![]() ![]() Read the Apple Press Release on Screen Time hereģ. Parents will also be able to manage these controls as well. Users can set a limit of time for each app, and the phone can then lock down that app when the timer exceeds it. It will quantify screen time per app per day or as weekly summaries. In order to know how much time you spend on the phone, a new app ‘Screen Time’ has been added. More ‘mute’ phone settings have been added to allow a user to disconnect from their phone for an hour, an evening, or until they leave a location or an event. Now, users will be able to disable seeing all messages until they explicitly turn them later in the morning. The problem is when one wakes up, they are greeted with a phone lock screen full of messages. People often use their phone as an alarm clock. To begin with, notifications have been reduced and new controls added. Many people are now beginning to view believe social media as a negative force in their life (Which is what the research supports!) Apple announced new tools that will allow people to help re-gain command over their device. There is a growing trend to ‘disconnect’ from social media and technology. ![]() It turns out these can be used to track you - whether you click on them or not.Īnd so this year, we are shutting that down” “We've all seen these: these like buttons and share buttons and comment buttons. For the big platforms that rely on advertisement to make money - this seems like a direct attack at them. The new release will disable many of the spy/tracking tools that are used on most websites for to monetize a users’s behaviour for advertisers. In fact it seems like a giant f-you to Facebook and Google. This Keynote Apple takes a massive step forward in security and privacy. They also added the ability to see when apps were secretly tracking your location when the app was closed ‘in the background’. New features were released this keynote to protect in addition to a user’s location also they’re contacts, photos, calendars, reminders from other APIs trying to access them without a user’s direct permission on the different Apple products. In the past they aded features to require user’s permission to share one’s location with an app. Which will become increasingly valued as more personal information - and health information - is held by these companies.Īpple continues to position itself as the dominant company concerned with user privacy. There is a focus on improving direct person-to-person communications, and reduction in passive consumption of screen time and reduction in notifications.Īpple also is well positioned to stand alone as the major tech brand known for trust and security. ![]() It showed that Apple has a solid understanding of where consumers are shifting with regards to trying to reclaim control of their digital life and mitigate the negative effects of social media. ![]() I think it may be one of the most important software updates in years. In the end, the keynote far exceeded expectations. I almost didn’t watch the recorded version. My expectations were pretty low about what happened at the Apple Spring 2018 WWDC19 Keynote this June. There were no hardware updates, no major stories being retweeted on twitter, and a quick news search after the keynote returned more stories written before the event than anything from the live event itself. ![]()
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