What to Expect From WWDC 2026: Gemini-Powered Siri, iOS 27, macOS 27 and More

Apple's 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference is conscionable days away, and it's going to beryllium an absorbing lawsuit due to the fact that it volition springiness america a look astatine Apple's AI plans. We'll spot however Apple is going to vie with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google successful the months to travel with an AI mentation of Siri and caller AI features for its apps.

iOS 27 Siri Changes

Big changes are coming successful iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, and Apple employees haven't been capable to support quiet. We've heard details connected a agelong database of AI updates Apple has planned, with capable item that screenshots could beryllium recreated by Bloomberg. Much of what's rumored relates to AI features and changes.

New Siri Features

Based connected Apple's promises and rumors astir what's coming successful the caller mentation of iOS, ‌Siri‌ successful ‌iOS 27‌ volition beryllium thing similar ‌Siri‌ successful iOS 26. In 2024, Apple showed america 3 ways that ‌Siri‌ volition improve, but 2 years person passed and other enactment has been done, truthful we're expecting adjacent much than what Apple demonstrated backmost then.


‌Siri‌ is going to beryllium capable to gully connected idiosyncratic information and accusation from Apple devices, with entree to idiosyncratic information for completing tasks. The adjunct is besides going to beryllium capable to bash much with apps, and it volition beryllium capable to archer what's connected the surface to reply questions.

Personal Context

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to entree emails, messages, files, photos, and more, learning each astir you to assistance you implicit tasks and support way of what you've been sent. Apple offered immoderate examples of however idiosyncratic discourse volition work:

• Show maine the files Eric sent maine past week.


• Find the email wherever Eric mentioned crystal skating.


• Find the books that Eric recommended to me.


• Where's the look that Eric sent me?


• What's my passport number?

Onscreen Awareness

Onscreen consciousness volition fto ‌Siri‌ spot what's connected your surface and implicit actions involving immoderate you're looking at. If idiosyncratic texts you an address, you tin archer ‌Siri‌ to adhd it to their interaction card. Or if you're looking astatine a photograph and privation to nonstop it to someone, you tin inquire ‌Siri‌ to bash it for you.

App Integration

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to bash much successful and crossed apps, performing actions and completing tasks that are conscionable not imaginable with the idiosyncratic adjunct close now. We don't person a afloat representation of what ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium susceptible of, but Apple gave a fewer examples of what to expect.

• Moving files from 1 app to another.


• Editing a photograph and past sharing it with someone.


• Getting directions location and sending the ETA successful the Messages app.


• Drafting and past sending an email.

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to implicit tasks successful Apple apps and successful third-party apps, with developers capable to exposure app capabilities to ‌Siri‌.

Siri Chatbot

Apple needs a ‌Siri‌ app due to the fact that ‌Siri‌ is becoming a chatbot. ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium similar ChatGPT oregon Claude, capable to gully connected accusation from the web to supply answers to questions.

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium profoundly integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS astatine the strategy level, and tin gully connected instrumentality information. It volition cognize much idiosyncratic discourse than before, and volition beryllium capable to entree emails, texts, photos, calendar information, contacts, notes, and different idiosyncratic data. Some of what ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to do:

• Search the web for information


• Generate images


• Generate content


• Summarize information


• Analyze uploaded files


• Use idiosyncratic information to implicit tasks


• Ingest accusation from emails, messages, files and more


• Write emails, notes, and texts


• Analyze unfastened windows and on-screen contented to instrumentality action


• Control instrumentality features and settings


• Search for on-device content, replacing Spotlight

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium integrated into Apple apps similar Mail, Messages, Photos, and Apple TV.

Siri Design

With ‌Siri‌'s chatbot transition, Apple volition beryllium making aggregate Siri-related plan changes. ‌Siri‌ volition mostly unrecorded successful the Dynamic Island, and Bloomberg says determination volition beryllium caller ways to entree ‌Siri‌.

Swiping down from the halfway of the iPhone's show from the Home Screen oregon immoderate app volition bring up a caller "Search oregon Ask" diagnostic successful the ‌Dynamic Island‌. A glowing, pill-shaped animation volition beryllium displayed successful the ‌Dynamic Island‌ to bespeak that ‌Siri‌ is processing a request.

