What’s the Point that macOS Supports iOS App

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Apple has confirmed one important thing at its annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC 2018) to preview iOS and macOS would not merge, but the Company also has given a sneak peek at a multiyear project to bring iOS applications to the macOS platform. What’s going on here? What are the possible changes to macOS or iOS, let’s check it out according to our research.

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Will iOS and macOS Merge?

Most people concern about whether iOS and macOS will merge in the feature, now the answer is no! from Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice President of software engineering, who was in the interpretation of the Metal, Create ML and Core ML 2, clearly pointing out that these technologies redefine limitation of apps in the feature, which can be used not only on Mac, but also available on iOS. So that’s what technology has in common. As a result, he added, “will iOS and macOS merge

When being asked this question a lot: “Are you merging iOS and MacOS?” At the company’s WWDC, Senior VP Craig Federighi wanted to tackle it head-on, saying, “I’d like to take a moment to briefly address this question. NO. Of course not.”

“iOS devices and MacOS devices of course are different,” Federighi said. “That makes porting an app from one to the other some work. We wanted to make that much easier. We’ve taken some key frameworks from iOS and brought them to the Mac.” Federighi said.

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Why is Everyone Obsessed with Mergers?

According to Craig Federighi, the question should come from other sources. Perhaps the key to the problem is the many powerful features of the Mac serial, or some new integration technologies further enrich the experience. All of those opinion means more technology of iOS and macOS in the same direction now, which makes people think they’re going to merge deservedly.

macOS supports iOS app will mean what?

Well, that might mean macOS and iOS will more like each other in the feature, no matter in performance or features, the two platforms may take a more integrated route, rather than merging.

What’s Meaning that macOS Supports iOS app

Apple definitively confirms iOS and MacOS will not merge on the one hand, but it apparently aware of the big challenges of platform migration on the other hand. The combination, it would have to debug tens of thousands of code or reedit functional fragments, which are a huge and amazing project, no less than developing another system. However, Apple does not deny that doesn’t mix the two systems, but confirmed iOS itself is from macOS, this two similar underlying platform, shared a lot of code, there is a lot of common technology, this time also directly will be the key to the iOS architecture directly into the macOS platform.

“Long-term, I do think we will see iOS and macOS merged. This is a stepping stone,” letting developers to leverage iOS software for Mac apps, he said. “This isn’t easy.”

Apple Decide Slow Down the Development Progress of macOS to Ensure Software Quality

Apple Decide Slow Down the Development Progress

Lately, Apple’s reported plans to delay some features for iOS 12 until next year in 2019, in order ensure that high stability and performance of the system available for every software.now, the decision is similarly extending to the Mac, with the seam situation, macOS will follow the same approach this year.

Apple Decide Slow Down the Development Progress

According to Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg News, Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi disclosed the revised plans during a meeting with employees earlier this month. While Craig determining the iOS development effort, he is also certain that the new functionality deferred plan is also extending to macOS, but it reportedly will not affect the development cycles of watchOS or tvOS.

In the past, Apple is always focus on the quality of its current software, such as bug fixes, performance improvements, and the general stability of its operating systems.

The company told its software engineering groups about the change this month, one of the people said. The shift will also affect this year’s update to Mac computer software, but to a lesser degree, the person said, adding that planned upgrades to Apple Watch and Apple TV software won’t be affected.

Actually, in the past for a long time, the secure bug exposed in macOS is not less than in iOS, for example, a month ago, a major security vulnerability that enabled access to the root superuser account with a blank password on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.1. Apple promptly fixed the critical bug in a security update. Just weeks later,other security flaw in macOS High Sierra version 10.13.2 that allowed the App Store menu in System Preferences to be unlocked with any password.

However, in the last few weeks, Mac users came through other flaw “chaiOS”, when click on the link results in a system crash. There are multiple bugs in a short period of time, and all of them are errors that lead to serious consequences, which obviously shouldn’t happen. It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Apple has delayed the launch of new features for stability. In 2015, iOS 9 encountered a similar problem, when Apple also delayed the development schedule.

How about this delay will work, just wait and see.

