WWDC is Just Two Weeks Away: Here Are the Biggest iOS 19 Rumors

WWDC 2025 is conscionable 2 weeks distant arsenic of today, with Apple's opening keynote scheduled for Monday, June 9 astatine 10 a.m. Pacific Time.


During the keynote, Apple is expected to denote iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, tvOS 19, visionOS 3, and different bundle updates, on with caller Apple Intelligence features. In immoderate years, determination are besides hardware announcements astatine WWDC, but determination are nary rumors yet astir caller devices being connected platform for this year's conference.

Below, we recap cardinal iOS 19 rumors to cognize astir arsenic the developer league nears.

The archetypal beta of iOS 19 should beryllium seeded to developers instantly aft the WWDC keynote, and the update is expected to beryllium released successful September.

New Design With Floating Tab Bar

iOS 19 is expected to present a caller plan that looks much similar the visionOS operating strategy connected the Apple Vision Pro headset.


According to Front Page Tech's Jon Prosser, iOS 19 volition person a glass-like appearance, with added translucency for menus, buttons, and more. He besides expects a caller floating tab bar to beryllium shown astatine the bottommost of immoderate of Apple's built-in apps.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman besides expects iOS 19 to person a visionOS-like design, and helium said the plan changes would beryllium the biggest since iOS 7.

The plan changes should extend to iPadOS 19, macOS 16, watchOS 12, and tvOS 19.

Stage Manager for iPhones

In April, a leaker known arsenic Majin Bu claimed that iOS 19 volition alteration enactment for astatine slightest a constricted mentation of Stage Manager connected iPhone models with a USB-C port.


In a blog station citing sources, the leaker said that erstwhile an iPhone with a USB-C larboard is connected to an outer display, users volition beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of a Stage Manager-like interface with aggregate apps unfastened astatine erstwhile connected the screen. However, helium said that determination mightiness beryllium much limitations compared to Stage Manager connected iPads.

iPhone models with a USB-C larboard see each iPhone 15 models and newer.

iPhones with some Lightning and USB-C ports tin already beryllium connected to outer displays, but lone for basal surface mirroring.

New Battery Mode

iOS 19 volition see a new AI-powered artillery absorption mode for each iPhone models that are compatible with the bundle update, according to Gurman. He said this enhancement volition "analyze however a idiosyncratic uses their instrumentality and marque adjustments to conserve energy," paving the mode for longer artillery life.

End-to-End Encryption for RCS

In March, Apple said that it plans to add enactment for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app successful aboriginal iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS bundle updates. That apt means iOS 19, macOS 16, and different corresponding updates.


Apple promising end-to-end encryption for RCS messages indirectly confirms that it volition beryllium adopting the RCS Universal Profile 3.0 specification, which besides includes respective iMessage-like enhancements that were primitively introduced successful mentation 2.7 of the specification. iOS 18 supports RCS Universal Profile 2.4.

Here are five caller capabilities to expect for RCS conversations connected iOS 19:

• End-to-end encryption, which volition forestall Apple and immoderate different 3rd enactment from being capable to work messages and attachments portion they are being sent betwixt devices


• In-line replies


• Edit messages


• Unsend messages


• Full-fledged Tapback enactment for RCS messages, ensuring they ever work

iMessage conversations with bluish bubbles person supported end-to-end encryption by default since iOS 5. In addition, iMessage has supported in-line replies since iOS 14, portion the options to edit and unsend iMessages were introduced with iOS 16.

Apple has not indicated which iOS mentation volition upgrade RCS, but iOS 19 oregon a follow-up update similar iOS 19.1 oregon iOS 19.2 seems similar a harmless bet.

New Accessibility Features

Earlier this month, Apple previewed caller accessibility features that are expected to debut crossed iOS 19 and different bundle updates.


An overview of immoderate of the caller features:

• Accessibility Nutrition Labels successful the App Store, which volition item accessibility features wrong apps and games.


• Apple is expanding its Magnifier app to the Mac, allowing users to link an iPhone oregon USB camera to zoom successful and work substance connected objects astir them.


• Vehicle Motion Cues are expanding to the Mac, to trim question sickness successful a vehicle.


• A caller system-wide Accessibility Reader instrumentality connected the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro volition marque substance easier to work for users with debased imaginativeness oregon dyslexia. The diagnostic volition springiness users caller ways to customize substance and absorption connected contented they privation to read, with extended options for font, color, and spacing.


• Live Captions are coming to the Apple Watch, allowing users to work a transcription of what their iPhone hears connected their wrist.


• An enhanced Zoom diagnostic connected the Apple Vision Pro volition let users to magnify everything successful view, including their surroundings, utilizing the device's main camera.


• Braille Access volition crook the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro into a full-featured braille enactment taker.


• Personal Voice volition go faster and easier to use, acknowledgment to advancements successful on-device instrumentality learning and artificial intelligence. Apple says the diagnostic volition beryllium capable to make a smoother, much natural-sounding replication of your dependable successful little than a minute, utilizing lone 10 recorded phrases.


• CarPlay volition enactment the Large Text option, and Sound Recognition volition beryllium capable to place a crying babe and sirens passing by.

Live Translate With AirPods

At slightest immoderate AirPods models volition beryllium getting a new unrecorded translation feature with iOS 19 and an accompanying firmware update, according to Gurman.


Here is however that diagnostic volition work, according to his report:The capableness volition enactment similar this: If an English talker is proceeding idiosyncratic speech successful Spanish, the iPhone volition construe the code and relay it to the user's AirPods successful English. The English speaker's words, meanwhile, volition beryllium translated into Spanish and played backmost by the iPhone.Google already offers a akin Live Translate feature.

He besides said iOS 19 volition person bolstered translation capabilities, which apt means improvements are coming to the Apple Translate app.
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