tvOS, surround-sound AirPods, and more: The other big WWDC announcements

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook starts the WWDC 2020 keynote.

Today, Apple made one of its biggest announcements in years: that Macs will begin to transition away from Intel processors. The company also outlined plans for new versions of iOS, macOS, and watchOS. But while those were the headlining changes, there are a bunch of smaller announcements that are worth looking into.

We're not listing every little feature in iOS right now-that's for the review later this year, after all-but we will flag a few of the bigger standalone announcements that we didn't get to during our event coverage. We'll start with tvOS, which is getting its biggest software update in a good long while.

tvOS gets expanded multi-user support and picture-in-picture

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  This is the panel used for multi-user switching. [credit: Sam Machkovech ]

tvOS, the software that drives Apple TV set-top boxes, is getting what might be its most substantial new version since 2017. The headlining feature is arguably expanded multi-user support, though Apple has not been crystal clear on exactly what that support will entail yet. Still, expanding that has been one of the most requested features for the Apple TV, so we're looking forward to seeing more.

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