Greg Joswiak & AR head Mike Rockwell join John Gruber to talk iOS 12, iOS apps on macOS, more
As has become the norm over recent years, John Gruber was joined by a pair of Apple executives for his live episode of The Talk Show at WWDC. This year, Mike Rockwell, Apple’s head of augmented reality, and marketing executive Greg Joswiak, joined Gruber to talk iOS 12, augmented reality, and much more.
macOS 10.14 tidbits: Custom accent colors, updates via System Preferences, more
Much like with iOS 12, we’re continuing to learn more about macOS 10.14 Mojave as we dig deeper into the first beta release. While we just took a closer look at the new dark mode design, the update includes a handful of smaller changes that are worth noting as well…
Apple stops offering watchOS 5 beta 1 due to ‘an issue that occurs while updating’
After making it available yesterday, Apple this evening has seemingly removed the watchOS 5 developer beta from its website. The company doesn’t elaborate as to why the build has been removed, though it acknowledges the unavailability on its website…
Hands-on: 100 iOS 12 changes and features [Video]
iOS 12: How to create custom Siri Shortcuts
Siri Shortcuts is Apple’s answer to a more robust personal assistant across their product line. A near visual clone to its predecessor Workflow, the new Shortcuts app brings deeper automation to iOS devices. Developers will be create “donations“, specific actions within their apps, that can then controlled by Siri. By chaining these donations together, users will be to personalize Siri requests to fit their personal use cases.
During the WWDC 2018 keynote, Apple demoed just how much Shortcuts is able to accomplish. Kim Beverett from the Siri Shortcuts team created a custom shortcut that allowed her to: send someone a message on her ETA, navigate to her home, set her HomeKit thermostat to 70 degrees, turn on her fan, and then play her favorite NPR station.
Although Siri Shortcuts isn’t officially out yet, even on the iOS 12 developer beta, we can surface a lot of this functionality with the currently available Workflow app. Let’s dive in.
Behind the scenes at Apple’s WWDC Podcast studio setup [Gallery]
During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this week, the company has a podcast studio setup for the second year for both press and developers to use for recording on-site. This year, the studio was decked out in a 3D version of Apple’s WWDC graphics made out of what felt like a styrofoam-like material.
I got a tour of the studio today along with our resident podcaster and 9to5Mac Happy Hour and Daily host Zac Hall, and sat in to record today’s episode of our Daily podcast.
Head below for a look at the WWDC podcast studio…
watchOS 5: How to manually connect to Wi-Fi
Arguably, one of the more infuriating things with Apple Watch Series 3 is the Wi-Fi functionality when away from iPhone. Previously, Apple Watch would inherit its list of Wi-Fi SSID’s from your iPhone, with no way to see or modify that list.
9to5Mac Daily 088: June 5, 2018
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watchOS 5: You can now access Control Center and Notification Center from inside apps on Apple Watch
watchOS 5 includes a fantastic new time saver, that for some reason Apple opted not to mention in the keynote.
You can now access Notification Center and Control Center panes from anywhere in the watchOS interface. On previous versions of watchOS, you always had to swipe from the clock face; swipe from the top to open notifications, swipe from the bottom and access the system toggles and control shortcuts.
With watchOS 5, you can access both of these screens from inside any Watch app. You can still swipe up or down from the watch face like normal, but to avoid conflicts with in-app navigation, the gesture to reveal Notification Center and Control Center has an extra necessary step. Here’s how …
Why you should probably wait to install iOS 12 and the other betas
With WWDC every year comes new beta versions of all of Apple’s operating systems. This year, we got iOS 12, macOS 10.14 Mojave, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12. All are currently available to developers and are meant for testing purposes. After all, they are betas and are buggy.