Bloomberg details Apple’s upcoming new features, including Calculator in watchOS 6 and revamped Health Reminders for iOS 13

Bloomberg today released a detailed study outlining but about of the previously mentioned features coming to Apple platforms at WWDC 2019, including previously unknown enhancements similar a dedicated Calculator app for Apple Watch in addition to revamped Reminders in addition to Health apps inwards iOS 13.

Mark Gurman, writing for Bloomberg, has learned that but about of Apple’s WWDC 2019 highlights include upgrades to core iPhone apps such every bit Maps, Reminders in addition to Messages, every bit good every bit novel apps for Apple Watch that arrive to a greater extent than independent from iPhone, plus enhancements to the wellness tracking capabilities of Apple devices.

Apple plans to add together the App Store straight to the Watch in addition to then users tin download apps on the go. This could opened upwardly up huge novel opportunities for exterior developers, boosting app installations.

But Apple has its ain novel Watch apps inwards the works, too. There volition hold upwardly novel wellness applications, a Calculator in addition to a Books app for listening to good books from your wrist, the people familiar amongst the plans said.

Here are the expected changes…

iOS 13

Codenamed “Yukon,” iOS thirteen volition convey additional tweaks to brand the devices run faster in addition to trim back bugs, including interface changes like:

• A novel animation when launching multitasking in addition to closing apps.


• A cleaner human face for the widgets.


• A system-wide Dark Mode described every bit  “a dark in addition to grey-heavy” interface optimized for viewing at night


• A novel keyboard option that lets yous swipe across letters on the keyboard inwards 1 motion to type out words, similar to but about third-party keyboard apps similar SwiftKey.


• A novel characteristic similar to Duet Display in addition to Moon Display that volition allow yous work an iPad every bit a instant Mac hide amongst the mightiness to pull amongst an Apple Pencil, expand the viewing expanse in addition to acquire Mac notifications.


• A refreshed Reminders app amongst 4 sections seat out inwards a grid: tasks to hold upwardly done today, all tasks, scheduled tasks in addition to flagged tasks. “Each department has its ain different-colored page that users tin add together items to,” the study reads.


• A revamped Health app amongst a novel Hearing Health department that includes things similar how loud yous play music on your headphones or the loudness of the external environment, plus to a greater extent than comprehensive menstrual cycle tracking.


• Screen Time volition allow parents limit who their kids tin in addition to cannot contact at for sure times.


• A refreshed Books app volition lead an updated progress tracker in addition to a novel rewards arrangement to encourage people to read to a greater extent than books.


• iMessage volition allow yous seat a profile moving painting in addition to display name, every bit good every bit select who sees it. There’s also a dedicated bill of fare inwards the conversation thought to ship sticker versions of Animojis in addition to Memojis.


• Maps volition allow yous create groups of frequent places in addition to add together a photograph to them, every bit good every bit arrive easier to navigate to a frequent location.


• Find My Friends in addition to Find My iPhone are merging into a novel app, code-named “GreenTorch.”


• Mail volition gain per-thread muting, elementary folder administration in addition to blocking incoming e-mail from for sure contacts.


• A novel system-wide Sleep Mode inwards Control Center turns on Do Not Disturb, darkens the Lock Screen in addition to mutes all notifications. It could also integrate amongst time to come Apple sleep-tracking devices, similar a novel Apple Watch model.


• The Home app will hold upwardly to a greater extent than integrated amongst safety cameras in addition to lead the mightiness to thought by recordings.


• The Share sheets interface volition hold upwardly to a greater extent than organized, suggesting people to ship content to based on how often yous interact amongst them.


• A downloads managing director inwards Safari allowing iPhone in addition to iPad users to access downloads inwards a unmarried place.


• The Files app volition piece of work improve amongst third-party software.


• iPad is getting an updated multitasking interface, Home hide tweaks in addition to the mightiness to cycle through dissimilar versions of the same app.


• The Accessibility sub-section volition hold upwardly moved to the primary page of the Settings app in addition to will better integrate hearing assistance support.

Apple is reportedly already working on iOS 14, codenamed “Azul,” for 2020. That release, Gurman writes is expected to back upwardly 5G wireless network speeds in addition to novel augmented reality functionality for 2020’s iPhone.

watchOS 6

The biggest alter inwards watchOS vi is a standalone App Store:

Apple is adding the App Store straight onto the Apple Watch in addition to then users tin download apps on the go, making the device to a greater extent than independent. Users currently install novel apps via the Watch companion application on their iPhone.

Watch faces in addition to complications are also getting but about much-needed love.

Apple is adding to a greater extent than sentinel confront complications, which demonstrate additional snippets of information beyond but the time. There volition hold upwardly 1 that shows the condition of good books, but about other showing the battery life of hearing aids in addition to others that mensurate external dissonance in addition to pelting data.

The companionship is also planning several novel sentinel faces: a Gradient confront that makes a slope human face out of a color the user chooses, at to the lowest degree 2 novel X-Large faces that demonstrate jumbo numbers inwards dissimilar fonts in addition to colors, a California dial that looks similar a classic sentinel confront in addition to mixes Roman numerals amongst Standard Arabic numerals, a redesigned Solar Analog sentinel confront that looks similar a sundial, in addition to a novel Infograph Subdial 1 that includes larger complication views similar a stock marketplace nautical chart or the weather.

Check out other tidbits.

• Apple Watch is getting its ain Voice Memos app for making vocalization recordings from their wrist.


• Your Anomoji in addition to Memoji stickers volition sync from an iPhone.


• Apple Watch is getting a Books app for listening to good books from the wrist.


• Also novel inwards watchOS 6: a Calculator app.


• And finally, 2 novel health-related apps inwards watchOS vi include a pill-reminder app called Dose in addition to but about other called Cycles to rails menstrual cycles.

macOS 10.15

As previously reported, macOS 10.15 volition let iPad apps run on Macs. Next year, the Cupertino companionship volition expand that characteristic so iPhone apps could run on Macs, too. Beyond 2020, Apple volition merge iPhone, iPad in addition to Mac apps into unmarried downloads, amongst the study speculation that the companionship could eventually also merge the dissimilar App Stores into a unmarried service.

iOS’s Podcasts app in addition to the novel merged Find My iPhone in addition to Find My Friends app are coming to macOS. “There volition also hold upwardly a novel Apple Music app, which is beingness developed every bit a measure Mac program,” reads the report. Other tidbits include Screen Time for Mac, back upwardly for effects in addition to stickers inwards Messages, integration amongst the Shortcuts app, a refreshed Reminders app in addition to upgrades to the Books app.

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