The WWDC 2016 Apple Developers Conference ended a while ago, which was largely identical to expectations, as Apple mainly cared for developers and provided them with many tools that help them, the most important of which is the opening of the system for them significantly.

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The conference began, as usual, with the rise of Tim Cook, who began by updating the latest news from Apple and explained that this year developers from 74 countries are attending, 70% of whom are new developers, and that there are 100 programmers under the age of 18 attending and that this year the youngest developer who is only 9 years old is attending. Then he mentioned that there are 2 million apps on the App Store that have achieved more than 130 billion downloads. This is the 27th conference for developers, and the number of registered with Apple 13 million developers, including 2 million new developers last year only, and that 50 billion dollars were paid to developers, i.e. the last year, close to what was paid in the entire history of Apple. Then it was revealed that today the four Apple systems will be updated.


Apple Watch

Kevin "Kevin Lynch", head of the Apple Watch system development department, said that the WatchOS 3.0 system brings drastic improvements in ease of use, most notably:

🔹 The control center can be accessed by pressing the button.

Apps now open 7 times faster than the current second system.

🔹Number of new faces.

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🔹 Multitasking is similar to that in the iPhone.

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The ability to respond by writing on the screen “Scribble”.

The ability to call for SOS, and it has the international recognition feature, meaning that the emergency number automatically changes according to the country.

🔹You can share your activity with your friends, see their ranking and beat them.

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Smarter suggestions in messages.

The possibility of assigning people with special needs and thus changing the mechanism of calculating movement and activity.

🔹 Apps run in the background.

A deep breathing regulator app called Breathe.

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Apple TV

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Eddie Q then went up on stage and started talking about Apple TV, and he mentioned that the TV now includes more than 1300 different TV channels, that there are 6000 applications that have been developed for Apple TV in the past 7 months, and that there are more than 650 videos and scenes that can be broadcast from the TV. Then he moved to the new points, where he mentioned the following:

At the request of Apple users, an application has been developed on the iPhone that turns your phone into a remote control for Apple TV.

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Night mode on TV.

🔹 Sync downloads, meaning that if you download an application and this application has a copy on the TV, it is automatically downloaded to it.

🔹You can log in to all channels one time without the need to activate registration with each channel separately.

🔹 Siri can now search in applications, for example, you can ask Siri to search YouTube for you on a specific video. Siri opens the YouTube app and does the search as you ask.

🔹 Providing many places for developers to add to the Apple TV system.

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Mac system

Then Craig Verdigy, head of the Mac and iOS development department, went up to talk about the two systems and began to talk that the system had been renamed and was no longer called OS X, but macOS to be compatible with the rest of the systems.

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The new system was named "Sierra"

🔹 Add the feature to unlock the computer by recognizing you “by the watch,” meaning the device knows that you are the one next to it and you open it, and accordingly it does not ask you for the password.

🔹Add the copy feature between iOS and Mac, i.e. you can copy text or an image from iOS to sync to the cloud with your Mac and paste it there.

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There are 10 billion files recorded in the Apple cloud.

Adding the space saving feature and its working idea is that it transfers the oldest files that you have not used for a while, whether office files, videos, pictures, music and everything to the cloud. And he mentioned that they experimented with a device of 250 gigabytes and the remaining space was only 20 gigabytes, after activation the free space became 150 gigabytes, meaning 130 gigabytes were transferred to the cloud (what is the speed of the internet that uploads 130 gigabytes of files to the internet easily).

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Add the various sites to the Apple Pay service, so that you can pay on the sites that you browse from your computer using the service, as in the iPhone and iPad, but of course you must browse using Safari. To complete the purchase, he must use the fingerprint in your phone or approve by the watch, as is the case now.

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Apple Pay is now available in 6 countries, and 3 new countries, namely Hong Kong, France and Switzerland will be added in the coming months.

The Tabs feature that we use in the browser has become available on every Mac system, meaning you can open more than one tab in the photos or maps application or any program you have.

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Add a picture-in-picture feature, meaning you can continue watching the video outside of Safari.

