Introduction
Good morning. Welcome to Apple Park and to WWDC. As we gear up for the release of the incredible Apple original film F1, which premieres in theaters on June 27, we're also excited to share some major updates to our software platforms. This year's WWDC is a special time to celebrate our global developer community and provide them with the latest tools and technologies.
Apple Intelligence
Last year, we took the first steps in bringing you intelligence that's most helpful and relevant. This year, we're expanding the languages supported, making the generative models more capable and efficient, and integrating Apple Intelligence in more places across our ecosystem.
New Features
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Writing tools: Available virtually anywhere you type.
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Genmoji and Image Playgrounds: Express yourself in fun ways.
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Cleanup: Remove distractions from your photos.
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Visual Intelligence: Easily explore your surroundings.
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Photo and video search: Find a photo or video by describing it in natural language.
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Memory movie creation: Create a memory movie with a simple description.
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Email, notification, and note summarization: Quickly get the gist.
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Smart Reply: Craft your response with a single tap.
Privacy
We've also taken an extraordinary step forward for privacy in AI with Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy of your iPhone into the cloud so no one else can access your data, not even Apple.
Siri Enhancements
We introduced enhancements that make Siri more natural and more helpful. While some features needed more time to reach our high-quality bar, we look forward to sharing more in the coming year.
Foundation Models Framework
This year, we're opening up access for any app to tap directly into the on-device large language model at the core of Apple Intelligence with a new Foundation Models Framework. This gives developers direct access to intelligence that's powerful, fast, built with privacy, and available even when you're offline.
A Gorgeous New Design
Our last major redesign was iOS 7. Now, with the powerful advances in our hardware, silicon, and graphics technologies, we're introducing a universal design across our platforms. This unified design language creates a more harmonious experience as you move between products, while maintaining the qualities that make each unique.
Liquid Glass
It starts with an entirely new expressive material we call liquid glass. With the optical qualities of glass and a fluidity that only Apple can achieve, it transforms depending on your content or context, bringing more clarity to navigation and controls.
Redesigned Elements
Elements once considered for rectangular displays have been redesigned to fit perfectly concentric with the rounded corners of the hardware. Alerts appear from where you tap, context menus expand into an easily scannable list, and tab bars shrink and expand as you scroll.
Personalization
App icons have been crafted with multiple layers of liquid glass and come to life in different modes. The new design extends to the dock and widgets, giving you an entirely new way to personalize your experience.
iOS 26
iOS 26 is packed with intelligent experiences, meaningful improvements to the things you do every day, and a new design.
Lock Screen and Home Screen
The lock screen has been updated with the time and controls made of Liquid Glass. Swiping up to the home screen is more delightful. App icons are crafted from Liquid Glass, and wallpapers are more dynamic.
Camera
The camera app gets a new, more intuitive design. A simplified and streamlined design elevates the photo and video modes, and all the powerful features are just a tap away.
Photos
The Photos app takes advantage of the new design. It features separate tabs for Library and Collections, and the stunning 3D effect from the lock screen is available.
Safari
Safari creates a more immersive experience. Web pages flow edge to edge, and the tab bar has been redesigned to float above the page.
FaceTime
The FaceTime landing page is re-imagined, celebrating your closest relationships with personalized contact posters. Video messages play as you scroll.
CarPlay
CarPlay gets updates to make it more beautiful and easier to use. The new design extends into the car, and there are new features to help keep you connected while driving.
Communication and Expression
iOS 26 also has updates to help you communicate, stay connected, and express yourself.
Phone App
You can choose a new unified layout that brings together your favorites, recents, and voicemails. Call screening helps you eliminate distractions from unwanted calls, and Hold Assist gets your time back when you're on hold.
Messages
Messages provides a shared space to express yourself. This year, you can bring personality to conversations with backgrounds, create polls in group chats, and use Apple Cash to settle up. Typing indicators are also coming to group chats.
Apple Intelligence in Communication
There are more ways to create the perfect emoji, and you can use ChatGPT in Image Playground. Live translation is introduced in messages, FaceTime, and phone, enabling you to communicate across languages.
Apple Services
We're also improving some of the Apple services you enjoy using on iPhone.
Apple Music
It's easier to fall in love with music from around the world. Lyrics translation, lyrics pronunciation, auto-mix, and Music Pins are some of the updates.
Maps
Your iPhone can better understand your routines to improve your daily commute and help you remember great places you've been. Visited Places is introduced, and it's protected with end-to-end encryption.
Wallet
Apple Wallet helps make your day-to-day interactions easier. Car keys and wallet adoption continues to grow, and there are updates to driver's licenses, digital IDs, boarding passes, and Apple Pay.
Games
iOS 26 brings new experiences to your games and the friends you play with.
Games App
It's a new destination to help you get more out of your games. The Home tab shows what's relevant, there's a dedicated tab for Apple Arcade, and the Library tab lets you see all your downloaded games. The Play Together tab allows you to see what your friends are playing and invite them to play.
