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A new Training Load app analyzes how hard you exercise during workouts and tracks workout duration and how your effort changes over time. The new Vitals app passively monitors your health throughout the day and may even suggest that you’ve been drinking too much.
What is the password?
On the security front, Apple is also creating its own dedicated password app across all of its operating system platforms. It works like many other password managers by allowing you to generate strong passwords for all your logins. It keeps all your credentials in order by storing logins, passwords, and verification codes, and flagging potential password leaks and security breaches. It is also available for Windows users in the iCloud for Windows app.
touch it to me
Apple’s payments app has a new feature that allows users to transfer money much more easily than before. With Tap to Cash, you can initiate a mobile payment and then simply hold two iPhones together to transfer money from one user to another. It will make paying your friends for a round of drinks much easier. (Sorry, Venmo, you had a good run.)
Smarter AirPods
Apple’s in-ear headphones will get new gesture controls that will let you nod your head to answer an incoming phone call or shake your head to reject it. They’re also getting better noise cancellation and isolation capabilities, so you can have more understandable conversations at your local jackhammer conventions.
Prime Time TV+
Apple will add some software features to its TV streaming platform. There are some accessibility updates, such as better subtitles that appear when you mute right when dialogue is spoken, or appear if you rewind a segment to play it again.
There’s also a new “In Sights” banner that appears when you pause what you’re watching. It shows you the names and faces of the actors on screen, as well as the characters they play. You can also identify any of the songs playing in the scene. (Amazon Prime Video also does this through a feature called X-Ray.)
Face the future
Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset just came out in February and Apple has already announced the first substantial update to the front-end computer operating system. Vision Pro didn’t receive great reviews at launch, so visionOS needs some improvements to continue driving the conversation.
VisionPro’s biggest update will come to Spatial Photos, which will include a feature that makes regular images look like spatial photos by giving them stereoscopic depth and motion.
Apple is also improving spatial video, partnering with companies like Vimeo, which has a player available as a new app in VisionPro. Although there is no YouTube yet. (Apple says the Vision Pro can run 1.5 million compatible iPhone apps.)
Apple is adding better hand gesture recognition to visionOS and offering something called Train Support, which aims to make Vision Pro work better for people while riding trains.
In the coming months, Apple says it will also make Vision Pro available to more countries such as China, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.