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WWDC 2022: rumors about iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13 and watchOS 9

Summary of rumors and news about Apple's new OS

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WWDC 2022: everything about iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13 and watchOS 9

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The WWDC 2022 will be held on June 6 and the countdown for one of Apple's most anticipated events of the year has officially begun.

We are really running out of steam.

Obviously, for months we have been full of leaks and rumors about the new Cupertino operating systems and The first rumors about iOS 16 are already starting to emerge First of all, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9 and macOS 13.

Let's analyze together what we've discovered so far.

All the news of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

Let's face it, we're all eagerly waiting to discover the news that Apple has in store for the new iPhone and iPad operating systems.

Let's start today with the summary of the expected news for iOS 16 and iPadOS 16.

New features coming soon

As for the new iPhone operating system, “presumed images” of iOS 16 have been running online for a few months now, probably super fake.

The peculiarity of the images, however, lies in the new functions shown:

  • new widget design, Apple could present a new 'InfoShack' function that would make - finally - the widgets interactive and therefore actually clickable
  • optimization of privacy, it seems that Apple is working to further improve the work done on iOS 15 with the privacy issue with the anti-tracking system “App Tracking Transparency”, working on make it even more difficult to track browsing data with the expansion of the Privacy Relay launched last year but still in beta and, therefore, a possible new official function of iOS 16
  • Improving full immersion, new features and greater customization options
  • improvement of the Health app, flagship functionality that could also integrate with iOS 16 the management of medicines and real sleep monitoring

Obviously, all these news will also flow into iPadOS 16, Apple's operating system for tablets that will also receive a very important update: total redesign of the management interface of multitasking.

For more information on the news coming to iOS 16 and iPad OS 16, here are my articles about it:

And if you're really obsessed with iPad Pros like me, here's an article on a patenting Really interesting filed by Apple regarding a magnetic keyboard that, connected to the iPad, Transform the iPad OS interface into something very similar to macOS:

All the news in watchOS 9

The rumors that have come out so far about watchOS 9 are few but, in my opinion, really interesting.

New features coming soon

Basically, according to the news that has come out so far, the news coming to watchOS 9 are:

  • Health app improvement, with the evolution of the app on iOS 16, it is natural that there are also updates on the smartwatch operating system. Apparently Apple will introduce, for the new Apple Watch models, the possibility to measure fever directly from the wrist.
  • Refreshed at WatchFace, finally a redesign of the Apple Watch dials that, however functional, are starting to need an aesthetic update
  • new energy saving mode, the rumors speak of a real revolution thanks to a new mode that should allow users to save energy while having the opportunity to use some basic apps and functions (currently the low power mode of Apple Watch only allows you to see the time)
  • new atrial fibrillation monitoring system, able to analyze and track the time in which the user reported the dangerous and widespread heart condition, called “Burden”
  • News for sport with new workout tracking metrics
  • new sleep monitoring system

For more information about iOS 16 here is my article about it:

What's new in macOS 13

Unfortunately, we don't really know anything “certain” about MacOS 13, if you are curious to read some hypotheses and more information, I'll leave you my article about it:

Conclusions

In short, like every year Apple always puts a lot of meat on the fire and rumors always know how to whet our curiosity.

Let's wait until June 6 and get ready for the small new Apple revolution of 2022.

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