Continue to keep up with the changes, although Matter hardware is already ready to go out. If you’re an IoT developer, you’ve been watching Matter as it slipped its release dates. Matter is a common API for smart-home devices, poised to replace all the existing (and incompatible) standards out today, and Apple’s been a strong contributor to the Matter standard. What it means: A Home app rewrite is not surprising. There will be a redesigned Home app experience for users that brings everything together - and everything includes Matter devices. HomeKit Gets UpdatedĪfter leaving it to languish for quite a while, Apple is now focusing again on HomeKit. It’s likely that Apple will implement more in the Wallet than just the IETF RFCs, but developers who want to provide cross-platform support for hotel or car keys may be able to use similar infrastructure for all platforms. What it means: Credentials in the Wallet can be sent outside the iPhone ecosystem - and credentials from outside can come in. Apple says it’s “working with” the IETF to support the IETF standard for secure credential transfer. Right now, Arizona and Maryland are the only entities that recognize Wallet for driver’s licenses. Standards For Wallet CredentialsĪpple Wallet adds order tracking but still faces regulatory hurdles. This means opportunity - you might find it easier to register yourself as a provider of something within iOS - but also competition, since more than one app may be competing for an intent. It sounds as if Apple wants to make intents more widely available. What it means: Apple’s had intents for a while as part of SiriKit. There was a curious throwaway remark about app intents that got squeezed in without any detail right after talking about keyboard integration with dictation on device and before APIs for live text. Apple suggested using live activities instead of push notification for frequent updates, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see additional restrictions on how many pushes can be sent from the same source over a short time.įocus changes will mean additional restrictions on what can be displayed - and, perhaps, what can be run, as well, as Apple works hard to improve battery life by sending out-of-focus apps to sleep. Whether it’s widgets that can display information or a live activities API to provide limited interaction, iOS developers should be thinking about what can be done before users authenticate. What it means: More capabilities appear to be accessible from the lock screen. Lock screens are now available with different focuses, and navigating from one lock screen to the next can change focus on the device. Lock Screen RedesignĪs expected, the majority of what was announced for iOS focused on the redesigned lock screen - or screens. I’ll run through a few of the things that are of most interest to developers. There were a lot of new features added to things that cross many of Apple’s technologies, so we heard announcements about features in iOS, for instance, that also applied to macOS and iPadOS. Much of that is due to iPadOS - it’s having trouble deciding if it wants to complement iOS or macOS. This year, the announcements were disjointed. Instead, it’s a way to feature Apple’s latest, and from time to time we’ll hear, “And for developers, there’s an API.” Although the rest of the conference is aimed squarely at developers, the keynote treats development as subordinate. Apple brought us its latest vision of the future at the 2022 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
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