Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts today with the traditional keynote kicking things off at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. MacRumors is on hand for the event and we'll be sharing details and our thoughts throughout the day.
We're expecting to see a number of software-related announcements led by a design revamp across Apple's platforms that will also see the numbering of all of them unified under "26" branding. We should also be hearing more about Apple's AI initiatives, although perhaps a bit more restrained compared to last year's ambitious unveilings that have yet to fully come to fruition.
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Live blog transcript ahead...
8:54 am:
See you soon #WWDC25! pic.twitter.com/xna3JqcGvp
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 9, 2025
8:59 am: We're all checked in and taking in the pre-event hype as attendees are milling around.
9:44 am: Just about 15 minutes to go and attendees are starting to head toward their seats!
9:46 am: The video stream is up and running at Apple.com. Ambient and poppy music is playing over constantly shifting glossy-looking graphics.
9:58 am: Tim Cook is on stage to greet the attendees. And Craig Federighi joins him.
10:00 am: The stream is beginning! Welcome to WWDC 2025!
10:01 am: We started with a split second from the upcoming F1 movie, before moving to Tim Cook in his office putting on a trackside headset.
10:01 am: Tim is examining a giant wall of realtime stats.
10:02 am: It was Craig "driving" the car!
10:03 am: The F1 movie premiers on June 27. "One of the most thrilling, high-energy movies" Tim's ever watched.
10:04 am: "We believe deeply in providing developers with the newest tools and technologies to help them do their very best work."
10:04 am: "Today, we'll unveil some exciting new innovations, and over the course of the week, we'll take a deeper dive with over 100 sessions as well as labs led by Apple engineers, providing valuable technical and design guidance."
10:04 am: "By presenting WWDC online and for free, we're able to share all of this with millions and millions of developers around the world, the apps that developers create continue to make a profound impact on all of our lives."
10:04 am: To get us started. Here's Craig.
10:05 am: Starting with two "foundational" things. First is Apple Intelligence.
10:05 am: Touting the different Apple Intelligence tools that have been released so far.
10:06 am: "As we've shared, we're continuing our work to deliver the features that make Siri even more personal. This work needed more time to reach our high-quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year."
10:07 am: "This year, we're expanding the languages supported by Apple intelligence. We're making the generative models that power Apple intelligence more capable and more efficient, and we're continuing to tap into Apple intelligence in more places across our ecosystem."
10:07 am: "This year, we're doing something new, and we think it's going to be pretty big. We're opening up access for any app to tap directly into the on device. Large language model at the core of Apple intelligence, with a new foundation models framework."
This gives developers direct access to intelligence that's powerful, fast, built with privacy and available even when you're offline."
10:08 am: The on-device models can be integrated directly into apps, allowing "developers to build on Apple Intelligence."
10:08 am: "Now, there's another piece of our platform story this year, and it's a big one. In fact, it's the kind of project that only comes along about once per decade. It's a gorgeous new design that feels effortless to use."
10:09 am: "Our last major redesign was iOS 7. Back then, we were inspired by the recent emergence of Retina Displays and the amazing power of our Apple Silicon. Well, a lot has changed. Apple Silicon has become dramatically more powerful enabling software, materials and experiences we once could only dream of."
10:09 am: "We've always believed it's the deep integration of hardware and software that makes interactive with technology, intuitive, beautiful, and a joy to use."
10:10 am: "It's our broadest design update ever." It should bring joy and delight to every user.
10:10 am: "And for the first time, we're introducing a universal design across our platforms."
10:11 am: It's inspired by VisionOS, called "Liquid Glass."
10:12 am: The rounded corners have been matched to the curved screens of the devices. "Liquid glass is translucent and behaves just like glass in the real world."
10:12 am: "The material dynamically morphs when you need more options or when you move between views. We've applied this same dynamic nature to other experiences too."
10:13 am: "Your entire experience becomes more intuitive. From navigating apps to system experiences like the lock screen, notifications and control center."
10:13 am: "App icons have been crafted with multiple layers of liquid glass and come to life in light mode, dark mode, colorful new tints or an all new clear look. The new design extends to the dock and even to your widgets, giving you an entirely new way to personalize your experience."
10:13 am: "Today marks an exciting and beautiful new chapter for our design, one that sets the stage for our next era of our products and how you interact with them every day."
10:13 am: "We're unifying our version numbers across all our platforms."
10:14 am: Version 26. Today we'll be taking you through all of these.
10:15 am: Craig is starting with the Lock Screen, showing how "we all start our day".
