![]() In my personal experience when comparing Apple Maps to Google Maps, Waze and Tomtom’s apps, I find that Apple Maps is consistently the worst in giving directions and showing the current speed limit. We don’t even have cycling direction here, the number one cycling country on the planet! The “all-new city experience” looks great, the new driving features look genuinely useful, but of course, it’s not available in the Netherlands. Right when Craig said “Apple Maps is the best way to navigate your world” I had to laugh, and then rolled my eyes: “yeah right”. Notification summary: since it relies on Apple’s AI, I am not too sure about this one. Redesigned notifications: finally added contact photo to Message notifications. I do like that in Messages, the sender of a message can see that you have silenced notifications with DnD or Focus. I already use Do Not Disturb extensively so I am not sure what the benefit of the new Focus mode would be for me. But why are Memoji still not available in a stand-alone app? Missed opportunity. ![]() I would’ve much rather seen improvements to the pretty horrible UX of the Messages app - I still struggle with all the features they cramped into that app. They showed it off using Apple News which reminded me: still not available in The Netherlands. The new Shared with You feature is something I don’t really care that much about, I don’t see myself using it. Will this make me start using FaceTime more? To be honest, I doubt it, but it definitely has a better chance now. Plus SharePlay, which I don’t see myself using, ever. Then there are the spatial audio, portrait mode and Voice Isolation mode improvements, which are all nice to have as well. And most importantly: anyone can join via the web, even people on Android and Windows PCs. You can finally share your screen, so it now becomes a valid tool for pair programming remotely or giving tech support to family members. You can view a grid of all participants, which is how I always set up Meet and Zoom as well. It seems that many of the reasons why I never use FaceTime have been addressed this WWDC: you can now create meeting invite links to share in sms, email or calendar invites, just like you can with Meet, Zoom and Pop. With a client I’m working for we use Zoom, and with my mentees I use Pop (formally Screen). During COVID my Dungeons & Dragons sessions have moved online, and our group uses Google Meet. I almost never ever use FaceTime - maybe once or twice a year with my mom, and that’s literally it. ![]() Let’s go over the major features that were announced today. Not only am I simply a bit tired of Apple and their predatory practices, but the features announced today are too often not available in the Netherlands, or they’re just not features I see myself using.Īs a quick side node, an incomplete list of things that are not available over here: Apple News, Fitness+, Apple Card, Siri on Apple TV (even when everything is set to English), the new improved Apple Maps, cycling directions in Apple Maps, sharing Health info with your doctor, ID in Wallet, HomePod, Apple Watch cellular (they don’t even sell the stainless steel models here because of it) To be honest, I was a bit disappointed this year. If you ask me, I think yearly releases are overkill and really not necessary I’d rather have Apple split off features like Weather, Maps, Notes and more into separately updated apps, and have less frequent and bigger OS updates where there is less focus on Apple’s apps, since they wouldn’t be part of the OS anymore. A new year, a new WWDC with once again new iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS releases.
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