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Asked on 2024-07-30
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Saliency in WWDC 2024 Sessions
Relevant Sessions:
- Support semantic search with Core Spotlight
- What’s new in watchOS 11
- What’s new in App Intents
- Enhanced suggestions for your journaling app
- What’s new in location authorization
Key Points:
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Support semantic search with Core Spotlight:
- Semantic Search: Enabled by default, it uses state-of-the-art machine learning models to rank results. You can configure queries to support a suggestions menu in your app and use
csuser query contextto tailor the query to your UI needs. Support semantic search with Core Spotlight (07:03) - Improving Search Experience: By donating signals like engagement and freshness, you can improve the ranking of content that users care about most. Support semantic search with Core Spotlight (09:12)
- Semantic Search: Enabled by default, it uses state-of-the-art machine learning models to rank results. You can configure queries to support a suggestions menu in your app and use
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What’s new in watchOS 11:
- Widget Relevance: You can use relevant contexts such as date, location, sleep, and fitness cues to suggest your widget at the right time. What’s new in watchOS 11 (03:04)
- Interactive Widgets: Introduced in iOS 17 and macOS 14, now available in watchOS, allowing actions directly from the widget. What’s new in watchOS 11 (05:01)
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What’s new in App Intents:
- Spotlight Integration: New APIs allow you to index your app entities in Spotlight, bringing powerful semantic search to your app. What’s new in App Intents (01:16)
- Associating App Entities: Use the
associate app entitymethod to link an app entity with your searchable item, enhancing search capabilities. What’s new in App Intents (04:13)
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Enhanced suggestions for your journaling app:
- Reflection Suggestions: Use the new reflection suggestions to enhance user experience by providing prompts for expressive writing. Enhanced suggestions for your journaling app (13:00)
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What’s new in location authorization:
- Session Objects: These objects inform CoreLocation of your needs, ensuring it acts appropriately even if your app is backgrounded. What’s new in location authorization (04:56)
For more detailed information, you can refer to the specific sessions and their chapters mentioned above.
Enhanced suggestions for your journaling app
Find out how your journaling app can display journaling suggestions with richer content from the system. Explore new types of available content like state of mind data, reflection prompts, and support for third-party media content and motion-based activities.
What’s new in location authorization
Location authorization is turning 2.0. Learn about new recommendations and techniques to get the authorization you need, and a new system of diagnostics that can let you know when an authorization goal can’t be met.
What’s new in App Intents
Learn about improvements and all-new features with App Intents, and discover how this framework can help you expose your app’s functionality to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and more. We’ll show you how to make your entities more meaningful to the platform with the Transferable API, File Representations, new IntentFile APIs, and Spotlight Indexing, opening up powerful functionality in Siri and the Shortcuts app. Empower your intents to take people deep into your app with URL Representable Entities. Explore new techniques to model your entities and intents with new APIs for error handling and union values.