WWDC 2025 | The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-03-23T17:45:20+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/apple-wwdc/index.xml https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Richard Lawler Jess Weatherbed <![CDATA[Apple’s WWDC 2026 event starts June 8th]]> https://www.theverge.com/898997/apples-wwdc-2025-event-starts-june-9th 2026-03-23T13:45:20-04:00 2026-03-23T13:21:53-04:00 Black Apple logo on top of a pink and grey background.

Apple has set a date for this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), scheduling the keynote and Platforms State of the Union for June 8th through June 12th at Apple Park. As usual, we will be tuned in to find out what's new in the 2027-branded editions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. After last year's round of glassy visual tweaks, many are waiting for Apple Intelligence to deliver on delayed features, such as an AI upgrade for Siri.

In its press release, Apple says, "WWDC26 will spotlight incredible updates for Apple platforms, including AI advancements and exciting new software and developer tools."

According to the lat …

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]]> Jay Peters <![CDATA[The biggest changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 26]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=683738 2025-07-24T13:54:59-04:00 2025-07-24T13:17:44-04:00

Apple recently announced iOS 26, the next major software update for iPhones, and it's packed with a whole bunch of new features. The biggest change is a new design, but there are lots of smaller improvements and additions as well that could make a difference in how you use your iPhone every day.

If you want to kick the tires before the update's wider release this fall, you can try it now in a public beta. Here's a bit more detail on what you can expect from iOS 26 when you install it on your device.

A refreshed design across the OS

A photo of changes from Apple's Liquid Glass UI redesign.

Apple has a new design language called "Liquid Glass" that it's being introduced across all of the company's …

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]]> Allison Johnson <![CDATA[All the Android features Apple announced at WWDC]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=686247 2025-06-12T14:49:04-04:00 2025-06-12T15:00:00-04:00
The latest edition of iOS Doing Android Things.

Apple announcing Android features years after Google shipped them is a tale as old as time, but that doesn't make it any less fun to point out whenever it happens. This year's WWDC felt especially Android-y - not helped by Siri essentially sitting this year's announcements out while Apple put its new Liquid Glass design language front and center.

The imitation goes both ways: Android is launching its version of iOS' Live Activities and is following Apple's lead by adding more customization options to quick settings tiles. Still, I couldn't help noticing a string of new features from Apple's the keynote that I've definitely seen somewhere b …

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]]> Jennifer Pattison Tuohy <![CDATA[Apple Home is expanding its energy management features ]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=685733 2025-06-11T18:20:12-04:00 2025-06-11T17:34:22-04:00
A screenshot of the Apple Home Energy tab.

Apple's smart home didn't get a single nod during the WWDC keynote, but it turns out there are some interesting developments coming to the Home app around energy management.

In a video posted to the Apple developer site this week, the company outlined its new EnergyKit framework, which allows developers to integrate energy data from Apple Home in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 to reduce or shift the electricity usage of their devices to prioritize cleaner and/or less expensive energy. So, for example, your thermostat can reduce its energy use when prices are higher, and your EV can generate a charging schedule based on forecasted prices to save you …

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]]> Victoria Song <![CDATA[Praise be, my visionOS 26 persona is significantly less cursed!]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=684697 2025-06-10T16:48:23-04:00 2025-06-11T10:00:00-04:00
I look much more like myself in the visionOS 26 persona.

For several months, my Slack avatar was a screenshot of my incredibly cursed Vision Pro persona. My virtual avatar's head was cocked back, cackling into the pixelated void, her hair one solid unmoving block. It wasn't good - but it also wasn't the end of the world. Everyone else's Persona looked just as horrible, and honestly, it was funny. So I was skeptical when, at the WWDC keynote, Apple announced that visionOS 26 had improved the system's floating avatars.

And then I got to make one.