Whoops, iTunes won’t be Available in the Microsoft’ Windows Store This Year

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Earlier this year at Microsoft’s Build conference, the company revealed it was working with Apple to get iTunes installed in the Windows Store, aiming to let users find that app easier in Windows. The promise was that it would be available by the end of 2017, but now it looks like that won’t be happening.

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HomePod isn’t the only thing that needs a little more time from Apple before it ships. Similarity, iTunes now has the same, now ZDNet reports that the promised deadline will indeed be missed.
Here’s Apple’s statement to the publication:

“We have been working with Microsoft to deliver the full iTunes experience to our customers and we need a little more time to get it right,” said an Apple spokesperson via an emailed statement.

The author of the ZDNet article says they’ve heard that the plans still remains for iTunes to come to the Windows 10 Store (which is now the Microsoft Store) at some point.

Most of Windows users can download iTunes from any website but only except Windows Store, now the users from Windows 10 S are temporarily unavailable to use iTunes, because this version that only runs software from Windows 10 Store.

However in macOS, Apple had seeded iTunes 12.7.2 in last week. The update didn’t bring any notable new features, but Apple said it included apps and performance improvements, which are always popular when we talk about iTunes. According to Apple, the new iTunes focuses on music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks.

Apple made a major change to the type of content which provided to the app earlier this year when released iTunes 12.7. In that upgrade, iTunes 12.7 had deleted application, iTunes U, internet radio, Rings and Categories like books on Windows. Clearly, Apple is looking to simplify iTunes and make it easier for users to focus on music and video.

macOS will not Support 32-bit Applications in Next year by the Start of 2018

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Apple’s Developer site on December 1st had shared a reminder that starting January 1st, 2018 32-bit Mac apps will no longer be accepted. After iOS 11 no longer accepts 32-bit applications, today’s Mac will also start to abandon 32-bit applications.

macOS will not support 32-bit Applications

Apple emphasized in the statement: Starting January 1, all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store must support 64-bit architecture, while existing apps must be updated to 64-bit by June 2018. Apple recommends that if you distribute your app outside of the App Store you should update your app to run 64-bit as well. This is due to the fact that macOS High Sierra will be the last macOS release to support 32-bit architecture.

The macOS High Sierra will be the last operating system to support 32-bit apps. Apple has also suggested to developers that they would need to update their existing 32-bit apps to 64-bit before June 2018. The apps to be submitted after January 2018 should also be 64-bit ones.

Obviously, Apple is taking the “mandatory” approach of cleaning up 32-bit applications just like things happened in iOS 11. According to the relevant statistics company, 1.9 million 32-bit apps on iOS 11 had been eliminated by Apple, including 40 thousand games and in the rest of which are mostly education, entertainment and life apps. For Apple, whether it’s iOS or macOS, to use 64-bit apps, meaning to make the device run faster and more smoothly, if you don’t obey, you will be uprooted!

Apple also advised developers, on the other hand, if not through the Mac app store, developers launch applications, but also had better to use 64 – bit architecture, because after that, macOS High Sierra will be the last support 32-bit applications of the operating system.

Apple also shared its support site for distributing Mac apps:

As a reminder, new apps submitted to the Mac App Store must support 64-bit starting January 2018, and Mac app updates and existing apps must support 64-bit starting June 2018. If you distribute your apps outside the Mac App Store, we highly recommend distributing 64-bit binaries to make sure your users can continue to run your apps on future versions of macOS. The last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromise is macOS High Sierra.

 

Apple iOS 11 & macOS High Sierra Beta 5 Now Available to Developers

Apple iOS 11 & macOS High Sierra Beta 5

 Apple iOS 11 & macOS High Sierra Beta 5

Earlier in this morning Apple just officially launched fifth betas both of iOS 11 & macOS High Sierra preview to developers, which mainly focuses on fixing existing bugs, introducing new bugs.

Apple today seeded the fifth beta of an upcoming macOS High Sierra update to developers for testing purposes, two weeks after seeding the fourth beta and two months after introducing the new software at the 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference.

Also the fifth betas of watchOS 4 and tvOS 11 have been launched by Apple today.

The main features of macOS High Sierra introduced in macOS Sierra, focusing on new storage, video, and graphics technology. It introduces a new Apple File System (APFS), High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), and an updated version of Metal with support for VR and external GPUs.