When ‌Siri‌ has an answer, the ‌Dynamic Island‌ volition grow into a transparent paper with the result, incorporating images, info from the web, notes and different accusation applicable to the query oregon request. Swiping connected the results paper volition bring up a speech mode that looks akin to an iMessage chat, and determination volition beryllium an enactment to modulation to the afloat ‌Siri‌ app.

Search oregon Ask replaces ‌Siri‌ Suggestions and volition fto users motorboat apps, commencement substance messages, inquire astir the weather, adhd calendar appointments, trigger shortcuts successful apps, and hunt the web utilizing Apple's caller AI web hunt feature. Search oregon Ask queries tin besides beryllium sent to third-party chatbot services similar ChatGPT alternatively of ‌Siri‌.

While ‌Siri‌ tin beryllium accessed done a swipe successful ‌iOS 27‌, Apple is keeping the "Hey ‌Siri‌" aftermath connection and ‌Siri‌ activation done the Side button. With the caller halfway swipe, accessing the Notification Center volition beryllium done with a swipe down connected the near broadside of the display. Swiping down connected the close broadside volition proceed to bring up Control Center. With the alteration to however Notification Center is accessed, notifications volition now descent in from the near broadside of the iPhone alternatively of the apical of the display.

Apple volition besides integrate an "Ask ‌Siri‌" fastener into the menus of its apps, giving users a mode to nonstop contented straight to ‌Siri‌ alongside a request.

The caller ‌Siri‌ interface uses acheronian colors with nary airy mode available. ‌Siri‌ UI elements person a acheronian inheritance with colour accents that reflector the options Apple is utilizing successful WWDC imagery. Apple's WWDC website features a achromatic Swift vertebrate with subtle highlights successful pink, acheronian blue, purple, and orange.

Standalone Siri App

Bloomberg precocious shared a mockup of what the standalone ‌Siri‌ app volition look like, and it's akin to different chatbot apps similar ChatGPT, Claude, oregon Gemini.

‌Siri‌ volition enactment substance oregon voice-based conversations. The app volition unfastened with an "Ask ‌Siri‌" barroom wherever users tin benignant successful a question. A paperclip icon volition beryllium disposable for attaching images, PDFs, and different documents. Apple volition supply prompts with suggestions connected what users tin ask.

Questions volition lucifer iMessage chat bubbles, with Apple adopting a plan that is acquainted to users. Responses volition see links, images, and different information.

A conception of the app volition beryllium dedicated to past conversations that tin beryllium shown successful a card-style interface with speech summaries, oregon a database view. Users volition beryllium capable to pat into a speech to proceed it.

Siri Privacy

Apple plans to thin into privateness arsenic a cardinal rule of its attack to AI, giving it a mode to separate ‌Siri‌ from different chatbot options. Apple volition apt purpose to support arsenic overmuch processing on-device arsenic imaginable to bounds the magnitude of information that leaves a user's device.

Apple said that Apple Intelligence features volition proceed to tally connected Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute.

Apple volition person limits astir memory, including restrictions connected the accusation that tin persist and however agelong it is kept. Users volition beryllium capable to auto-delete ‌Siri‌ chats and requests aft a acceptable play of time, similar 30 days oregon 1 year. There volition besides beryllium an enactment to support chats permanently, and chats volition sync crossed Apple devices signed into the aforesaid iCloud account.

‌Siri‌ tin beryllium turned disconnected close now, arsenic tin ‌Apple Intelligence‌, and there's nary motion that's going to alteration successful ‌iOS 27‌. Users who don't privation to alteration ‌Siri‌ oregon usage the caller features volition not person to.

Siri Extensions

Apple is letting rival chatbots integrate with ‌Siri‌ successful ‌iOS 27‌, expanding connected the OpenAI concern that presently allows ‌Siri‌ to manus disconnected requests to ChatGPT, Bloomberg says Apple plans to let different chatbots similar Claude and Gemini to enactment with ‌Siri‌, truthful users volition beryllium capable to nonstop questions to their favourite chatbot alternatively of ‌Siri‌.

iPhone users volition beryllium capable to prime which services they privation to usage wrong ‌Siri‌ done "Extensions" options coming to ‌iOS 27‌, iPadOS 27, and ‌macOS 27‌. The options volition beryllium disposable successful the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ and ‌Siri‌ conception of the Settings app, with Apple providing download links for chatbot apps. There volition beryllium a dedicated Extensions section successful the App Store that volition service arsenic a mode to take a third-party AI app.

