The Vergecast

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

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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
  • FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
  • Apple is building video and music sharing into FaceTime
  • Apple announces watchOS 8 with new health features
  • Apple’s new health features bring new focus to elder care technology 
  • Apple lets users see family members’ Health data
  • Apple announces iPadOS 15 with homescreen and multitasking improvements
  • Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud streaming stick
  • Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor
  • Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds announced / review
  • Google’s first folding Pixel is apparently still on track for a 2021 reveal
  • Clubhouse and its clones have an accessibility problem
  • Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat

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