Apple is overhauling Apple Maps with a range of new features, including more detailed maps, time-specific navigation, and improvements to transit directions.
Apple is introducing a new Find My feature that will make it difficult to accidentally leave behind an Apple device or third-party tracking accessory.
Later in 2021, Apple will roll out a suite of privacy features across its operating systems, including new anti-tracking protections in Mail and a microphone indicator light in macOS Monterey.
Apple's new Live Text feature will allow macOS Monterey users to interact with written information in images and photos in a variety of ways.
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that recent iOS software updates "damaged iPhones by dramatically lowing processing speeds and battery life."
Apple will give users with free iCloud accounts unlimited, temporary storage to facilitate data transfers to new devices.
Apple has made a number of updates to its App Store Review Guidelines, clarifying existing policies and adding new requirements for app makers.
Apple is introducing a number of new Safari features that will debut across macOS, iPadOS, and iOS — including new tab groups and support for extensions on mobile
Apple's new Xcode Cloud allows development teams to more easily collaborate, even when working remotely, and it automatically builds apps for all Apple devices and platforms, freeing up a developer's Mac to accomplish other tasks.
A multitude of improvements are coming to Apple's HomeKit platform later this year, led by a new industry interoperability standard called Matter that will see support from Apple and others, helping to unify the smart home market.
Apple is bringing Siri to third-party devices and platforms for the first time, allowing HomeKit-supporting companies to integrate the assistant into their devices.
In the fall of 2021, Apple is adding a suite of new features to Health that will make it easier for users to understand health trends, communicate with doctors, and monitor loved ones.
Paid iCloud subscriptions will soon have access to an enhanced iCloud+ feature, including a Private Relay VPN, a new Hide My Email capability, and support for unlimited secure HomeKit video cameras.
Apple's AirPods lineup will gain several improvements later this year. This includes a new Conversation Boost feature to help people with mild hearing challenges. It also features integration with the Find My network to locate lost items and support for Spatial Audio on Apple TV in tvOS.
Apple is vastly expanding the types of cards and documents that can be added to Wallet, including IDs and driver's licenses in certain states and more types of keys.
Apple will now allow users to plan FaceTime calls in advance, and the video calling platform will also support non-Apple devices like Android smartphones.
Twitter is allegedly getting close to launching its long-anticipated "Super Follows" feature, which would provide paid access to bonus content supplied by popular personalities on the microblogging service.
Whether you're looking to light up your desk for better visibility or want to level up your aesthetics, Govee's Flow Pro light bars may be what you're looking for.
Apple quietly updated the "hashflag"icon used for the hashtag "#WWDC21" during the weekend before WWDC itself, changing the "thumbs-up" Tapback graphic from Messages for one showing exclamation points.
Twitter has been suspended in Nigeria, after the microblogging service removed a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari about regional successionists in the country.
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