Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple just updated every single one of its products. And released some new ones as well.
The company is holding its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, and kicked it off with its most wide-ranging event of the year.
As well as updating the software for all of its products, as it always does, the company showed off. That included updates to the iPad and Mac line – but most of all was the Siri speaker, a talking music system for the home.
Find full coverage on each of those releases – iOS 11, the new macOS, a new Siri and the HomePod speaker – below.
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Ah – it was a trick! Craig Federighi is back on stage to talk even more about iOS 11, and specifically how it relates to the iPad. The "biggest release for iPad" than ever before.
There's a whole new dock. As well as being the thing at the bottom of the screen that we all know and love – it's now much bigger and can be brought up from the bottom of every screen.
Drag and drop, as rumoured, has also arrived. So you can pull images, text, URLs, and other things, between different apps on your iPad. It's a "drag fest", says Federighi – you can drag as much as you want with various hands.
There's a new app – Files – that is a place to deal with all of your files in one place. So, for instance, you can save a document into your Files app. Then you can head there and just grab a file (using drag and drop) and carry it over to somewhere else
Files is big: the idea of iOS since Steve Jobs announced it was that people wouldn't ever see files, or have to think of them, and each file was stored within its own app. This completely blows that apart, and puts in a more traditional but equally radical way of thinking.
(All of this is being demonstrated using a fake presentation about adding drone defence to Apple Park, by the way.)
The iPad can now recognise your handwriting in Notes. That means that you can note something down in the app, for instance, and then look for it later on using the search function in Spotlight.
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