WWDC 2018: Apple reveals major Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac updates – as it happened
Augmented reality, Siri updates and new apps
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken to the stage at his company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) to unveil iOS 12 – the next major software update for the iPhone – as well as new apps and features for Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone and Mac.
"We now have over 20 million Apple developers worldwide," Mr Cook said as he opened the keynote, which paid tribute to them through a video in the style of a nature documentary.
The Independent covered all of the event and the fallout live from San Jose, where the event is being hosted.
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Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, is now on stage to tell us what we have all been expecting: iOS12
"For iOS 12, we're doubling down on performance."
iOS 12 will be available on all the same devices that iOS 11 is on. But it will be faster, better and more efficient. Apps will launch 40 per cent faster.
We're on to augmented reality now. "AR changes the way we have fun and the way we work," Federighi says.
Abhay Parasnis from Adobe has been invited on stage to talk more about how ARKit tools will come to Creative Cloud.
This looks pretty impressive actually. Using the AR features in the app, it's possible to measure the dimensions of objects, such as a suitcase.
You can also use Measure in iOS 12 to project virtual objects into the real world to see how much space they will take up. Federighi pulls up an electric guitar.
Here's the opening video – like something straight from Planet Earth.
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