Watch's OS2 will enable the fitness apps you already use and will let them add to your all day tracking. And it will support FaceTime audio "for high fidelity calls right form your wrist." You can now read emails - soon you'll be able to reply to them from the watch. And while your watch is charging at night, it acts like a little nightstand alarm clock the wheel and button work to snooze and turn off the alarm. Some of the nice little touches OS2 will add: A new photo album watch face lets you see images from your photo albums switch on your home screen as you move your wrist.
A main thrust is giving developers access to all the watch's features - such as the crown, the microphone and the "taptic engine" - so they can create native apps for the wearable that will improve the user experience. The new version of watchOS is coming just six weeks after the Watch's release. Kevin Lynch, who's in charge of Apple Watch software, said "we're moving really fast on watchOS," the operating system that runs Watch.Īnd how.
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The new iOS 9 will be available for public beta in July and will be a free upgrade in the fall for all devices currently supporting iOS 8. "All of this is done on-device and it stays on device under your control." She'll also be able to search for your photos simply by your description, for instance asking her to "show me pictures from San Francisco last June."Īddressing privacy issues, Federighi said the company is not gathering data on you. "You can say, 'Remind me to grab my coffee off the roof of my car when I get in,' because Siri knows know when you've gotten in your car, or, 'remind me about this,'" and Siri will know you mean the website you were looking at when you said that. This echoes a major theme from Google's recent I/O developers conference, where the company introduced its mind-reading Now on Tap. The new operating system will have "proactive assistance," where Siri can be a more "thoughtful" personal assistant. He said that Siri has had a 40 percent reduction in error rate, down to 5 percent.
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Audience members listen as Craig Federighi, Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference event in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015.įully 83 percent of iOS users are currently running the latest version, iOS 8, Federighi said, compared to 12 percent running the latest version of Android on their mobile devices. There will be a public beta in July and free upgrades for users in the fall. El Capitan is available to developers today.
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