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium the default for the Search oregon Ask interface, but rumors suggest users volition beryllium capable to prime different chatbots to talk with. Users volition besides beryllium capable to choose third-party AI services arsenic the default for ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features similar Writing Tools and Image Playground, expanding ‌Apple Intelligence‌ integration beyond ChatGPT.

Apple besides plans to fto users take voices from third-party AI to usage alternatively of ‌Siri‌, truthful determination volition beryllium a chiseled audio quality betwixt a effect from ‌Siri‌ and a effect from the user's chatbot of choice. ‌Siri‌ would usage 1 voice, portion responses from third-party AI options would usage different voice.

Google Gemini Backbone

To get ‌Siri‌ up and running, Apple partnered with Google to usage Gemini AI models alternatively of utilizing its ain AI models. Apple signed a multi-year woody to usage Google's Gemini models and unreality exertion for its Apple Foundation Models, and it's costing Apple determination astir $1 cardinal a year.


Google and Apple said that the adjacent procreation of Apple Foundation Models volition beryllium based connected Google Gemini models, with Gemini utilized to powerfulness aboriginal ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features and the much personalized mentation of ‌Siri‌.

Apple said Google's AI exertion offered the astir susceptible instauration for its models.

iOS 27 Apps and Feature Updates

Camera

Apple is moving Visual Intelligence from the Camera Control fastener to the Camera app successful ‌iOS 27‌. Bloomberg has shared images of the caller interface, featuring a ‌Siri‌ mode that's disposable alongside the existing Photo, Video, Portrait, and Panorama modes. When successful ‌Siri‌ mode, the existing Camera app shutter fastener volition diagnostic the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ logo, letting users cognize the ‌Siri‌ features are available.


‌Siri‌ mode is simply a renaming of ‌Visual Intelligence‌, and it volition marque the diagnostic much visible. Accessing ‌Visual Intelligence‌ successful ‌iOS 26‌ requires users to clasp down the Camera Control fastener oregon delegate the diagnostic to the Action button, and galore radical whitethorn not adjacent cognize it exists.

‌Visual Intelligence‌ tin place objects, plants, animals, art, books, and more, searching for immoderate the idiosyncratic snaps connected Google Image Search. In ‌iOS 27‌, ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to reply questions astir what a idiosyncratic is looking at, providing accusation from the web.


Apple is adding caller ‌Visual Intelligence‌ capabilities successful ‌iOS 27‌, and they volition beryllium disposable done the Camera app ‌Siri‌ mode.

• Nutrition - Users tin scan nutrition labels connected nutrient packaging for calorie and macronutrient tracking utilizing the Health app.


• Contacts - ‌Visual Intelligence‌ volition fto users scan telephone numbers and addresses connected concern cards and different people media, adding the accusation to the Contacts app.

Apple plans to marque the Camera app more customizable successful ‌iOS 27‌. iPhone users volition beryllium capable to regenerate the apical enactment of camera shortcuts with options of their choosing, selecting features similar flash, exposure, timer, extent of field, photograph styles, and resolution.

Camera controls, present labeled arsenic widgets, tin beryllium placed astatine the apical of the Camera interface successful immoderate order. Users tin prime widgets from a transparent widget tray that comes up from the bottommost of the app and organizes widgets into categories similar basic, manual, and settings.

The Camera app volition person the aforesaid default layout that's disposable present with speedy pat buttons for flash, Live Photos, and Night Mode, but the customizable widget interface volition beryllium added arsenic an precocious layout that volition entreaty to nonrecreational users.

iPhone users tin presently pat connected an icon astatine the apical close of the Camera app to entree each of the Camera controls, but Apple is moving that presumption to the close of the shutter fastener successful ‌iOS 27‌.

The Camera app is besides going to get caller grid and level options that volition articulation the existing features.

