What was revealed at wwdc 2017

You can even drag and drop files right from one window to another, just like you would on a computer. Apple expects them to start shipping next week. Other than its more aggressive coloring, it also features some powerful innards: It can hold up to a 4 TB solid-state hard drive, GB of memory, as well as run two 5K monitors and two RAID data storage arrays at once. On top of the new iMac Pro, Apple refreshed just about its entire line of Macs today. Apple also revived its long-sidelined MacBook Air, upgrading it to a slightly more powerful 1.

One of the more surprising announcements at the convention was that Apple is now working to support virtual reality systems on its computers. After the keynote, journalists could try out the Vader demo, as well as a few games from the HTC Vive library. The experience felt no different than it did playing on a Windows computer. Apple even had VR headsets connected up to MacBook Pro laptops, which however did require an external graphics card to power the VR experience. Perhaps the most impactful announcements Apple made today concerned iOS, its mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads.

Rather than redesigning the entire experience, Apple decided to change specific pieces of the software and add new features into existing platforms like iMessage and Siri. Swiping up from the bottom of the iPhone screen will reveal a new Control Center, the bevy of buttons used to manipulate things like wireless connectivity, screen brightness, and music. The new Control Center is all on one screen, rather than a series of pages that the user swipes through. Apple says Siri will be in even more places on the phone, reading iMessages and browsing history to help predict when you want to see information, create events, or even type certain words.

Siri can also now translate English to Chinese, French, German, and a few other languages. On the iPad, iOS 11 will bring an entirely new app switcher and bottom dock like the one on traditional Mac laptops , as well as a new file explorer app.

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Animals need infrastructure, too By Ben Goldfarb. Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for The Weeds Get our essential policy newsletter delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up! This sets the stage for a 4K-capable Apple TV in the fall, since now there's one more third-party library with a huge library of 4K content. A new watchface powered by Siri automatically displays the information that's most relevant to you, based on the apps you use most. Siri will automatically pull up the next item on your calendar, your reminders, even photo memories to remind you of that adorable picture you took of your dog last year.

WatchOS 4 also brings new fitness features, like motivational messages to help you hit your exercise goals and integrations with gym equipment to better track your workouts.

You can even sync playlists to your Apple Watch and listen to them through your AirPods while exercising without your phone nearby. Those updates will come to Apple Watches this fall. Apple stuffed all kinds of new capabilities into its latest update for iOS: Look forward to new features on Maps, like a "do not disturb while driving" integration, and Photos, like the ability to make loops of your live photos remember those?

Messages comes integrated with more apps, including Apple Pay, which lets you pay your friends directly through a text. There's also a totally redesigned App Store, and a refresh on the control center, which now packs all of your notifications into a single page. All iOS devices will get the boost later this year. Read about the nine key features on iOS 11 here.

Facebook, Google, and everyone else in tech is investing heavily in AR, and Apple is no exception. Using computer vision, your iPhone can now detect surfaces and add AR objects on top of them—like putting an AR coffee cup on top of an IRL table—and move them around while keeping everything to scale. How developers will use these new capabilities isn't clear yet; it could be with games, informational apps, or something else entirely.

Siri has a new, more humanlike voice with way more functionality. Ask the virtual assistant to translate for you "Hey Siri, how do I say 'Where's the bathroom' in Chinese?