WWDC 2022: All the news in one place!

With just hours to go before Apple’s WWDC keynote kicks off, the rumors are still rolling in. Stay tuned to this post as we continue to monitor the latest developments and rumors as we count down the hours to the big show.

WWDC: How To Watch

You can watch the WWDC keynote using the TV app on your Apple TV, iPhone, iPad or Mac, or by going to the Apple events page at Safari. Or you can watch the event below on YouTube.

WWDC: Live Updates

12:58 PM ET: damn Right Pt. 2 of Audry Nuna and DJ Snake playing

13:00 Dutch time: Tim Cook kicked off the keynote with “a big day of announcements about our technologies and platforms.”

13:05 o’clock: Tim talks about Apple’s developer initiatives around the world. A “big week ahead.”

13:05: Craig Federighi takes us down to talk about iOS 16. New intelligence, sharing and communication features.

13:06: ALL NEW LOCK SCREEN

13:08: Choose photos, fonts, colors, widgets

1.10 pm: Notifications come in from the bottom, Live Activities offer “compact and uncluttered updates”

1.12 pm: Focus filters let you work in detail with focus modes

1.13 pm: Edit posts!! Messages Undo Send!!

1:15 PM: SharePlay in Messages

1:15 PM: On-device dictation allows you to “smoothly switch between speech and touch”. Keyboard stays open so you can edit without leaving the dictation interface

13:17 o’clock: Live text comes to video. Pause a video and grab text from any frame.

1:20 p.m.: Wallet: Share keys with other users on iOS and (coming soon) Android

13:21: Apple Tap to Pay is coming this month. With Apple Pay Later, you can split the cost of everything you buy into four payments with no interest or fees

13:22: Apple Pay orders coming soon

13:23: Maps routes with multiple stops, add additional stops while driving with Siri in CarPlay

13:26: Follow teams and leagues on the new Apple News My Sports tab

13:29: Faster setup, better parental controls in Family Sharing

1:30 PM: iCloud Shared Photo Library, share with up to five other people

1.33 pm: Personal safety, quickly disable someone else’s access to location and passwords with Safety Check

1:37 PM: All new Home app

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1:40 PM: Next-generation CarPlay with deep integration with the car’s hardware

1:42 PM: Personalized spatial audio for ‘more precise’ listening.

1:45 PM: 4 new watchOS faces: Astronomy, Lunar Watch face, PlayTime, Metropolitan

1:46 PM: New banner notifications, pinned apps

1:47 PM: New training views to see more stats at a glance

1:48 PM: Better tracking for running, triathletes

1:50 PM: Fitness app available for iPhone tp contribute to daily exercise goal

1:51 PM: Sleep stages to detect which sleep stage you are in

13:52: View your complete Afib history

1:53pm: Track, manage and receive notifications for medicines. Scan label with iPhone camera

1:56 pm: NEXT GENERATION APPLE SILICON: M2

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2:00: M2: 8-core CPU (4 high-perf cores, 4 high-efficiency cores), 10-core GPU

14:02: ALL NEW MACBOOK AIR FULLY REDESIGN AROUND M2

14:05: Liquid Retina display (with notch), new blue color, MagSafe, fanless, same battery life, fast charging with 67W adapter

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2.10 pm: 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2, same design

2:11 pm: MacBook Pro $1,199, MacBook Pro, $1,299″

2.13 pm: macOS 13 Ventura

2:14 pm: Stage Manager, puts windows on the side and puts the app front and center

2:16 pm: Spotlight has better search, rich results and the ability to take actions

2:18 pm: Mail: Biggest Search Revision in Years

2:20 pm: Safari Shared Tab Groups, share tabs and collaborate with friends and family

14:21: Passkeys use powerful cryptographic keys and biometrics to replace passwords, cannot be phishing or leaked

2:22 p.m.: Passkeys begin the transition away from passwords

14:23: Metal 3/Metal FX Upscaling increases game performance. No Man’s Sky, Resident Evil Village coming later this year

14:26: Handoff comes to FaceTime, switches calls between devices

2:27 pm: Continuity Camera lets you use your iPhone’s camera as a webcam for your Mac

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14:31: WEATHER APP on iPadOS 16

14:32: iPadOS 16 collaboration lets you quickly share to conversations in Messages

14:35: With the Freeform app coming ‘later this year’ you can collaborate on a whiteboard on all devices

2:39 p.m.: Better gaming with Metal 3, background APIs

2:40 pm: DESKTOP CLASS APPS

14:41: Undo, find and replace customizable toolbars system-wide

2:42 p.m.: Reference mode for color accuracy with iPad Pro

14:43: M1 Features (iPad Pro and iPad Air): Switch Virtual Memory, Scaling Display

14:44: macOS 13’s Stage Manager comes to iPadOS16

2:47 pm: Developer beta today, public betas next month, release this fall

14:48: It’s a wrap! Stay tuned to Macworld for full coverage.

WWDC: Last Minute Rumors

Apple Store Offline: As usual, Apple has taken its online store offline in preparation for today’s keynote. The message is different: instead of “Be right back,” with an Apple logo, there’s a WWDC image titled “Developing News.” Underneath it reads: “We are updating the Apple Store. Please come back after the event and stream on apple.com or in the Apple TV app. Notably, this marks the first time since 2017, when Apple opened the Apple online store. at a WWDC keynote that year, the HomePod and iMac Pro were unveiled, but they didn’t ship until much later.

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MacBook Air: Mark Gurman and Ming Chi Kuo’ agree that Apple plans to launch a redesigned MacBook Air at WWDC. However, it may not come in the variety of colors we expected. Gurman says rumors of a range of new colors are “probably exaggerated” and Kuo says the new laptop will come in “three standard colors (silver, space gray, gold), plus [probably] a new color.”

To add fuel to the rumor, a listing for a 14-inch MacBook Air with an M2 processor, 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage was discovered at B&H Photo. However, a tweet by Shawn C. Steiner, who identifies as a B&H Senior Manager of Web Creative Content, says B&H has previously made product listings that are “guess based on rumours” (more on that later), and that could be what’s going on here is and with the…

13-inch MacBook Pro: gurman says the schedule for the 13-inch MacBook Pro has been “thrown off” due to inventory shortages and is likely to launch sometime in the fall. 9to5Mac too discovered a listing at B&H Photo for a 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 processor, but again, this is probably B&H’s guess based on rumours.

Mac mini tower: Another B&H photo frame, this one for one Mac mini tower with 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage and an M1 Pro processor. A B&H representative says this listing was created as a guess for “the latest event” and was never removed from the site.

M2 Mac mini: Another “guess” list from B&H Photo that was never deleted, this one is one M2 Mac mini with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage.

Mac pro: Ian Zelbo, the artist responsible for Front Page Tech’s Apple concept artwork, thinks B&H also gave away the impending release of an Apple Silicon Mac Pro by labeling the current model as “Item Discontinued”. (However, we have not been able to confirm this. Everything models of Mac Pro which we can see there appearing as available for purchase, with expected delivery ranging from two to eight weeks.)