WWDC 2025

[Cmaier]

Tapping out on the thread updates - I have to do some real work!

 

[dada_dave]

I like the call/messaging screening.

 

[Cmaier]

The mac spotlight stuff is very nice.

 

[Cmaier]

clipboard history!

 

[Cmaier]

Lot of apps getting sherlocked today

 

[dada_dave]

The mac spotlight stuff is very nice.

We hear you Unix freaks like the command line …

 

[Renzatic]

Have they brought up anything about iPadOS 19 or 28 of whatever they're calling it? That's what I'm most interested in.

 

[dada_dave]

I may have over-egged the pudding! The group labs mention Metal and gaming and there is this advert on twitter.
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It seems that Metal will feature prominently along with owls and pigs.

You got Metal 4! (We’ll see about the full feature list)

 

[Jimmyjames]

You got Metal 4!

You must have typed that as they announced it! Are you sure you don’t work for Apple?? Lol.

Now time for the details

 

[Cmaier]

We hear you Unix freaks like the command line …

we really really do.

 

[Cmaier]

Have they brought up anything about iPadOS 19 or 28 of whatever they're calling it? That's what I'm most interested in.

saving for last, looks like. I’m hoping that means they really started from scratch on multitasking.

 

[Cmaier]

ipados multitasking:

Maclike!

 

[Jordanmarkstone]

You must have typed that as they announced it! Are you sure you don’t work for Apple?? Lol.

Now time for the details

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers

Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

www.apple.com

“Metal 4 is designed exclusively for Apple silicon, and sets the stage for the next generation of games on Apple platforms with support for advanced graphics and machine learning technologies.
Developers can now run inference networks directly in their shaders to compute lighting, materials, and geometry, enabling highly realistic visual effects for their games.”

 

[Cmaier]

overlapping arbitrary sized windows, traffic light buttons.

grab handle in bottom right to resize. Apps remember size and position and launch in the same place.

Trackpad gives a pointer now (arrow-style).

Tiling - flick window to edge. Grabber between windows to resize both.

Click-and-hold on traffic lights to see more tiling (like map)

Expose! swipe up from bottom trackpad.

 

[Cmaier]

Menu bar!

 

[Renzatic]

saving for last, looks like. I’m hoping that means they really started from scratch on multitasking.

Honestly, the only thing I believe they need to do is to make the dock act like an actual dock, a'la MacOS, and allow all the apps opened from it to share the same desktop space. That would improve the multitasking experience in iOS so much.

 

[dada_dave]

Developers can now run inference networks directly in their shaders

Apple software advancements often predate their hardware development (see ray tracing). Strong implication combined with @leman’s patent snooping that Apple will be accelerating ML inference on the GPU in M5.

 

[DT]

All the v26 stuff looks great! Hahaha, the Craig follow up to the iPad updates was pretty funny "A menu bar, amazing!"

Some great improvements all around, the new UI design language looks solid, some excellent Car Play updates.

 

[dada_dave]

All the v26 stuff looks great! Hahaha, the Craig follow up to the iPad updates was pretty funny "A menu bar, amazing!"

The self deprecating sarcasm was indeed amusing

 

[Joelist]

Decent stuff. No hardware as has been their custom of late.