As Apple’s Craig Federighi explained, your Mac (or any other device using Find My) will still be able to send out a secure Bluetooth beacon that is end-to-end encrypted and anonymous.Īctivation Lock makes your Mac “far less attractive to thieves.” This already existed for iPhones and iPads, but now it’s coming to Macs. Even better, it can locate Apple devices that are offline. Basically, Find My uses other people’s devices to triangulate your lost device. “Find My iPhone” and “Find My Friends” have now been combined into one feature, simply called “Find My.” It’s available on both Macs and iOS devices. Apple’s focus on privacy continues to be apparent - your voice commands are always processed locally on your Mac. As expected, the feature leverages Siri, Apple’s voice-activated personal assistant. The feature works in both wired and wireless modes, meaning, for the latter, you can kick back in your chair and fiddle with the document or file you have open on your computer, but right in hand on an iPad.Īpple is now letting you use voice control for accessibility. “Sidecar” lets you use your iPad as a second display for your Mac. The OS will become widely available in the fall. The Catalina OS beta is available today, and public seeds will be available in July. While upgrading your computer’s OS is a universally painful experience, Catalina has a whole slew of new features intended to mitigate some of the torture of upgrading. The new macOS 10.15 is called Catalina in keeping with Apple’s theme of naming its desktop operating systems after California landmarks. Read all about Apple's announcements below. The iPad now has its own operating system, iPad OS, and is getting many long-awaited features, including the ability to use an iPad as a second display for your Mac, multi-window capability, and thumb drive support.Īpple also announced new apps for the Apple Watch, including a period-tracking app called “Cycle Tracking” and a Noise app that detects the decibel level of a person’s surrounding environment and warns them when it’s dangerous for their ears.Īnd as privacy scandals have rocked Facebook, Google, and Amazon in the past year, Apple emphasized its focus on user privacy throughout today's announcements, including the security on its Maps app, the ways it won't share your data with developers, and how its home security product processes video on-site rather than in the cloud.Īll the developers can download the betas today a public version of the beta will be available in July. On Apple’s mobile devices, major updates are coming via the new iOS 13 operating system, and on desktop computers via macOS Catalina. Apple announced dozens of new features at today’s WWDC keynote: a slew of privacy-focused settings, a dark mode, a $6,000 high-performance Mac Pro (the stand itself is an extra $1,000), an iPad that's better for multitasking via a new dedicated operating system, and.
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