🤖 AI for programming

・Swift Assist, a new feature in Xcode 16, serves as a companion for all of a developer’s coding tasks, so they can focus on higher-level problems and solutions.

・The feature integrates seamlessly into Xcode and supports the latest software development kits (SDKs) and Swift language features, so developers will always get the latest features that fit perfectly into their projects.

・With Swift Assist, tasks such as exploring new infrastructures and experimenting with new ideas are accomplished in just one voice request. The Assist uses a powerful model that runs in the cloud. It is designed to be confidential and secure for developers. The code is only used to process requests and is never stored on servers, and Apple will not use it to train machine learning models.

🔜 Swift Assist will be coming to Xcode 16 later this year.

🖥 Learn more about enhancements to code completion, diagnostics, and Xcode Previews.

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Everything new in the third ‌‌iOS 📱 beta

🆕 In new third version iOS 18 beta there are additional tweaks like Dark Mode icons, the Photos app, emoji in Messages, and more, with Apple appearing to be preparing for the launch of AI.

・Now there are ‌Dark Mode‌ icons for many third-party apps like Facebook, Telegram, Slack, Notion, YouTube, and more. Apple appears to be adding the ‌Dark Mode‌ icons automatically to apps that have icons with a handful colors.

・Select button is added for choosing multiple images to the main ‌Photos‌ interface, so there is no longer a need to swipe down to get to the Select button. With this change, the Search button is now just a magnifying glass, but it is highlighted blue to make it stand out more.

・In Messages, emoji, Memoji, and stickers have all been combined into one interface, which can be navigated using the tiny icons at the bottom of the display. Both stickers and Memoji can be created from this interface, and you can use stickers right in your messages like you can use emoji (this works with non-moving stickers only). Emoji themselves are displayed larger than before, so you see more detail but fewer characters and there are more emoji and stickers displayed at once in the Recent section.

・There also appeared a dynamic version of the ‌iOS 18‌ wallpaper that transitions through different colors based on the time of day.

・The Flashlight has a larger and more intuitive interface for changing the brightness and the spread of the LED Flash used for the Flashlight feature.

・The interface for RCS in the Messages section of the Settings app has changed. Rather than just showing up as an on/off toggle, it is now a tap-in menu that provides some additional context. Apple explains that sending and receiving messages with ‌RCS‌ uses wireless data, and cellular network identifiers may be shared with carriers and their partners. Though it is unclear if ‌RCS‌ is working outside of the United States.

💬 Know of a new feature in ‌iOS 18‌ beta 3 that is left out? Share in the comments below.

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🖥 Apple seeded the third beta of upcoming an upcoming macOS 15 Sequoia

❗️ The update is targeted to developers for testing purposes. Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

What's 🆕 :
・macOS Sequoia includes ‌improvements in iPhone‌ Mirroring.

・There are new options for window tiling, and dragging a window to the edge of the display will suggest a tiled location to make it easier to use multiple apps at once.

・Apple is adding a Passwords app for managing passwords, Safari can summarize websites and surface key information, and Notes has support for live audio transcription and math equations.

・Custom emoji or "Genmoji" can be created for any situation and used just like emoji, and Siri is getting much smarter. ‌Siri‌ will be able to do more in apps and will better understand requests, especially those made in regard to on-screen content.

・All of the Apple Intelligence features coming to iOS 18 will also be available in ‌macOS Sequoia‌, but Apple does not plan to add these until later in the beta testing process. Apple Intelligence includes Writing Tools for editing, proofreading, and summarizing text in apps, and an Image Playground allows for AI images to be created from prompts.

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📸 EVT photos of iPhone 15 Pro Max prototype with touch-sensitive buttons

📱 Photos have surfaced online of one of the early (EVT) prototypes of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which had a unified tactile volume and lock button, developed under the codename "Project Bongo". According to the project, it was planned that the 2023 device could get touch-sensitive buttons, but this was abandoned at some point. The project was canceled allegedly due to technical issues and unsatisfactory test results.

😉 However, now such touch buttons may appear in the iPhone 16.

📰 An insider who tried out this prototype says the buttons work the same way Magic Trackpad works. For haptic feedback, Apple has created a new electromagnetic engine known as the "Bongo Haptic Engine," but it generates haptic feedback just like the regular Taptic Engine.

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