iOS 10, watchOS 3 & macOS Sierra betas debut for developers today, public testers in July
Before they launch for free this fall, Apple's next-generation platforms will be available in beta form starting today for registered developers. Members of Apple's public beta program will also be able to test the future of iOS and macOS starting in July.
iOS 10 will be compatible with iPhone 5 and newer, iPad 2 and iPad mini 2 and newer, as well as the fifth- and sixth-generation iPod touch. macOS sierra is compatible with late-2009 and newer MacBook and iMac, while the 2010-and-newer MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro models will also get the update.
It's likely that iOS 10 will launch to the public in September, alongside the next-generation "iPhone 7." macOS Sierra and watchOS 3 could debut around the same time.
Before they're ready for prime time, Apple's next-generation platforms will be available to test for registered developers beginning today. iOS 10 and macOS Sierra will also be available to members of Apple's public beta program in July, though tvOS and watchOS are not included in the public beta.
Perhaps the most significant changes in iOS 10 are to the native Messages app, which will offer more dynamic methods of communication with integrated rich links, larger emoji, bubble effects, and third-party app integration. Apple will also bring advanced new widgets to the iOS 10 lock screen and home screen icons, among other tweaks to the user interface.
macOS Sierra, meanwhile, will mark the debut of Siri for Mac, and also introduce new cross-platform capabilities such as syncing data and settings through the cloud, and sharing copied contents from a clipboard. And Siri has also been opened up to third-party developers, allowing new commands on both iOS and Mac.
iOS 10 will be compatible with iPhone 5 and newer, iPad 2 and iPad mini 2 and newer, as well as the fifth- and sixth-generation iPod touch. macOS sierra is compatible with late-2009 and newer MacBook and iMac, while the 2010-and-newer MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro models will also get the update.
It's likely that iOS 10 will launch to the public in September, alongside the next-generation "iPhone 7." macOS Sierra and watchOS 3 could debut around the same time.
Before they're ready for prime time, Apple's next-generation platforms will be available to test for registered developers beginning today. iOS 10 and macOS Sierra will also be available to members of Apple's public beta program in July, though tvOS and watchOS are not included in the public beta.
Perhaps the most significant changes in iOS 10 are to the native Messages app, which will offer more dynamic methods of communication with integrated rich links, larger emoji, bubble effects, and third-party app integration. Apple will also bring advanced new widgets to the iOS 10 lock screen and home screen icons, among other tweaks to the user interface.
macOS Sierra, meanwhile, will mark the debut of Siri for Mac, and also introduce new cross-platform capabilities such as syncing data and settings through the cloud, and sharing copied contents from a clipboard. And Siri has also been opened up to third-party developers, allowing new commands on both iOS and Mac.
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The same extends for business use cases. I can sync with Continuity iMessages, Copy/Paste Objects but no syncing of document revisions automatically, behind-the-scenes.
Apple is supposed to be the leader in innovation. These updates are mostly bug fixes and logical minor updates to the current OS. Even if we ignore hardware, this is less than exciting. Swift is nice, but it's a cross platform world, what is being done to allow Swift on other platforms? What is Apple doing in the Cloud? They have these mega server centers, and compared to say Microsoft and Amazon, I don't see what they are being used for.
I am an Apple fan since 1984, but this is getting to be too much status quo, and nothing really innovative. Personal computing is changing rapidly, but Apple seems to be stuck. And yes, we want to hear about new hardware, iPhone 7, iWatch 2, etc. How about an update to the Mac Pro, or the Mac Mini? Both are long in the tooth. This slow, nothing really new progress is not what I have come to expect from Apple. Hopefully more substantive announcements are in the wings.
Well, to be honest, most of the negativity is from the usual suspects... that perpetually disappointed and negative crowd that has nothing good to say about Apple... ever. And these are the same suspects who label any who support Apple as delusional fanboys. Like MacRumors the nattering nabobs of negativism are slowly but surely taking over AI. In fact the entire Internet is heavily negative on any subject one cares to search on. A positive attitude is seen as a sign of brainwashing and delusions. If you like something there’s something wrong with you.
This is a SOFTWARE conference, not a hardware conference. Honestly, did you really expect new hardware at WWDC? This isn't the place to announce hardware when you have thousands of developers who would rather know what the next generation software they develop for can do and what they can now do with it, rather than spending 30 minutes on a MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro update. And yes, it would literally take them about 30 minutes to properly introduce a new piece of hardware. You can't just say and oh yeah by the way, were releasing updated MacBook Pro's today with a totally new design. Check it out on our website for more information.
I guess you weren't really paying attention to the keynote. There were a lot of iCloud features in both iOS and macOS. Not sure what you mean by making Swift work on other platforms???
And, why do you need to explain how long you've been an Apple fan? What difference does that make? So because I've only been one since say 1994 when I first got interested in computers does that make me less of an Apple person?
I swear some of these people need help. Especially considering what happened in Orlando yesterday. If these people would take off their goddam hardware blinders they'd see some really great software improvements. Everyone wanted Apple to turn iMessage into a platform. Now that they have people are bitching because it took up 20 minutes of the keynote. Good grief.
nonsense. I saw tons of innovation, don't know what keynote you saw. Apple Pay on web, instant log in on Mac, new Siri and messages APIs, etc etc.
as for cloud, please tell us -- what other desktop OS has a cloud-based file system add on? you saw that right?
The Music app was in dire need of re-working. It looks cool, but it got much more complicated than in previous versions of iOS. I have it set to play one playlist when in my car, and for some reason, one day it just randomly started playing music in my library rather than the playlist without me touching a thing. Not the end of the world, but still kind of jarring when you expect certain songs and suddenly get something way out in left field. Also I tend to hear the same 10-15 songs over and over before hearing other songs in the playlist. It's like shuffle is not really shuffling very well.
I really don't care about News. I use it every once in a while but not really sure the update is worth being a "tent pole" feature. The HomeKit stuff is cool, but I'm also not sure it's that big of a deal to take up the time they did for it. I'm not saying it's not important to mention these things, but there were plenty of other things like Mail that they supposedly improved upon that would be nicer to hear about that they claimed they had no time to bring up.
I can see messages is going to be a battery-hog plain and simple. This is fine if you love all the crazy stuff other messaging apps do, but people are going to love it till they see their battery dead much quicker than ever before and then bitch and moan. I hope a lot of this stuff can just simply be disabled rather than avoided in the app. Then simply setup prompts asking you to turn them on if you get messages with these features and want to see them the way the sender intended.
Also let me upload my iTunes shows/movies to iCloud so they can be streamed from there rather than having to be downloaded and then deleted after watching so my 16GB capacity can breathe. The space on iCloud is cheap and there's plenty of it. I'm not even really using 1% of my 200GB. Also iCloud Drive is not really working for me. It shows some stuff but not everything and some files get duplicated. I deleted one duplicate file and it wiped out both the original and the duplicate...which actually means it deleted all traces of the file from both the device and the cloud.
Maybe iOS 10 might be better than I'm giving it credit for (obviously I won't know till I get the public beta next month), but I have a feeling iOS 11 is going to have a lot to clean up.
Apple is really starting to leverage TouchID from iPhone -> Watch -> macOS.