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hey Siri are there gonna be any hardware announcements at WWDC today so I'd like to take a moment to briefly address this question no of course not hey what is up guys I'm cabby HD here and this year just like every year we get Apple's WWDC now being a worldwide developer conference this is not like an iphone launch this isn't like a hard word product launch or anything like that this is mainly just Apple talking to developers about software so you know watch OS Mac OS iOS all that good stuff but like every year we hope for like some nuggets just a little bit of hardware to be thrown in there like I think last year at this we got the sneak peek of the iMac Pro and we got home pot but we're out here for 2018 and the main keynote has come and gone and there is zero new hardware for this event so this is all software I already kind of gave my sort of first impressions and ranted live on Twitter but for the sake of putting everything in one place or in case you missed it and don't want to watch the 3-hour keynote this is the top 5 announcements of WWDC 2018 so putting them in order is really easy number 5 is the most boring one Apple TV no offence Apple TV but basically TV OS just got a couple of minor updates nothing groundbreaking they got Dolby Atmos support for better surround sound audio they also added some live sports and news channels as a bonus they tossed in a couple new video screen savers which are already majestic to begin with but they have some new ones that were shot from the International Space Station so from Earth looking down in beautiful 4k HDR they look magnificent so that's really cool to see I still have to bring up though that you can't watch YouTube in 4k on the Apple TV 4k as beautiful as those new International Space Station videos are that would have been an awesome thing to see I know there's a sort of a stalemate there between Google and Apple but frustrating anyway number 4 is augmented reality and this actually felt like a pretty big push from Apple this year especially in iOS of just seeing a are all over the place they announced a new file format called USD X which basically it already has support from the Adobe cloud and it's a way for sharing AR experiences so you can embed AR experiences you can share them you can put them in apps put them in websites there's a bunch more AR kit improvements from last year so they made some major strides it's already at 2.0 and they announced a new app which is it's not gonna come default with iOS called the measure app and it's literally an augmented reality ruler just lets you point your camera at things and measure them on the screen it's but we've all been waiting for for a while actually a lot of us weren't waiting for it was kind of a thing in the App Store already our IP to all of those apps but I thought it was pretty cool just literally dragging along lines in real life getting measurements of how long they are and how tall things are I'm definitely gonna start measuring how tall people and buildings and all the random things are with this it seems really cool and then possibly the most technically impressive you so they are that they showed would be simultaneous sharing of an AR experience between two devices at the same time that's like the least sexy way of explaining that but you already know what AR looks like it's mixed reality you can have two different devices looking at two different angles of the same thing at the same time and interacting with it and the demo they did on stage is pretty incredible was just with Legos but there was a whole lot going on I also got to try a demo of this in an app basically it was a slingshot game and the game was built around this mini world of blocks that people only looking at the iPads can see but they're running around slingshotting things at each other and knocking down towers it was just kind of funny to see people getting so enthusiastic running around with iPads around an empty wooden table but honestly this is a really really big step forward for a are hopefully multiple devices can come to the same experience at once a lot going on so it's cool to see Apple push this forward so the number three is the Apple watch I don't wear mine all the time but it got some nifty improvements with watch OS 5 that's what I call it nifty improvements so there's some new activity sharing features for competing with or against your friends with workouts and things like that there's new workout types for things like yoga I think outdoor running and a couple other things like that were involved and then also there's automatic workout detection in case you start a workout but then forgot to start the workout on the watch and you want to get credit for that it'll kind of know when you start it there's also a new walkie-talkie mode which they showed if you want a walkie-talkie someone on your watch instead of just calling them I don't know if I would use that but some people were into it but there's some other things like the podcast app coming to the watch which is useful and also the fact that you can raise to talk so instead of saying hey Siri every time you raise it up it'll just detect when you raise it up know that you're talking to it and you can just start your command hey what's the weather hey what's the sports scores so that's pretty nifty but overall yeah it's just a collection of useful new features that's that's watch to us five and then we get to the big stuff number two is the exciting new Mac OS Mohave so that's the name of the new and again free upgrade for Mac OS named after the Mojave Desert totally cool with me I like the name and the biggest coolest feature if you'd ask me by far would be the addition of dark mode dark mode in Mojave is sweet it's not just turning the menus dark like you can already do that but it's turning everything dark it's super thorough it's the finder it's the background of apps it's the menus it's the doc it's everything throughout that's gonna look super sick on the Space Gray iMac Pro I am super excited for this I know they should also probably make an iOS dark mode which would be sweet now that they have all LEDs especially as well on the iPhone 10 iOS dark mode anyway I really like dark mode on Mac OS and I'm looking forward to using it then there was a couple other things like the Mac App Store redesign I can't believe how long it took them to do that it looked super old but that's coming to the new version of