It is time once more for Apple‘s annual worldwide developer convention, and we’re itching to see what the corporate will formally share right this moment. Final yr’s WWDC noticed the official unveiling of Apple Intelligence — the corporate’s set of updates involving machine studying and language fashions that its rivals Google and Microsoft had already teed up years in the past. At WWDC 2025, we anticipate to see the same old bulletins across the subsequent variations of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS.
However as a substitute of varied totally different numbers indicating the technology of every platform like earlier than, this yr may see the corporate undertake a unified year-based naming normal that might lead to issues being referred to as iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26 and such versus iOS 19 and watchOS 12 as anticipated.
If you wish to watch Apple’s keynote presentation for your self, take a look at the way to watch WWDC 2025 for particulars on the varied locations yow will discover the livestream. For many who desire following alongside a third-party liveblog that is largely text- and image-based, scroll down for our protection proper right here!
The keynote begins at 1PM ET (or 10AM PT) however our liveblog begins hours earlier than that, as we plan to share our expertise and impressions reside from Apple Park in Cupertino. You need to completely be a part of us round 10AM ET for the total expertise to really feel such as you’re proper right here with us. The photographs of snacks alone ought to be value it.
Replace, 1:43PM ET: See our evolving recap of every thing Apple has introduced at WWDC 2025.
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Apple simply served dinner right here on the customer heart the place media attendees are set as much as work between our briefings. The Szechuan scorching rooster slider specifically was improbable.
A plate on which a fried rooster slider and two cups of salads are sat. (Cherlynn Low for Engadget) -
Apple’s walled backyard is the iPad’s greatest roadblock to turning into a Mac
Apple’s Craig Federighi standing subsequent to an iPadOS 26 view on an iPad Professional. (Apple) Will Shanklin took be aware of the large iPadOS multitasking replace (in addition to improved Recordsdata help and menu bars in apps) and feels just like the hole between the iPad and Mac is smaller than ever. However Apple’s reliance on the App Retailer could be the very last thing separating the 2 units — and one thing that retains the Mac as a greater possibility for lots of people.
“iPadOS 26 makes Apple‘s pill rather more like macOS. Higher windowing? Examine. The menu bar? Yup. There’s even a extra fine-tuned Recordsdata app, together with doc enhancing in Preview. It is as if Apple took a guidelines of longtime power-user requests and fulfilled all of them. It is sufficient that the App Retailer’s walled backyard may very well be the final remaining purpose to stay together with your Mac.”
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The Cellphone app in macOS 26 is one other child step in direction of a mobile Mac
The brand new Cellphone app in macOS Tahoe 26. (Apple) As typical, Apple is unifying the Mac, iPhone and iPad. It has been a theme for years, and it was a significant focus of right this moment’s keynote. Among the many options being shared throughout platforms is a brand new Cellphone app for the Mac that makes use of your iPhone’s mobile sign to make calls. This has been a function for years, however the brand new Cellphone app ought to make it a greater expertise. It additionally piqued Ian Carlos Campbell’s curiosity.
“Whereas it nonetheless stays extra of a dream than an apparent cease on Apple’s product roadmap, the corporate’s updates in macOS Tahoe 26 provide new proof that Apple may at some point promote Macs with mobile connectivity. Certain, the largest takeaway from WWDC 2025 will in all probability be the brand new Liquid Glass design language the corporate is sprinkling over all of its working techniques, however based mostly on the addition of a Cellphone app to macOS, Apple’s laptops and telephones are converging in additional methods than one.”
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Each WWDC ought to finish with a tune composed of app evaluations
Apple The WWDC keynote resulted in unusual style, but it surely was Anna Washenko’s favourite a part of the day. As she says, “the ultimate three minutes of a full band performing actual evaluations of apps grew to become the precise spotlight of WWDC for me.”
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Nate and I are at the moment on the customer heart in Apple Park, the place media attendees are getting lunch and utilizing the area to complete submitting tales. Right now’s menu features a grilled rooster salad, “California Roll crab roll” and a “Backyard-smoked carrot lox on pumpernickel.” Dessert choices function oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies. I am bummed that the matcha sugar cookie from earlier years is not right here, however perhaps that is simply reserved for the September iPhone launches.
