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WWDC 21 Keynote Roundup — Here’s everything Apple announced at WWDC 2021.

Ranjithkumar Matheswaran
9 min readJun 7, 2021

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Overall roundup of what’s been announced in the WWDC 21 Developer event. Notes from the Keynote event Streamed live on Jun 7.

What’s New — Overall (iOS, iPad OS, macOS, watchOS)

Facetime

SharePlay — Lets you to watch TV shows and movies, share your screen or listen to music with Family and friends.

Shareplay
  • Watch Videos / Listen to Music together
  • Share Screen

Spatial Audio — Facetime calls now have the Spatial Audio, like the sounds are coming from the direction where the person is positioned.

Grid View / Portrait model in Facetime — Grid view for larger group. Speaker is automatically highlighted.

Mic Modes — Mic modes to improve the audio quality or improve the surrounding sound effects.

  • Voice Isolation
  • Wide Spectrum

Facetime Links — Schedule a facetime call and gives you an URL to share. Share it to anyone and they can be able to join from any device.

Facetime for Android and Web — You can send to non-Apple device users, and they can join from Android or Web from a browser.

Messages

Shared with you — Links, Photos, Articles, Music, TV Shows link etc shared in the Messages appears in a separate tab in the respective apps. Apps that support this feature are Safari, News, Apple Music, Apple Podcast, Apple TV, Photos.

Shared with You tab.

New Memojis — Choose outfits for your Memoji and new stickers.

Photo Collage — Sharing multiple images in the Photos app makes them as a collage. Tap on the collage to see…

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Ranjithkumar Matheswaran
Ranjithkumar Matheswaran

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