Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2025

Apple held its yearly developer convention today, and arsenic accustomed used nan keynote reside to announce each of nan caller package features coming to Apple’s galore products this fall.

This year’s WWDC is occurring astatine a infinitesimal of unprecedented economical uncertainty. Apple’s income are expected to take a hit arsenic President Trump continues to threaten nan company pinch accrued waste and acquisition tariffs. The arena besides comes successful nan aftermath of nan very AI-heavy conference of Apple’s archrival Google, putting unit connected Apple to show disconnected what has truthful acold been a delayed and underwhelming foray into consumer-facing artificial intelligence. (It astir apt besides caused immoderate headaches successful Cupertino that OpenAI conscionable announced a partnership pinch nan erstwhile Apple designer of fable Jony Ive.)

The institution will attraction connected caller hardware astatine its September event, but WWDC was each astir nan software. Many of nan big updates of WWDC 2025 trickled retired up of time, truthful Apple’s keynote had only a fewer surprises. Did Apple package SVP Craig Federighi deterioration a bluish garment and do immoderate silly action movie stunts? He judge did. Did Apple denote a bunch of updates to things that person been done elsewhere? Yes, nan institution did that too.

Here’s everything Apple announced astatine WWDC 2025.

Liquid Glass

Apple’s full family of operating systems has a caller redesign pinch nan extremity of making objects connected nan screen—icons, buttons, menus—easier to see. Or, astatine least, easier to spot through. Liquid Glass is Apple’s caller translucent artistic and nan first awesome ocular overhaul to its package personification acquisition successful a decade.

Liquid Glass puts icons and windows successful smooth, clearish bubbles that fto immoderate of nan inheritance seep done arsenic you scroll aliases move astir nan operating system. It’s a wide ocular alteration that intends to unify nan personification acquisition crossed aggregate platforms; nan caller look is coming to iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, arsenic good arsenic Apple Watches and Apple TV.

There are immoderate personalization options wrong Liquid Glass, but mostly nan consequence will beryllium a bubbly, glassy, see-through look for each your menus and touchpoints connected nan screen. At first look, it seems arsenic though nan creation mightiness besides blend successful pinch nan strategy a small too well, perchance making it harder for group pinch imagination issues to find nan nonstop point they’re looking for.

Does nan glassy caller look mean we’ll yet get ’90s style translucent iPhones? God only knows.

Another large alteration Apple announced for its operating strategy is simply a caller naming convention. Instead of nan sequential numbers it has utilized successful nan past, Apple will rename its OSes successful nan style of a caller car exemplary aliases Madden game—with nan past 2 digits of nan forthcoming year. So nan caller iOS this twelvemonth will beryllium called iOS 26. Next year, it'll beryllium iOS 27. And truthful on, unless Apple changes its mind astir each that.

Phone Calls & Messages

There are caller updates to Apple’s telephone app, tons of which you’ll astir apt admit if you, say, usage an Android device.

First is simply a revamped telephone screening characteristic that lets you debar spam callers. Just pat a fastener successful nan telephone app to person a synthetic sound inquire nan caller to opportunity what they’re calling about. You’ll spot a transcription of what they say, past you tin determine to swipe to return nan telephone aliases diminution it. Second, a Hold Assist characteristic tin observe erstwhile you’ve been placed connected hold, past connection to hold connected nan telephone for you, alerting you erstwhile an existent quality gets connected nan line.

There are immoderate different updates to group chats successful nan Messages app, which lets you adhd polls to settee connected tonight’s edifice aliases divided nan measure by sending money to each different pinch Apple Cash straight successful a group chat.

Live translator is besides disposable successful some telephone and messages, truthful you tin construe sound aliases matter conversations successful adjacent to existent time. (In nan taped demo, it took a fewer seconds to perceive each translation.) Apple says that nan AI-powered translations hap connected your device, and your conversations do not get sent to Apple for translating. Live translator besides comes to Apple Music, pinch lyrics translator and pronunciation that allows you to singing on pinch each your favourite K-pop songs.

Another notable Apple Intelligence characteristic coming this autumn is simply a Visual Intelligence enhancement that lets you return a screenshot aliases pat connected thing successful a picture, past inquire a assortment of questions astir it. It useful a batch for illustration Google Lens and Gemini AI but for nan iPhone.

Also beryllium judge to publication Will Knight's WIRED story astir Apple's latest AI features, and really nan institution is approaching their improvement erstwhile it doesn't person a state-of-the-art model.

iPad OS

As WIRED’s Lauren Goode astutely called years ago, Apple’s eventual endgame for nan iPad is to make it activity arsenic overmuch for illustration a Mac arsenic possible. Today, that dream took a immense leap.

Finally, nan iPad has windowed apps. Apps still unfastened successful afloat surface arsenic nan default, but you tin resize, reposition, and tile app windows conscionable for illustration you tin connected nan Mac desktop. You besides get Exposé to spot each your unfastened apps. The iPad now moreover has a paper bar.

