WWDC’s inaugural keynote has stood out from the last few keynotes we’ve seen lately. The reason? There has been virtually no leak of what we were going to see. The truth is that it has been one surprise after another something that, according to the code of iOS 15, Apple has devoted a lot of energy to achieve.
Permissions and Privileges for iOS Internal Code
In previous years there have been quite a few leaks of the news of iOS software and the rest of the operating systems. This year, however, all we knew is there would be “new features” coming to iMessage, “some” Health, and “improved” notifications. Apple has achieved that no detail about the content will be escaped of the presentation and now, in 9to5mac, have discovered one of the reasons for their success.
Looking at the code of the first beta of iOS 15 it is seen that each of the great novelties of the operating system is accompanied by a unique identifier. This identifier is associated with an access authorization so Apple can show only certain parts of the software to the engineers who have to work on them.
To access and work with the internal versions of iOS, each employee must have a profile installed on the device. This profile, very similar to the one we use to access developer betas, determines which iOS features will be visible or hidden. With this system Apple has ensured that each team was limited to its radius of action and they have prevented leaks very effectively.
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On the one hand we all love to know about Apple’s plans as soon as possible, on the other hand enjoying a keynote in which you don’t know what to expect and everything is one surprise after another is magnificent. The truth is that Apple has achieved its goal, until the official presentation at WWDC little or nothing we knew what to expect.
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