Challenges
A new way to compete with friends in score-based showdowns, built on top of Game Center leaderboards.
Visual Intelligence
Visual intelligence builds on Apple intelligence to help you explore your surroundings. It's now extended to your iPhone screen, allowing you to search and take action across your apps.
watchOS 26
Apple Watch is indispensable, and with watchOS 26, we continue to push it further.
New Design
The new design with liquid glass delivers a fresh look while maintaining the instant familiarity of watchOS. It brings a more expressive experience in places like the Smart Stack, Control Center, and in-app navigation and controls.
Workout Buddy
An exciting new fitness feature that uses Apple intelligence to motivate you based on your fitness history.
Workout App
The workout app gets a brand new layout, and there are new media features built right into it.
Smart Stack
The Smart Stack improves its prediction algorithm by fusing on-device data and trends from your daily routine.
Notifications
Apple Watch can interpret the ambient noise in your environment and automatically adjust the volume of incoming calls and notifications. A new wrist flick gesture dismisses notifications and takes you back to your watch face.
Messages and Notes
The Messages app gets even better with live translation, conversation backgrounds, and new actions. Notes comes to Apple Watch, perfect for capturing quick notes.
New APIs
New APIs for developers, like the Smart Stack showing a widget for slopes at a ski resort and Dark Noise adding a custom control to Control Center.
tvOS 26
tvOS brings the best of Apple into your living room, and with tvOS 26, it's more enjoyable than ever.
New Design
The new design with Liquid Glass makes app icons more vibrant.
Apple TV App
The Apple TV app experience is enhanced. Playback controls refract the content underneath, and there's a bold new look with beautiful cinematic poster art.
Profiles
Profiles let everyone at home choose their own and jump right back into the TV, sports, and music they love.
Apple Music
Singing along with Apple Music gets even better with your iPhone as the mic and visual effects on the big screen.
macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe is a release made for all its different users, with a stunning new design and many updates.
New Design
The new design elevates the iconic elements of macOS, making them fresh and timelessly Mac. The menu bar is now completely transparent, and there are more ways to customize what controls appear in it and how they're laid out.
Personalization
You can change the color of your folders and add a symbol or emoji to give them a unique identity.
Continuity
Live activities come to Mac, and the phone app is brought to Mac, including all the great updates like hold assist, call screening, and live translation.
Shortcuts and Spotlight
Shortcuts can be run automatically, and Intelligent Actions let you create more powerful shortcuts. Spotlight gets its biggest update ever, becoming the fastest way to browse your content on Mac and introducing system and app actions.
Gaming
The new Games app brings together all the games on Mac, and the new Game Overlay lets you adjust system settings mid-game. Metal 4 brings next-generation rendering technologies to games.
VisionOS 26
VisionOS 26 is packed with groundbreaking spatial experiences, powerful features for enterprise, expanded input with new spatial accessories, and exciting spatial content.
Widgets
Widgets become spatial in VisionOS, integrating seamlessly into your space and being persistent and customizable.
Spatial Scenes
New AI algorithm creates multiple perspectives from 2D photos, making them more lifelike. Spatial scenes are available in the Photos app, Spatial Gallery app, and web browsing.
Personas
Personas undergo a dramatic transformation to more realistically represent you.
Enterprise Features
Organizations can easily share devices among team members, and you can securely save your settings to your iPhone. More APIs are added for enterprises to create revolutionary apps.
Spatial Accessories
Support for spatial accessories that enable input in six degrees of freedom, like Logitech Muse and PlayStation VR 2 Sense Controller.
Spatial Content
More ways to produce great new content, like the Adobe app for Vision OS and native playback of 180, 360, and wide field of view video.
iPadOS 26
iPadOS 26 is a giant release with a beautiful new design and many features.
New Design
The lock screen, home screen, and apps like Apple TV get a new design.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is integrated across iPadOS, enabling seamless communication across language barriers and supercharging your shortcuts.
Multitasking
A new windowing system on iPad is introduced, with features to help you control, arrange, and switch between windows.
Files
The Files app gets enhancements like an updated list view, collapsible folders, and folder customization options. Folders can be put in the dock for easier access, and Preview comes to iPadOS.
Audio and Video
Better control over audio input, voice isolation, recording with AirPods, and local capture for podcasters. Background tasks are enabled on iPad for easier editing and export.
Developer Updates
This year is a huge year for developers. The Foundation Models Framework allows developers to use our models, App Intents connect their app's content and capabilities throughout the system, and there are many more improvements to Swift and SwiftUI. The new design with Liquid Glass lets developers reimagine their apps, and there are dedicated sessions and opportunities to engage with Apple engineers and designers.
Conclusion
Our new OS releases will be available as developer betas today, with a public beta coming next month and to all users this fall. We're excited to see how developers will bring these updates and the new design language to their apps, and we thank all of our developers for continuing to change the world with the apps they create. Let's have a great WWDC!