SharePlay works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and with shared playback controls, anyone in a SharePlay session can play, pause, or jump ahead.
While using Group FaceTime, a new grid view enables participants to see more faces at the same time.Ī new FaceTime feature called SharePlay will allow users to share experiences, including listening to songs together with Apple Music, watching a TV show or movie in sync, or sharing their screen to view apps together. Portrait mode is also coming to FaceTime, and designed specifically for video calls, so users can blur their background and put themselves in focus. Additionally, new microphone modes separate the user’s voice from background noise. This includes support for spatial audio, which should make voices in a FaceTime call sound as if they are coming from where the person is positioned on the screen.
FaceTimeĪpple is making some major enhancements to FaceTime, which it says will make calls feel more natural. What we got today included news of major updates to FaceTime and Notifications, Live Text using on-device intelligence, Home Screen and multitasking improvements for the iPad, and enhancements for Safari, Maps, Weather, and Wallet. This year Apple did a much better job of keeping things under wraps. Last year there were plenty of leaks ahead of WWDC which left Apple with very few surprises to Spring. However, we will state where Apple has indicated that a feature will be only available on one of the platforms. Many of the below features will be coming to both iOS and iPadOS, so it makes sense to discuss the two platforms together. Read on for our summary of some highlights of today's announcements.
What we didn't get today, was any hardware news, so those waiting to place an order for the much-anticipated redesigned MacBook Pro will have to wait a little longer. Apple today kicked off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with the traditional keynote presentation.Īs was the case last year, WWDC 2021 is an all-virtual event, with the keynote consisting of prerecorded video presentations that focused primarily on the next major revisions of Apple's operating systems for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.