iOS 12: Release date rumors, feature speculation, and more!
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iOS 12 is expected to be previewed at WWDC in June 2018. Here's everything you need to know!
The next new operating system for iPhone and iPad will be iOS 12. That means, right after iOS 11 was released, Apple's product marketing and software engineering teams began working to figure out what iOS 12 needed to be. Since Apple doesn't pre-announced new features before they go into beta, all we have to look forward to between now and WWDC 2018 in June are rumors and speculation.
Here they are.
June 1, 2018: ARKit 2.0 will reportedly allow two iPhones to see the same virtual object
In a new report, Reuters claims that ARKit 2.0, which will supposedly be unveiled next week with iOS 12, will allow two iOS devices to share the same augmented reality space, letting users see the same objects at the correct relative positions while engaged in a multiplayer activity.
However, Apple's system avoids storing any raw mapping scans of a user's surroundings in the cloud, said the two sources. Google says it will discard raw mapping data after seven days.
The precise details of how Apple's new system will work, or if it would support three or more players, were not available. But a phone-to-phone approach could eventually run into technical limitations. It could end up being harder to handle three or more players at a time if a player who started the game drops out, a person involved in Google's AR efforts said.
Apple's system for device-to-device is apparently meant to emphasize privacy. We'll know for sure if Apple is implementing such a system on Monday.
When will we see iOS 12?
Assuming that Apple keeps to its previous patterns, it will show off iOS 12 for the first time during the keynote for the 2018 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Tim Cook will introduce iOS 12, while Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, will go through its different tentpole features.
It's likely that the first developer beta of iOS 12 will be made available the same day as the presentation. As with the last few iterations of iOS, a public beta should follow later in the summer. The public launch of iOS 12 will likely take place at some point in fall 2018.
What do you want to see in iOS 12?
With iOS 12 over a year away at this point, there's not a lot that we've heard about it. iOS 11 is still in beta, for crying out loud! But that doesn't mean that we can't think about what Apple's got coming down the pipe. Do you think we'll finally get that system-wide dark mode? What about new iPad features? Let us know what you would like to see in iOS 12 in the comments.
I'd still love a dark theme in iOS 12
I'd love lock screen complications in iOS 12
