, many people's opinions, but the biggest update
09:49from WWDC, macOS Big Sur.
09:54So this is macOS 11.
09:56I don't know if you caught that during the keynote, but we've had macOS 10.x.x for a
10:00while now.
10:01This is macOS 11, and it is the biggest change since macOS 10 basically started.
10:07And it's mostly a design overhaul, and I have mixed feelings about it because I like some
10:13of it, and I just don't like some other parts.
10:15Remember when I said a good wallpaper sort of sets your tone for the day?
10:19I think the new wallpaper kind of, I'll link it below, sure, I think it kind of masks some
10:25of the things that I don't like so much.
10:27First of all, there's way more rounded corners, way more transparency with windows and menus,
10:33way more variation in textures.
10:35I don't like the rounded corners on everything, but I'm cool with the rest of that.
10:40Then there's a new dock with new icons, and this I have to do a double take at.
10:43I do not like a lot of these new icons, and I think it's something about the shading or
10:48the shadowing that they added.
10:50The uniformity and size, that is great, but just looking at the icons by themselves, like
10:55the Finder icon, the FaceTime icon, I just, I don't know, looks kind of weird to me.
11:00Maybe let me know what you think.
11:02I don't hide my dock.
11:03You can't see it over here, but it's always on the side there.
11:07And this is probably one of those things we'll get used to in two weeks of having it, but
11:12maybe this will make me finally hide my dock.
11:14I don't know, looks kind of weird.
11:16There's also a new quick settings and notification center that really struck me because it really
11:21looks like it's modeled after the iPad, which also makes it feel like it would work better
11:26with touch than a mouse.
11:28Now I don't use the notification center in my daily use that often, but the inspiration
11:33here is pretty clear, and that is a big change for people who actually do use this often.
11:38But again, most of that is visual changes, but that brought us up to the big announcement,
11:43which is the big transition.
11:45So Apple did in fact use WWDC 2020 to announce that they will be transitioning the Mac from
11:53Intel silicon to Apple's own custom silicon.
11:58This isn't really a surprise.
11:59We sort of saw this churning in the background and we knew it was coming, but it's a big
12:04deal.
12:05You see, Apple has had their own silicon in some of their products for a little while
12:09now.
12:10It's in the Apple watch, but we've seen the type of impressive performance they can get
12:14out of an iPhone.
12:16Pretty good.
12:17Then we saw the type of impressive performance they can get out of an iPad.
12:20Best in class, better than a lot of laptops.
12:23So now we're expecting to start seeing the type of performance we can get out of the
12:28thermal architecture of a laptop and a desktop.
12:33Now there's upsides to this and downsides.
12:36The upside is of course with their own chips in these devices, you can expect next level
12:41performance that you can unlock.
12:42And it's also clearly a huge advantage for Apple to control their own destiny when it
12:46comes to performance updates and features instead of waiting for and relying on Intel.
12:52But on the other side of the coin, there now has to be a transition period because as a
12:57developer, I mean, this is a developer conference.
12:59You now have this choice weirdly between optimizing for Intel Macs or optimizing for Apple silicon
13:08Macs, whatever they call them.
13:09Because for a while, these two things will both exist at the same time.
13:13Now Apple talked about this at length on stage.
13:15This is why they talked about smoothing it as much as possible with Xcode and a universal
13:20binary that works on both Intel based Macs and Apple silicon.
13:24But there is probably a brief moment in time where some apps work better on Intel and some
13:29apps work better on Apple's chips.
13:31And you have to make your choice of which Mac to buy accordingly.
13:34Now Craig Federighi on stage said he expects this transition period to last about two years.
13:41Seems reasonable.
13:42And he also said that they still have some more Intel Macs in the pipeline coming up.
13:47And to also expect the first Apple based Mac, what is it called?
13:53Apple silicon based Mac.
13:54The first one of those will be coming out by the end of this year, 2020.
13:59But yeah, I'm super curious what sort of things that will unlock for Apple as far as performance
14:04when they make their own chips.
14:05Like I'm imagining in a couple years, a Mac Pro just being so sick, having all the thermal
14:11headroom in the world, or even just a MacBook Pro that doesn't thermally throttle because
14:16they're so much better at that architecture than Intel has been.
14:20But you know what?
14:21That is about it.
14:22That wraps it up for what we saw at WWDC.
14:25Again, we'll take a second look at those features in iOS and iPadOS.
14:29But fun fact, we'll also be having Craig Federighi as a guest joining me on the Waveform
14:35podcast this week.
14:37So I will ask, leave in the comments below what you want to ask, what you want us to
14:41talk about, what sort of clarification or specific questions you might have, and Craig
14:45and I will talk about it.
14:46Until then, thanks for watching.
14:47Catch you guys in the next one.
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