Mac OS and there's also now voice memos stocks news and even the home app all these things that are actually coming from iOS and it sort of signaled the beginning of a lot of crossover well not crossover it's mainly just iOS apps coming to that Mac experience so people who develop iOS apps will only have to add a couple of lines of code to build and bring that entire experience to the Mac and I think that'll bolster the Mac App Store a lot that seems like their goal with that but the beginning of that was those couple apps that are launching and then one of the most liked new features is called desktop stacks this is for people who have a messy desktop which isn't me I have a really clean pristine desktop it's rare for me to have more than like four things on my desktop but if your desktop is a mess you can have it automatically organized basically arranged in stacks by file type or whatever you want so if you're dealing with a lot of clutter this can definitely help it look a lot better and then number one I wasn't gonna make this number one but because of all the crowd-pleasing features I ended up adding to it it is up at the top and that is iOS 12 the best thing at WWDC this year was all the new iOS 12 features it's actually out already in beta so people are still currently actively discovering new features with it that weren't even announced on stage maybe leave a thumbs up if you want to see like a full video dedicated to the new iOS features kind of like I've done with Android in the past but there was a lot of good stuff first of all they say they're doubling down on performance that was number one thing they gave so this is gonna be a big update that's gonna go all the way back to iPhone 5s so many many years of older devices are gonna get this that's what Apple can do so they concentrate on things like faster animations faster loading and reloading and making things work and be responsive and I'll never be against that that's great to see and then they announced grouped notifications are finally coming to iOS finally finally I mean we've just been waiting for this forever I mean obviously iOS notifications right now big complaint I mentioned this or right before the keynote if you scroll through iOS notifications it's just a firehose of redundant garbage like I don't need all of that so what they showed on stage was pretty promising iOS notifications from the same app gets stacked together so you can address them all in one place they're organized they're clear-cut certain ones you can keep you can swipe away groups of them at a time it's finally appeared to catch up to Android in this way from the miles behind it's been for so long in fact I'm pretty sure I want to put iOS 12 on my new iPhone like right after this video just for this feature and then they also announced group FaceTime finally there's another thing people who use FaceTime really like it and use it a lot now you can do group FaceTime video calls so it's basically this rolodex style group chat you can have up to 32 people in one at once and it's just the same video call that's pretty insane basically whoever's talking their photo moves to the top and it gets bigger I don't think I'll ever have 30 people in one chat but it'll be cool to have three or four people who video chat a lot using this that was another huge crowd favorite and then Walter Ida even Siri got some improvements it wasn't nearly enough improvements to catch up to Google assistant I think it's still way behind but it did get a useful feature called shortcuts so what this is gonna let you do is connect a certain in-app action or in-app shortcut to a custom command that you make in the shortcuts app or even a string of these commands so you can say hey Siri heading home just because you made that up and in the app you can tell it to set your thermostat to 70 degrees at home open your navigation app to take the best route through traffic text your roommate your ETA home and open Spotify and start playing music in the car all of that just by saying one phrase you can build that in Siri shortcuts so that's definitely useful it's kind of the one thing Bixby had going for it for Samsung so sorry Bixby sorry Samsung oh and actually speaking of Samsung another thing an emoji got an upgrade this is another thing I played with there is a new tongue detection and a couple new animals like a t-rex and a ghost emoji so if you're waiting for new ones now you have them but what's really making headlines already is MIMO g m-- emoji meme emoji MIMO G MIMO MIMO MIMO G so it'll let you make a custom an emoji that looks exactly like you it's not gonna look at your picture and make one for you like Samsung did it's actually just letting you build your own so I tossed one together and played around with it and it's exactly what you'd expect it's like a cartoon version of yourself that you can spend a lot of time getting the details exactly right on if you really want to and then they talked about tongue detection being a big deal and that is true you can now stick out your tongue and it gets as crazy as you want there but actually found the eye tracking to be super realistic that's what really sold it for me you didn't really have eyes on previous an emoji so it was just kind of a beady black dot pretty impressive is the actual turning of the eye inside the head without your head moving not gonna lie so again sorry Samsung and sorry AR emoji but yeah those are the Keystone like huge things for iOS you also now get an emoji in FaceTime you also get a bunch of improvements to search and suggested search and things like that and the Photos app and there's also now the ability to sort of track your overall use of your phone and maybe decide if you want to cut down on some things or drop the addiction of certain apps by restricting the amount of time you spend in it that's useful so yeah just generally a lot of improvements under the hood a couple new really big useful features that's what's new in iOS 12 is not a whole lot of design stuff it's gonna look the same but the features are new but that is it that is everything you need to know about what went down at WWDC 2018 out here in california feel free to share this video with anyone you think may be interested maybe no sone who is dying to get FaceTime video chat goin and let me know what your favorite feature is maybe you agree with my list maybe you don't if you have a different favorite either way thanks for watching talk to you the next one please