10:15 am: The clock dynamically changes size depending on how much space is available in your background image.
10:15 am: It adjusts to subjects but also keeps the best part of the photo in view as notifications come in.
10:16 am: It generates a 3D effect from 2D photos, bringing photos to life as you move your phone in your hand.
10:16 am: The lock screen can change with album art, depending on music that's playing.
10:17 am: Now he's moved to show the new camera mode, with easy-to-use swipes to change settings.
10:17 am: The Photos app has been updated with tabs for Library and Collections.
10:18 am: 3D spatial photos have been brought to Photos too, not just the Lock Screen.
10:19 am: Craig is going through how Apple's apps have been updated with Liquid Glass, including FaceTime and CarPlay.
10:19 am: Now we're doing a deep dive into CarPlay, a feature that's used more than 600 million times per day.
10:19 am: The new Liquid Glass design extends into the car, "for a consistent, expressive experience while you drive."
10:20 am: "We've added new features to help keep you connected while driving, like a compact design when you get a call, so you can still see what's on the screen like directions."
10:20 am: Widgets have been added to CarPlay.
10:20 am: Live Activities have been added, too.
10:20 am: Widgets from iPhone work directly in CarPlay.
10:21 am: Updates are coming to CarPlay Ultra too, the new experience that debuted with Aston Martin.
10:21 am: It adds controls for the vehicle and climate right into CarPlay, with "many more brands around the world working to bring this experience to market."
10:21 am: "Back to you, Craig!"
10:23 am: There seem to be redesigns to nearly every app. There's a new unified design to the Phone app, showing voicemails and missed calls from users together, like text messages are.
10:23 am: Call Screening is built into iOS now, allowing you to screen calls from unknown users. "It answers calls from unknown numbers, silently in the background. Once the caller shares their name and reason for the call, your phone rings."
10:24 am: New Hold Assist feature can keep your spot in line, when you're on hold, automatically detecting hold music. The call stays connected, but you don't have to sit on the line. When a live agent comes on the line, the phone tells them to hold a moment and reconnects you to the call.
10:25 am: Backgrounds coming to group messages, as rumored. Dynamic backgrounds to choose from, or choose from photos. Image playground can generate images too.
10:26 am: Polls have been added too, and Apple Intelligence can recognize when a poll could be a good prompt. Can send or receive Apple Cash within the group chat, too.
10:26 am: Typing indicators for group chats!
10:27 am: Screening tools are coming to text messages too, allowing you to screen new senders. Unknown senders appear in a dedicated area. Until you accept, messages from unknown senders will remain silenced. Important, time-sensitive messages like "your table is ready" or verification codes are automatically detected and displayed.
10:27 am: "We're making everyday conversations more fun and more seamless."
10:27 am: Text descriptions can be turned into a Genmoji, but two emojis can be combined — or even combined with a description.
10:28 am: Can change Memoji with different expressions.
10:28 am: Can use ChatGPT styles to generate in Image Playground, too.
10:28 am: "You're always in control, and nothing is shared with ChatGPT without your permission."
10:28 am: There's a new Image Playground API for developers to use.
10:29 am: Live Translation has been added too, powered by Apple-built models that run entirely on device. Live Translation can translate text in Messages, for example.
10:29 am: Your message will be translated as you type, and when they respond, each text can be instantly translated for you.
10:29 am: There are translated live captions in FaceTime, too.
10:30 am: When on a phone call, translations are made as you talk and the translation is made in real time for the caller to hear. As they respond, you hear a spoken translation of their voice.
10:30 am: This works seamlessly, even when calling someone without an iPhone. There's also a new Call Translation API for developers.
10:31 am: "We're also improving some Apple Services you enjoy using on iPhone."
10:31 am: Starting with Apple Music. "We're making it easier to fall in love with music from all around the world." Adding lyrics translation and lyrics pronunciation.
10:31 am: New "Automix" feature to seamlessly mix songs from one to the other with beat matching and time stretching.
10:32 am: Music pins feature to put playlists or artists at the top of your Library.
10:32 am: The new Maps can help remember your routines and places you've been.
10:32 am: Often have a favorite route with quick stops along the way, like dropping the kids off or stopping for coffee. It can remember preferred routes.
10:33 am: If there are significant delays, you get a notification with alternate route options.
10:33 am: If you've wanted to return to a great local business or park, we're introducing Visited Places. Let your iPhone detect when you're at a place like a shop or restaurant and view places you've visited in the past.
10:33 am: They're easy to delete with a swipe, and protected with end-to-end encryption.
