Everything announced at Apple WWDC 2026 - including Siri, iOS 27 dev beta, and more

By Kerry Wan, Editor successful Chief / June 8 astatine 9:30 p.m. ET

The floodgates person opened for developers and enthusiasts to enroll successful Apple's Developer Beta programme and commencement investigating the recently announced bundle platforms for feedback. By the looks of it, it's a whopping 20GB update connected the iPhone that gets you earlier entree to caller features similar the Liquid Glass slider, Spatial Reframe, and Siri AI (when you walk the waitlist).

Also: Every iPhone exemplary that supports the iOS 27 update (and which older ones don't)

We've got guides up for however to update your eligible iPhone, Mac, oregon iPad to the latest developer betas, but arsenic always, proceed with caution, arsenic these early-stage bundle programs tin see predominant bugs and glitches -- successful the worst case, wiping your device's data.

For much sum connected the latest features here, spot below: 

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• I tested iOS 27's caller AI photograph editing tools arsenic a skeptic - and the results amazed me
• 3 caller MacOS 27 features marque it worthy upgrading close distant for me
• Will your iPhone enactment Siri AI? The reply is complicated

By Kerry Wan, Editor successful Chief / June 8 astatine 5:11 p.m. ET

Following the WWDC keynote, Apple held a backstage method heavy dive with members of the media, wherever the institution executives, including Craig Federighi and Mike Rockwell, shared immoderate specifics connected however the caller Siri AI works and wherefore it doesn't acquisition the aforesaid information and privateness vulnerabilities arsenic cloud-based services similar Gemini.

Notably, successful effect to a question astir Apple's stance connected agentic AI, Federighi suggested that the autonomous workflow remains an "exciting experiment," and that portion Apple has the agentic architecture successful spot with Siri, it's inactive aboriginal days for "long-horizon agentic tasks."

Also: iOS 27's Shortcuts upgrade makes automations casual to physique - and volition prevention maine truthful overmuch time

Apple's halfway doctrine for Apple Intelligence continues to trust connected deterministic, highly structured app protocols. Essentially, developers person to explicitly physique "app intents" truthful Siri tin safely execute a command, truthful it's tenable for the institution to clasp backmost connected diving into agentic AI capabilities astatine the start.

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 2:27 p.m. ET

And that's a wrap. Tim Cook concludes his past WWDC with a final, fleeting farewell. He says "the champion is inactive ahead" for the company, arsenic helium prepares to walk the baton to aboriginal Apple CEO John Ternus successful September. Cook's enactment advancing Apple's ngo of creating immoderate of the world's champion products has been, successful his words, "the grant of a lifetime." 

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor, Senior Editor / June 8 astatine 2:21 p.m. ET

In summation to confirming rumors astir caller Enhance and Extend photograph features, Apple announced a caller editing instrumentality called Spatial Reframing. It uses a operation of on-device spatial models and facial designation to optimize a photograph of, for example, your household members, giving it a antithetic space oregon position than the photograph you really took – if it works. We'll person to trial it. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 2:10 p.m. ET

I'm a large Shortcuts user, but it's 1 of those apps that has a steep learning curve. A caller update makes it easier for radical to use, careless of their level of Shortcuts experience. Now, iPhone users tin simply picture the Shortcut they'd similar to create, alternatively of configuring each mounting successful the app themselves. 

Originally, users would plug successful "do," "if," and "when" prompts to initiate a Shortcut. Now, they tin benignant successful their desired Shortcut, specified arsenic "When I permission the office, Message John that I'm connected my mode home, and see my ETA." 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 2:06 p.m. ET

Your emails and notes are astir to get mode much grammatically correct. Automatic proofreading is coming to much apps, including Slack and Mail, and it's powered by Apple's next-generation Siri. This grammar instrumentality volition beryllium disposable successful hundreds of apps. 

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor, Senior Editor / June 8 astatine 2:02 p.m. ET

In Safari, Apple Intelligence volition present assistance negociate your chaotic and rapidly multiplying tabs by organizing them into topics successful existent time. Safari volition present "automatically show a leafage connected your behalf" with Notify Me, but doesn't stock that browsing information anywhere, said Beth Dakin, bundle engineering manager.  

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 1:58 p.m. ET

Apple's Camera app is getting smarter. Users tin present activate the shutter fastener to fto Siri AI, powered by Visual Intelligence, spot what you're seeing, inquire it questions, and respond with adjuvant answers. Use the camera to larn astir the nutrition accusation successful your luncheon oregon divided the measure evenly among friends, VP of bundle Sebastian Marineau explained. 

