Apple officially unveiled iOS 13 for iPhone and iPad during this afternoon’s WWDC 2019 keynote. We’re going to update our story with details as announced below.
- New “Photos” tab in the Photos app, easy to scroll by years, months, days, and all. You can scroll through individual days to see all photos taken on a certain day. Same for months and years.
- Photos now removes clutter such as duplications, better organization to “crate a diary of your life”
- Brand new Photo editing experiences, easy to access controls such as Saturation, highlights, contrast, vibrance, white balance, and much more. Also works with videos, and you can now rotate a video directly in the Photos app
- Camera and Photos: New Portrait Lighting options, can adjust the lighting effects – increase intensity smoothes skin for example
- Memoji stickers for Messages, as well as in the system keyboard for other third-party apps
- New Memoji options for makeup, accessories, and more
- New security camera privacy protections in HomeKit: HomeKit Secure Video. The video is analyzed on your resident iPad, HomePod, or Apple TV. Then it is sent to Apple where no one can see it.
- Apple launches “Sign in with Apple” as alternative to signing into services with Google and Facebook. Authentication via Face ID. Platforms can request access to email address, but you can hide it and Apple will create a fake random email that forwards to your real address
- New Privacy options for sharing location with third-party apps: Allow just once, Background tracking Alerts, WiFi and Bluetooth protections
- Share ETA in Maps to quickly send ETA to friends via Messages
- Google Maps-like “Look Around” feature that gives you a 3D street level view of locations, smoothly move down the street to view stores and more
- New launch screen in Apple Maps with favorites, collections for organizing favorites and creating shareable lists, organizing trips
- All-new Apple Maps rolling out to the entire United States by the end of 2019
- All-new Reminders app, rewritten from the ground up. Just type what you want and Reminders will know when and where to notify you, attach photos, Smart Lists , Tasks
- Safari has per website preferences, Mail supports rich fonts
- Dark Mode in Music app, live lyrics support as well
- Redesigned share sheet with suggestions, easier to share things with one tap
- New swipe keyboard built-in to iOS
- Dark Mode is officially here, News, Home screen, Calendar, and more themed with new dark appearance
- Major focus on performance with iOS 13: 30 percent faster Face ID unlock
- App downloads are 50 percent smaller, app updates 60 percent smaller
- 2x faster app launch speed
