Podcast Episode Details

WWDC 2021: Apple's iOS 15, spatial audio, macOS Monterey, and more

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Episode 454

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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Chris Welch discuss all the announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that took place this week.

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• COVID-19 hospitalization rates in adolescents went up during March and April
• Where did the COVID microchip conspiracy theory come from anyway?
• The pandemic might cut down e-waste but widen the digital divide
• Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements
• Apple previews iOS 15 at WWDC 2021
• The best features of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that Apple didn’t announce onstage
• Apple’s Siri will finally work without an internet connection with on-device speech recognition
• Watch Apple’s Siri blaze through requests with on-device processing
• You’ll soon be able to use your iPhone as ID at the airport
• Apple adds welcome privacy features to Mail, Safari
• Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage
• With iCloud Plus, Apple’s privacy promise is paired with an upsell
• Apple’s privacy-focused Private Relay feature isn’t coming to China
• Apple Music’s spatial audio is sometimes amazing but mostly inconsistent 
• macOS and tvOS are getting spatial audio support with the AirPods Pro and Max
• Apple Music begins rolling out lossless streaming and Dolby Atmos spatial audio
• Apple introduces Siri for third-party devices
• macOS Monterey lets you run Shortcuts and share files between Macs and iPads
• Apple may have done the coolest drag and drop demo ever
• How Universal Control on macOS Monterey works
• Published on 4 years, 6 months ago