- Welcome to the AppleInsider Daily for June 7, 2023. I’m William Gallagher, sitting in for Charles Martin, and today Apple chose to follow up all of its WWDC announcements with a bundle of extra news about its services.
- Apple Maps, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, they’re all getting new features and improvements. Some of them, such as SharePlay in the car were mentioned at WWDC, but now we know that your passengers will be able to control your Apple Music even if they are not themselves subscribers.
- Presumably that’s a good thing.
- As is karaoke. With a combination of updated iOS, Apple Music Sing, Apple TV and — this is key — Continuity Camera, families and friends will be able to sing together and watch themselves do it.
- If they must.
- If you’d rather run a mile than sing, then the new updates coming to Apple Maps will help. One lets you download maps for offline access when you’re off the beaten track, and speaking of tracks, thousands of walking ones are being added to Apple Maps to help you find the right hiking location, distance, and difficulty, for you.
- Whereas when it’s time to find someone or something else, there are changes coming to Find My, too. You’ll be able to swiftly send your location to friends who are looking for you.
- It’s not clear how that’s going to be different to what you can already do with Messages on iPhone. Right now, if you just type the words “I’m here” in a message, the suggested autocorrections that appear just above the keyboard change to a button called “Current Location”. Tap that, and a map of exactly where you are is shown to you and sent to them.
- Perhaps very significantly, Apple is going to update AirTags so that they can be shared. The intention is that you can take your AirTag and nominate up to five more people who can access it as if it’s their own.
- So all six of you can search for it in Find My, and none of the six of you will get that warning about unknown AirTags tracking you.
- The benefits are obvious, but the disadvantages may not be. Apple’s AirTags have unfairly been maligned for how they help stalkers — unfairly because all trackers do exactly that and the most prominent one, Tile, didn’t add any anti-stalking features for a decade - but the decision to add groups looks to be a step backward.
- If you are in an abusive relationship, for instance, you could now be forced into adding your abuser to the AirTag group. Or that abuser could force you to join their group, so that they can place their AirTag with you and you won’t get the anti-stalking warnings.
- Somewhat more cheerfully, and since you’re listening to a podcast, hopefully more relevant for you, Apple says it will be adding new detail to shows on Apple Podcasts and in their episode art.
- Also, if you already subscribe to news sites such as the Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post, you will be able to connect that subscription to Apple Podcasts. That way you’ll get new shows and unspecified other benefits with your subscription.
- And if you get your general news fix via Apple News+, you’ll be able to put the world out of your mind for a few moments and play the new daily crossword puzzle.
- That puzzle has already been spotted in the beta for iOS 17, and is doubtlessly distracting many a test user even as we speak. 
- We’ll know more about how subscriptions, AirTags, and location sending — and so very, very many more new features — when they are released some time in the fall. The smart money says they’ll come out with iOS 17, but Apple isn’t specifying a date yet.
- Similarly, we won’t know until next year when the Vision Pro is released, but there is already speculation about spectacles. Apple and Zeiss have partnered up to offer prescription corrective lenses for people who wear glasses, and want to buy a headset.
- There’s no news of how much these will cost, but speculation bordering on total guesswork, says they’ll be at least $300.
- Given that even though it’s reduced the top price of a Mac Pro from around $55,000 to about $7,000, Apple still sells Mac Pro wheels for four hundred bucks, it could be right.
- More confirmed, actual details about the Vision Pro headset have been coming out as the Worldwide Developers’ Conference continues its week of sessions for app developers. One thing that has emerged is about writing on the Vision Pro.
- As glimpsed in the keynote presentation, when you use a Vision Pro app that you need to type in, a virtual keyboard appears in the air in front of you.
- What we’ve learned from the latest developer sessions is that, yes, Apple knows the truth: no one is going to write an 80,000-word novel by wiggling their fingers in midair.
- Apple says instead that this virtual keyboard will only be useful for quickly tapping out short pieces of text.
- For those 80,000 word novelists, Apple did mention using the Magic Keyboard with the Vision Pro headset at WWDC.
- And for those feature film makers, there’s been a first leak claiming that Final Cut Pro video editor will be available for the Vision Pro headset at launch.
- We already knew that since Vision Pro lets you take a MacBook Pro screen and display it at any size or angle, that you would be able to work with apps like Final Cut Pro.
- But this leak from a YouTuber suggested that the video editing app would be available within the Vision Pro and says it’s going to “completely change filmmaking, storytelling and content creation.”
- Speaking of content creation, though, if you would like to support the AppleInsider Daily podcast, we are now accepting sponsorships. See the show notes for details of who to talk to, as well as for links to all the stories covered today.
- In the meantime, that’s it for this AppleInsider Daily for June 7, 2023. I’m William Gallagher, thank you very much for listening.
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