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iOS 7 live blog highlights from WWDC 2013 keynote

iOS 7 live blog highlights from WWDC 2013 keynote

By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 11 June 2013 17:09 IST

Apple showcases iOS 7 featuring complete UI overhaul - read more

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Apple announces iTunes Radio free music streaming service - read more

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Apple unveils OS X Mavericks, new Mac Pro - read more

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And that's a wrap! Thank you for following our live-blog!

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So to round-up we have a new version of Mac OS - OS X Mavericks, iOS 7, updated MacBook Air line-up and a sneak peek at the new Mac Pros coming up

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And Tim Cook gets emotional as he concludes the Keynote

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A new television ad unveiled

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iOS 7 coming to the following devices this fall

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iOS 7 to be available for iPad 2 & later, iPad mini and 5th gen. iPod touch

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iOS 7 will come to iPhone 4 and later iPhones

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iOS 7 Beta available for developers available today. iOS 7 final version coming this fall.

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Activation Lock will be a new theft deterrent method. It won't allow thieves to reactivate devices without iCloud credentials

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Facetime audio for high quality audio calls between iDevices will also come with iOS 7.

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iTunes Radio is also built into Apple TV. It's free with ads and completely ads-free for iTunes Match subscribers.

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You can buy any of the song you've played right from iTunes Radio.

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The radio service offers predefined stations but you can also create your own stations

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iTunes Radio has been officially announced now, built right into the Music app

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Videos feature all iCloud videos and TV shows

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New revamped Music app now being demoed

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New App Store - You no longer need to manually update apps.

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New car integration to be introduced in 2014 by a number of car makers

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iOS in the Car also being announced.

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You can change system settings through Siri.It also integrates Twitter, Wikipedia and Bing.

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New male and female voices in Siri

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Siri also has a gorgeous new interface!

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Share files wirelessly with AirDrop

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The sharing menu has been revamped and also includes Airdrop

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Video, Photo, Square and Pano modes available in the camera app as you swipe across

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A new way to organise photos- Moments

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New camera improvements- 4 modes in the Camera and live colour filters!

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Airdrop on iOS lets you transfer content via peer to peer WiFi

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Double clicking the home button brings the multi-tasking menu with full app preview windows

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Control Center: swipe up from the bottom to access settings for Brightness, Bluetooth, WiFi, Airplane mode and other settings

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A closer look at the new Notifications Center

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No longer limited to just 8 tabs

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New Safari mobile comes with a new user interface and gestures, and a unified search field

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Control Center

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Control Center lets you toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other commonly used settings.

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All apps will be able to multitask with iOS 7

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The Notification Center is accessible even through the lock screen.

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We just saw demos of the new native apps, notification center and settings toggles.

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Layering and transparency are the dominating design elements in iOS 7

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Stock apps are now devoid of all skeuomorphic elements!

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New multitasking view! Craig Federighi takes the stage to demonstrate the new iteration of iOS!

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iOS 7

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AirDrop is also included in iOS 7!

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Distinct functional layers and use of translucency! A brand new iOS!

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And we see a new lock screen, notifications, system toggles, new redesigned icons!

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Jony Ive talking about simplicity, clarity and efficiency, absence of clutter.

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A video playing describing the philosophy behind the new iOS 7 design.

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Apologies we couldn't update the live blog for a while due to technical issues earlier, but things are back fine now.

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We see the 'flat' iOS 7 logo!

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A look at the new Mac Pro.

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And Tim Cook is announcing iOS 7!

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93 percent iOS users are on iOS 6

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More than 1/3rd of Android users still on old OS versions

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600 million iOS devices sold

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Tim Cook is back on stage now talking about iOS

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iWork apps Pages, Keynote and Numbers are now on the web browser integrating iCloud.

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He's talking about iCloud- 300 million iCloud accounts. 300 million users of iTunes in the cloud. 800 billion iMessages, 7.4 trillion push notifications.

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Tim Cook is back on stage.

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The new Mac Pros have been assembled in the USA. They will be available later this year.

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The new Mac Pros look futuristic and feature the next generation of Xeon processors, Thunderbolt 2, support for 4K displays, flash storage

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And a sneak peek into the next generation Mac Pros!

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11-inch MacBook Air starts at $999, while 13-inch ones start at $1099. Shipping today.

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Apple's also announcing new Gigabit WiFi AirPort base stations.

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11-inch MacBook Air gets 9 hours battery life while 13-inch ones get 12 hours battery life

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MacBook Air models with Haswell processors announced.

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Phil Schiller on the stage to talk about the MacBook Air.

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Developer preview of OS X Mavericks is out today. Final build will release in fall.

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iBooks brings all the features of the mobile app to the Mac including interactive books.

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The new Calendar app offers much smoother scrolling and gets rid of the leather!

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Federighi now demonstrating the new Maps OS X app.

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iBooks also coming to the Mac.

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You can push directions from your Mac to your iPhone!

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Maps for OS X also announced.

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A new version of Calendar app without all the skeuomorphic elements. Much cleaner!

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You can Reply right from Notifications for Emails, Facetime, Messages

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Improvements to Notifications also announced.

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iCloud Keychain announced for storing passwords securely announced!

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A new look for Reader in Safari is also being introduced

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Links from Twitter and LinkedIn are featured in the Safari side bar with the Reading list.

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A new Safari Top Sites page

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New Safari app nav tech knows where to direct power.

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He's now talking about the new Mail app.

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Safari will now use less system memory.

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A new revamped Safari with a new sidebar.

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Many new Power and performance optimisation features in OS X Mavericks.

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OS X Mavericks greatly reduces CPU activity, increasing battery life in the process

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He's talking about power optimisation features of the new OS X version.

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Spotted at WWDC: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Image credit: Gurnam Bedi)

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Using Apple TV as a connected display is also possible now. Not just limited to mirroring.

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Craig is now demonstrating multiple display tweaks.

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Dragging items to tag windows also adds tags to them.

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Finder can also be viewed in full screen mode.

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Craig is now demoing tabs and tags.

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The much anticipated Multiple display support is also included.

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He's talking about the new features, and as rumoured tabs and tags are two of them!

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Craig Federighi takes the stage to talk about the new Mac operating system OS X Mavericks

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28 million copies of Mountain Lion have been shipped.

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35% of Mac users are using Mountain Lion.

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Tim Cook is back and he announces that the installed base of Macs is 72 million.

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Anki Drive takes gaming to the next level bringing it to the real world!

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Now we have Anki giving a demo of their product integrating the use of iOS, robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Apple has paid developers $10 billion.

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50 billion App Store downloads. 900,000 apps in the App Store. 375,000 apps designed for the iPad.

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A video showing opening of an Apple store in Berlin playing now

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Tim Cook shares some key stats - 407 stores in 14 countries.Over 1 million people visit Apple stores everyday.

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And Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage.

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Black and white and flat!

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A video plays to welcome us to WWDC 2013.

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And the keynote starts in less than 5 minutes!

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It's almost time. Just about 8 minutes to. (Image credit: Amit Jotwani)

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And the wait continues inside Moscone West. (Image courtesy: Gurnam Bedi)

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A little over two hours and 15 minutes to go before the WWDC 2013 keynote begins.

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As is the custom, Apple's online Store is down across the world

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The doors open for WWDC attendees to get inside Moscone Center (Image courtesy: Amit Jotwani)

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Perhaps the most anticipated part of the keynote is the iOS 7 preview. Apple's design guru has been working on a revamp of Apple's mobile OS, and the recent leaks are, well, interesting to say the least. Check them out

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There's good news for those planning to follow the WWDC keynote at home. Apple is providing a live video stream of the event on its website and Apple devices. Check Apple's website for details.

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The sun rises on the opening day of Apple's developers conference. (Image courtesy: Amit Jotwani)

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Apple will preview iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 at WWDC. It is also expected to refresh the Mac line up and announce a new radio streaming service. Check out 5 things to expect at Apple's WWDC

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WWDC attendees have been queueing up outside Moscone Center to get in for the much-anticipated keynote address. (Image courtesy: Amit Jotwani)

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The keynote starts 10AM PST, that's 1PM on the US East Coast, 6PM in London and 10:30PM in India. We'll be there live all along the way.

