Tag: Dynamic Island

Apple hosted its Wonderlust special event. As expected, Apple unveiled new iPhones and Apple Watch models.

Apple Watch Series 9

New Apple Watch Series 9 gets new S9 system-on-chip with updated CPU and GPU. New screen now has brightness up to 1,000 nits. And lowest brightness is now 1 nit. S9 allows on-device Siri recognition for many use cases.

New "double tap" hand gesture (similar to previously implemented accessibility features) allows one hand responses and actions to be performed on Apple Watch.

New UWB chip will improve Apple Watch spatial awareness, allowing, for example, precise iPhone lookup with directions and distance display.

Apple Watch Ultra 2

Ultra 2 gets same S9 system-on-chip, screen is improved to have 3,000 nits maximum brightness.

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are powered by A16 chip introduced in iPhone 14 Pro models.

iPhone 15 models now gain Dynamic Island. Charging port is now changed to USB-C with USB 2.0 data transfer speeds.

Also, iPhone 15 main camera is now similar to iPhone 14 Pro with 48MP resolution.

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

iPhone 15 Pro is running on A17 PRO chip. iPhone 15 Pro has titanium frame to reduce weight. Mute switch is replaced by Action button. iPhone 15 Pro Max has 5x camera with pentaprism design. USCB-C connector in iPhone 15 Pro supports USB 3.0.

Also iPhone 15 Pro could record spatial videos that will provide depth when viewing in Apple Vision Pro.

iPhone 15 Pro Max now has base model with 256GB of storage.

iCloud Storage Tiers

Apple introduces new iCloud storage tiers – 6TB and 12TB available for purchase later priced $30 and $60 respectively.

FineWoven

Apple now replaces leather accessories with new FineWoven material. This includes Apple Watch bands as well as iPhone cases.

OS Updates

Release Candidates are now available for iOS/iPadOS 17, macOS 14 Sonoma, watchOS 10 and tvOS 17. As well as iOS and iPadOS 16.7. Xcode 15 is also available as Release Candidate.

iOS/iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and tvOS 17 are to be released on September 18. macOS 14 Sonoma will be released on September 26.

You could watch event replay on YouTube.

Apple Newsroom:

• Apple advances supplier clean energy commitments
• Apple introduces the advanced new Apple Watch Series 9
• Apple announces new Apple Watch Ultra 2
• Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
• Apple unveils Apple Watch Ultra 2
• Apple unveils its first carbon neutral products
• Apple upgrades AirPods Pro (2nd generation) with USB‐C charging
• Apple debuts iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

Release notes:

• iOS & iPadOS 17 RC Release Notes
• macOS Sonoma 14 RC Release Notes
• watchOS 10 RC Release Notes
• tvOS 17 RC Release Notes
• Xcode 15 RC Release Notes

References:

• Apple Watch Series 9 Unveiled With S9 Chip, 'Double Tap' Gesture, and More
• Apple Unveils Apple Watch Ultra 2 Featuring Faster S9 Chip, New Ultra Wideband Chip, and Apple's Brightest Ever Display
• Apple will no longer use leather accessories, instead opting for FineWoven
• Apple Announces 'FineWoven' Material, Will No Longer Make Leather Accessories
• Apple announces iPhone 15: USB-C port, 48-megapixel camera, Dynamic Island, new colors
• Apple Announces iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus With USB-C Port, Dynamic Island, and More
• iPhone 15 replaces Lightning port with USB-C
• AirPods Pro 2 now available with new USB-C charging case
• Apple Introduces New AirPods Pro Charging Case and EarPods With USB-C
• Apple announces iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max with titanium case, USB-C, Action button, A17
• Apple Announces iPhone 15 Pro With Titanium Design, Action Button, A17 Pro Chip, and More
• iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 to be released for iPhone and iPad on September 18
• Apple’s September 2023 Wonderlust Event: Replay Today’s Keynote and Product Videos
• Apple Announces Availability Dates for New iPhones and Apple Watches

DynamicCow is an app that allows to simulate Dynamic Island on any iPhone. And while this might be just a fun project, it might simplify development testing, and also could provide some insights on how to use Dynamic Island API better.

GitHub: DynamicCow

Referfence: Third-party app brings Dynamic Island to any iPhone, but is it just a party trick?

Hey there! This week we have many great reads for the developers, so – buckle up!

This week we'd like to pay our respects to Ray Wenderlich and his portal. Now it has new name – Kodeco. It is still great source of useful content for developers and we'll even share couple of articles today.

