Launched Apple company Yesterday, a slew of new features, software and hardware were unveiled at its week-long Developer Conference in California, as it seeks to maintain customer loyalty and encourage them to buy more products.
One of the most notable among these products is the new MacBook Air laptop, which has a new processor that makes it 35% faster than the previous M1 chip.
Apple also launched a long-developed “Buy Now, Pay Later” feature called Apple Pay Later, which splits the cost of purchases made with Apple Pay into four payments over a six-week period without any interest or fees.
Apple reviewed iPadOS 16 that harnessed the power of the M1 chip.
MacBook Air
Apple introduced the redesigned MacBook Air and the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, both powered by the new M2 chip, bringing the performance and capabilities of the M1 chip to the next level.
In addition to the new design, MacBook Air also features a larger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, a four-speaker audio system, up to 18 hours of battery life,1 and MagSafe charging. M2 chip.
The M2 chip also comes to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, with up to 24GB of combined memory, ProRes-format acceleration, and up to 20 hours of battery life, 2 all in an ultra-compact design.
The new 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro join the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the M1 Pro chip and M1 Max chip to complete the most powerful Mac notebook ever. The two laptops will be available next month.
watchOS 9
Today, Apple previewed watchOS 9, which brings new features and enhanced experiences to the wearable operating system. Now, Apple Watch users will have more watch faces to choose from.
watchOS 9 provides the Sleep Phases feature for the Sleep app and a new FDA-approved feature, an atrial fibrillation history record, which provides more detailed information about the user’s condition. The new drug app makes it easier for users to manage their medication, understand it, and keep track of when to take it easily and quietly.
Users can customize the lock screen, keep family photos in the shared iCloud Photo Library, retrieve sent messages, schedule emails, and discover more with live text and visual global search.
iOS 16
Apple showcased iOS 16, which delivers the biggest update ever to the Lock screen, and new sharing, communication, and intelligence features that work together to transform users’ iPhone experience.
iOS 16 also introduces a shared iCloud Photo Library, updates to Messages and Mail that help users communicate easily, and powerful improvements to Live Text and Visual Global Search.
“iOS 16 is a big release with new updates,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. facilitating communication through new capabilities in the messaging and mail applications, and we have benefited from improved smart technology in the updates of the live text feature and the visual public search feature.”
Developer Tools
Widgets on the lock screen enable developers to show key information for their apps in a new way, while other new APIs across Apple platforms help them integrate more features.
WeatherKit gives developers the ability to integrate Apple’s weather app forecast data directly into their apps and into Xcode Cloud, Apple’s new continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode, now available to every member of the Apple Developer Program to help build higher-quality apps, instantly. faster.
Metal 3 enables game developers to create stunning graphics with blazing-fast performance, and app development for Apple platforms is getting smarter with improvements to Swift, SwiftUI and Xcode. And with improvements to SKAdNetwork, ad networks and developers can better measure ad performance while preserving user privacy.
“We love collaborating with the developer community and empowering them with new technology that enables them to build the next great generation of apps, and with APIs for powerful new tools on the lock screen, and services With new technologies like WeatherKit, Xcode Cloud to help every Apple developer build apps faster, and new possibilities for gaming with Metal 3, developers have more tools than ever before to create app experiences that users will love.”
Xcode Cloud is now available
Xcode Cloud is now available in a range of subscription packages to best suit developer needs, starting with 25 hours per month free until December 2023 for all Apple Developer Program members and stopping at 1,000 hours per month.
Xcode Cloud built into Xcode is an integration and continuous delivery cloud service designed for Apple developers. It empowers developers and teams of all sizes to build, test, and deliver high-quality apps more efficiently by automatically building apps in the cloud to take the burden off their Mac to enable them to do other things. With parallel testing in the cloud, developers can test an emulated version of each existing Apple device, and easily distribute a bulk version of the app for internal testing, or deliver it to beta testers through TestFlight.
Xcode 14 improvements
Xcode 14 comes with new optimizations to better enhance developer productivity. Compilations are up to 25% faster, thanks to improved parallelism, and the Xcode app is now 30% smaller, to download, simulating downloadable runtimes for watchOS and tvOS. The new cross-platform target creates a single SwiftUI interface for use across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS. Maintaining developer code is made easier with high customizability to take advantage of each platform’s unique capabilities.
Now SwiftUI’s live previews are automatically interactive in Xcode so that changes happen instantly, and developers can create variants of each preview without typing any code or changing the color combination, text size, device orientation, or accessibility styles. The new App Icon feature in Assets Catalog allows developers to provide a single icon size for all platforms, and Xcode automatically creates all required app materials. Xcode includes language and modification improvements with smarter autocompletion, and additional dynamic snippets make developers access the code they want to write faster.
M2 . chip
Apple announced the M2 chip, ushering in the next generation of Apple Silicon chips designed specifically for Mac computers.
The M2 chip is engineered using second-generation 5nm process technology to take the M1 chip’s industry-leading performance per watt even further, with an 18% faster CPU, 35% more powerful GPU, and 40% faster Neural Engine. It also offers 50% more memory bandwidth than the M1 chip, and up to 24GB of fast unified memory.
The M2 chip delivers all of these features — plus new custom technologies and increased operability in the redesigned MacBook Air and the modern version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro.