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India.com
3 hours ago
- India.com
Apple Unveils New Software Design Crafted With Liquid Glass
Cupertino: Apple on Monday previewed a beautiful new software design that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful while being instantly familiar. It's crafted with a new material called Liquid Glass. This translucent material reflects and refracts its surroundings, while dynamically transforming to help bring greater focus to content, delivering a new level of vitality across controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and more. For the very first time, the new design extends across platforms — iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 261 — to establish even more harmony while maintaining the distinct qualities that make each unique. 'At Apple, we've always believed in the deep integration of hardware and software that makes interacting with technology intuitive, beautiful, and delightful,' said Alan Dye, Apple's vice president of Human Interface Design. 'It lays the foundation for new experiences in the future and, ultimately, it makes even the simplest of interactions more fun and magical,' Dye added. Inspired by the depth and dimensionality of visionOS, the new design takes advantage of Apple's powerful advances in hardware, silicon, and graphics technologies. By using Liquid Glass materials and the new and updated controls, developers have the opportunity to refresh the design of their apps to make every user interaction even more intuitive and delightful. Liquid Glass uses real-time rendering and dynamically reacts to movement with specular highlights. This creates a lively experience that makes using iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV even more delightful, said the company. 'Controls, toolbars, and navigation within apps have been redesigned. Previously configured for rectangular displays, they now fit perfectly concentric with the rounded corners of modern hardware and app windows — establishing greater harmony between hardware, software, and content,' Apple informed. Tab bars and sidebars have been redesigned with the same approach. In iOS 26, when users scroll, tab bars shrink to bring focus to the content while keeping navigation instantly accessible. The moment users scroll back up, tab bars fluidly expand. In iPadOS and macOS, updated sidebars make apps like Apple TV even more immersive.
Deccan Herald
9 hours ago
- Deccan Herald
Apple WWDC 2025 Highlights: Apple brings Liquid Glass UI with new iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe and more
The rumours were correct about their prediction, as Apple's new software comes with big upgrades not just in terms of unifying numerical suffix but also with massive visual user interface overhaul. Liquid Glass UI on iPhone. Credit: Apple iOS 26 UI. Credit: Apple iPadOS 26 UI. Credit: Apple macOS Tahoe 26 UI. Credit: Apple The new watchOS 26 UI. Credit: Apple Apple tvOS 26 UI. Credit: Apple visionOS 26 UI. Credit: Apple visionOS 25 brings 3D-depth to spatial photos. Credit: Apple
Time of India
9 hours ago
- Time of India
Apple's Spotlight on macOS Tahoe can now send emails and run shortcuts, not just open apps
With the macOS Tahoe , Spotlight is getting its biggest update ever that transform the Mac 's search feature into a powerful action centre capable of sending emails, creating notes, and running shortcuts without opening other apps. The revamped Spotlight can now perform hundreds of actions directly from the search interface, letting users complete tasks like playing podcasts, setting reminders, and composing messages without switching between applications. Apple says this makes Spotlight the fastest way to access content across your Mac. Quick Keys are the standout new feature: two-letter shortcuts that instantly jump to specific apps or actions. Type "SM" to send a message or "AR" to add a reminder, with options to create custom shortcuts for personal workflows. This brings Alfred and Raycast-style launcher functionality directly into macOS. The interface has been completely redesigned with intelligent ranking that groups all results – files, apps, messages, and events – together based on relevance. New filtering options let users narrow searches to specific file types like PDFs or Mail messages, while browse views make it easier to scan through apps, files, and clipboard history when you're not sure what you're looking for. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like New Retirement Village Coming To Alexandria - Take A Look At The Prices New York Retirement Village Click Here Undo Apple Intelligence integration makes Spotlight contextually aware, suggesting actions based on user habits and current work. The system learns routines and surfaces personalised shortcuts, like quickly messaging frequently contacted colleagues. Developers can integrate their apps using the App Intents API , making third-party actions searchable alongside Apple's built-in functions. Spotlight can also search through menu bar options in currently open apps, keeping hands on the keyboard for power users. The updates extend beyond Mac. Spotlight can now surface apps from connected iPhones through iPhone Mirroring and search documents stored on third-party cloud services. There's also clipboard history integration, addressing a long-requested feature from Mac users.