10:34 am: Updates to Apple Wallet, with car keys in wallet with adoption from more than 20 brands using it currently and 13 more coming soon.
10:34 am: Driver's licenses are available in 9 states plus Puerto Rico, with more to come. You can create a digital ID for your US passport. Digital ID can be used for domestic travel at TSA checkpoints or in-apps.
10:35 am: Refreshed boarding passes include indoor mapping to get you around the airport, as well as Find My right in the boarding pass to track luggage.
10:35 am: Apple Pay is getting more convenient ways for you to pay, including using points or pay with installments when shopping in person. Wallet now does order tracking from beyond your Apple Pay orders, pulling together order details, order progress notifications and more, right in Wallet.
10:36 am: There's a new Gaming experience, too.
10:36 am: "People love playing games on iPhone."
10:36 am: "It's no surprise that over half a billion people play games on their iPhone. So we're creating a new destination to help you get more out of your games, jump back into what you love, find your next favorite and have even more fun with friends."
10:37 am: A new Games app shows updates, can't-miss events, and recommendations tailored just for you.
10:37 am: Apple Arcade gets a dedicated tab, and on the Library tab you can see all the games you've ever downloaded from the App Store and jump back into the games right from there.
10:38 am: The Play Together tab shows what your friends are playing, lets you compare scores and achievements, and to invite friends to play multiplayer games. You can also make challenges against your friends to compare high scores.
10:38 am: Challenges are made on top of Game Center leaderboards, allowing single-player games to be turned into competitions with friends.
10:39 am: Visual intelligence is getting a big update. Press the camera control or action button to pull up ratings for a cafe you walk by, or see information about sneakers when you're out and about. It's extending to your iPhone screen, to take actions across your apps using anything you're viewing.
10:39 am: "Visual Intelligence makes it faster to do more with the content on your iPhone screen and it works automatically with any app."
10:40 am: Take a screenshot and you have new Visual intelligence tools including an "Image Search" button, an Ask feature, or the ability to highlight certain parts of the images.
10:41 am: "Suppose I come across an event I'm interested in." A new "Add to calendar" button can detect date, time and location and prepopulate a new event screen.
10:41 am: Tap the Ask button to ask ChatGPT questions about a screenshot.
10:41 am: "Visual intelligence makes it easier for me to search across apps, take action, or ask questions."
10:42 am: App Intents allow developers to integrate into these features "to let you do more with what's in front of you."
10:42 am: That's iOS 26.
10:42 am: Next up is watchOS 26.
10:43 am: There are new enhancements "to many of the features you use every day" plus the new Liquid Glass experience.
10:43 am: watchOS now uses intelligence to be more proactive.
10:43 am: New Workout Buddy feature can help motivate you based on your fitness history.
10:44 am: "Workout Buddy is pretty incredible. It simultaneously gathers all the data from your workouts, then analyzes your fitness history" to identify meaningful insights in real time. It provides you with just the right encouragement.
10:45 am: There's a new dynamic generative voice that can help keep you motivated and recognize new records or when you need a pep talk. There are different voices to choose from, and Workout Buddy can mark key moments and real-time statistics during a workout.
10:45 am: It can help you celebrate accomplishments and recognize milestones. "It recognizes your effort" and gives summaries of workouts at the end.
10:46 am: "It's personal and private." It's available starting in English across the most popular workout types.
10:46 am: There's a new layout in Workout, with custom workouts with work and recovery intervals, or race from your last or best time along your favorite route. Apple Music can choose a playlist for you from your favorite music, or it can recommend music for you to choose from based on what you typically listen to for that workout type.
10:47 am: Smart Stack is smarter, improving its prediction algorithm by fusing on-device data with trends from your daily routine to predict what features might be most useful to you. Walk into your gym and a hint can appear to start your workout.
10:48 am: Enhancements are coming to Notifications, letting Apple Watch interpret the ambient noise in your environment to dynamically adjust the volume of notifications. There's a new Wrist Flick gesture to dismiss notifications.
10:48 am: The Messages app gains many of the features from iOS 26, including Live Translation, conversation backgrounds, and new actions based on context.
10:49 am: Notes is coming to Apple Watch.
10:49 am: New APIs for developers, including improved location APIs to help with Smart Stacks or automatically turn on settings when arriving at a certain location.
10:49 am: Now moving to tvOS.
10:50 am: tvOS gets Liquid Glass, with layered design on app icons.
10:50 am: The Now Playing and Control Center controls refract the content underneath.
