With a Planet Earth-style introduction documenting the “great migration made by one of the world’s most mysterious species”, also known as software developers, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d tuned into National Geographic rather than the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4. But the goodhumored video raised early-morning spirits in the McEnery Convention Center and set Tim Cook up for another impressive keynote.
For Apple enthusiasts, developers and critics, WWDC 2018 was always going to be a quieter state of affairs than previous events, following rumors Apple was scaling back features in its operating systems to work on performance and security enhancements. But that doesn’t mean to say that this year’s conference wasn’t as impressive or innovative as predecessors; in fact, 2018 is set to bring some of the biggest innovations to iOS and macOS since their inceptions.
In this special edition of AppleMagazine, we present to you a timeline of WWDC 2018 and give you an insight into some of the biggest developments and changes you can expect this year.
iOS 12: BETTER PERFORMANCE AND HUGE APP DEVELOPMENTS
Apple kicked offWWDC with a bang, jumping straight into iOS 12 and the features it would release later in the year. After a brief introduction from Tim, who revealed that iOS 11 had a 95% customer satisfaction rate, Craig Federighi took to the stage to tell developers that they had been working on “top to bottom improvements that will make your device faster and more responsive”, and announcing iOS 12 would be available on all of the same devices as iOS 11.
New performance features mean that apps will launch up to 40% faster on the iPhone 6 Plus, with the camera opening up to 70% faster than before. Following last year’s battery slowdown scandal, which Apple revealed was to boost performance on older devices, these improvements will no doubt be a welcome addition to users who haven’t upgraded to the latest model.
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