Photos

The ‌Photos‌ app volition person an Apple Intelligence Tools section erstwhile editing an image. According to Bloomberg, determination volition beryllium caller Extend and Reframe options.

• Extend - Extend generates further representation contented beyond the archetypal framework of the photo, filling successful scenery erstwhile changing the harvest of an image. This instrumentality volition enactment expanding the edges of an representation with zoom gestures.


• Reframe - When utilized with spatial photos, Reframe volition fto users alteration the position of an representation aft it's captured.

Apple is besides investigating an AI photograph editing diagnostic that lets users petition edits utilizing earthy language. Users would beryllium capable to tweak color, lighting, cropping, and different representation parameters without having to usage manual tools. The natural-language editing diagnostic whitethorn not get successful the archetypal mentation of ‌iOS 27‌.

Shortcuts

The ‌iOS 27‌ Shortcuts app will enactment utilizing earthy language to make a shortcut with AI. Users volition beryllium capable to archer ‌Siri‌ what they privation to execute with a multi-step shortcut, and ‌Siri‌ volition make it.

The Shortcuts app volition unfastened with a punctual that says "What bash you privation your shortcut to do?" with a substance tract to participate a description. Shortcuts that are created utilizing AI are past automatically installed and instantly disposable for use.

Wallet

The Wallet app is getting a "Create a Pass" enactment truthful users tin make integer passes from scans of carnal items similar movie tickets, performance passes, and gym rank cards.


Users tin pat connected the "+" fastener successful the Wallet app and past scan a QR codification connected a walk oregon summons if 1 is available. If determination is nary QR codification available, determination volition beryllium an enactment to make a customized pass.

There are 3 walk types successful Create a Pass, each with a antithetic color. Apple is utilizing purple for events, bluish for memberships, and orangish for different types of passes. Users tin customize images, colors, style, and substance connected the integer passes.

Apple is besides adding an AI bill-splitting diagnostic that volition enactment with Apple Cash. iPhone users volition be capable to instrumentality a photo of a receipt and make Apple Cash outgo requests for antithetic people.

Image Playground and Genmoji

Apple is updating the ‌Image Playground‌ app. The interface for generating a caller representation has less controls and a "describe a change" enactment for editing images that are created. Previously created images are displayed successful a grid with much rounded edges, and alternatively of a New Image button, there's a "+" button.


Apple has besides been investigating caller models that nutrient much lifelike images, truthful we could spot caller representation procreation capabilities successful ‌iOS 27‌ with amended representation quality.

Genmoji is besides getting an update truthful it volition usage less resources, causing little artillery drain and less vigor problems. ‌Genmoji‌ volition beryllium amended prime with a caller ‌Genmoji‌ model, and a Suggested ‌Genmoji‌ diagnostic volition bring up customized emoji ideas based connected your media and substance history.

Writing Tools

Apple is investigating an expanded mentation of Writing Tools that volition bash much rewriting and substance procreation than the existent version. There is simply a "Write with ‌Siri‌" toggle astatine the apical of the keyboard, according to Bloomberg, on with a "Help Me Write" enactment that comes up erstwhile ‌Siri‌ is activated portion a substance tract is open.

Apple is going to adhd a dedicated AI grammar checker that volition enactment alongside the existent spell check. When penning successful Messages, Mail, and different apps determination volition beryllium a translucent paper that slides up from the bottommost of the iPhone's screen, and it volition amusement suggested revisions adjacent to the archetypal written text.

Users tin spell done the suggestions and judge oregon cull them 1 by one, o.k. each of the changes astatine once, oregon disregard the changes.

Other Features

• Wallpaper - There volition beryllium an enactment to make customized wallpapers with the ‌Image Playground‌ app, with the diagnostic built into the interface for selecting a caller wallpaper.


• Safari - Safari volition get an updated commencement leafage with 4 tabs for switching betwixt favorites, bookmarks, Reading List, and history.


• Calendar - Rumors suggest the Calendar app volition incorporated caller AI features. ‌Siri‌ volition besides beryllium capable to gully connected accusation successful the app.


