Allison Johnson
Good morning from Apple Park.
The sun’s out and so are the iconic arches. Stay tuned for more soon.
WWDC 2026
Each year at WWDC, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company showcases what’s next for its biggest platforms — iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and more — and what developers can do to make apps and services for them.
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Richard Lawler
Apple’s OS overhaul could bring ‘Liquid Glass’ UI ahead of a 20th anniversary iPhone.
Mark Gurman’s Bloomberg newsletter brings one more pre-WWDC 25 rumor, saying the most exciting part of the conference will be the rumored design overhaul for iPhone, Mac, and other platforms that he says is called Liquid Glass (remember Microsoft’s Aero Glass, and Apple’s iOS 7 shift away from skeuomorphism?).
Adding “transparency and shine effects in all of Apple’s tool bars, in-app interfaces and controls,” he says it sets the stage for next year’s “Glasswing” iPhone design with curved glass sides, slim bezels, and no cutout section in the display.
Richard Lawler
Apple teases a “Sleek peek” coming at WWDC25.
The keynote for Apple’s next developer conference is only a week away, and the homepage for the event has just been updated with a short tagline, “sleek peek,” while exec Greg Joswiak tweeted out this new animation. We’re guessing this refers to the visionOS-like design refresh supposedly coming for Apple’s operating systems, and not to the “gap year” for AI features rumored over the weekend.
Whatever it is, we’ll be at Apple Park on June 9th to report the details.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Apple TV’s InSight can instantly add tracks to your Apple Music library.
According to reports from beta testers, the new InSight feature announced at WWDC has appeared in the latest developer beta of iOS 18 and tvOS 18.
InSight pops up details about actors, characters, and songs appearing onscreen in original Apple TV Plus shows. These also show on your iPhone, from where it appears to be easy to add songs to your library. Neat.
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Jay Peters
Here’s why Apple Intelligence is limited to the iPhone 15 Pro and Macs and iPads with M-series chips.
John Giannandrea, Apple’s AI chief, speaking at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live from WWDC 2024:
The inference of large language models is incredibly computationally expensive. So it’s a combination of bandwidth in the device, it’s the size of the ANE [Apple Neural Engine], it’s the oomph in the device to actually do these models fast enough to be useful.
You could in theory run these models on a very old device. but it would be so slow it would not be useful.
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s marketing boss, also pushed back on the idea that Apple Intelligence is a scheme to sell new iPhones. “Otherwise, we would have been smart enough just to do recent iPads and Macs, too.”
Wes Davis
Who says Macs aren’t for gaming?
Apple’s long-included macOS Chess game has a new look in the first macOS Sequoia beta.
Shiny as it is, it’s missing things like the “Grass” board and the style picker for the pieces, 9to5Mac writes. Here’s the current version (using “Fur” pieces on the Grass board, of course) compared to a screenshot posted to Reddit of its coming replacement.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
David Pierce
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Victoria Song
Jay Peters
MKBHD interviewed Tim Cook.
Cook was, unsurprisingly, very on message, but he did acknowledge that AI can have its flaws (which he has said before).
Also, Cook talks about how the introduction of the Magic Mouse was an “incredible moment.”
Jay Peters
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The new versions of iOS and macOS will let you rotate your Wi-Fi address to help reduce tracking.
Here’s how Apple describes the feature, per MacRumors:
A rotating Wi-Fi address helps reduce tracking by changing your Wi-Fi address at various times. Tracking can happen when your address always appears the same to other devices and people using the same network as you.
It’s coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Can Apple Intelligence fix the iPhone’s broken notifications system?
Apple has a new Focus mode.
Reduce Interruptions uses the company’s new AI to review notifications and only show those that “might need immediate attention” — like a message telling you to pick your child up.
As someone who is inundated with nuisance notifications and has failed to make Apple’s non-smart Focus Modes work for me, I’m looking forward to this one.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Siri warns you that ChatGPT might be lying.
The words “ChatGPT · Check important info for mistakes” popped up under each demo of ChatGPT’s integration with Siri during Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote.
That Apple put something it doesn’t entirely trust on its devices feels like a huge move for the company. Although, it’s clearly keeping its options open — Craig Federighi teased that Google could be a partner, too.
David Pierce
Google’s Gemini could eventually come to iOS too.
At a post-keynote live session, Apple’s Craig Federighi just explained how the company is thinking about integrating other AI models. ChatGPT is obviously the first big-name partner, but he mentioned eventually wanting to have domain-specific models. He also named another big player you might someday see in iOS:
“We want to enable users ultimately to choose the models they want, maybe Google Gemini in the future. Nothing to announce right now.”
Wes Davis
Is this the most important Vision Pro update?
visionOS 2 also adds mouse support for additional workflow options, and Vision Pro will now reveal the user’s physical Magic Keyboard — even when they are fully immersed in an Environment or app.
I can’t wait to see my keyboard floating in the clouds like Falkor from The Neverending Story when visionOS 2 comes out this fall.
David Pierce
Richard Lawler
All of Apple’s big AI news from WWDC 2024.
Siri meets generative AI, genmoji, image generation, and some big upgrades for Apple Photos. If you just want the Cliff’s Notes on Apple’s artificial intelligence plans, we’ve got you covered.
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