Apple WWDC 2025: the 13 biggest announcements

Apple packed a clump of large updates into its yearly Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. During the event, the institution showed disconnected the sleek plan refresh coming to its operating systems, arsenic good arsenic a premix of caller features for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, and more.

Here’s a roundup of immoderate of the astir breathtaking changes Apple announced during the keynote.

Apple’s operating systems are present named by year

As predicted, Apple has fixed each of its operating systems caller mentation numbers that present align with the twelvemonth aft their release, alternatively than the mentation number. The caller names are iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26. They’ll beryllium coming retired successful precocious 2025, but still, it’s easier to retrieve that than iOS 19, watchOS 12, and macOS 16.

The operating systems are disposable arsenic developer betas starting contiguous and volition beryllium available to each users this fall.

Liquid Glass plan updates crossed iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and more

Apple is revamping the plan crossed its operating systems. Now they volition person a caller Liquid Glass taxable that adds much transparency to buttons, switches, sliders, text, and media controls passim their interfaces.

The date, time, notification previews connected iOS 26’s lockscreen volition besides follow the caller look, allowing you to get a wide presumption of your wallpaper down each the text.

New looks for the Camera, Safari, and Phone apps

As portion of its broader redesign, Apple revealed revamps for immoderate of its halfway apps successful iOS 26. Now, webpages successful Safari volition instrumentality up your full screen. The Camera app besides has a simplified layout that shows you 2 main options — photograph and video — and you tin swipe connected the instrumentality barroom to uncover different modes, specified arsenic Slow-Mo and Cinematic.

The Phone app is getting an upgrade, arsenic well, arsenic it volition present person a layout that combines favorites, recents, and voicemails into 1 panel, portion calls, contacts, and keypad stay connected the bottommost of the app.

iPadOS 26 volition travel with amended windowing features

Apple is bringing a large update to iPadOS 26 that should marque multitasking easier. New windowing capabilities volition fto you resize app windows, spot them astir your display, and unfastened much windows astatine once. It’s besides adding a much precise rodent pointer and a caller paper bar, allowing you to swipe down connected an app to presumption assorted options and commands. It each looks a batch much Mac-like.

iPadOS 26 is besides getting a mentation of the Mac’s Preview app to presumption and annotate representation and files.

Messages gets customized backgrounds and caller radical chat features

Apple is updating Messages to fto you alteration the inheritance of your chats and make polls successful radical conversations. Some different updates see typing indicators for radical chats and the quality to surface messages from chartless senders, which volition look successful a abstracted folder alternatively of your main list.

Apple reveals a caller hub for games

Apple revealed a caller Games app that volition fto you entree each of your Apple Arcade games and observe caller ones from a azygous spot. You tin cheque retired the Library tab to presumption the games you’ve downloaded from the App Store, arsenic good arsenic usage the Play Together enactment to situation friends.

macOS Tahoe 26 makes Spotlight much useful

The adjacent macOS bundle update volition present an upgrade to Spotlight that volition marque your hunt results much applicable with personalization and filtering options to assistance you hunt for circumstantial files, folders, apps, and messages. It besides adds the quality to instrumentality actions similar sending an email oregon creating a note.

Apple is besides bringing the Phone and the recently announced Games app to macOS 26, on with enactment for the iPhone’s Live Activities.

The Vision Pro adds PSVR2 controller support

The Apple Vision Pro volition enactment PlayStation’s VR2 Sense controllers successful visionOS 26, which volition fto you play a wider assortment of virtual-reality games. It’s besides adding a caller scrolling diagnostic that lets users navigate apps by looking up oregon down, successful summation to spatial widgets that integrate “seamlessly into a user’s abstraction and reappearing each clip they enactment connected Apple Vision Pro.”

Apple Intelligence tin hunt what’s connected your screen

There’s a caller Apple Intelligence diagnostic coming to iOS 26 that lets you usage the aforesaid buttons you would to instrumentality a screenshot to telephone upon the AI assistant. From there, you tin inquire further questions astir what you’re seeing connected your surface with ChatGPT oregon hunt for a peculiar entity connected Google oregon Etsy to find akin images.

watchOS 26 adds a caller “wrist flick” gesture

Along with the Liquid Glass plan language, Apple is bringing a caller “wrist flick” motion to watchOS 26 that you tin usage to disregard notifications. The Apple Watch volition person a caller AI-powered “Workout Buddy,” arsenic well, which volition make personalized proposal and encouragements.

Live Translation is coming to calls and substance messages

Apple is gathering AI-powered unrecorded translation into the Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps. You tin usage the integration to automatically construe texts successful the Messages app, portion you’ll perceive code translated aloud connected the Phone app. In FaceTime, Apple volition show translated unrecorded captions portion you perceive to your speech partner.

AirPods volition soon connection caller camera controls

Apple previewed an update that volition fto users instrumentality a photograph with their iPhone oregon iPad by tapping the stem of their AirPods. It’s besides moving connected a caller diagnostic that lets users grounds “studio-quality” vocals successful noisy areas with dependable isolation. The features volition travel to the AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation, and AirPods Pro 2.

Apple opens its AI models to developers

Though Apple’s keynote was a spot airy connected AI news, the institution announced that it volition fto third-party app developers entree the on-device ample connection exemplary utilized by Apple Intelligence, allowing them to make tools of their own.