What to Expect at WWDC 2022: iOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9 and Possibly New Macs

Apple’s thirty third annual Worldwide Builders Convention is about to kick off on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. Just like the 2020 and 2021 occasions, it will likely be held in a digital-only capability, so it’s free for all builders worldwide to attend.

The keynote occasion will give us our first have a look at new working system updates, together with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9, plus rumors recommend we might see some new {hardware}. All the things we have heard about this yr’s occasion is printed beneath.

iOS 16

Many of the rumors about ‌iOS 16‌ have been imprecise, so we all know little in regards to the working system replace presently. In years previous, new variations of iOS have leaked out early and have given us perception into the function set that is coming, however that did not occur this yr.

That mentioned, we now have heard some rumors about what to anticipate, with a lot of the knowledge sourced from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, who has dependable sources with data on Apple’s plans.

Rumored New Options

• Overhauled Lock display screen with wallpapers which have “widget-like capabilities.”
• There will likely be “vital” enhancements to notifications, although we do not know particular particulars.
• Messages app with “social network-like performance” with a selected give attention to audio messages.
• Well being app with expanded sleep monitoring performance and medication administration. Apple is engaged on a device that may let customers scan their capsule bottles into the app, plus there are new ladies’s well being options anticipated.
• Recent Apple apps are within the works, with no extra particular data.
• Apple can be engaged on “new methods of system interplay,” but it surely’s not fairly clear what meaning.
• New Health+ exercise varieties.
• Apple Music classical app with interface primarily based on Primephonic, an app Apple acquired in 2021.

Doable Options Based mostly on iPhone 14 Rumors

• All the time-on show for iPhone 14 Professional and Professional Max (not coming till September).
• Seemingly revamped standing bar interface for ‌iPhone 14 Professional‌ and Professional Max to accommodate gap punch and capsule design that’s anticipated to interchange the notch on these gadgets.
• The iPhone 14 fashions are anticipated to get a automotive crash detection function, which might dial emergency companies routinely when a collision is detected. This could require new ‌iOS 16‌ performance.
• Apple can also add a satellite-based emergency function to the ‌iPhone 14‌ fashions, which might be supported in ‌iOS 16‌. This function would let iPhones ship texts in emergency conditions when there isn’t any mobile protection, and report main emergencies when protection just isn’t out there.
• ‌iOS 16‌ might embody help for the purchase now, pay later function for Apple Pay that Apple is growing.
• Equally, it might introduce help for the {hardware} subscription program that may let prospects pay a month-to-month charge for an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

For extra on what we’re anticipating in ‌iOS 16‌, we have a devoted iOS 16 roundup.

iPadOS 16

iPadOS 16 will get lots of the new options which can be launched in ‌iOS 16‌, however Apple can be engaged on extra performance that is ‌iPad‌ particular.

With iPadOS 16, Apple is aiming to make the ‌iPad‌ behave extra like a laptop computer than a smartphone, and the brand new ‌iPad‌ software program will likely be one of many largest updates introduced at WWDC.

The replace will function a redesigned multitasking interface that makes it simpler to swap between duties and see which apps are open, plus it’s going to enable customers to resize home windows. Apple additionally plans to implement new methods for customers to take care of a number of apps without delay, in what seems like a way more Mac-like multitasking expertise.

macOS 13

We do not know a lot in regards to the function set coming to ‌macOS 13‌, as there have been few leaks. It’s rumored to function an overhauled System Preferences interface that may convey it extra in keeping with the Settings app on ‌iPhone‌ and ‌iPad‌, with the replace to incorporate particular person settings organized by app.

Apple can be anticipated to revamp among the default apps, so we might see enhancements to Messages, Mail, Safari, and extra. Messages particularly is rumored to be getting social network-like performance with enhancements to audio messages. That is an ‌iOS 16‌ rumor, however Messages often has function parity throughout platforms.

As for naming, ‌macOS 13‌ could possibly be macOS Mammoth, primarily based on Apple trademark filings. Apple manner again in 2013 registered emblems for a lot of California landmarks and Mammoth is the one which’s been saved lively the longest, although its standing is unknown presently and Apple has prior to now chosen some names that had been by no means on that checklist, so the naming is not sure.

watchOS 9

watchOS 9 may have some updates that influence the day-to-day operation and navigation on the wrist-worn gadget.

• Up to date energy saving mode that may enable for the usage of apps and options whereas reducing down on battery utilization.
• Expanded atrial fibrillation detection function with added “burden,” aka how typically an individual is in a state of atrial fibrillation throughout a time period.
• Improved well being and exercise monitoring.
• Extra exercise varieties.
• Extra metrics for working exercises.
• Refresh for present watch faces.

tvOS 16

tvOS does not typically get as many new options as different working system updates, and we do not know lots about tvOS 16, however it’s rumored to incorporate new sensible dwelling tie-ins. You could possibly do extra along with your sensible dwelling merchandise by means of the Apple TV following the launch of the replace.