A restaurant with a number of individuals sat at tables and dealing, and plenty of individuals standing in entrance of a counter on the again. (Cherlynn Low for Engadget) -
iPadOS 26 makes Apple’s tablets extra like Macs
iPads are rising much more Mac-like with the following working system replace. (Apple) It has been a standard chorus for a few years: iPads are nice for lean-back content material consumption, however when that you must get “actual work” executed, you toggle over to a full-fledged pc — Mac or in any other case. Apple has inched nearer to creating the iPad extra productivity-friendly in recent times with additions like Stage Supervisor, however plenty of creatives nonetheless hit a wall with duties like home windows administration or app switching.
However iPadOS 26 (the brand new year-based moniker for the pill working system) might lastly change that. Higher windowing, an actual menu bar, a full-fleged Preview app, an improved Recordsdata app and higher dealing with of audio and video seize all look to be massive wins for iPad-based creators (and podcasters particularly). And the icing on the cake for energy customers is background tasking, which ought to lastly enable issues like video and audio file rendering whilst you multi-task.
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Apple’s visionOS 26 brings eye-scrolling and help for PS VR2 controllers
Higher gaming help and a laundry listing of latest way of life enhancements are coming to Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset. (Apple) At $3,500, Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset continues to be a tough promote for the overwhelming majority of customers — even these on the lookout for bleeding-edge digital actuality. However with visionOS 26 — the third iteration of the Imaginative and prescient’s working system coming this fall — present customers of the headset are getting fairly just a few upgrades.
Firstly, Imaginative and prescient Professional customers will achieve compatibility with PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. That ought to open up some severe gaming choices, because the Imaginative and prescient Professional was beforehand restricted at hand gestures.
Apple headset customers may even get help for eye-scrolling, which suggests they’ll (you guessed it) navigate paperwork and web sites with their eyes.
And whereas Apple made a degree of emphasizing the unified “liquid glass” feel and look throughout all its newly up to date working techniques, that design language was successfully already infused into the Imaginative and prescient’s interface.
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watchOS 26: The whole lot Apple introduced for its wearable at WWDC 2025
Apple Throughout Apple’s WWDC keynote occasion right this moment in Cupertino, firm execs introduced, amongst different issues, the most recent Apple Watch software program:
watchOS 12, er, watchOS 26. Like iOS, macOS, iPadOS and the remaining, the most recent technology of watchOS will now be appended with the upcoming yr, as a substitute of a sequential quantity. What would have been watchOS 12, is now watchOS 26.Apart from the brand new title, there is a new search for watchOS, too. Apple gave its total suite of software program a redesign, one which takes aesthetic cues and the “physicality and richness” of visionOS, the software program used within the firm’s VR headset, the Imaginative and prescient Professional. It is the largest redesign since iOS 7. The look known as “liquid glass” and dynamically reacts to motion and responds to the content material on display. Menus now higher match to the rounded corners of the {hardware}. Notifications and different data now contain translucent backgrounds, giving the interface a glass-like look.
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macOS Tahoe 26 will deliver Apple’s new Liquid Glass UI to your desktop
Apple So lengthy macOS Sequoia, whats up macOS Tahoe 26. Apple’s subsequent desktop working system will function the corporate’s Liquid Glass UI, however at this level, it would not appear to be there shall be any really transformative options like final yr’s iPhone mirroring. However hey, no less than Apple is not attempting to make us enthusiastic about widgets once more. Similar to the remainder of Apple’s new software program, Tahoe’s model quantity has additionally been up to date to mirror the upcoming yr — beforehand, we anticipated it to be macOS 16. Whereas that will take some getting used to, it is simpler than attempting to recollect the totally different model numbers throughout Apple’s platforms.
At first look, Apple’s Liquid Glass refresh nearly looks like a rehash of the “Aero” design Microsoft utilized in Home windows Vista (which got here out practically 20 years in the past, yikes). True to its title, a various diploma of transparency is vital to Apple’s new aesthetic — that features a absolutely clear menu bar, as effectively new mild and darkish tints for these respective show modes. Mainly, it appears to be like like macOS Tahoe shall be Apple’s most customizable desktop OS but.
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The developer beta is on the market right this moment and the general public beta shall be accessible in July. -
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