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On Monday, June 9, Apple will announce an avalanche of software updates for all of its platforms at its annual WWDC 2025 developer conference. Weāll see new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOSāall of which are rumored to jump straight to version ā26.ā
Apple is expected to introduce all-new visual looks, inspired by the Vision Proās glassy and translucent visionOS, to unify the interfaces and make them more consistent across devices. For its largest and most important platformāiPhoneāthat means the first major software facelift since Jony Iveās iOS 7 flattened software in 2013.
The elephant in the room is going to be AIāspecifically, Appleās brand of artificial intelligence called Apple Intelligence. Will Apple address its big fumbling of its next-gen Siri voice assistant that was supposed to have arrived by now but still hasnāt? Or will it downplay its lagging AI features as Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI companies drop new and more advanced LLM-powered chatbot and generative features at a seemingly rapid-fire pace?
Senior Consumer Tech Editor Raymond Wong will be in Cupertino, Calif. to bring live WWDC 2025 coverage from Appleās spaceship-shaped Apple Park. The Gizmodo consumer tech team, including Senior Writer James and Staff Reporter Kyle Barr, will be on deck breaking down the news announcements, too. Be sure to come back on Monday for live updates!
Thereās a light at the end of the long, long tunnel. Apple will finally let us peep its next slate of software updates. If the rumors are to be believed, every OS is jumping to ā26,ā and instead of iOS 19 or macOS 16, weāll get iOS 26 and macOS 26. The new naming convention hints that Apple may try to unify the design of all its software, which is supposedly inspired by the Vision Proās glassy visionOS.
The Mac menu bar, your iPhoneās app icons, and widgets will also have a glassy appearance. Beyond the changes to the UI, Apple may introduce a few more features, like a Preview-type app for iPhone and iPad. We may also see a section on gaming with an all-new āGamingā app for mobile. Just donāt expect too much in the way of āApple Intelligenceā updates save for new live translation features for phone calls and texts.
Simultaneously, one of the biggest but also the most superficial changes at WWDC 2025 could be with Appleās naming conventions. As reported by Bloombergās Mark Gurman, all of Appleās softwareāthatās iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOSāmay jump from their respective numbers, 18, 16, 18, 11, and 2, respectively, toā¦ 26. That shift changes the year-over-year system from chronological numbers to the year itās released plus one, like a Toyota or whatever.
In a way, it wonāt really mean much of anything, but in another way, it signifies a big change and might actually match the major vibe shift weāre expecting with the new version of iOS. Itāll make things simpler, I suppose, but poor visionOS might have some whiplash.
Apple announced Apple Intelligence at last yearās WWDC. Generative AI features like Genmoji, notification summaries, and writing tools rolled out, but the big oneāa revamped Siri with on-screen awareness and agentic functionality to help do things on your behalfāfailed to materialize even after months of delay. Reports have claimed that the new Siri features were fictitious and Appleās marketing had pushed for them to be shown off before the Siri team had even gotten them working.
Our Senior Writer James Pero thinks Monday is going to be looked upon as Appleās make-or-break AIāitāll be largely about optics. Will Apple emerge as an innovator or a laggard?
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