Journal app didn’t end up sherlocking Day One. Not sure if Password app is a similar hype.
I agree. And you tend to find more of them in the upper levels of an organization chart, IMO. Getting their attention with the subject and putting the important stuff in the first paragraph seemed to work the best for me.
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AI summarization is only as good as the human summarizations that it tends to be based on, and humans have been screwing things up for years.
For example, Office Depot seems to think that the chorus of the song “Takin’ Care of Business” is somehow about office work, and thus makes sense to use as a corporate jingle, even though the chorus is absolutely not about anything even remotely related to office work.
If they’d come up with the idea in recent years, I might think they had gotten the advice from ChatGPT: “The chorus emphasizes the idea of working hard and efficiently, reinforcing a sense of pride and accomplishment in one’s work.” 
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That would be nice! Somehow, I doubt it though.
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Solid WWDC. It’s starting to feel like more and more stock apps can replace 3rd party alternatives for simple/common workflows. I really wish that’s the case for my needs.
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Given all the rumors that the focus was on AI I expected any iPadOS focused updates to be minimal so no disappointment there.
That said, I’m actually very satisfied with iPadOS as it is today. My workflows and tasks work well with the current version of Stage Manager and multitasking in general. While I would love a dedicated font manager I don’t NEED it. I’ve written many times that the Files app works great for me and I find it a near identical experience to the Finder so, no problem.
I’m hoping that this year of no major iPadOS updates might lead to a certain group of users finally giving up on the iPad. Maybe time for them to move on and leave it be to those that find it useful. (I doubt this will happen but I’m hoping). To those users I would just say celebrate and love the Mac for the awesome computer it is!
Then, this fall, we can all enjoy the common updates to the ecosystem on the devices we use and prefer.
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Have you tried the free and open source Fontcase app? It’s a great workaround until Apple adds a font manager to iOS and iPadOS, which unfortunately may never happen.
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I read through this whole thread, and only one of you so much as mentioned the new fitness features. What?!? Those were the highlight of the whole show!
- pause your activity rings for rest days, injuries, etc (amazing, I cheered)
- different activity ring goals for different days of the week (I never thought to have this on my wish list, but it’s awesome, and I cheered)
- new summaries in the Fitness app (seems dumb, but I use the Fitness app a lot, and it already feels old and broken to me after seeing the new one)
- overnight Vitals, which is the missing feature that actually makes sleep tracking worth doing
- TRAINING LOAD. I didn’t see this coming to the Watch ever, because it seems too focused on real athletes (no offence to the rest of us), but holy smokes, I am in like Flynn on this.
Training Load and activity ring pausing would both have been tremendously helpful to me with a couple injuries in the past year, and even more helpful to me as I got into rowing in the past couple months and started really pushing the intensity and quantity of workouts I was doing. For me, these features are so killer that I’ll be upgrading to a new Watch this year to take more advantage of them. (Maybe even an Ultra if it gets any other fancy features.)
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One of the quite exciting features I am looking forward to:
Hopefully, many of the announced features will come to languages other than English soon „next year“. 
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I have… I’ve got a couple of those font apps and have used them with no problems. The process involves a few extra clicks but works pretty well.
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You are right about the importance of these updates. I didn’t even notice until I later scrutinized the WatchOS slide that WatchOS 11 is bringing custom workouts for pool swims. Pausing Rings and custom pool workouts were two wishlist items for me. (If the watch could estimate VO2 max from swimming, that would be awesome.) The training load features are going to be great, and I think it will be a nice supplement to (not replacement of) Athlytic for me.
I was happy about those, too! Did you notice whether they mentioned the oldest watch series that will be getting those features?
I have a 9 so I’m pretty sure I’m good but it would be great to know for sure.
Yup. Noticed and interested. I have a series 6 for my night watch and a 9 for the daytime so I’ll be interested to see how that works.
Surely training load is more useful for actual athletes?
I love this. It’s always sucked that you lose your streak if you suddenly get sick, injured, need surgery, etc. The vibe has always been that you screwed up and slacked off so now you have to start over even if it was through no fault of your own.
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My favorite comment on WWDC, so far, comes from the Vergecast:
“people thought they were going to run macOS on their iPads coming out of this event . . . what we got was much closer to the exact opposite . . . we got iPhones on the Mac
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Apple’s devices complement each other in a way that makes users want to stay in the garden, no matter how high the walls may get.
This is fair comment. I use my iPad regularly, but mostly as a tool for presentations, scribbling and reading. On reflection, this WWDC has encouraged me to move on from the idea of using the iPad for my daily work due to small but significant limitations, and instead buy a new Mac.
I suppose it’s win/win for Apple, but also tells us they know exactly what they’re doing for their intended markets!
No they don’t. If they did, they’d cater to my every wish. 
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I have to say I don’t understand why calls for iPadOS to truly support the Pro devices get so easily dismissed (i.e. people should just stop using devices if they are unhappy and ‘leave’).
Professionals have called for Apple to deliver Pro MacBooks, and they did – they brought back ports, HDMI, MagSafe, better screens, etc.
With the iPad Pro – which I have also used exclusively for the past two years to do my work, including running my business – there is nothing worthy of the Pro moniker in software. I would argue that calls for Apple to take things seriously here are as valid as were the calls to get things right with the MacBook Pros.
I would also say that fixing multitasking issues, the terrible Files app, etc., would not diminish the experience for those who do not rely on these features but, in fact, make a better system for everyone.
The improvements in iPadOS 18 are downright insulting. A year of development. A calculator app. We’ve seen the handwriting calculator ages ago in the MyScript Calculator app (from the team that does Nebo and the MyScript handwriting engine which most major apps use, including Notability).
The only update yesterday that was more disappointing than iPadOS was visionOS. Even tvOS was more exciting.
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