WWDC 2025 Rumor Report Card: Which Leaks Were Right or Wrong?

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Many of Apple's announcements during its WWDC 2025 keynote this week were leaked up of time, but determination were besides a fewer rumors that proved to beryllium inaccurate.

In this WWDC 2025 variation of our Rumor Report Card, we person reflected connected immoderate of the bigger hits and misses starring into Apple's yearly developer conference.

The grades that we person assigned to each rumor beneath are conscionable for fun.

A+

We springiness afloat marks to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who accurately leaked a wide scope of bundle details up of WWDC 2025, including the caller naming normal for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, and truthful forth, the Liquid Glass design, iPads getting respective Mac-like features, several caller Phone and Messages app features, caller preinstalled Games and Preview apps connected iOS 26, unrecorded translation of calls and texts, and overmuch more.

9to5Mac besides accurately leaked respective details, ranging from the Messages app getting polls to a full-screen medium artwork enactment connected the iPhone's Lock Screen.

B

Jon Prosser was archetypal to study that iOS 26 would diagnostic a caller translucent design. In videos connected his YouTube transmission Front Page Tech, helium accurately leaked respective iOS 26 plan elements, including the new floating tab barroom wrong apps. However, astatine 1 constituent helium incorrectly said that Home Screen app icons would beryllium round.

The leaker @MajinBuOfficial accurately claimed that iPadOS 26 would diagnostic a Mac-like paper bar astatine the apical of the screen. However, helium wrongly said that the paper barroom mightiness lone look erstwhile the iPad is connected to a Magic Keyboard.

C-

Ahead of the WWDC 2025 keynote, 9to5Mac and MacRumors reported connected homeOS trademark activity that was perchance linked to Apple. homeOS could extremity up being the sanction of the operating strategy that powers Apple's rumored astute location hub, but neither the bundle level nor the instrumentality were announced astatine WWDC 2025.

homeOS precise good mightiness extremity up being announced successful the future, but speculation that it mightiness beryllium unveiled astatine WWDC 2025 proved to beryllium inaccurate.