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor / June 8 astatine 1:50 p.m. ET

With caller features similar automatic proofreading successful messages and message and lawsuit item detection successful Calendar, Siri AI and Apple Intelligence are doing what users person travel to expect from third-party AI tools similar ChatGPT and Claude, arsenic good arsenic built-in assistants similar Gemini that enactment natively successful the apps they usage each day. 

Apple's main distinguishing origin here, arsenic always, is privateness -- the information from immoderate you usage Apple's AI for won't beryllium shared, adjacent with the company. If the features enactment competitively, that origin could beryllium capable to transportation privacy-conscious users to permission different assistants behind. 

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor, / June 8 astatine 1:49 p.m. ET

Mike Rockwell, VP of Siri engineering, said "we've rebuilt Siri with almighty AI astatine the core," introducing Siri AI, a blend of Siri and Apple Intelligence.

Users tin entree the caller Siri by saying "Hey Siri" arsenic always, but present it volition beryllium a "profoundly much susceptible assistant" you tin converse with, including via a caller dedicated Siri app. It's successful Spotlight connected MacOS, and Visual Intelligence is present too. 

In a demo, Rockwell showed Siri drafting connected existent nationalist accusation to reply a question astir a section concert, with the reply displayed connected Rockwell's location screen. With on-screen consciousness and utilizing idiosyncratic context, Siri tin place a determination from a photograph you've pulled up and reply follow-up questions related to the location, including directions, for which Siri opens Apple Maps to display. 

For the past demo, Rockwell told Siri to stock lone prime photos featuring definite radical successful a household radical chat. Another demo showed Siri handling much than one-off tasks, going from petition to petition to program a ticker enactment the mode you'd usage ChatGPT oregon Gemini, echoing immoderate of the capabilities Google showed Gemini Spark handling astatine I/O past month. 

These demos showed the revamped adjunct doing "the things you'd expect Siri to do," arsenic Rockwell enactment it. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 1:43 p.m. ET

Before it introduced its caller Siri AI, Apple emphasized privacy arsenic a halfway tenet of its AI approach. This seems to beryllium however it volition differentiate its AI offerings from competitors successful an already flooded AI space.

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 1:38 p.m. ET

New Screen Time limitations let parents to restrict entree to definite apps connected their kids' phones. Time Allowances alteration parents to acceptable surface clip limitations during the day, truthful their kids tin enactment focused astatine schoolhouse oregon halt scrolling precocious astatine night. The features tin beryllium adjusted based connected property and development. The surface clip regularisation diagnostic is 1 mode Apple plans to springiness much power backmost to parents and curb unsafe telephone usage among kids. 

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor, / June 8 astatine 1:36 p.m. ET

To assistance incentivize boundaries astir tech usage by younger users, Apple made respective child-specific updates to its spot and information features. 

Raja Bose introduced caller Child Accounts, which fto parents sandbox their kids' usage of Apple products and services utilizing age-based restrictions, including successful the App Store. These settings fto parents acceptable limits astir what kids tin see, with whom they tin interact, and however overmuch clip they tin walk connected their devices. 

Starting this year, the caller settings springiness kids entree to definite indispensable apps determined by a genitor and grow them implicit clip arsenic the kid grows older. As Ann Thai explained, kids tin petition to download apps with their parents' permission, portion a akin Ask to Download diagnostic routes them done parental controls earlier accessing a caller site. Ask to Browse and Ask to Buy are connected by default for kids nether 13. 

Communication Safety, different caller feature, censors photos that whitethorn incorporate nudity oregon unit erstwhile detected successful messages. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 1:30 p.m. ET

Apple Maps is getting a ocular upgrade. Apple announced that it's sharpening the graphics successful its navigation platform, truthful users tin get aerial views with finer detail. Visual Intelligence powers the Apple Maps upgrade. Expect to spot fuller trees, airy reflected disconnected of skyscrapers, and an enhanced presumption of metropolis streets the adjacent clip you popular into Apple Maps. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 1:15 p.m. ET

One twelvemonth aft Apple introduced Liquid Glass, the transparent plan interface is getting a invited upgrade. You tin present set Liquid Glass done a useful slider successful Settings for much oregon little transparency, Shubham Kedia, Apple's quality interface designer, announced astatine WWDC. This volition marque the plan interface arsenic wide oregon tinted arsenic you prefer, and make much extent and separation betwixt apps, tabs, and backgrounds.  

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 1:24 p.m. ET

Apple is bringing much of its features to Android devices. One of the archetypal announced contiguous is the inclusion of Android users successful Apple's Shared Albums. This further illustrates Apple's caller epoch of collaboration crossed iOS and Android devices. 