{Hardware} Potentialities

The previous a number of WWDC occasions have targeted solely on software program and haven’t included {hardware} bulletins, so it is not but clear if we’ll see any {hardware} unveiled at this yr’s occasion. If we do, the beneath listed gadgets are the almost definitely candidates.

MacBook Air

If Apple does plan to introduce new Macs on the occasion, the MacBook Air is the gadget we’re prone to see, in accordance with Bloomberg‘s ‌Mark Gurman‌. Apple is reportedly “aiming” to introduce the ‌MacBook Air‌ on the occasion, however COVID-related provide chain points in China might stop Apple from doing so.

The following-generation ‌MacBook Air‌ is anticipated to function a complete design overhaul with a MacBook Professional-like form that does away with the tapered physique. It is going to be thinner and lighter, and it’s anticipated to are available in a number of colours, together with house grey, silver, a champagne colour, and blue. The ‌MacBook Air‌ is anticipated to function slim off-white bezels and an identical off-white keyboard, and it could possibly be round 13.6 inches in measurement.

The ‌MacBook Air‌ will most likely be geared up with a next-generation M2 chip, which is anticipated to function the identical variety of computing cores because the M1 (eight), however it’s going to embody velocity enhancements that make it marginally quicker. It is usually rumored to have improved graphics with 9 or 10 GPU cores, up from seven or eight within the present ‌M1‌ ‌MacBook Air‌.

The ‌M2‌ chip would be the first improve to the M1-series chips that Apple has been utilizing in Apple silicon gadgets to this point. Although many rumors have prompt the ‌MacBook Air‌ will function an ‌M2‌ chip, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple might give attention to the redesign fairly than new chip expertise.

He has mentioned the next-generation TSMC N3 and N4P fabrication processes will not be prepared for mass manufacturing till 2023, so Apple will solely be capable to introduce an iterative replace anticipated to make use of the identical N5P chip used for the A15 and the ‌M1‌.

Extra on the next-generation ‌MacBook Air‌ could be present in our 2022 MacBook Air information.

Mac Professional

Again in 2019, the redesigned modular Mac Professional was proven off at WWDC forward of its late 2019 launch, and there is a risk that we might see an identical unveiling this yr.

Apple’s {hardware} engineering chief John Ternus confirmed on the spring occasion that there’s an Apple silicon model of the ‌Mac Professional‌ within the works, and it’s anticipated to be coming sooner or later in 2022.

Apple might maybe give us a small preview of the ‌Mac Professional‌ forward of a launch coming later within the yr.

Rumors recommend the ‌Mac Professional‌ will function a chip much more highly effective than the M1 Extremely used within the Mac Studio. It’s anticipated to function as much as 40 CPU cores and 128 graphics cores, which might make it twice as highly effective because the ‌M1 Extremely‌.

Apple might introduce an ‌M1 Extremely‌ successor that’s in reality two ‌M1 Extremely‌ chips linked collectively, because the ‌M1 Extremely‌ itself is actually two related M1 Max chips. If that is the case, the upcoming ‌Mac Professional‌ chip will likely be 4 occasions as highly effective because the ‌M1 Max‌.

AR/VR Headset?

There have been rumors final yr that Apple’s long-rumored AR/VR headset might see an introduction on the 2022 Worldwide Builders Convention, but it surely appears to be like like that is not going to occur.

Bloomberg‘s ‌Mark Gurman‌ and Apple analyst ‌Ming-Chi Kuo‌ have mentioned that the headset is just not able to be launched at this time limit, as Apple nonetheless has kinks to work out. Kuo believes that Apple will launch the headset in 2023, and Gurman has mentioned that Apple doesn’t have plans for a “full-blown announcement” of the headset at WWDC.

That mentioned, a trademark for “realityOS,” the working system for the headset, was found not too long ago, and it encompasses a overseas submitting date deadline of June 8, 2022. That is a authorized requirement, and it seems that the date is unrelated to WWDC and is a coincidence.

MacRumors Protection

Apple plans to reside stream the WWDC keynote on its web site, the ‌Apple TV‌ app, and YouTube, however for these unable to observe, we’ll be protecting the occasion on MacRumors.com and thru the MacRumorsLive Twitter account.

We’ll even have in-depth protection of all of Apple’s bulletins all through the remainder of the week and going ahead as we check the brand new software program.