10:51 am: There's new cinematic poster art in the TV+ app, and now we have a new sneak peek of content coming to Apple TV+.
10:52 am: Chief of War, Foundation Season 3, Slow Horses Season 5, Loot Season 3, Highest 2 Lowest movie, The Morning Show Season 4, The Lost Bus movie, Invasion Season 3, Platonic Season 2 and more.
10:53 am: New Profiles feature lets users use their own watch statistics and recommendations. New Automatic Sign-In API for developers. "No more signing in across all of your Apple devices."
10:54 am: Apple Music is getting an update too. There's a new Kareoke mode, with your iPhone acting as a mic to play through the TV. Other users can join in, make song recommendations, or sing along.
10:54 am: Craig is back to talk about macOS Tahoe 26.
10:55 am: "We're building on what you love most about macOS, with a release made for all of its different users."
10:55 am: "Our crack product marketing team was convinced they'd earned their paycheck when they noticed that years end in two digits."
10:55 am: "Let me introduce you to macOS Tahoe."
10:56 am: Many of the iOS features are coming to macOS, including Live Translation and the new Image Playground. But the biggest update is the new Design.
10:56 am: "The Desktop is instantly familiar. Widgets, the Dock and App Icons have been updated with Liquid Glass."
10:57 am: The menubar is now completely transparent, making the display feel larger.
10:57 am: There are many new controls including from macOS or iOS apps.
10:57 am: Folders can get colors and emojis.
10:57 am: "It's easier than ever to make your Mac a seamless extension of your style."
10:58 am: Updates coming to Continuity, including Live Activities coming to Mac.
10:58 am: They're displayed in the menubar, and if you click on it, it'll open in iPhone Mirroring.
10:59 am: A new phone app on Mac mirrors your iPhone, with many of the same features like Call Screening and Live Translation.
10:59 am: Updates coming to Shortcuts.
10:59 am: Shortcuts can run at a certain time of day, or when you do certain things like connecting an external display.
11:00 am: Dedicated actions that you're familiar with like summarizing text with Apple Intelligence, or using image playground.
11:00 am: Build a shortcut to compare your recording from a lecture to the notes you took to make sure you didn't miss anything.
11:01 am: Updates coming to Spotlight, getting its biggest update ever. The fastest way to browse your content on Mac, including intelligent suggestions based on your routines and what you're currently working on.
11:01 am: Take actions (create event, create audio recording, play podcast, etc) straight from Spotlight, no matter what app you're working in.
11:01 am: Can send an email right from Spotlight, for example. Or use Spotlight to control feature-rich apps.
11:02 am: Quick Keys allow you to get to controls faster: You can type "sm" to send a message, or "ar" to add reminder.
11:02 am: "Searching in Spotlight is better than ever... intelligently ranked by what's relevant to me."
11:03 am: Can search for in-app controls right from Spotlight. Can also view a clipboard history, letting you go back to an image or text that you previously copied.
11:04 am: Build a shortcut and run it straight from spotlight or assign quick keys. Spotlight is contextually aware, letting you apply shortcuts directly to the document you're working on.
11:05 am: Spotlight knows your frequent actions or often-used documents, and can prepopulate on commonly used items.
11:05 am: Developers can integrate with Spotlight using the App Intents API.
11:05 am: "From Design to Continuity and productivity" macOS Tahoe give upgrades across the board.
11:05 am: The new Games app comes to Mac, too.
11:06 am: Metal 4 with next-generation display tech comes, along with new games coming to Mac.
11:07 am: Next up is visionOS.
11:07 am: "Consumers and enterprises alike love Vision Pro because it unlocks experiences that just weren't possible before."
11:08 am: "visionOS 26 is packed with groundbreaking spatial experiences, powerful features for enterprise, expanded input with new spatial accessories and exciting spatial content to enjoy. And this is in addition to Apple Intelligence features introduced today, like updates to image, playground, new supported languages, and more."
11:08 am: Widgets can be placed in real space, staying consistent. Put widgets like Clock right on the wall, or a weather widget.
11:09 am: VisionOS will remember where you put your apps, even between restarts.
11:10 am: Computational analysis allows you to turn your 2D photos into 3D spatial scenes. Also adds a new Spatial version to Safari, giving a sort of VisionOS version of Reader mode.
11:10 am: "There are big changes coming to Personas."
11:11 am: VisionOS 26 gives a dramatic transformation, allowing you to more realistically represent you. It makes "your persona feel more natural and familiar."
11:11 am: You and friends can watch movies or play a spatial game together right in the room. This will be great for enterprise too, allowing users to collaborate on apps to visualize items in person or with remote colleagues.
