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During today’s WWDC keynote at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, Apple announced a plethora of new features and enhancements coming to iOS 13, the next major update to the world’s best mobile operating system.

But first, take a look at the new Dark Mode option in iOS 13.

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Here are your key takeaways:

  • Speed and optimizations
    • Unlocking with Face ID is 30 percent faster
    • The size of app downloads will be cut in half
    • App updates are 60 percent smaller
    • Apps launch up to twice as fast
  • Dark Mode
    • Enabled in Control Center
    • System-wide Dark Mode uses a darkened interface
    • Stock apps support Dark Mode out of the box
    • Third-party apps need to be updated to change appearance when Dark Mode is on
  • Music
    • The Music app has time-synced lyrics
  • Tidbits
    • A new keyboard offers typing by swiping
    • When previewing a Messages notification, you can now scroll through the whole conversation
  • Safari
    • A new feature to easily change the font size on websites
    • The ability to adjust settings like zoom level on a per-website basis
  • Mail
  • Notes
    • A whole new gallery view
    • Support for shared folders
  • Reminders
    • All new design
    • QuickType bar support
    • Smart lists
  • Messages
    • Memoji Stickers: Apple will create a set of stickers from your Memoji
    • These will appear
    • alongside other emoji in the Emoji keyboard
    • All A9 or later devices get to use the Memoji Editor
  • Camera
    • A new High Key Mono effect in Portrait Lighting mode
    • You can adjust intensity of the lighting effect
    • A brand new image-editing experience
    • All-new iOS 13-specific filters
    • All the effects and editing features, like Rotate, now work on video
    • A new way to browse photos removes duplicate and clutter like screenshots
  • Maps
    • Rebuilt from the ground up
    • A Look Around feature is basically Google Street View for Apple Maps
    • The Favorites section
    • Support for junction view in China
    • The ability to share ETA with friends and family
    • Easier location sharing within Maps
  • Security
    • Developers can use a new Sign In With Apple button that doesn’t track you across the web
    • Control who sees your name and picture in Messages
  • HomeKit
    • HomeKit Secure Video analyzes and process the video on the device rather than upload it in the cloud for analysis
    • Home security videos will be uploaded to iCloud where no one can see them, not even Apple
    • Up to 10 days worth of recordings will be stored in iCloud
    • These video files won’t count against your iCloud storage
    • Netatmo, Logitech and Eufy will be among first to bring compatible cameras
    • HomeKit will bring support fort these security features to popular routers, automatically firewalling-off each of your accessories
  • AirPods
    • Siri can read incoming messages to you as soon as they arrive
    • Both Messages content and any third-party message app using SiriKit are supported
    • Audio sharing lets you share a movie or song with a friend
  • HomePod
    • Handoff is coming to HomePod
    • You can hand off your music, podcast and even a phone call by bringing your iPhone near your HomePod
    • Live radio lets you tune in to iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Radio.com and about 100,000 radio stations
    • Determine who is talking and personalize responses
  • CarPlay
    • Biggest update to CarPlay since the beginning
    • The dashboard has been redesigned to show more content at the same time
    • A brand new Calendar app
    • The Music app has been redesigned
    • Siri on CarPlay now works with Pandora, Waze and other third-party apps
  • Siri
    • Rather than use recorded samples of human voice, the Siri voices are now entirely generated by software with neural text-to-speech bringing more natural-sounding interactions

More changes in iOS 13 will be revealed in the coming days and you can count on us to keep you in the loop.

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