A few APPs have been updated in macOS High Sierra, The Photos app is being updated with a new sidebar that makes it easier to access editing tools and albums, new editing tool (Curves) and more revamped filters have been introduced into Photo.
Safari is gaining speed enhancements, an option to prevent autoplay videos, while Siri sounds more than a person. There are also improvements to iCloud, FaceTime, Messages, and Notes.

If you want to know more information about macOS High Sierra, please click our previous stories:

Besides, on the other hand, iOS 11 fifth developer beta preview brings new features like iCloud Messages Delayed, new icons, Control Center music changes and more.

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Where can you download betas 5?

iOS 11 developer beta 5 can be downloaded now from the iOS Settings app, or visit here to have it downloaded. macOS High Sierra 10.13 beta 5 is available in the Mac App Store, and tvOS 11 beta 5 and watchOS 4 beta 5 can be downloaded through their respective software update mechanisms as well.

In current time, macOS High Sierra is available for both registered developers and public beta testers, while iOS 11 beta 5 is limited to developers, and there are will be several updates before its fall public release. The final versions of iOS 11, macOS High Sierra, and watchOS 4 are set to be released this fall with the coming of new generation of Apple.

Everything New with Apple’s Photos app in macOS High Sierra

  Everything New with Apple’s Photos app in macOS High Sierra

  Everything New with Apple’s Photos app in macOS High Sierra

Apple just released the first public beta for MacOS High Sierra on Thursday, many of the biggest changes to the software are ones you can’t easily recognize, but it is surely that many new features have been updated into Photo app in macOS High Sierra.

That’s because Apple spent more time on improving core technologies and performance than on flashy new features. Apple did pay particular attention to its Photos app, which is getting a ton of upgrades with High Sierra.

New Features in Photo for macOS High Sierra

As a photo fan, I think you’re ready and looking forward to learn more new changes in Photo to better manage. In last post, we have introduced the favorite new Photo features in MacOS High Sierra include expanded sidebar, better organization, new Photo editing tool (Curves and Selective Color) and revamped filters, in this page, we will continue to list more new features that will certainly influence Photo when using, keep reading to learn more.

Live Photos editing

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Speaking of Live Photos, you can now edit Live Photos on your desktop with Photos much the same way as you can with iOS 11. A few new effects are brought to iOS 11, and even in High Sierra, Apple hasn’t forgotten to upgrade the editing feature in Live Photos.
The Loop effect puts the Live Photo in an infinite loop. The Bounce effect plays the action backward and forward. The Long Exposure effect blurs the moving parts of the image while keeping the still parts the same.

Take a detailed example to show how useful of these added editing features to take blurred water flowing and extended light trails: usually it needs a DSLR or a manual camera app along with a tripod. But, after having Live Photos’ Long Exposure effect, you can achieve a similar look without any additional equipment.

Users can trim or mute the clips. Also, there’s an option to select a cover photo for each Live Photo.

Works great with third‑party apps.

Photo apps on Mac can now be better integrated with third-party application tools. For example, you can now open a picture from third-party editing applications directly from Photos and the edits made in it can be synced seamlessly with the Photos app. now this new feature is supporting Adobe Photoshop and Pixelmator. To achieve the above mention, all you need to do is just right-click the image and share it with Photoshop or Pixelmator.

It also supports for third-party project extensions to help you access publishing and printing services like Animoto, ifolor, Shutterfly, WhiteWall and Wix, right within the Photos app.

Other features and improvements

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The Memories feature introduced in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra automatically curates the best pictures from your library and then displays them as slideshows. In High Sierra, the Photos app gains more intelligent categories like babies, weddings and birthdays in an effort to showcase even more personal moments.

Mac Photo is getting better and better

Tracing the history of Photo app development, Apple removed iPhoto and Aperture in 2014, whic were the most popular and welcomed by users at that time with the launch of OS X Yosemite operating system, and with the new replacement of brand-new Photo for Mac was born. A lot of users got upset about missing features like the star-rating system and geotagging photos. Since then, Photos has improved in many aspects by Apple, but the lack of such beloved features shows that Apple’s app still has a long way to go.