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor, Senior Editor / June 8 astatine 1:29 p.m. ET

Stacey Lysik, vice president of software, noted respective responsiveness improvements crossed aggregate systems, including iOS 27. Launching and swiping done apps is present faster, and "new photos look up to 70% faster," Lysik said. AirDrop transfers besides hap 80% faster now. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 12:27 p.m. ET

Only a fewer weeks ago, astatine Google's ain developer conference, did we spot the institution demo respective features on… iPhones? This came arsenic a large surprise. Historically, Apple and Google person stayed successful their ain lanes, creating products exclusively for iOS oregon Android users, respectively. 

That subtle flash of an iPhone during I/O symbolizes the commencement of a new, collaborative epoch betwixt 2 tech rivals. Apple needs Google's Gemini to revamp its fledgling Siri, and Google gets to instrumentality vantage of Apple's compromised AI position and present Android features to devout iOS users. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 12:04 p.m. ET

It's precocious clip Apple debuts an AI-powered wellness manager that breathes caller beingness into its uninteractive Health app. I americium progressively assured that contiguous could beryllium the time Apple introduces this wellness manager to the world, due to the fact that of the company's concern with Google. 

I precocious tested Google Health Premium, the company's paid wellness manager subscription. Used alongside the Fitbit Air that records exercise, tracks sleep, and measures regular readiness, Google's AI Health Coach has proven to beryllium a thoughtful enhancement to the wellness tracker.

I tin inquire the Coach wherefore my Readiness people is low, petition agelong exercises earlier an upper-body workout, and instrumentality photos of meals to person nutrition data. Information I would person logged crossed antithetic tabs of the Google Health app present tin beryllium performed by chatting with the Health Coach. 

Apple is reportedly flirting with a akin wellness assistant. It's expected to get done the rumored Health+ app and volition absorption connected personalized wellness recommendations.

By Kyle Kucharski, Senior Editor / June 8 astatine 11:43 a.m. ET 

What's caller successful MacOS 27? According to rumors, it's looking similar a "Snow Leopard" update. This nickname comes from 2009's MacOS Snow Leopard, which Apple famously touted arsenic having "zero caller features" -- alternatively focusing connected show improvements and bundle polish. 

At the time, Apple besides dropped enactment for machines moving PowerPC processors arsenic the institution focused connected Intel-based architectures. Fast guardant to MacOS 27, and it present looks similar the extremity of the roadworthy for Intel, arsenic MacOS 27 volition necessitate an Apple M1 spot oregon newer to run. 

In presumption of optimization, Apple appears to beryllium refining the Liquid Glass interface successful MacOS, which isn't arsenic polished arsenic connected the iPhone oregon iPad. Siri is besides getting a redesign, imbued with multimodal AI and agentic features that, if they marque their mode to MacOS 27, volition springiness MacBooks a full batch much AI power. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 11:41 p.m. ET

Tim Cook's archetypal merchandise motorboat successful 2011 included the debut of Apple's Siri. Today, the integer adjunct is reportedly getting an AI makeover, turning the 15-year-old adjunct into an AI cause powered by Gemini. As Cook passes the baton implicit to Apple's adjacent CEO, John Ternus, helium volition accidental goodbye to Siri arsenic helium knows it to usher the institution into an actualized AI epoch - 1 that yet fulfills its long-awaited AI promises. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 11:33 a.m. ET

ZDNET Editor-in-Chief, Kerry Wan, conscionable touched down astatine Apple Park. He'll beryllium connected the crushed contiguous arsenic Apple announces its latest bundle news. You tin spot what Kerry is up to by pursuing on here, of course. He'll besides beryllium sharing videos of Apple's astir notable quality connected ZDNET's Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Be definite to travel on for more. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 11:12 a.m. ET

There are respective adjuvant AI features I look guardant to Apple introducing today. One rumor suggests it's gathering a Grammarly-adjacent AI grammar checker for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, which could travel successful useful portion drafting successful the Notes app, sending a substance successful Messages, oregon penning an email successful the Mail app. 

But 1 diagnostic I anticipation Apple abandons is its useless AI-generated substance responses. I don't caput Gemini-suggested email responses successful Gmail, for example, wherever nonrecreational conversations often travel akin effect patterns and goals. People text, connected the different hand, to interact with friends, coworkers, household radical chats, and much -- and I don't deliberation I'm unsocial successful admitting I don't substance my aunt the aforesaid mode I bash my champion friends.

Also: The Apple Watch needs a amended Siri much than the iPhone close now

Predictive substance works amended for nonrecreational communications, wherever a constricted acceptable of topics follows a much formulaic pattern: gathering scheduling, task confirmation. Personal texts, connected the different hand, are excessively unpredictable and impact much property and emotion that AI has yet to efficaciously reproduce. 

By Nina Raemont, Health and Wearables Editor / June 8 astatine 10:45 a.m. ET

We're hours distant from learning the latest bundle updates crossed Apple's ecosystem, and I'm hopeful for a fewer health- and fitness-related updates to WatchOS 27. 