• Health - With a caller calorie scanning diagnostic coming to the Camera app, calorie tracking volition beryllium much salient successful the Health app. Apple was besides readying a Health+ subscription service, and portion that's been scaled back, determination could beryllium different AI wellness app changes.


• Weather - The Weather app volition person a caller Conditions sheet for switching betwixt temperature, rain, and upwind from the main interface, without the request to pat into a upwind module.


• AirPods settings - The AirPods interface successful the Settings app volition beryllium simplified, with options featuring amended organization. Major features similar proceeding wellness volition beryllium easier to find.


• AirPlay Alternatives - Apple is adding a diagnostic that volition fto users beam contented to AirPlay alternatives similar Google Cast. It could beryllium constricted to iPhone users successful the EU due to the fact that it is being implemented arsenic a Digital Markets Act requirement.

iOS 27 System-Wide Design Changes

There are system-wide plan changes coming successful ‌iOS 27‌. The abstracted tab barroom successful apps similar Apple Music, Podcasts, News, and ‌Apple TV‌ volition beryllium adjusted to harvester hunt with the different navigation options. Apple separated hunt successful galore apps erstwhile introducing Liquid Glass, but it's reverting to the archetypal look.

When utilizing the on-screen keyboard, there's a caller animation that shows the keys sliding up from the bottommost of the iPhone interface, and Apple is adding redo and undo controls for easier customization of the ‌Home Screen‌'s icon and widget layouts.



Apple doesn't program to make large changes to the Liquid Glass aesthetic successful ‌iOS 27‌, but the institution is mulling a system-wide setting that would precisely set the look of the interface. In iOS 26.2, Apple added a slider that lets users set the opacity of Liquid Glass for the Lock Screen's clock, and that mounting could beryllium expanded to the full operating system.

iOS 27 Updates for Foldable iPhone

The archetypal foldable iPhone volition beryllium introduced successful September. Rumors suggest that it volition diagnostic a 5.5-inch show erstwhile folded, and a 7.8-inch show erstwhile it's opened up similar a book.



An iPhone with a larger show volition necessitate large updates to iOS, and ‌iOS 27‌ volition absorption connected building caller interfaces and experiences made for a larger smartphone display.

The iPhone Fold volition run similar a transverse betwixt an iPhone and an iPad, but it volition tally iOS, not iPadOS, and it won't enactment ‌iPad‌ apps. When unfolded, the iPhone volition person an iPad-like layout that supports multitasking with 2 apps side-by-side. Many of Apple's iPhone apps volition person sidebars connected the near of the display, with Apple providing developers with tools to easy accommodate their apps to the caller layout.

Apple is utilizing a wider plan for the ‌iPhone Fold‌ than astir foldable smartphone makers person used, and it is rumored to person an iPad-like 4:3 facet ratio. When the iPhone is closed, it volition person a modular iPhone layout that looks similar the mentation of iOS we person now.

iOS 27 Satellite Features

Apple is moving connected several caller outer features for the iPhone, and it's imaginable immoderate features could beryllium introduced arsenic soon arsenic 2027.

• Apple Maps via satellite


• ‌Photos‌ successful Messages via satellite


• Satellite API model for third-party apps


• Satellite implicit 5G


• Satellite connectivity without the request for a presumption of the sky

iOS 27 Accessibility Updates

Each May, Apple previews caller accessibility features that are coming aboriginal successful the year. This year, Apple showed disconnected immoderate caller options that are expected successful the ‌iOS 27‌ update.

Apple is adding caller ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features to VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader.

• VoiceOver Image Explorer uses ‌Apple Intelligence‌ for elaborate descriptions of images passim the system, including photographs, scanned bills, and idiosyncratic records. Users tin property the Action fastener connected the iPhone to inquire questions astir what the camera viewfinder sees, with follow-up questions supported successful earthy language.


• Magnifier brings Apple Intelligence-powered ocular descriptions to its high-contrast interface for users with debased vision, with enactment for spoken commands similar "zoom in" oregon "turn connected flashlight."


• Voice Control gains earthy connection input truthful users tin picture onscreen elements conversationally, specified arsenic "tap the usher astir champion restaurants" oregon "tap the purple folder," alternatively than memorizing nonstop statement names oregon numbers. Apple says the diagnostic tin besides assistance erstwhile users privation to entree on-screen elements that don't person wide accessibility labels.


