Apple, US-based technology giant announced the iOS 10 and Xcode 8 at its ongoing annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday. The OS will however not be available to customers until later this year. Apple rolled out the developer betas on Monday and also said that public betas for non-developers will follow in July. This incidence was first reported by Technology website 9to5mac.com. The new OS will be supported on the iPad 4th generation, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 4, iPod touch 6th gen, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c ,iPhone 5s, iPhone SE, iPhone 6 iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.
Apart from OS betas, Apple also launched Xcode 8 which is an all-in one development suite for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and TV. The new IDE comes with extensions to customize the coding experience as well as runtime alerts, new Memory Debugger and accelerated Interface Builder. Developers will be able to download the new Xcode from Apple’s developer portal. The Apple File System (APFS) is the next-generation file system that is designed to scale from an Apple Watch to a Mac Pro. The company said that APFS is optimized for Flash / SSD storage and also engineered with encryption as a primary feature.
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