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After a couple jam-packed weeks of rumors and leaks about iOS 13 and macOS 10.15, we have a pretty good idea of what Apple might have in store for us at WWDC 2019.
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What's going on everybody? Ian here for Cult of Mac. The last couple weeks have been absolutely packed
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with rumors and leaks about what we might expect to see in both iOS 13 and Mac OS 10.15 this summer
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It's enough to get you really, really hyped. So here's all the different features
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rumored so far coming in Apple's upcoming operating systems. Starting with iOS 13
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there's a ton of features we expect to see that make big and small changes to the OS
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One of those is dark mode. The idea with dark mode on iOS
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is that it makes your device easier to use in a dark room or for low light situations
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Instead of being blinded by a super white interface, you get a nice dark interface on OLED phones
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like the iPhone 10 and 10S and 10S Max. You get those super deep blacks
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and it would make everything just a little more comfortable. You know, a couple of weeks ago, we had a tips and tricks video
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on how to get the most out of accessibility features. And a couple of those tricks were
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to make iOS more usable in a low light situation. Having a native dark mode would be a great way
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to make iOS and an iPhone or an iPad much more comfortable to use in darker situations
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without any super complex accessibility settings or anything fussy. Another small improvement to iOS 13
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is the possibility of support for loading custom fonts, which would mean that you could add in fonts to the system
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to use inside of apps for design or writing and have your own personal flair
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your own personal style within those apps. Another small but notable rumored change in iOS 13
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is an upgraded volume display. Instead of that weird pop-up box that you get on your iOS device
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the rumor is that there's a redesigned volume dialogue that would be somewhere up at the top
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a little more discreet, a little less intrusive to the interface overall
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to make it easier to see that the volume's changing without it blocking all of the content
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behind the main part of your screen. There's also rumors of a new files app coming to iOS
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We're not entirely sure what a new files app means, but the hope is that it would let you plug in
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a portable hard drive or SD cards or some other external media
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and import files directly into your cloud storage for access within apps
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Having that ability to use external media with your cloud services, with your iOS device
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would be a huge change. Another app rumored to be getting a redesign is the Reminders app
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Reminders hasn't seen any meaningful changes since it was launched on iOS 7, so it's definitely due for an upgrade
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both visually and functionally. Having something that's a little more modern in design
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instead of the stacked index card look and something a little more functional
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than basic yes or no, this is done or not done, would be extremely helpful
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Having things like subtasks or being able to append notes or different types of reminders or timings to events
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could be a huge change to the Reminders app and make it far more functional and far more useful to a ton of people
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Mail is also expected to get an update in iOS 13 with features coming from the Mac like smart mailboxes
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and the ability to auto-group or auto-flag certain types of emails as different kinds of things
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much like Gmail has its ability to use its smart boxes for promotional emails or travel things
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or personal things or important things. Having something similar to that in the iOS app
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would be a huge change to Mail on iPhone and iPad. There's also the rumor
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that iOS will be gaining the Snooze functionality, which most third-party email apps
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have had for quite a while now, and it's something that Apple's own app
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has been lagging behind in. It's something that people really, really do use quite frequently with their email app
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So having that update come to Mail on iOS would be a huge, huge improvement
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to one of Apple's most popular applications. There are also rumors that Safari's going to get some improvements in iOS 13
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with the most notable change being the ability for Safari to automatically detect when a website should be loaded
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in the desktop mode on an iPad. There are a ton of websites out there that just don't play nice on an iPad
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or their mobile version doesn't really support iPad the way it should
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and sometimes the desktop website experience is just better suited for a tablet
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especially a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, which is a huge screen, much more suited for a desktop experience
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than an iPhone-type experience. Having the ability to tell Safari this page should always load in a desktop mode
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would make it far more useful to use your iPad as a computer replacement with full desktop-type browsing experience
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There's also rumor that two iOS apps are going to become one in iOS 13
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and that's Find My iPhones and Find My Friends. Having all of that combined into a single app
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makes tons of sense because then it's find my whatever it is that I'm looking for
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and having a single app that you can go to and find your phone or your friend
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and figure out where people are in relation to you or your devices
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There's also rumor that Apple is launching a tile-like tracker device. The idea of the tracker is that you can attach it
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to something that you want to know the location of, whether it's a backpack or luggage
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or your camera or personal gear, things like that that you could track within the app
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and that it would use the proximity of the tracker to all iPhones around it through Bluetooth LE