• Accessibility Reader gains enactment for much analyzable papers layouts including technological articles with aggregate columns, images, and tables, positive on-demand summaries and built-in translation that retains a user's customized font, color, and formatting preferences.


• Generated Subtitles usage on-device code designation to automatically transcribe spoken audio successful uncaptioned video content, including clips recorded connected iPhone, received from friends and family, oregon streamed online, crossed the iPhone, ‌iPad‌, Mac, ‌Apple TV‌, and Apple Vision Pro. The diagnostic volition beryllium disposable successful English successful the U.S. and Canada astatine launch.

iOS 27 Performance and Stability

Bloomberg has described iOS 27 arsenic a "Snow Leopard" update, suggesting that Apple volition absorption connected improving underlying show and quality.

Apple is prioritizing cleaning up the iOS codification and removing thing that's outdated, which could mean upgrading apps to amended show and rewriting immoderate existing features to beryllium much efficient. The codification updates could supply a much responsive, faster mentation of iOS.

Apple is besides aiming for ratio improvements that could construe into tangible artillery beingness gains.

iOS 27 Compatibility

‌iOS 27‌ is expected to driblet enactment for the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and second-generation iPhone SE. It volition beryllium disposable connected each different iPhones that enactment ‌iOS 26‌.

iPadOS 27

Many of the features that are coming successful ‌iOS 27‌ volition besides widen to the ‌iPad‌, including each of the caller ‌Siri‌ capabilities. We haven't heard rumors of iPad-specific features arsenic of yet.

macOS 27

Like ‌iOS 27‌ and iPadOS 27, ‌macOS 27‌ volition follow the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌ with chatbot capabilities, idiosyncratic discourse and the quality to entree information connected your Mac, and improved integration successful and betwixt apps. A standalone ‌Siri‌ app for the Mac is likely.


We've heard a batch astir what ‌Siri‌ volition look similar connected the iPhone, with it acceptable to beryllium integrated into the ‌Dynamic Island‌, but nary item connected however ‌Siri‌ volition look connected the Mac. The ‌Siri‌ Mac interface volition beryllium much of a surprise.

The ‌Photos‌ app diagnostic for AI reframing and extending an representation volition beryllium available, arsenic volition the text-based enactment to make a Shortcut with earthy connection commands. Grammar checking capabilities volition beryllium added to Writing Tools, and ‌Image Playground‌ and ‌Genmoji‌ volition spot improvements to the underlying models. Apple is experimenting with much realistic models, truthful ‌Image Playground‌ mightiness beryllium capable to make contented that's not truthful cartoonish.

Safari is expected to person a caller diagnostic that uses AI to automatically radical tabs that are akin to 1 another, expanding connected the tab groups feature.

In ‌iOS 27‌, we're getting immoderate insignificant tweaks to Liquid Glass, including tab bars that bash distant with the standalone hunt enactment and perchance a slider for adjusting the wide look of Liquid Glass, but we cognize little astir what to expect for Liquid Glass connected the Mac. There has been disapproval of the Mac's Liquid Glass interface successful particular, truthful Apple could person changes planned.

Bloomberg claims Apple is moving connected a "slight redesign" for ‌macOS 27‌, with plans to code "quirks" with shadows and transparency.

Apple is moving connected an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, truthful determination could beryllium caller touch-based interface options hidden successful ‌macOS 27‌. The OLED ‌MacBook Pro‌ apt isn't launching until aboriginal 2027, truthful it's not thing we're expecting to spot successful the motorboat mentation of ‌macOS 27‌.

macOS Naming

We don't cognize what Apple is going to telephone ‌macOS 27‌, but it volition apt proceed to person a California landmark name. The filename of Apple's hashmoji for WWDC 2026 connected X is "Project Big Bear," starring to speculation that Apple mightiness spell with macOS Big Bear.

The filename could beryllium unrelated to ‌macOS 27‌, and it's imaginable Apple volition take thing other entirely. Apple has trademarked aggregate California-themed names successful the past, including Diablo, Grizzly, Mammoth, Miramar, Pacific, Redtail, Redwood, Shasta, Skyline, and Tiburon.

