The novel Training Load app analyzes exercise intensity during training, tracks training duration and changes in effort over time. The novel Vitals app passively monitors your health throughout the day and may even suggest that you’ve had too much to drink.
What is the password?
On the security front, Apple also creates its own dedicated password app on its operating platforms. It works like many other password managers in that it allows you to generate robust passwords for all your logins. It keeps all your credentials organized by storing logins, passwords and verification codes and flagging potential password leaks and security breaches. It’s also available to Windows users in iCloud for Windows.
Click “This is for me.”
Apple’s payments app has a novel feature that allows users to transfer money much easier than before. With Tap to Cash, you can initiate a mobile payment and then hold two iPhones together to transfer money from one user to another. This will make it much easier to repay your friends for a round of drinks. (Sorry, Venmo, you did well.)
Smarter AirPods
Apple’s earbuds will gain novel gesture controls that will let you nod to answer an incoming phone call or shake your head to reject one. They also get better insulation and noise-canceling features, so you can have clearer conversations at your local jackhammer conventions.
Primetime TV+
Apple will be adding several software features to its streaming TV platform. Some accessibility updates have been made, such as improved subtitles that appear when you mute a dialog or when you rewind a fragment to play it again.
There’s also a novel “In Sight” banner that appears when you pause your viewing experience. It shows the names and faces of the actors on screen, as well as the characters they play. It can also identify any song playing on stage. (Amazon Prime Video also does this with a feature called X-Ray.)
Face the future
Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset only launched in February, and Apple has already announced the first major update to its face computer operating system. The Vision Pro didn’t get great reviews at launch, so VisionOS needs some improvements to keep the conversation moving forward.
VisionPro’s biggest update will be available for 3D photos, which will include a feature that makes regular photos look like 3D photos by giving them stereoscopic depth and movement.
Apple is also improving spatial video by partnering with companies such as Vimeo, which offers the player as a novel app in VisionPro. Still no YouTube though. (Apple says the Vision Pro can run 1.5 million compatible iPhone apps.)
Apple is adding better hand gesture recognition to VisionOS and offering a solution called Train Support to make Vision Pro work better for people traveling by train.
Apple says it will make Vision Pro available in more countries in the coming months, including China, Japan, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.