One of the more developer-oriented announcements that didn't make it into the Keynote at this year's WWDC was Apple introducing a new file system dubbed the Apple File System (APFS).
What is APFS? – Apple's file system explained
The current file systems used by the company, (HFS and HFS+), are more than a decade old and were never really designed for storage devices that store gigabytes of data.
APFS has been developed "from the ground up" to scale uniformly across all their devices. This means that from the Apple Watch to the Mac, all devices will use APFS as their default file system for years to come.
What features can you expect in the new file system, and how do they matter at the user level? We have a simple breakdown of the major new features in APFS announced by the tech giant.