Performance Improvements

Apple has been moving connected refinements to macOS that volition see bug fixes, show improvements, and tweaks to boost artillery life.

No More Intel Macs

Apple is dropping enactment for Intel Macs with ‌macOS 27‌, truthful if you person an Intel Mac, it's not going to beryllium capable to tally the caller Mac software. macOS Tahoe is the past mentation of macOS that volition enactment connected Intel Macs.

Apple is besides phasing retired Rosetta 2 support, and ‌macOS 27‌ volition beryllium the past mentation of macOS that includes it. Rosetta 2 lets Apple silicon Macs tally apps built for Intel Macs, truthful older apps that inactive person the outdated architecture volition nary longer enactment successful macOS 28.

Current Intel Macs that tally ‌macOS Tahoe‌ but won't tally ‌macOS 27‌ see the 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ from 2020, the 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ from 2019, the 27-inch iMac from 2020, and the 2019 Mac Pro.

watchOS 27

In watchOS 27, Apple plans to introduce caller ticker faces, including a variant of the Modular Ultra face. The caller ticker look volition person a ample clip readout with 3 complications, and it volition beryllium disposable for each Apple Watch models.


We haven't heard thing other astir caller watchOS 27 features, and Apple Watch bundle updates thin to beryllium connected the smaller side. With Apple readying to adhd an enactment for generating a wallpaper utilizing AI connected the iPhone, it's imaginable determination could beryllium immoderate Apple Watch equivalent feature.

Some of the caller ‌Siri‌ features could enactment connected the watch, and immoderate of the AI features mightiness transition, similar grammar correction erstwhile penning oregon dictating connected the watch.

tvOS 27

We haven't heard thing astir tvOS 27, and ‌Apple TV‌ updates are usually not ace exciting. With the ‌Apple TV‌ expected to beryllium refreshed with a spot that works with ‌Apple Intelligence‌ aboriginal this year, we could spot Apple present immoderate AI features for the ‌Apple TV‌.


Better TV and movie recommendations are a possibility, arsenic is simply a much susceptible ‌Siri‌ that is amended astatine handling requests. There could besides beryllium caller astute location integrations that volition enactment alongside a centralized astute location hub Apple is rumored to beryllium launching this year. One diagnostic we bash cognize astir is larger text, which is an Accessibility enactment Apple is adding.

visionOS 27

visionOS 27 volition seemingly beryllium "light connected caller features," but it could get the aforesaid AI app updates and ‌Siri‌ changes that are coming to Apple's different platforms.

New Hardware?

There are respective products that Apple is inactive expected to motorboat successful 2026, but it's not looking similar immoderate of them are going to beryllium unveiled astatine WWDC. With respective caller bundle updates to screen and an all-new mentation of ‌Siri‌, Apple whitethorn not privation to instrumentality the absorption distant from its bundle announcements.

We are expecting M5 Mac Studio and Mac mini updates astatine immoderate point, positive determination could beryllium a caller ‌iMac‌. Unfortunately, precocious RAM costs and spot shortages mean delayed Mac refreshes, and caller models aren't expected until aboriginal successful the year.

The low-cost ‌iPad‌ inactive hasn't been refreshed, and updates for the HomePod mini and ‌Apple TV‌ are seemingly acceptable to go. There's besides a caller astute location hub tied to the caller mentation of ‌Siri‌, but it's not apt to travel retired until ‌Siri‌ sees an authoritative motorboat successful the fall.

How to Watch

‌WWDC 2026‌ begins astatine 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time connected June 8. Apple plans to watercourse the WWDC keynote connected YouTube, the ‌Apple TV‌ app everyplace it's available, and the Apple Events website.


For those who are incapable to ticker the livestream, we'll person unrecorded sum astatine MacRumors.com and the MacRumorsLive X (Twitter) account.

Launch Timeline

Betas of ‌iOS 27‌, iPadOS 27, ‌macOS 27‌, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 volition beryllium seeded to developers aft Apple's keynote event. Public betas volition travel retired successful July, and aft respective months of testing, the updates volition motorboat to the nationalist successful the fall.
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