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Hello and welcome to our live blog, as we build up to the WWDC 2013 keynote address.

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WWDC keynote has started. We expect the Cupertino giant to give us a preview of the next iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS 7, the next version of its desktop OS, OS X 10.9, the much talked about iRadio online streaming music service and refreshed lineup of MacBooks with updated Haswell processors. Here's a refresh of what's Apple expected to announce today complete with all the rumours we've heard so far:

1. iOS 7 will come with a major redesign
With Jony Ive stepping in, the next version of iOS, iOS 7 is expected to see a refreshed 'flat' user interface design, devoid of skeuomorphic textures. We've already seen a mockup of what it could look like created by a website after it got access to a device running a beta build of the OS. The OS also features Black and white themes.

Apple is also expected to come up with a new Lock Screen interface and is likely to replace the shiny, transparent time bar that we see on the Lock screen with a shine-free, black colour interface. It will also swap the square-grid prompt for entering the Lock Screen pin code with round, black buttons that feature white text and white borders. Lock Screen notifications might also come with support for new gestures and the Notifications drop down will include new panels including new widgets and a panel with toggles for Wi-Fi, Airplane Mode, and Bluetooth. Several other changes in addition to possible support for Wi-Fi direct based file sharing through AirDrop have been rumoured to come with iOS 7.

2. Next version of OS X - 10.9 expected to be unveiled
Apple is also expected to announce the next iteration of its desktop OS, Mac OS X 10.9 at the WWDC. Reports have indicated that the OS would not undergo a major redesign but would add new functionality. The Finder is expected to get tags and tabbed browsing. The Safari browser is also expected to be overhauled improving page loading and rendering speed. For power users, the OS is expected to come with the ability to keep a full screen app open on a different monitor, on a multi-monitor set-up. It was also reported that the OS could come with Siri functionality, in addition to iOS like quick-app switcher for multitasking. A new report indicates that the skeuomorphic design elements seen in apps like Calendar, Contacts, Notes and others, will still exist in the new version of the OS though Apple intends to remove them in the future.

It's also indicated that a lot of new features that were in testing might not make it to the final version of OS X 10.9 as engineering resources were shifted to iOS development, as reported earlier.

3. Developer tools could be revamped
Apple is also expected to release an update to the Xcode, to keep developers happy. The new developer tools are expected to be optimized for the muti-monitor full-screen mode, expected to arrive with OS X 10.9.

4. iRadio service
Apple is also expected to announce a music streaming service at the WWDC. Rumours of the service's imminent launch have been floating around for a long time, with the latest being that Apple is gearing up to sell audio ads on the music-streaming service. The company is believed to have closed deals with major record labels including Warner Music Group and Universal, for the service, which would resemble Pandora, the popular music streaming service available in the US.

5.Refreshed MacBook Airs/ MacBook Pros
While analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI securities had predicted a refreshed Retina MacBook Pro and MacBook Air line-up at the WWDC Keynote on June 10th, leaked SKU information also suggests the release of new MacBook Air models retaining the 11-inch and 13-inch screen-sizes with two models of each featuring different processor and storage options. It's also being reported that the new Macbook Air models could ship with Intel's 4th generation Core- Haswell processors and support Gigabit Wi-Fi 802.11ac.

Ming-Chi Kuo has also predicted that the MacBook Air will feature dual built-in microphones to deliver clear voice quality on Facetime and VoIP service.

While some reports say that a MacBook Pro Retina or Classic refresh is unlikely, Kuo had predicted that the Retina MacBook Pro's 13-inch version will sport a slimmer form factor making it more portable and that it will also have an upgraded camera capable of capturing 1080p video in order to improve Facetime and video conference quality. He had also predicted that a new MacBook variant with a Haswell processor could be unveiled at the WWDC.

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