TWiT News 356

Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Kevin Lynch, and others deliver the World Wide Developers Conference 2020 keynote.

Highlights:

• iOS 14 will include App Library, Widgets, Picture-in-picture video, and improvements to Siri, Messages, and Apple Maps.
• Starting with new BMWs, you can use your iPhone as a car key.
• Emily Schubert talks about how you will be able to use your iPhone as a car key. App Clips will let you use parts of apps without downloading the whole app.
• iPadOS 14 adds Sidebar and new Apple Pencil features.
• watchOS 7 gets customizable complications and professionally designed watch faces. Other new features include sleep tracking, a handwashing timer that automatically senses when you are using soap, and new dance workouts.
• HomeKit will be further integrated with Google Home and Amazon Alexa.
• Foundation comes to Apple TV+ in 2021.
• macOS Big Sur has all-new design that looks very similar to iPadOS 14.

And the big finish: In their secret underground lab, Tim Cook, Johny Srouji, and Andreas Wendker show off the new Apple Silicon chips for Mac.

• Apple apps like Final Cut Pro and Xcode are already ready for the transition.
• Universal 2 will let apps run on Intel and Apple Silicon.
• Microsoft Office and Adobe apps like Lightroom and Photoshop already work on Apple Silicon.
• Rosetta 2 will automatically translate Intel-based apps to work on Apple Silicon.
• Virtualization will let you use Linux on Macs.
• iOS apps will work natively on Mac.
• The Quick Start program will help developers with the transition, and the Developer Transition Kit, a Mac Mini with an A12z Bionic chip, is available now.
• Apple Silicon Macs will be available by the end of the year, and the whole transition will take two years.
• Developer betas of all OS's are available now; public betas will be available in July.

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Links

• Apple's Livestream