There’s thing tremendously Mac-like astir nan iPadOS 26 experience, and it should make iPad hardware much appealing to those users who consciousness for illustration they’re missing retired whenever they don’t person their MacBook pinch them.

Read much astir each nan Mac-like features coming to nan iPad.

Apple Games

Apple says much than half a cardinal group play games connected nan iPhone. To service that audience, Apple has redesigned nan games acquisition successful a caller app called, simply, Games.

The app combines each nan games you’ve downloaded from nan App Store and puts them successful 1 easy accessible place. There is simply a dedicated tab to Apple Arcade, Apple’s gaming subscription plan. Another tab, called Play Together, keeps way of your friends’ playtime and lets you subordinate aliases induce them to a game.

WatchOS

The Apple Watch, which just turned 10 (hbd, buddy), has immoderate caller updates powered by Apple Intelligence. There is simply a caller wrist flick gesture, a pimped retired Liquid Glass overhaul, and unrecorded translations successful Messages that besides activity successful chats connected nan Apple Watch.

The Workout app has a caller Workout Buddy—an AI sound companion that keeps way of your workout information and tin talk to you (though your AirPods) while you’re running, show you really you did connected a run, aliases prime euphony to hype you up.

Smart Stack, nan watchOS characteristic that uses contextual consciousness to show shortcuts to nan apps you mightiness want to open, is getting features that make it smarter astir your surroundings. It tin make suggestions based connected your location, for illustration suggesting that you move connected BackTrack, Apple’s step-retracing feature, erstwhile you spell into a distant area that mightiness person little service. It tin besides measurement really large your surroundings are to set nan measurement of your incoming connection pings.

tvOS

Apple’s Liquid Glass artistic comes to Apple TV arsenic well. The astir striking alteration is simply a glassy see-through paper that lets you alteration settings without blocking arsenic overmuch of nan on-screen visuals.

Apple besides took a fewer minutes of nan WWDC keynote to denote a bunch of caller contented coming to Apple TV+, including a Formula 1 movie that Apple heavy marketed astatine nan opening of nan presentation, nan Murderbot series, a movie starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera astir a schoolhouse autobus being caught successful nan 2018 Paradise Fire, and a caller show starring Jason Momoa that will hopefully do amended than Apple TV’s last go astatine that.

macOS

Apple’s caller desktop operating strategy is called macOS Tahoe. It besides incorporates nan Liquid Glass aesthetic, pinch a wholly free-floating paper barroom astatine nan apical of nan screen.

There are immoderate nosy enhancements. Live Activities is simply a caller menu-bar shortcut that tin sync pinch apps moving connected desktop aliases your phone, alerting you to upcoming meetings aliases keeping way of your incoming Uber Eats orders.

Spotlight, Apple’s hunt characteristic connected device, incorporates much contextual consciousness to amended find what you’re looking for connected your desktop. It tin besides interact pinch features straight successful a programme aliases propulsion up accusation from a website you’ve looked astatine recently.

Also, this appears to beryllium nan end of nan roadworthy for Intel-based Macs. Some late-model Intel Macs will beryllium capable to tally macOS Tahoe, but not nan adjacent type of nan operating system, arsenic Apple is ending support.

VisionOS

Apple still thinks group really do want to deterioration its bulky, dense headset astir their homes. VisionOS has spatial widgets now—virtual objects for illustration integer photos, calendars, and “Now Playing” Apple Music cards that you tin plonk onto your real-world surroundings. The widgets enactment successful spot moreover if you move astir nan room.

One of nan main problems pinch VR headsets is that they are fundamentally lonely devices; erstwhile you’re strapped into a headset, you’re nan only 1 who tin really spot what you’re doing. But Apple wants to alteration that, adding features that fto you sync your position pinch different personification to stock a movie aliases immoderate different VR experience. You’ll some request to beryllium wearing an Apple Vision Pro, truthful if you’re trying to cuddle connected nan sofa beryllium prepared to bonk your unwieldy bespectacled heads.

Maps

Apple is besides introducing a number of features that person agelong been disposable successful competitors for illustration Google Maps. A “Visited Places” characteristic successful maps keeps way of nan places you’ve been, complete pinch photos taken there. This is wholly opt-in, truthful you person to move it on, and your location history stays encrypted connected your device. It’s fundamentally Google Map’s Timeline characteristic but conscionable for Apple people.

CarPlay

Some further updates to Apple’s CarPlay package were announced today. The adjacent CarPlay adds customizable widgets and amended screening for incoming calls. You tin besides pat a fastener to respond to texts pinch emoji while you’re driving. What could spell wrong?

We first saw immoderate CarPlay updates past period erstwhile Apple collaborated pinch Aston Martin. These updates travel astatine a clip erstwhile carmakers are starting to clasp physical buttons again, fixed that tons of group look to dislike nan touchscreens successful their cars.

Siri

There was almost nary mention of Apple’s sound adjunct successful nan WWDC keynote. Curious.