Welcome to Siri on Mac. Siri is now able to search in great detail, that is, you can ask it to show the file that you modified it last week and this file contains attachments. Yes, the above is a question, and Siri, you will know what file you are referring to.

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The update will work on MacBook and iMac devices end of 2009 and later, as well as Mac Air, Pro, mini, and Mac Pro devices, versions 2010 and later.

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IOS 10

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Finally, we get to the main and important point for many of us, the iOS 10 system, which, as we mentioned in the expectations, has mainly benefits for developers. Craig mentioned that System X comes with 10 basic benefits:

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The first feature:

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Comprehensive improvements as the lock screen has been redesigned and the notifications are richer and interact with XNUMXD touch. For example, if you received a message, you can reply to it from the lock screen, see the messages, and the other reply without exiting the application that is browsing or unlocking the device if you are on the screen lock.

The ability to see interactive and animated features in the XNUMXD touch pop-up screen.

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🔸 If you lift your phone, the screen will light up to show the content. Just like what is happening now on the Apple Watch.

The ability to remove all notifications from the notification center with one touch.

Control Center redesign.

🔸Resigning Music Control in Control Center.

🔸 Facilitate access to the camera by swiping left from the lock screen.

Swiping to the right makes you see the widget as it has a separate screen.

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The second advantage:

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Siri (yes, the above was the first feature and they are improvements) Now developers can use Siri API and this means that Siri will be integrated with applications.

Siri receives 2 billion questions per week.

You can ask Siri to contact a friend of yours using any application, not Skype, for example.

🔸You can send messages on WhatsApp or book an Uber car with Siri.

The previous features are also available in the CarPlay system.

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The third feature:

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The system's keyboard has become integrated with Siri, meaning that suggestions for responses will appear based on Siri's intelligence. If the other asks you what Tariq Mansour's email is, he will show you the answer suggestions and his email already, as Siri will bring it from your contacts.

🔸 The recognition of conversations and appointments has been developed, so Siri can, with the keyboard, recognize your friend’s request in messages that you go together on a trip at a specific date and suggest that you register it.

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🔸 If the other party asks where you are now, the keyboard will show the ability to send the location.

🔸You can check your schedule using the keyboard, so you can not promise the other an appointment that you have other engagements.

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The fourth feature:

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Pictures, where an intelligent recognition feature has been added to the content of the images, such as identifying people in the photos and creating their own album.

🔸 The feature can recognize faces and even elements and the environment such as trees, mountains, seas, and others, and with this, you can see the search for you in pictures, for example, you ask her: I want the picture that I showed in the sea last year.

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Adding the Memories feature, which is a feature that identifies the events in the image and makes a special album for each of them. The feature depends on the date, location, people and terrain of the photos, so you know it was a specific occasion.

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🔸Add the ability to create a quick video for any occasion, modify the audio and visual effects of the video easily, and share it with others.

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Fifth feature:

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The maps, which received important updates (although most of them will not work in our Arab countries, so we will confine themselves to explaining them now), the maps and their screens have been redesigned more easily.

🔸 Swipe up shows suggestions with search optimizations in Maps.

Redesigning the navigation interface to become more interactive and show more features and options, for example you know about congestion, are there cafes or gas stations on your way, and when you expect to reach them.

🔸 Open the Maps application for developers, and thus the applications can create map-based services, for example, the Uber application, you can reserve the car and know when it will arrive without the need to exit the application.

🔸 You can search for restaurants and make reservations directly from within the Maps application, and even pay.

The maps have also been updated in Apple's automotive system so that it shows the map on the dashboard.

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The sixth feature:

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The music app has been radically redesigned to make it even more intuitive. Apple said it now has more than 15 million subscribers.

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The seventh advantage:

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The news app, which got a drastic update in design, to make it more effective and simple.

🔸 There are 600 million monthly users of the news app who browse what has been published by more than 2000 publishers.

🔸 Add the subscriptions feature, and accordingly you can read paid newspapers and magazines from the application.

🔸Add the notifications feature for important and urgent news.

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The eighth feature:

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Home app, where a new application was added in iOS 10 called Home, with which you can control your smart home: D, such as turning on the lights, closing the curtains, opening the car’s garage, and watching from the front of the door.