After all, Photo app in brand-new macOS High Sierra has great improvements. It’s a great step forward in photo management and basic editing. Do you like the improvements in new Photo? Just feel free to leave your comment.

Apple Releases Sixth Betas for iOS 10.3.3 and macOS 10.12.6

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Apple has released the sixth iOS 10.3.3 beta for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, meanwhile, it has also released the sixth macOS 10.12.6 beta for Mac, which just a weeks ago Apple released fifth betas both of them.

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Although iOS 10.3.3 beta 6 is possibly unable to run the last beta of iOS 11 system equipment, except new wallpaper in 12.9-inch iPad Pro, no significant changes is found in this latest beta.

As a matter of fact, there are no significant feature updates or bug fixes in the previous five betas of iOS 10.3.3, which indicates that iOS 10.3.3 is only updated in a smaller scale, besides, it’s focusing on security updates, bug fixes, and other minor improvements.

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Moreover, iOS 10.3.3 might be the last operating system version update of iOS 10, because Apple has shifted its focus to iOS 11 for the coming new iPhone 8 and 7S on fall this year. The first beta was launched to developers on June 5, and now it has already two betas in all.

Same as iOS 10.3.3, the previous five betas has no significant feature change, design adjustment or notable bug fixes were found in macOS 10.12.6. Due to no notification of beta by Apple, therefore, it is not clearly to know what is contain in the explanation content.

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Certainly, the focus on the Mac operating system by Apple will also be transferred to macOS High Sierra after Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, so macOS 10.12.6 might be the last updated of Sierra systems.

So many “last” version of Apple system, users must cherish the memory of today’s version now. And if you’re interested in macOS High Sierra, you can check out our detailed article on both here, and here respectively.

macOS High Sierra Public Beta is Now Available (Part I)

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Earlier last month on June 5 at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple seeded the first public beta of macOS High Sierra to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to download and test the update for the first time. And Apple just had launched the first Public Beta of macOS High Sierra at the end of last month on June 30.

Apple just launched the public beta of macOS High Sierra. It’s available to download now if you’re feeling brave or you can download it from App Store on your Mac.

in last two articles, we have initial introduced the New Features in macOS High Sierra, If you haven’t read it, go to the first part and second part for scanning general situation. Now it is about the real use experience of the first Public Beta.

New Core Technologies of macOS High Sierra

macOS High Sierra is paving the way for Mac with a variety of innovative in the future. New core technologies make Mac faster and more powerful than before. These new core technologies include:

APFS

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In last page, we had also listed the new feature in macOS High Sierra: APFS is an entirely revamped, modern file system that’s optimized for solid state storage. Apple adopted the hierarchical file system at the very beginning, which is what we are familiar with HFS. Subsequently, Apple introduced its own HFS+ file system, and has been in use ever since.
New Apple File System (APFS) has solved couple of problems exist in HFS and HFS+. Honestly, most users haven’t realized these problems on their computers. In order to fix the hard drive capacity problem that limit to HFS+, APFS adopts the 64-bit APFS index node, that is file ID, while HFS+ used 32-bit, so you can think this is a great process that APFS have made.

APFS can still support the local single-key and secret-key cryptography, that is to say, users can use the FielVault to encrypt or decrypt individual files and folders, and lock/unlock the entire hard drive. Spotlight search is also a little faster than beforedue to the search itself and the capacity of the hard disk. for most users, in a word, what APFS can bring is absolutely obvious: it makes you hard drive run faster and safer than before.

New Video Standard

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As more and more popular of 4K video,High Efficiency Video Encoding (HEVC aka H.265) is coming in macOS High Sierra, and many of the existing apps are being updated. Frequency compression rate can be improved as high as 40%. While maintain the same video quality, video streaming is better, and storage space occupied by 2 on Mac in the usage of HEVC.

Metal 2

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Metal 2 has certainly opened the door of games creation, machine learning and virtual reality content creation. The incoming Metal 2 update brings new capabilities in machine learning, virtual reality and external GPU support. No matter you areplaying games, creating or developing software, Metal 2 can provide powerful strength to help you realize your imagination.

Virtual Reality

Macos high sierra enables developers to use Mac to create interactive virtual reality experiences for the first time, developers will be able to use peripherals like the HTC Vive VR headset and apps like Final Cut Pro X, SteamVR, Epic Unreal 4 Editor and Unity Editor to create immersive new worlds, says Apple.

