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Apple held its WWDC keynote on Monday, where it showed off the great new features coming to its platforms, but didn’t have time to show all that comes with the new versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. So we scoured the preview pages, Twitter, and a good portion of the internet to see what cool features were left out of the presentation.
The big features of iOS and iPadOS were notification updates, FaceTime, and multitasking, but it seems Apple has really focused on the platforms themselves as well. There are a ton of quality of life improvements, including:
Spanish speakers will be able to choose whether their devices refer to them using masculine, feminine or neutral words. Mail receives a widget and there is also a widget to show you how badly you slept. IPads are getting the ability to scroll through text fields and buttons in apps, as you can do with Macs and in Safari. IPads will support eye tracking hardware to improve accessibility by allowing people to control a cursor using their eyes only.
The Monterey portion of the keynote was dominated by an incredibly impressive demo that showed off Apple’s new universal control feature, but Apple also took the time to discuss shortcuts, which are coming to macOS. Macs are complex machines, however, and there are some other fun and useful things to come this fall:
A software microphone light in the menu to show when an application is listening to you An improved file copy interface, with the ability to pause and resume transfers The easy ability to erase user data, settings and apps without reinstalling the operating system (great if you sell your Mac) The ability to manage saved passwords in System Preferences. You can also import them from other password managers or export them. You can customize the outline of the mouse cursors and the fill color. Windows will resize when you move them to another monitor. Shortcuts will allow you to integrate shell commands. An improved Go To Folder dialog in the Finder
Of course, Apple runs an ecosystem here, so many of the announced features will be coming to all of its computers. Here are others that will also arrive on iPhone, iPad and Mac:
A built-in one-time password generator, similar to Google Authenticator or Authy Safari, will detect if websites can support HTTPS and automatically use it if they do (similar to the HTTPS Everywhere extension). A low-power mode for macOS and iPad (can’t wait to see how far I can stretch a MacBook Pro M1) Reminders are also getting a tagging feature, similar to the one found in Notes. The Photos information box will tell you what Visual Look Up sees in the image. The ability to activate DownTime at any time if you really need to focus on something An extension for Edge on Windows that lets you use your iCloud passwords
Well, Apple showed pretty much everything for WatchOS on stage, it looks like it’s not a great year for wearable (but I’ll be very happy to get always-on display support and more timers). There are some new temporal complications, though!
I just noticed that there is a new set of time complications in watchOS 8. While a bit of Sherlocking for Watchsmith, I’m honestly very glad it’s here. A good number of my gray hair came from the support of time-based complications, happy to be able to focus elsewhere now. pic.twitter.com/q44aVDMoZh
David Smith (@_DavidSmith) June 9, 2021
If you want to know if you will get these features, we have established on which devices the new operating systems will arrive:
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