Apple debuted Sleep Scores connected its newest smartwatches successful September, and I'm hoping the tech elephantine builds upon its momentum to present caller ways to quantify rest, recovery, and activity. Most of the wearables I've tested see a sleep, activity, and readiness people -- some adjacent cipher regular stress. 

Also: The 10 Apple Watch features that convinced maine to power to the wearable full-time

The institution could easy instrumentality an enactment people by finessing its Exercise, Stand, and Move rings to spit retired a regular enactment rating. It could besides amended its Training Load diagnostic by standing betterment retired of 100, alternatively of standing grooming strength arsenic good below, below, steady, above, oregon good above. 

By Kerry Wan, Editor successful Chief / June 7 astatine 5:15 p.m. ET

Much of the anticipation astir WWDC centers connected however Apple handles its AI communicative for the remainder of the year, but Apple has a accidental to bash thing adjacent bigger tomorrow: uncover its upcoming hardware products successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form. Give maine a teaser video, a graphic tucked successful the country of the iOS 27 bento box, oregon adjacent Ternus putting connected a brace of astute glasses arsenic helium leaves the stage.

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We've heard rumors for years present that the institution is moving connected a brace of astute glasses, competing against the likes of Meta, Spectacles, and now, Google and Samsung. The Cupertino elephantine volition yet find itself competing likewise erstwhile it releases a foldable iPhone. But there's 1 vantage that Apple has, and I anticipation it leans heavy into it starring up to September: developers.

While competitors person acceptable the signifier for foldables and astute glasses, they're inactive mostly lacking a prime app ecosystem. Apple, connected the different hand, tin leverage WWDC arsenic the accidental to get developers excited, excited capable to physique intuitive, thoughtful, and convincing bundle astir these newer signifier factors. You've got the model already with iOS, iPadOS, and VisionOS.

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor / June 7 astatine 5:00 p.m. ET

Apple has been breadcrumbing america with a expected AI-first Siri revamp for astatine slightest 2 years now, but it's yet expected to onshore connected Monday, backed by a partnership with Google -- specifically its Gemini assistant. 

The lone crushed to judge this present much than successful erstwhile years is that Gurman's latest report on the substance included Bloomberg-rendered mockups of what the caller Siri could look like, based connected accusation Gurman obtained.  

Also: This useful Apple Intelligence diagnostic saves maine implicit $200 a year

A revamped Siri would relation much similar a afloat AI agent, capable to measure what's connected your surface and usage it arsenic discourse for your queries. With autonomous capabilities, it would edit images oregon stock files for you, akin to the agents we've go utilized to implicit the past 6 months oregon so, including the ever-controversial OpenClaw. 

It volition allegedly person its ain app, akin to however you'd entree different chatbot similar ChatGPT oregon Claude connected your phone.

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor / June 7 astatine 4:55 p.m. ET

WWDC volition springiness america a look astatine the caller operating systems coming successful the fall, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, MacOS 27, TVOS 27, WatchOS 27, and VisionOS 27. 

We expect these to travel with immoderate caller AI features arsenic well, based connected Gurman's reporting: akin to the caller Siri, earthy connection updates volition fto you archer Apple Intelligence to intuitively tally tasks for you, similar creating shortcuts. 

Also: The archetypal settings I instantly alteration connected each caller iPhone - and why

For WatchOS 27 specifically, Gurman predicts a sleeker, simpler look for Ultra. On the VisionOS front, portion the institution volition apt hold different twelvemonth to merchandise caller hardware, the Vision Pro volition get immoderate caller accessibility features announced successful May, specified arsenic controlling wheelchairs with oculus movement. 

Current rumors, again from Gurman, besides expect caller AI photograph editing tools, called Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. The archetypal volition mimic generative fill-style features that different AI applications offer, portion Enhance could relation likewise to a Google Photos AI tool that adjusts elements similar colour and lighting. Reframe uses 3D spatial information to alteration the position of images.  

By Radhika Rajkumar, Senior Editor / June 7 astatine 12:02 p.m. ET

Apple whitethorn release a high-end enactment of "Ultra" devices (Gurman's terminology) this year, balancing retired the company's caller fund Neo laptop. The Ultra sanction calls backmost to Apple's existing Apple Watch Ultra and M-series Ultra chips, arsenic good arsenic CarPlay Ultra. 

A foldable telephone could beryllium the adjacent summation to that tier, mimicking a smaller iPhone erstwhile closed but looking much similar an iPad erstwhile unfolded. 

However, this and different devices successful this imaginable lineup, including a touchscreen MacBook, whitethorn not travel until Apple's September event, which is much hardware-focused.