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The offcial journal of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc Volume 37.06 – June 2020 Come to one of New OS versions coming soon our meetings Online Monday 29 June 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm Subject: Apple Developer Conference announcements iPad Group TBA Help Desk TBA Apple has announced the next OS versions due for release in September or October. They also announced a major platform change for Mac models starting later this year. See inside or attend our meeting for more details. Where to find us Now that the country is down to alert level 1, it may be possible to resume physical meetings once we have made suitable arrangements. In the meantime we will be running online meetings via Zoom, normally on the same monthly schedule as our Wellington meeting: the evening of the last Monday each month. Meeting invitations will be sent to members via email. If non-members or former members would like to attend a meeting on a trial basis, please email [email protected]. Wellington Apple Users Group p13 INSIDE The President Writes p2 David’s Tech Guide p3 How to Request Access to a Deceased Mac going to Apple Silicon p8 Family Member’s Apple Accounts p15 What the HEIC? p12 Committee Contact Details p16 CAPITAL APPLE – JUNE 2020 PAGE 1 The president writes ... We found ourselves needing to find another location to meet in and moved to the Royal Society on the corner ofTurnbull and Murphy Streets for a number of meetings however the cost was quite high and we then moved to the Johnsonville Community Centre. At first we were using the main hall and as our numbers fell, we moved into one of the smaller Graeme Moffatt rooms. [email protected] We changed the meeting format into something similar to our St Mary’s multiple meetings Hi folks however as Macs were the only system in use, the I recently attended the AGM of another group I meetings were for either basic or advanced users. belong to and at the beginning of the meeting the In an effort to gain new members, we decided to president suggested that we discuss the future of hold an expo one Monday meeting night and the group before going any further. advertised it in the local paper along with There was a feeling among a number of distributing leaflets around the wider Johnsonville members that was not much point in continuing area. with the society as we had not been able to attract A number of our members set up their any new active members who were prepared to computers in the main hall demonstrating how assist with the objectives of the group. they use a Mac and we also invited two of the Mac I spoke against any moves against winding up resellers to come along and show the computers the operation as although we had not achieved that had for sale. many of the goals we had set ourselves, I did not This went off pretty well although we did not consider quitting before the job was done as being gain many new members however it worked well a worthy choice. to encourage existing members to become more One of the issues that was raised was that energised and the net result was that our loss of younger people are so predisposed with mobile members was halted. phones and online social media that attending We then decided to hold another expo the physical meetings was not a priority. following year in conjunction with the two Mac For our WelMac members, physical meetings are resellers however we did it on a more professional not the obstacle that the younger generation senses basis and held it in a venue at Te Papa. as this has been the only manner in which we were This was reasonably successful and we held able to socialise for the most of our lives. another at Te Papa the following year and formed a This lack of a new crop of members however is company in conjunction with the two resellers to the death knell for any group if some means of protect ourselves from any liabilities. recruiting new members is not found. We held a third one at the Michael Fowler Our group has been through this experience for Centre however by then expos were becoming a some time and have tried all manner of things to casualty of the same internet that was causing us encourage new members and overall, they have problems. not been very successful. Now that we have been impacted by the I have written a follow on to our April article covid-19 lockdown and have been forced to find an about the formation of our group in 1984 based alternative to physical meetings, maybe our around our monthly Capital Apple newsletter and salvation may have arrived. discuss a number of activities that we tried to That’s all, folks! Graeme Moffatt address this issue. To contact me, email [email protected], or you can ring me at home (027 660-3094) CAPITAL APPLE – JUNE 2020 PAGE 2 The presidentDavid’s Tech Guide writes ... by David Empson [email protected] problems they were having with their applications. 04 976 9755 For 2020 this also went online, with developers anywhere in the world potentially being able to book time with an Apple engineer for an online lab. This all brought a much greater degree of democratisation to the conference: rather than having a select few getting the most benefit (if they Apple’s Online Developer Conference had the time and could afford the conference fee, Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not travel and accomodation), developers anywhere in possible for Apple to run their traditional annual the world could benefit as long as they had a “World-Wide Developer Conference” (WWDC) reasonable Internet connection and could handle where 5000 developers paid to attend the event in the time zone and language differences. person. The popularity of the iPhone in particular As usual, the keynote announced the next major means there are millions of developers for Apple operating systems. There were no announcements platforms, and demand for attending WWDC got of new hardware products or services. to the point that Apple had to introduce a lottery The major announcement was that Macs are system for buying tickets, rather than all the tickets going to stop using Intel processors and transition being snapped up by the early birds. to Apple Silicon. See my later article for details but To cater to the larger audience, Apple had been the short version is that the first models with Apple improving their online offerings for WWDC. The Silicon will be available before the end of this year, keynote address was already live streamed as it the transition will take up to two years, Macs with was aimed at a wider audience, and developer Intel processors will be supported for several years sessions for detailed topics have been available after that, most existing software will work on the after the end of the session as free online video for new models, and there are still some new Macs the last few years. with Intel processors coming. For 2020’s entirely online event, Apple pre- recorded the keynote and sessions, resulting in Keynote Video better production quality, eliminating “live demo If you want to watch it, Apple still has the failure” and presenter mistakes. The lack of an WWDC keynote video available to stream from audience meant no delays for audience reaction, their web site and via various other platforms and there were no demos from third party including the Apple TV app (on the Apple TV, developers (just brief demos by Apple staff), so the macOS Catalina, iOS, iPadOS and some third party keynote in particular flowed better and was shorter TVs), Apple’s YouTube channel, and their developer than it had been in recent years. web site. It was also nice to see the use of backdrops and They have also made the keynote available for transitions: the keynote used parts of Apple Park streaming or download via Apple Podcasts or the including the Steve Jobs Theatre and flyovers of the podcasts section in iTunes: search for Apple Events. grounds. All the presenters and the camera crews There are audio-only and video versions, but in a were appropriately self-isolating, as emphasised by change from previous years, the video is now only a statement at end of the keynote. available in Full HD, which comes to about 8 GB for It seemed there were even more sessions than the WWDC keynote. Previously there were three usual, probably because Apple staff had more time versions of the Apple Keynotes podcast, with the to pre-record segments and not needing to fit all video in different resolutions. The 2020 WWDC the events into a limited number of days. keynote has not been added to those podcasts, but A significant change was the labs, where older events have been added to the Apple Events developers attending the conference could book podcast. time with an Apple engineer to work through continued over page CAPITAL APPLE – JUNE 2020 PAGE 3 Timeline and features of new OS versions notification rather than taking over the screen on As normal, Apple is expecting to release their the iPhone or iPad. new operating systems in our spring, probably Siri will have a small badge and use part of the starting in early September for most platforms. screen to show results, rather than taking over the macOS has usually been delayed slightly, as late as whole screen.