Top Stories: What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2025 'Sleek Peek,' macOS Tahoe Rumors, and More

Apple's large week is astir here, with WWDC 2025 kicking disconnected connected Monday with what we're expecting to beryllium a jam-packed look astatine the company's bundle platforms, including immoderate redesigns and rebranding.


While we're not expecting immoderate imminent hardware launches to travel retired of WWDC, we're conscionable 3 months distant from the debut of the iPhone 17 lineup and we've got caller details connected not lone immoderate of those models but besides what's successful the works for the iPhone 18 lineup successful 2026, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

WWDC 2025 Preview: Apple's iOS 26 Design Overhaul, macOS Tahoe, and Much More

Just a week up of the WWDC keynote, Apple updated the teaser tagline for the event from "On the horizon" to "Sleek peek," further fueling rumors and speculation astir a visionOS-inspired redesign crossed Apple's operating systems.


For an overview of what we're expecting to spot astatine Monday's keynote, check retired our afloat recap of up-to-the-minute rumors.

macOS Tahoe Name Leaked Ahead of Apple's WWDC Event Next Week

For implicit a decade, Apple's macOS releases person travel with a California-themed sanction successful summation to a mentation number, and according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, macOS 26 coming adjacent week volition beryllium known arsenic macOS Tahoe successful grant of the scenic upland water connected the California–Nevada border.


For a look astatine what we're expecting to spot successful macOS Tahoe, including that visionOS-inspired plan update that Apple is looking to unify its platforms with, check retired our overview article.

iPhone 17 Base Model Now Said to Feature A18 Chip and 8GB of RAM

Apple's iPhone 17 lineup is conscionable 3 months distant from launch, but determination are inactive immoderate conflicting rumors astir what to expect from the devices.


While immoderate of the iPhone 17 models are expected to spot a bump to 12GB of RAM, rumors person been conflicting astir whether the basal exemplary volition spot an summation from the existent 8GB and the latest study from expert Jeff Pu claims the basal iPhone 17 exemplary volition instrumentality astatine that number.

Meanwhile, rumors person indicated the non-Pro models successful the iPhone 17 lineup volition yet summation 120Hz displays, but a caller assertion says they volition beryllium fixed 120Hz displays alternatively than adaptable refresh, suggesting they portion they volition get the faster refresh rates for improved performance, they won't beryllium capable to dial down to the debased refresh rates needed to enactment an always-on display.

And finally, rumors are divided connected whether imaginable changes to the Face ID strategy volition pb to a smaller Dynamic Island successful the iPhone 17 lineup.

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Fold Said to Use A20 Chip With New Design

The iPhone 18 lineup won't beryllium launching for implicit a year, but expert Jeff Pu claims that the A20 spot that volition debut successful the devices volition instrumentality vantage of caller technology to not lone summation ratio with smaller transistors but integrate the RAM straight onto the chip's wafer.


The alteration could bring an array of benefits including faster performance, longer artillery life, improved thermal performance, and a smaller spot footprint.

Apple's Long-Rumored 'homeOS' Possibly Trademarked Ahead of WWDC

While it doesn't look Apple has any caller hardware ready for a near-term motorboat pursuing an instauration astatine WWDC adjacent week, it's imaginable we could get a sneak peek astatine Apple's upcoming astute location hub.


The instrumentality isn't expected to motorboat until precocious this twelvemonth oregon adjacent aboriginal adjacent year, arsenic delays to the Apple Intelligence-powered Siri revamp that is important to its functionality person impacted the hardware, but recent trademark filings astir "homeOS" conscionable up of WWDC are fueling speculation that Apple could supply a preview of what's coming.

Filmmakers Used 20 iPhones astatine Once to Shoot '28 Years Later'

With a fund of $75 million, Danny Boyle's post-apocalyptic fearfulness movie "28 Years Later" volition go the archetypal large blockbuster movie to beryllium changeable connected ‌iPhone, and Sony precocious showed some of the ways the filmmakers utilized iPhone 15 Pro Max to seizure footage for the film.


Some sequences utilized a customized rig of 20 iPhones successful an arc astir the scene's subject, offering unsocial ways to edit the movie and bring the spectator into the scenes.

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