In the present day we spherical up the highest iOS 13, MacOS 10.15 and WatchOS 6 rumors and preview all of the modifications your Apple gadgets might see within the coming months, together with anything Apple might shock us with at WWDC 2019. We’re additionally having a look at Apple’s newest product launch: the brand new seventh-generation iPod Contact, which appeared to come back out of nowhere this week.
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Darkish mode leaks and all the pieces we predict we find out about iOS 13
Rumor has it, iOS 13 is bringing huge design modifications this 12 months, with a model new residence display, alternate colour scheme and probably some recent fonts to select from.
This week 9to5mac obtained maintain of some screenshots of what the rumored darkish mode would appear to be on the iPhone. In keeping with the publication, you will have two choices to activate darkish mode: toggling a swap from Settings, or urgent a brand new button in your management middle for straightforward entry. Apple’s MacOS Mojave introduced darkish mode to Macs final 12 months, and only a few weeks in the past at its builders convention, Google additionally introduced a brand new darkish mode for Android Q.
Apple’s systemwide darkish mode might arrive in iOS 13.
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It isn’t simply the interface that is getting modifications. In keeping with a current Bloomberg report, numerous Apple’s native apps are getting an overhaul too. The Messages app is rumored to be getting a WhatsApp type makeover with profile footage and standing updates, a brand new Swype-style keyboard just like Google’s Gboard, together with an undo characteristic that will assist you to return in time and revert modifications when typing. And it would not be an iOS replace with out some new Animoji and Memoji options, which Apple can be rumored to be beefing up in iOS 13.
The Maps, Mail and Reminders apps are all mentioned to get some minor refreshes as properly. And the Discover My iPhone and Discover Mates apps may very well be merging into one, in keeping with the 9to5mac report.
Apple pushes well being options in iOS and WatchOS
Apple’s Well being app is one other one that would see a significant overhaul. The app is rumored to be getting a brand new homepage that will float your most related well being information to the highest, supplying you with a extra complete take a look at your each day stats and progress over time. It could additionally convey new monitoring options like listening to well being, which elements in how loud you are enjoying your music and the ambient noise quantity you are uncovered to, and a eriod monitoring characteristic, which retains tabs on a girl’s menstrual cycle. Interval monitoring can be mentioned to be coming to the Apple Watch as a standalone app known as Cycle. Fitbit and Garmin have already got this characteristic natively on a few of their wearable gadgets.
iOS 13 might introduce a greater bedtime mode as a part of this well being push, which might mix the brand new darkish mode, the present do-not-disturb characteristic and the clock app to optimize sleep time and possibly usher in a brand new sleep monitoring period for the next-generation Apple Watch in September. These software program updates can often clue us in on what Apple has deliberate when it comes to hardware, in keeping with CNET Senior Reporter Shara Tibken.
And it isn’t simply bodily well being Apple’s investing in. Count on Apple to proceed to make a push for digital wellbeing with iOS 13 and embrace just a few extra controls that will permit mother and father to restrict display time for his or her children. This after the corporate not too long ago eliminated or imposed restrictions on 11 third-party screen-time and parental management apps within the App Retailer.
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The iPad might get extra computerlike
iPads are rumored to get higher multitasking help with iOS 13, plus second-screen compatibility to show your iPad into an exterior monitor alongside your MacBook, full with mouse enter help.
iPhone customers asking for extra multitasking options could also be upset on this spherical of updates. The one trace of a rumor on the market talks about picture-in-picture viewing for movies, however that is it.
You possibly can anticipate MacOS and iOS to have a bit extra synergy at WWDC.
Will MacOS 10.15 convey common apps?
If the rumors are true, WWDC 2019 might convey us one step nearer to full integration between iOS and MacOS. We have already seen extra native iOS apps pop up on Apple’s computer systems, and we anticipate this pattern to proceed.
Guilherme Rambo and Stephen Troughton Smith, two well-known Apple leakers, have each mentioned we will anticipate MacOS 10.15 to convey devoted apps for music, podcasts, TV exhibits and books to the Mac. Mainly, that breaks up the tabs from iTunes with out absolutely eliminating iTunes because the mothership.
However maybe crucial change is one that the majority of us common customers will not see instantly. Apple is rumored to be opening up its cross-party framework to third-party builders to allow them to’t begin working towards migrating their iPhone apps to Macs, a transfer that will require them to work with both a touchscreen or mouse.
Apple Watch might lastly get its personal app retailer
Maybe crucial WatchOS 6 characteristic may very well be a standalone app retailer for the Watch, if the rumors are true. Apple Watch customers at present need to obtain an app to their iPhones first earlier than it may seem on the Watch. This transfer would assist make the Watch much more unbiased from the iPhone and will ultimately dwell by itself.
We already went over just a few of the well being updates we will anticipate on the Apple Watch with the replace to WatchOS 6, however there may very well be extra. We might see a brand new app known as Dose that will remind customers to take their drugs.
We’re additionally trying ahead to new watchfaces with this replace, and new problems to select from as with earlier iterations.
New iPod Contact and different merchandise Apple could have within the works
Hardware shouldn’t be a given at Apple’s developer convention, but when we have been to get one thing it might most certainly be a brand new Mac Professional. Apple had promised an replace to this machine in 2019, and this could be a very good time to point out it off. The following occasion is the iPhone occasion in September, which appears much less doubtless, after which possibly an October occasion.
Or it might come as a shock launch with no launch occasion, like what Apple not too long ago did with its new MacBook Professionals and iPod Contact.
After a four-year hiatus, this week Apple lastly refreshed its iPod Contact line. The seventh-generation machine seems to be similar to the final one with a four-inch display, these old-school wider bezels and that bodily residence button with no Contact ID
The distinction with these iPod Contact fashions is discovered beneath the hood. They have Apple’s newer A10 Fusion chip, which implies they’re now highly effective sufficient to help ARkit and Group Facetime. And there is a 258GB possibility, which is a primary for an iPod.
And whereas the dearth of latest options could look like considerably of a letdown, at the least the value remained the identical. The most affordable 32GB mannequin prices $199 and goes as much as $399 for the 256GB model.
Comply with all the most recent from WWDC 2019 on CNET
WWDC will happen on the McEnery Conference Middle in San Jose, California, June Three-7. The keynote begins at 10 am PT Monday. You possibly can stream it dwell on Apple’s web site or on CNET.com. CNET will probably be on the bottom for all of it, so you possibly can keep up-to-date on all of the bulletins by way of our liveblog or dwell present.
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