WWDC 2018: everything we saw at Apple's new operating system launch

June 5, 2018

Apple presented the new versions of its operating systems for this year, in which several new features were added, which are quite useful. In this text, we will briefly introduce you to Apple's new operating systems, summarizing everything we saw at yesterday's keynote at the start of this year's WWDC.

iOS 12

As usual, the presentation could not miss the new iOS, iOS 12, which will be "worn" on iPhones and iPads. With iOS 12, apps will open 40% faster, the keyboard will appear 50% faster and the camera will launch 70% faster. Before yesterday's presentation, we knew Apple's intentions to focus on the performance and stability of its operating system, without adding many new features. However, some additions and changes, were made. Let's take a brief look at them:

ios 12

New Measure application for measuring surfaces and automatically locating the dimensions of objects.
ARKit 2.0 with the ability to share our experiences, improved face detection and more.
A major addition to Apple CarPlay, which will support third-party maps (Waze, Google Maps).
Improvements were made to "Shares", Books (iBooks became Apple Books) and other applications.
Improved "Do Not Disturb" feature for the evening hours, grouping of notifications and detailed tracking of the usage we do on iPhone - iPad.
New Animoji characters, display of new Memoji to represent our face the way we want.
iPhone X gestures on iPad. Now, swipe down from the top right side of the iPad screen to bring up Control Center.
iPhone X can now accept a second face in Face ID.
New auto-complete function for single-use security codes (4-digit, etc.) for greater security.
New Wallpaper for iPhone and iPad.
Major improvements to Siri.
Option to enable/disable automatic iOS updates.
USB Restricted Mode is now set to one hour instead of the seven days we had originally read about.
FaceTime, supports up to 32 people in one chat session.
Easier closing of apps on iPhone X

Which devices does it support?

iPhone X
iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
iPhone 7
iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 6s
iPhone 6s Plus
iPhone 6
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone SE
iPhone 5s
12.9-inch iPad Pro 2nd generation
12.9-inch iPad Pro 1st generation
10.5-inch iPad Pro
9.7-inch iPad Pro
9.6-inch iPad
iPad Air 2
iPad Air
iPad 5th generation
iPad mini 4
iPad mini 3
iPad mini 2
iPod touch 6th generation

WatchOS 5

Apple also unveiled the new version of watchOS, watchOS 5. The key features are:

New challenge mode between friends regarding weekly performance in various exercises with real-time score updates.
Walkie-Talkie function with which we can talk to our loved ones whenever we want, just like with the old walkie-talkies.
Automatic exercise detection.
Activate Siri with the lift of your wrist.
Launch the Podcasts application and choose to configure the Control Center.

tvOS 12

We've also seen new features in version 12 of tvOS that take the capabilities of Apple TV 4K even further. The new features are:

tvos 12

Support for Dolby Atmos.
New screensaver about the Earth.

macOS 10.14 Mojave

Of course, the presentation could not be missing the fresh version of macOS 10.14, which this year was named "Mojave". The new macOS brings new changes and new features. These are:

New Dark Mode for the entire operating system.
Redesigned Mac App Store.
New "Home" application.
New applications: "Shares", "News" and "Voice Memos".
APFS: the Apple file system, supports HDD hard drives.
Enhancing user security by automatically "filtering" websites that try to "steal" personal data, since there will be a corresponding notification for the acceptance of any request.
Dynamic Desktop mode with which the operating system shades change at specific times.

Which devices are supported?

MacBook (Early 2015 or newer)
MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or newer)
Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer)
iMac (Late 2012 or newer)
iMac Pro (2017)
Mac Pro (Late 2013, mid 2010 and mid 2012 with Metal-compatible GPUs).

Closing

For a few hours now we've been testing the new iOS 12. As a first image (and as a first developer beta version) the OS is pretty smooth. It is understandable that there are some problems, which will be solved with the next test versions. We should note that finally the iPhone 5s is properly supported and is the first Apple device to surpass 5 years of upgrades.

The new additions are quite functional, making the user experience much easier. We expect Apple this year to emphasize the smoothness part of iOS, something we didn't see happening much in version 11 last year.