Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker
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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That's all for watchOS 4 now. We're speeding along here and we're now onto the Mac.
"We wanted to spend this year perfecting" macOS, says Craig Federighi.
The new macOS is called High Sierra. That's suggests it's like the relationship between Lion and Mountain Lion – the current one is called Sierra, so it's more of a tightening up process rather than an entire new operating system.
Craig Federighi is making jokes about weed. (He did weed jokes before, when Apple first started calling macOS versions after areas of California.)
A lot of nice little tweaks: Mail uses 35% less disk space, for instance. Photos has new organisation tools. And Safari will stop those annoying autoplaying videos from ruining your experience.
But refinements aren't the "main story". The main story is: "technology". We're about to find out what that means.
Apple is rolling out an entirely new file system for the Mac: APFS. That isn't as dramatic as it seems for users, though it will mean that everything's a lot faster and more reliable.
(APFS came to iOS last year, and you might not even have noticed that it did – it all happened very quickly and without many problems.)
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