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to find a fairly precise location. And it could be far more useful than what's currently on the market
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since you'd be relying on other iOS devices anywhere in the area to get that location
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just by using the operating system's native support for this Find My Things feature
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iOS 13's also expected to be a big year for the iPad with tons of improvements to multitasking
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and new gestures coming to the OS that are supposed to make the iPad and iPhone
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more usable, more functional, and more powerful. With the iPad, there are several rumors
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that suggest that Apple is going to change how multitasking works in the OS
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allowing you to put the same app side by side by side with itself
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making it possible to do something like read an email and respond to a different email at the same time
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or possibly even composing multiple emails at the same time or work on two different documents
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within the same application. Currently, Safari on the iPad already does this
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where you can have two different Safari windows side by side. It looks like Apple may be extending that same functionality
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to other apps within iOS. This could also change how multitasking works
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in app pairings on iOS, allowing you to have, say, one note paired with an email
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and a different note paired with Safari instead of having to bounce back and forth between different notes in your different pairings
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Another rumored change possibly coming to iOS 13 and specifically to the iPad
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is support for a mouse or other pointing devices like a mouse or a trackpad
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The iPad could be an incredibly powerful iOS-powered computer when they're docked at a station
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Another rumored feature of iOS 13 is the ability for developers to take advantage of a bunch of new Siri intents
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They can be for things like travel times, airport information, flight status
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or even additional third-party media controls, which could mean that you could use your AirPods
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or Siri on your iOS device to do things like trigger playing back music in Spotify
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instead of Apple Music. It could be a huge change to the way that Siri works on iOS
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While we're on the topic of Siri, let's switch gears and talk about macOS 10.15
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Rumor has it that Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts app are both gonna make their way to macOS this year
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bringing a new era of automation to macOS and what users can do with the Mac
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allowing you to do some very serious automation in a more user-friendly interface
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that we've grown to know through iOS. Screen time is also expected to make an appearance
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in the new version of macOS, allowing users to get an even bigger, more broad picture
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of what their digital well-being is like. With the Screen Time app on iOS
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you get a really good idea of what apps are taking up your time. Having that same power within macOS would be huge
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for better understanding how you're using your device, which would give you a much more full picture
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of just how much time you're spending in front of what devices and what it is you're doing on those devices
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There's also rumors that on macOS, because of the addition of these Marzipan-type applications
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which are the iOS applications that can run on the Mac, we'll get some new windowing and multitasking features
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that will make using those apps even more powerful. Things like being able to put two apps side-by-side
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like you can already do on a Mac, as well as giving you the option to use these in multiple windows
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much like you'd be able to do on iOS, having multiple instances of the same app
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looking at different documents or different parts of the app. The same thing could be true on macOS
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with these Marzipan applications, making them much more like a true desktop class application
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Another Mac app rumored to be getting changes this year is iTunes
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With macOS 10.15, it's expected that Apple will finally break up iTunes
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into a bunch of standalone media apps, all coming from their iOS counterparts
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So we'll have a music app, a TV app for movies and TV shows
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a books app for your books, a standalone podcast app, and even possibly some type of device syncing
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or device management application, although it's also very possible that iTunes becomes a utilities type app
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and gets buried into the utilities folder, making it less bloated, more comfortable
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and more familiar to those who are coming from the iOS versions of the apps
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Another change coming to macOS is a feature code named Sidecar, which according to rumors is a way to send an application
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from your primary display to a secondary display, which could include the iPad
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This would allow you to take an application on your desktop and send it to your iPad
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use your iPad as a secondary display for your Mac, allow you to interact either with your hand
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or with your Apple Pencil with that application, and then when you're done
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simply bring it back over to your Mac's desktop and continue working on it as you needed
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One final change rumored to be coming to macOS 10.15 is how it integrates with the Apple Watch
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Currently, the Apple Watch can be used to unlock your Mac and in certain situations be used
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to approve Apple Pay transactions through Safari on the Mac. The latest rumors suggest that the Apple Watch
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could also be used in place of Touch ID on Macs that don't support Apple's biometric authentication
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So what do you think? Is there anything you're super excited for in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15
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Or is it something you think that Apple's leaving out on the table that they really need to address
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And until next time, I'm Ian for Cult of Mac. We'll see you in the next one
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