The process to make Personas hasn't changed, but the end result is vastly improved. (Full disclosure: The video you see above was recorded by Apple and p …

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]]> Hayden Field <![CDATA[Apple punts on Siri updates as it struggles to keep up in the AI race]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=682984 2025-06-10T19:23:30-04:00 2025-06-10T19:23:27-04:00

Apple's WWDC 2025 had new software, Formula 1 references, and a piano man crooning the text of different app reviews. But one key feature got the short end of the stick: Siri.

Although the company continuously referenced Apple Intelligence and pushed new features like live translation for Messages, FaceTime, and phone calls, Apple's AI assistant was barely mentioned. In fact, the most attention Siri got was when Apple explained that some of its previously promised features were running behind schedule.

To address what many saw as the elephant in the room, Apple's keynote briefly mentioned that it had updated Siri to be "more natural and mo …

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]]> David Pierce <![CDATA[Hang on, did the iPad just become a computer?]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=684229 2025-06-10T09:34:01-04:00 2025-06-10T09:22:20-04:00

I genuinely never expected to say this: it appears Apple finally figured out multitasking on the iPad. With iPadOS 26, the company hasn't completely taken off the guardrails for how you can use and place apps on your tablet, but it came awfully close. With a couple of clever iPad-specific tricks, and better support for a mouse or trackpad, the whole system just makes sense in a way it never has before. I've been running the very first developer beta for less than a day on an 11-inch iPad Air, and I can already sense a change in how I use my tablet.

The new multitasking system is mostly pretty easy to understand. You unlock the iPad and you' …

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]]> David Pierce <![CDATA[Liquid Glass, Spotlight, and the rest of WWDC 2025]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=684193 2025-06-10T13:44:20-04:00 2025-06-10T08:54:07-04:00

The tech world is full of cycles. Things are always bundling and unbundling, going from minimalist to maximalist, embracing nostalgia before diving head-first into the future. And right now, it appears, we're doing glassy again.

On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David are joined by The Verge's Allison Johnson and Victoria Song to talk about all the news from Apple's annual WWDC software extravaganza. There's no place to start, of course, other than with Liquid Glass, the new design system that Apple is rolling out across all of its platforms. We talk about why Apple made the change, what it looks like so far, and whether this is …

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]]> Jess Weatherbed <![CDATA[Apple brings the iPhone Journal app to iPad and Mac]]> https://www.theverge.com/?p=684163 2025-06-10T09:04:55-04:00 2025-06-10T07:33:37-04:00
Being able to personalize Journal entries with doodles on iPad is a nice touch.

After two years as an iPhone exclusive, Apple's Journal app will soon be available on Mac and iPad. Apple announced at WWDC on Monday that its latest macOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates will support the Journal app, which helps users track their daily activities and experiences with images, videos, and voice memos.

"Journal comes to Mac, making it easy to capture and write about everyday moments and special events when inspiration strikes," Apple said in the macOS 26 press release. "On Mac, it's easy to type long, thoughtful entries and view them on a map. Users can keep multiple journals for various aspects of life, which are all synced across …

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]]> Allison Johnson <![CDATA[WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference]]> https://www.theverge.com/?post_type=vm_stream&p=681646 2026-03-23T13:21:42-04:00 2025-06-09T20:39:13-04:00 WWDC 25
Let’s see what Cook is cooking.

The stakes are higher than usual at this year’s WWDC. Major Apple Intelligence features the company teased at last year’s conference are stalled out, the company got a stern talking-to from a federal judge a couple of months ago over its App Store policies, and then there’s everything going on with tariffs. It’s not an entirely enviable position, but the show goes on.

Apple announced a slew of platform operating system updates with its latest design language, called Liquid Glass, and a new yearly naming scheme. iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and more. It’s also opening up access to on-device Apple Intelligence for app developers and plugging ChatGPT into Image Playground.

A new Games app connects you to your friends, AirPods have added camera controls, and the planned update for Spotlight “looks like a power user dream,” according to David Pierce. Oh, and did we mention the multitasking improvements on the way for iPadOS?

Read on below for all of the updates from Apple’s WWDC 2025 event.

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