Engadget
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Every WWDC should end with a song composed of app reviews
To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so. Partway through WWDC 2025, I started tracking every time I heard the word "delightful." I might have missed a few, but there were at least eight times when some exec was insisting to me that an element of the upcoming iOS 26, macOS Tahoe and Apple's other platforms merited the adjective. And maybe some people truly do feel unfettered joy about UI design, but that's the sort of attitude in these events that makes me roll my eyes. Apple always tries very hard to inject levity and personality into its keynotes. Most of the time, that winds up leaning on cringe from Craig Federighi, who seems quite affable about being the punchline. Sometimes I smirk a little, but again, more often than not, it's another eye-roll. That was the case this year, as Apple bludgeoned us with a tie-in for its upcoming F1 movie , which already leans pretty hard on product placement. Then there's the developer devotion. Yes, Apple needs devs to use its tools and programs. Yes, the company can and should give them some kudos. But sometimes, the adulation that I've heard heaped on the WWDC audience in the past is so cheesy, so over-eager that it flies way past sincerity and into schlock. Just as I was ready to turn off the stream, the curtain rose on a grand piano. And to my surprise, the final three minutes of a full band performing real reviews of apps became the actual highlight of WWDC for me. This isn't an original idea. Reviews, good and bad, are well-mined fodder for comedians and social media content. Jimmy Fallon, James Corden and others have made musical gags a staple of recent late night talk shows. But the way Apple decided to do it this year was, in a word, delightful. Each review was heartfelt or dopey or both; see "saved my marriage" for Citymapper and "If this doesn't win best app of the year, I'll eat my shoe" for Lost in Play. It took the essential internet wisdom of "don't read the comments" and turned it into gold. This silly little song managed to do everything Apple wants to do at WWDC in a really amusing package. It's the dev props, it's the splashy production, it's legit entertainment. For anyone who, like me, was actually humming the tune even after the stream ended, the video is up as a standalone on YouTube and was performed by soul/R&B singer Allen Stone. And to whatever producer came up with this idea: you have my utmost appreciation. Six out of five stars indeed.
TechCrunch
10 hours ago
- TechCrunch
Here's what's coming to macOS Tahoe
At Monday's WWDC conference, Apple announced the new macOS Tahoe, which comes with a series of updates related to Apple Intelligence, continuity features with the iPhone, and Spotlight search. Apple's new 'Liquid Glass' design is coming to macOS Tahoe, making for a sleek, customizable look — yes, at long last, you can make your folder icons pink (or whatever other color you want). Like iOS 26, the macOS Tahoe design refresh has a more reflective, transparent style, like real glass. But behind the shiny update are other upgrades that leverage Apple Intelligence to improve the user experience. Image Credits:Apple MacOS Tahoe more closely ties in a user's iPhone, showing Live Activities from iOS (that thing that pops up on your lock screen and/or Dynamic Island to show you that your Uber Eats order is 17 minutes away). Thanks to Continuity features, Mac products will get a Phone app for the first time, which comes with other updates to the iOS Phone app like Call Screening and Hold Assist. Live Translation will also come to the Phone, Messages, and FaceTime apps. Some of the most substantial macOS Tahoe upgrades are coming via Spotlight, of all places. With the help of Apple's AI features, Spotlight will serve results 'intelligently,' predicting what you're most likely to be looking for, suggesting actions based on common activities or what you're currently working on. Image Credits:Apple Users can also carry out actions directly from Spotlight. The demo in Apple's WWDC keynote showed an Apple executive using Spotlight to type an email's subject line and body text, then send it to a recipient, all without even opening up the Mail app. The upgraded Spotlight also features quick keys, which allow users to customize short strings of characters to bring up a specific action. Apple gave the examples of typing 'AR' to let you add a reminder and 'SM' to send a message. Many other major updates to iOS 26 are also in Tahoe, including Genmoji and Image Playground updates, AI-supported reminders, a new Apple Games app, backgrounds and polls in Messages, and a new FaceTime landing page. The Journal app is also coming to Tahoe. Techcrunch event Save $200+ on your TechCrunch All Stage pass Build smarter. Scale faster. Connect deeper. Join visionaries from Precursor Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Underscore VC, and beyond for a day packed with strategies, workshops, and meaningful connections. Save $200+ on your TechCrunch All Stage pass Build smarter. Scale faster. Connect deeper. Join visionaries from Precursor Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Underscore VC, and beyond for a day packed with strategies, workshops, and meaningful connections. Boston, MA | REGISTER NOW MacOS Tahoe will be available in the fall, but a public beta will launch next month. Developers can access an early version now.