Continue to read more details of rest part here.

macOS High Sierra: New Features We Know (Part II)

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In last article we had talked about the new features of macOS High Sierra, in this article, we will continue to introduce the new features in macOS High Sierra that will officially release on this fall.

APFS

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macOS High Sierra adopts the Apple File System (APFS), that is most important function brought into macOS. APFS is an entirely revamped, modern file system that’s optimized for solid state storage. It replaces HFS + the new system for running 30 years. APFS is designed on the basis of 64-bit architecture, which is safer, faster, stronger, enabling higher-quality video streaming and playback of 4K video files, enhancing native encryption, space shared, file clone, snapshot, and crash protection, etc.

Video

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Other update in macOS High Sierra is about the Video, it supports H.265 decode base on H.264 first of all, which the compressibility compared to H.264 has increased 40 percent, more importantly, the video quality remains the same. The point is that new Video has been upgraded to Metal 2 from the original Meta l in view of the GPU performance.

Metal 2

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Metal 2 provides a better development and performance log analysis function, except processing 3D video, it can also be used for deep learning, natural language processing, and thus brought a new computer vision. Apple is the first time to bring support for VR virtual reality, compatible with HTC vive meanwhile, and Apple has unveiled a new suite of Metal VR developers for developers, while optimize professional applications including Final Cut Pro x, SteamVR, and Epic Unreal 4 Editor and Unity Editor.

Other Improvements

There are some other improvements in macOS High Sierra, such as AI while integrate with Siri, which its voice is more natural, and can learn from you and provide advises. iCloud Drive now support sending link sharing, and store the verity kind of information in iCloud, while iCloud supports family sharing by storage plan. Moreover, Memo supports set-top and form-added operation. While FaceTime supports storage by Live Photo catch. And Spotlight supports flight information at hand and so on.
macOS High Sierra is currently only available for developers, Apple plans to make a public beta available in July, the official is available in the fall

iOS 11 is Coming, What’s New Can it Bring to iPhone?

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iOS 11 was unveiled at its WWDC 2017 by Apple on June 5, with big improvements over its iOS 10 predecessor. Here, we bring you everything we know so far about iOS 11, including its release date and new features.

As all the people know: iPhone improves every year in two ways: through a big hardware launch every September that also comes with a software refresh.

What Significant New Features can iOS 11 Bring to iPhone?

First of all, the great update showed in notification bar, which the screen share rate is more than 50%.

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App Store

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The most significant update in iOS 11is about the change of App Store. The interface of App Store has changed radically, and a new tab called Today to help people discover new apps that are appearing in the start page. There is new independent page for Games, but related information move to the third screen.
Apps also gets its own tab for the rest of the content available on the App Store.

Control Centre

One of the headline features of iOS 11 is Control Centre. It now packs all of the features into one page, and has new sliders. It also has 3D Touch to allow quick access to more settings and features, which looks like it’s going to make life a lot easier.

Messages

Messages in iOS 11 launched the “drawer” function, where the user can add all kinds of small suites and editable maps. As long as the user logged on iCloud account, his/her information will be added to other devices in your iCloud account. In addition, the Apple Pay will also be integrated into the Messages.

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The payment in iOS11 also has updated, now uses can be able to pay people, also you can pay people directly from Messages as an iMessage app(found in that aforementioned app drawer) with Person-to-person payments.

Siri

Nearly every update of Siri will have a new, more natural male and female voice, as well as a new visual interface. It can translate to different languages in the world, and can show what you expect in mail or Safari according what you had browsed before on your phone.

Camera and Photos

Camera and Photo are also updates in new edition. Under the iOS 11 systems, the Camera can take more clearly picture than former version, but only take half of space. Moreover, photo album support intelligence classification, as well as picture-video transform, and video-picture transform. Image editing features and automatic image processing will also be enhanced by IOS11, that most women would love it.

Do Not Disturb Mode

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iOS 11 will bring Do Not Disturb While Driving, too, which it should be a high spot in Apple. When activated, it’ll send people trying to get in touch with you a note to say that you’ll see the message when you arrive at your destination.