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Apple explained that the major home appliances manufacturers now support Apple's Home Kit system, and that there are even construction companies that design homes and integrate the Apple system into it.

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🔸You can customize certain modes, be it the sleeping position, in which you can adjust the lighting to a certain degree, the curtains and all the details. With Siri, you can control it, for example, you say Good morning, Siri, you woke up, and Siri adjusts the lighting and curtains to your daytime mode.

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The ninth feature:

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the phone; Yes Yes ; Apple remembered that the iPhone was a phone and had finally added advantages to others for many years. You can now receive voice messages directly on the device.

🔸 A service to recognize the numbers calling you has been integrated (something similar to TrueCaller but with Apple philosophy).

Adding the Voip API feature, this means that developers of communication applications such as Skype, Viber, and Line, for example, can make the phone screen show a real call, as it is when a phone call comes in and not just a notification (just like in other competing systems).

🔸 Improvements in the Contacts application so that you find buttons to contact people with any service, and you can specify an application to communicate with each person separately, i.e. you set it to say that when I want to call my friend Mustafa, the default is Skype, but my friend Saeed uses the phone network and my friend Hamdi uses Facebook Tam (transmitted text from Android).

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The tenth feature:

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The messaging application, which received comprehensive and radical updates, in the beginning it was supported to show the content of the links, so if you received a picture or video link, it appears to you completely and not just a link (similar to Telegram for those who do not know this feature).

The ability to watch the sent videos directly inside the Messages application.

🔸Emoji increased in size 3 times.

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🔸Adding the emoji recognition feature, for example writing the word pizza, here the keyboard suggests that you replace it with Emoji Pizza if you want.

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🔸Photo and video preview improvements before sending.

🔸Adding the effect of the bubble: This means that you can control the size of the conversation bubble. “The balloon in which the text appears is what is meant by the bubble.” For example, when you want to speak loudly, you send your speech in a large bubble as if you were shouting loudly and vice versa by sending a small bubble as if you were speaking in a low voice.

🔸 The feature of replying to the message was added immediately without writing any text

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🔸 Add the feature of the private message, which is a normal message, but it has a melody that hides it, all you have to do is wipe it as if this tone is removing dust to see the text.

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The ability to respond by handwriting.

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🔸Screen effect, which is similar to the bubble effect, but this time you will make an effect on the whole screen by sending balloons to your friend or making the background of the messaging app as fireworks.
The messages application has been opened for developers to be able to create special applications and tools such as stickers or payment methods, for example.

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The ⓪① features have expired

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But Craig stated that there are many other benefits such as:

◆ Group memos by sharing a specific memo with your friends to write together.

◆ The ability to split the screen in Safari to open in each section a site "It is similar to running two applications, but this time you will open two sites."

◆ Improvements to the way live photos are displayed and the editing feature added to them.

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The update will work on iPhone 5 5c, 6, 6s, versions Plus, SE, iPad 4, Air, Air 2, Pro, iPad mini 2, 3, 4 and iPod Touch 6 (i.e. all devices that are now running iOS 9 except the iPhone 4s, iPad 2-3, Mini 1, iPod Touch 5)


Encryption

In the end, Apple spoke briefly that the services it provides are securely encrypted. Messages and communications use "end-to-end" encryption, meaning that the call is encrypted in your device and then sent to your friend is encrypted and decryption is done in his device, so you are safe. As for features like image analysis, they are also done on your device and nothing is transferred to Apple's servers to protect your privacy. Then, Apple reviewed the opinion of one of the international experts about Apple's encryption system, how complicated, brilliant and secure it is.


Swift language

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Tim Cook finally returns to the stage and mentioned that Swift has achieved great popularity internationally and there are 100 apps in store developed by Swift. Then he revealed the release of a new application called Swift PlayGround which is intended for children to teach them the programming language of Apple.

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All the systems that were announced above were issued “are now issued” to developers, and after a month they will issue a trial version in a year, and after 3 months they will be issued as a final update.


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Tell us what you think about the conference and what update attracted you the most? Do you see that Apple will return to the competition after all these capabilities in iOS 10?

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