11:12 am: "Hundreds of companies worldwide use vision Pro's unique hardware and software to supercharge their workflows for design training, sales, and more." Companies will be able to share devices between employees, or a guest mode.
11:12 am: New "Protected Content" mode, allowing only certain users who have been granted access to see content.
11:12 am: New accessories, including Logitech Muse, a 6-D pen that lets you draw and collaborate.
11:13 am: PlayStation VR2 Sense controller support coming to visionOS.
11:13 am: A new Adobe app for visionOS, powered by Premiere, lets you preview and edit spatial videos.
11:14 am: GoPro, Insta360 and Canon now support native playback of 180 and 360-degree video right in visionOS. Web developers can embed 3D objects into web pages, allowing them to be pulled into a visual space. "This marks the beginning of the spatial web."
11:14 am: There's a new Jupiter environment, watching the planet from its Amalthea moon.
11:15 am: Now we're moving to iPadOS 26.
11:15 am: It also gets the new design and Lock Screen, and redesigned apps, Apple Intelligence, and many of the other features we've seen from iOS and macOS.
11:16 am: "Over the years, we've pushed the limits of how portable, powerful and versatile iPad can be."
11:16 am: "This year, we're continuing to push the capabilities of iPadOS even further." Multitasking, files, and audio and video.
11:17 am: There's a new macOS-style windowing system.
11:17 am: "Helps you control, arrange and switch between your windows."
11:18 am: By default, apps are made full screen, just like currently. But a new grab handle lets you resize apps into windows. Apps that have previously been a window will open up again that way.
11:18 am: The trackpad mouse icon is more pointed, not a circle.
11:18 am: Windows can be tiled with a flick towards the edge of the screen.
11:19 am: Expose comes to iPadOS, too.
11:19 am: Swiping home twice minimizes everything, letting you get back to "the distinct simplicity of iPad."
11:19 am: A menubar is coming to iPad too, always available at the top of the screen.
11:20 am: "Wow, more windows, a pointier pointer, and a menubar? Who woulda thought? We truly pulled off a mind-blowing release."
11:20 am: This new view works on every iPad capable of running iPad 26, and works on external displays too.
11:21 am: There are updates to File handling, for "managing, accessing, and editing your files." We're "supercharging your Files app" with a new List view, the same folder customization options with macOS that sync across devices. You can choose default apps for your different file types. Folders can also be placed directly in the dock.
11:21 am: It acts very similarly to putting a folder in the Dock in macOS.
11:22 am: Preview is coming to iPad OS, a dedicated app to view and edit PDFs, including with Autofill and Apple Pencil markup.
11:22 am: More complex workflows are coming for working with audio and video, including with Audio Input controls.
11:23 am: You can choose different inputs in each app, or on different websites. Voice isolation is available in any app, or record "studio-quality vocals" with AirPods.
11:23 am: Start and stop video recording with a press-and-hold with AirPods.
11:24 am: Local capture lets you make high-quality recordings on iPad, using video conferencing apps to get a high-quality audio and video file saved right on your iPad. Echo cancellation of other users lets you capture a clear-recording of your side of the call. Users can share their locally saved files from every user.
11:24 am: Background Tasks allow long-running, computationally heavy processes in the background. Tasks will continue to run, showing up as Live Activities.
11:25 am: An updated Background Tasks API lets developers take advantage of these new abilities.
11:25 am: "With accelerated workflows for working with audio and video, huge improvements to working with files and the biggest update to windowing on iPad ever, this release of iPadOS is a game changer. We couldn't be more excited for you to try it."
11:26 am: "It's a giant leap forward in productivity."
11:26 am: "This is the biggest iPadOS release ever."
11:28 am: The Design, Foundational Models and updated App Intents will add a lot of abilities for Developers to take advantage of.
11:28 am: A new icon composer app lets developers view how their app icons will look in different tints or modes.
11:29 am: Tim is back, thanking the presenters and recapping the announcements made today.
11:29 am: "We're excited to see how developers will bring these updates and this new design language to their apps."
11:30 am: Developer betas launch today, with public betas coming next month. The final release will come this fall.
11:30 am: "Let's go have a great WWDC!"
11:31 am: Now we're watching a song with lyrics that consist of real app reviews that have been left on the App Store. "6 out of 5 stars." "Two thumbs and all toes up." "If this doesn't win best app of the year, I'll eat a shoe."
11:33 am: The event has finished after that rather odd ode to app reviews.