• But, we'll start with great article on secure memory management from Apple Security Engineering and Architecture team – Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type;
  
  
• And another great read is Apple Developer article with great usages of Dynamic Island – Spotlight on: The Dynamic Island;
  
  
• Moritz Philip Recke explores video preparation for streaming – Converting video files for HLS streaming;
  
  
• Create a Card with an Image Outside its Bounds in SwiftUI by Leonardo Maia Pugliese is a great walkthrough on SwiftUI with out-of-bounds drawing;
  
  
• Magnus Jensen shows good example of placing button for different device types – Better placements of bottom buttons in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Natalia Panferova shares two articles on different aspects of development – Fill bar marks with gradient in Swift Charts to make your bar charts nicer and good hint on app localization review – Check localizable strings with the accented pseudolanguage in Xcode;
  
  
• Great review of recent Bluetooth audio vulnerability in iOS by Guilherme Rambo – SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri;
  
  
• Another great SwiftUI guide – Create Custom Cell with Placeholder UI Using UIHostingConfiguration by Lee Kah Seng;
  
  
• As promised – couple of great articles on Kodeco – State Restoration in SwiftUI by Tom Elliott will help make your app more magical for users, App Shortcuts: Getting Started by Andrej Vukelic guides on making app better integrated into iOS and Building a Recommendation App With Create ML in SwiftUI Saeed Taheri focused on machine learning practical usages;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan raises important question for those who use SwiftUI – Presenting Sheets: Item, or a Boolean Binding?;
  
  
• Refactoring Swift: Best Practices to succeed by Antoine van der Lee gives good tips on refactoring;
  
  
• Two articles from Marco Eidinger – How to handle popups and alerts in WKWebView on web content navigation cases in iOS apps and good unit conversion guide with new Swift Measurement API – Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and back in Swift.

That's a lot for this week. Have time for rest and some time to read something interesting!

Weekly pack of great articles to read is here. Let's go!

• Sarun W. shares two articles on UIKit and SwiftUI – How to create Rounded Corners Button in UIKit and How to use UIView in SwiftUI;
  
  
• How to manage lifecycle events in SwiftUI iOS applications by Natascha Fadeeva explains SwiftUI app lifecycle in details;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan goes deep dive on debug printing in Swift’s print(), debugPrint(), String(reflecting:), Mirror(reflecting:) and dump();
  
  
• Great overview of Swift sequences by Leonardo Maia Pugliese – Using Sequence Function to Solve Math Problem in Swift;
  
  
• How to Create Custom Header & Footer Using UIHostingConfiguration by Lee Kah Seng explains new collection view customizations;
  
  
• Mastering Dynamic Island in SwiftUI by Majid Jabrayilov focused on iPhone 14 Pro new feature.

That is it for today. Have a great weekend!

But... there is one more thing.

We're adding one more section to this weekly digest. Now we'll add couple of videos that could be interesting for us, developers.

• Susan Kare (known for her work on original Macintosh design) on icons and design;
  
  
• NSSpain X 2022 videos are available for everybody;
  
  
• Talk on importance of tools for developers by Krzysztof Zabłocki.

And now it really is. See you next week!

Apple hosted 'Far Out.' special event. During the presentation three product lines got major updates – Apple Watches, AirPods and iPhones.

Event is available for playback at Apple website.

Apple Watch

New Apple Watch Series 8 has addition of wrist temperature sensor which could monitor ovulation cycles. At the moment, this sensor does not provide absolute temperature readings and could not be used to measure exact body temperature.

Also, Apple Watch now has crash detection which will trigger call to emergency services when it detects a crash.

watchOS 9 will introduce Low Power mode which will provide more battery life by sacrificing some of the features.

Apple also updated Apple Watch SE with new specs.

But main announcement is introduction of Apple Watch Ultra which adds new design and extra programmable action button.

Apple Watch Series 3 are now discontinued.

AirPods Pro

AirPods Pro 2 will feature better noise cancellation, improved transparency mode (marketed as "Adaptive Transparency") which will silence some of the noises while keeping user within the environment.

Touch control on new AirPods Pro will allow volume control by sliding.

iPhone 14

iPhone 14 will come in two models – regular and Plus matching screen sizes of Pro models. iPhone 14 models will use A15 Bionic chip introduced with iPhone 13, screen will also be similar to last year's models.

iPhone 14 Pro models will have A16 Bionic chip and new pill shaped sensor area which will be used as Dynamic Island – this area will be used together with notifications and will be available for the third-party integrations.

All new iPhone 14 will feature satellite emergency SOS connectivity allowing users to send message through satellite connection. Service will be free for two years with all new iPhone 14 purchases.

Pro models will also feature significant upgrades to main camera – sensor is now 48MP. Typically camera will use 4 pixels together, however ProRAW format will allow to get full 48 megapixels for processing.

iPhone 14 US models will not have SIM tray and will rely on eSIM only.

Apple Fitness+ will no longer require purchase of Apple Watch.

Release Candidates

Release candidates are published for iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Xcode 14 Release Candidate is also available.

Apple plans releases for September 12, 2022.

Note that iPadOS 16 will not be released together with iOS. It is assumed that iPadOS 16.1 will be released later in October.

Apple also published iOS/iPadOS 15.7 RC and macOS 12.6 Monterey RC.

Beta download: Operating Systems

Release notes:

• Xcode 14 RC Release Notes
• iOS 16 Release Notes
• watchOS 9 Release Notes
• tvOS 16 Release Notes (no notable changes are reported)