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Today’s keynote was a fast-paced affair that covered a lot of ground including upcoming updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. If you didn’t follow the live stream or announcements as they unfolded today, you can replay it on Apple’s Events site or catch it on YouTube.

The keynote video can be streamed here and on the Apple TV using the TV app. A high-quality version will also available through Apple Podcasts as a video and audio podcast.

You can follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2022 hub or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2022 RSS feed.

Whenever Apple holds a keynote event, the company shares a variety of numbers related to things like user counts for certain products, software performance improvements, and customer satisfaction. With the company announcing the future of key platforms like iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, there was unsurprisingly a lot of data mentioned during today’s WWDC keynote.

We’ve collected some of the most interesting numbers shared on-stage during the keynote:

• Apple has now opened 17 developer academies around the world
• According to Tim Cook, “many millions of developers” engaged with last year’s online-only WWDC
• There are now 34 million registered Apple developers
• Dictation is used 18 billion times each month. That’s a lot of words
• Improved Maps will launch in 11 more countries later this year
• According to Apple, over 130 products are in the pipeline with support for the Matter home connectivity standard
• 98% of cars sold in the United States now support CarPlay; and according to a survey, 79% of U.S. buyers would consider a car with CarPlay integration

Mac Numbers

• The second-generation chip in the Apple Silicon family, called M2, features:
  • 20 billion transistors, 25% more than M1
  • 100 GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50% more than M1
  • Up to 24 GB of unified memory
  • Up to 18% better performance than M1
  • 1.9x performance compared to a 10-core laptop chip while using 1/4 of the power
  • Up to 35% better GPU performance than M1
  • Specifically, Apple says it offers 25% better graphics performance at the same power, but up to 35% at max power
  • 40% more Neural Engine operations than M1
• The new MacBook Air with M2, announced today, comes in 4 colors
  • It’s 20% thinner, weighs 2.7 lbs, and is 11.3mm thick
  • It has a 13.6” display with thinner borders
  • The display supports 500 nits, which is 25% brighter than before, and 1 billion colors
  • It has a 1080p camera with twice the resolution and twice the low-light performance
  • The Air has a 3-mic array and 4-speaker sound system
  • It supports up to 18 hours of video playback according to Apple’s benchmarks
  • It supports 67W fast-charging, so you can charge up to 50% in 30 minutes
  • It starts at $1199
• As for the new 13” MacBook Pro, also carrying the M2 chip:
  • It’s 40% faster than the previous model
  • Supports up to 24 GB of unified memory
  • Supports up to 20 hours of video playback
  • This is not a number, but it comes with the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar!
  • Starts at $1299
• The M1 MacBook Air continues to be a product in Apple’s lineup, and it now starts at $999.

You can follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2022 hub or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2022 RSS feed.

WWDC will kick off one week from today, and the MacStories team has been busy preparing.

This year is a little different than the past couple. Sessions and labs will be online, but the keynote on Monday, June 6th, will be in person for a small group of developers who were awarded tickets through a lottery system and members of the press.

MacStories is taking a hybrid approach too. I’ll be at Apple Park for the keynote and covering events from Cupertino all week, while Federico and Alex will cover events from home.

As always, we’ll have in-depth coverage of the keynote, Platforms State of the Union presentation, Apple Design Awards, and sessions. We’ll have in-depth coverage of Apple’s announcements, overviews of OS updates and any new hardware, and roundups of everything happening throughout the week. You’ll also get the kind of details that aren’t widely reported as the team combs through session videos, product pages, social media, and other sources.

Before WWDC even gets started, we’ll be hosting a special Club MacStories+ Town Hall live audio event in our Discord community for Club MacStories+ and Club Premier members, tomorrow May 31, 2022 at 9:30 AM Pacific. For Club members who can’t join the Town Hall live, we’ll release the audio in the Town Hall podcast feed. We’ve also created a dedicated WWDC channel in our Discord community to discuss the conference this week and throughout the conference.

Our AppStories coverage over the past couple of years has been a big hit, so we’ll be publishing episodes throughout the week. We’ll start with recaps of the keynote and Platforms State of the Union presentations on Tuesday, followed by episodes Wednesday through Friday that dig into each of Apple’s big announcements, session videos, and more.

New this year is that the four of the episodes we release during WWDC will be recorded live in the Club MacStories+ Discord. It’s a great way to listen in real-time and an opportunity to ask us questions. We’ll be releasing the AppStories+ and AppStories versions of these episodes simultaneously due to the time constraints of WWDC, but the Q&A segments will be released as the bonus content for AppStories+ subscribers.

The schedule is subject to change, but the current plan is to record the live Town Hall episodes of AppStories in the Club MacStories+ Discord on the following days:

• Monday, June 6th at 2 PM Pacific
• Tuesday, June 7th at 10 AM Pacific
• Wednesday, June 8th at 8 AM Pacific
• Thursday, June 9th at 10 AM Pacific

We’ve also teamed up with developers to do giveaways all week long during WWDC in the Club MacStories+ Discord.

To join the fun in Discord and enter the giveaways, sign up for a Club MacStories+ or Club Premier account at plus.club. Club Premier is our all-access pass to everything MacStories, including AppStories+, our extended, ad-free version of the show that is published a day early.

You can follow along with all of the MacStories and AppStories coverage on our WWDC 2022 hub or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2022 RSS feed.

Finally, we’ll send a special issue of MacStories Weekly to Club MacStories members one day later than usual on Saturday, June 11th. The issue will be packed with WWDC-themed features, our thoughts on everything revealed, and giveaways.

If you’re not a member of Club MacStories, you can join here.

Of course, we’re working on some surprises for the week too, so keep a close eye on the MacStories and AppStories websites.

To recap, stay tuned to MacStories, AppStories, and the Club for a full week of WWDC coverage:

This Week

Tuesday

• At 12:30 PM Eastern US time, a special live audio Town Hall in our Club MacStories+ Discord community that will be released in the Town Hall podcast feed

Next Week

Monday - Friday

• Continuous Keynote, Platforms State of the Union, and session coverage on MacStories

Tuesday - Friday

• Daily episodes of AppStories covering all of Apple’s announcements, big and small
• Live recording of three shows Monday through Wednesday in the Club MacStories+ Discord

Saturday

• A WWDC-themed issue of Club MacStories Weekly newsletter 

We’re all excited for next week and hope you’ll join us for the festivities.

You can follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2022 hub or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2022 RSS feed.