That’s why the company is reportedly planning ‘Home,’ a new dedicated app from which to view and manage your HomeKit-enabled devices, as well as arrange them in virtual rooms for easier batch control across devices from a range of different providers. But housing all control just in Siri, with setup managed through individual apps, seems like a weird way to manage this new feature. These work with Siri out of the box, letting you issue voice commands at home (or away, with a 3rd generation Apple TV) to do things like turn your lights on or off. Let’s look at what we’ve heard is coming in terms of brand new abilities and apps in iOS 9, which will mostly likely be available as a developer preview as of Monday, with a wide launch coming alongside new iPhones in September.Īpple’s first HomeKit partners debuted their app early this month, and some of them started selling HomeKit-enabled devices right away. That said, Apple is unlikely to drop a major point release without introducing anything new – even Snow Leopard got quite a few new user-facing features along with its general improvements. By avoiding any sweeping changes to the core OS experience like those we saw visually in iOS 7, and functionally in iOS 8, Apple might be able to improve the general consistency and quality of user experience, which is something many Apple fans and observers would be happy to see. Part of Apple’s aggressive development cycle, which now pretty much guarantees big yearly updates to both of its primary software platforms, is a pace of new feature releases that can be at cross-purposes to providing a stable, bug-free experience. Reports have suggested it will be similar to OS X Snow Leopard, which was largely meant to refine the experience of OS X Leopard. The iOS update, the 9th major version of Apple’s iPhone and iPad operating system, is thought to be bringing a lot of stability, performance and security enhancements to the platform. ![]() iOS 9Īpple will almost certainly use the WWDC 2015 platform to highlight a new major update for both iOS and OS X. Here’s a roundup of what’s likely to go down at WWDC this year, along with a few far-out wishes and some cold water for previously rumored possibilities. The Worldwide Developers Conference keynote for this year is just three days away, and we’re already obsessing over what we’ll see there. This year’s kick-off event at WWDC will likely have a developer focus, given the nature of the event, but there will plenty for everyone to pay attention to, especially if you’re a fan of iOS, OS X or the latest new Apple device: The Apple Watch.
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