SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 (UPI) -- Tech giant Apple lit social channels afire Monday with news out of its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco -- new operating systems for its phone, watch, TV and a new name for its computer operating system.
And it's only day one.
The company kicked off its annual tech conference Monday with a slew of new introductions:
New iPhone OS
Perhaps the most talked about news out of the conference's first day was iOS 10 -- the operating system for Apple's iPhone and iPad lines.
The new iOS 10 will feature a slew of new features -- including additional synchronization among systems, redesigned lock screen, expanded 3D touch, "raise to wake," and an improved Siri.
"Raise to wake" is a feature that automatically unlocks the screen when the user picks up the device. About Siri, the iPhone's virtual assistant, she's open to developers for the first time ever.
Apple developer Craig Federighi called iOS 10 "the biggest iOS release ever for our users."
Watch OS
The first announcement of the conference was to introduce the new system for Apple's watch, called WatchOS 3.
Most notably in the new system is a feature called Instant Launch -- which amps the performance of the watch's apps. Apple says the new OS is seven times faster than the previous system.
The new OS also lets users write on the watch's face.
Apple tvOS
One of the main improvements to Apple TV's system, detailed Monday, is users' new ability to watch live broadcasts, like sporting events, by speaking voice commands.
Integration of live TV is something the company clearly believes will appeal to cord-cutters, or those who are ditching traditional subscription TV for web-based a la carte programming.
The new tvOS also lets users log into multiple services, like Netflix and Hulu, with a single universal sign-in -- which Apple said has been one of the biggest complaints about the old OS.
MacOS
For the last 15 years, it has been called OS X -- but now Apple's operating system for laptops and Macs has been rebranded MacOS. The new name is more uniform with systems of other devices, like tvOS and iOS.
The newest version, Sierra, announced Monday, will feature improved synchronization. For instance, Watches can sync with Apple computers without the need to enter a username and password.
Additionally, Siri will now be included in MacOS -- after previously only being available on iOS, WatchOS and tvOS.
