Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026

Apple held its yearly Worldwide Developer Conference today. WWDC is the lawsuit successful which the institution uses its keynote code to denote tons of changes coming to its software platforms connected iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

Apple has been chasing the artificial quality roar for the past fewer years, though galore of its promised AI features crossed its platforms person been delayed oregon person not rather panned out into a fully-fledged suite. To rectify that, Apple entered into a partnership with Google to usage its Gemini AI arsenic a backbone to powerfulness Apple Intelligence. After years of wondering however that concern might manifest, Apple revealed that imaginativeness today.

Apple’s bundle main Craig Federighi said that Apple’s keynote presumption would absorption connected 3 main things: Platform improvements, updates successful spot and safety, and a “big leap forward” successful Apple Intelligence and Siri. The large absorption was changes to Apple’s Siri virtual adjunct that marque it consciousness much similar a modern AI chatbot. The remainder of the AI features person been implemented broadly crossed Apple’s ecosystem, successful iOS, iPadOS,MacOS, WatchOS, and VisionOS.

This was besides the last WWDC for outgoing CEO Tim Cook, who signed disconnected connected a idiosyncratic note, saying, “I inactive judge the champion is yet ahead."

Here's everything Apple announced contiguous astatine WWDC 2026.

AI Architecture

When the slate of caller bundle updates get successful the fall, Apple’s AI models volition beryllium integrated with Google’s Gemini to heighten the conversational quality and contextual consciousness of its apps. That means each of Apple’s apps that usage AI—which goes beyond the Siri dependable adjunct to see Mail, Messages, Safari, and Photos, among others—will person a amended knowing of what you’re trying to do, and volition beryllium amended astatine delivering results that consciousness meaningful.

These AI powered features volition beryllium accessible successful immoderate mode connected each of Apple’s devices. The AI features volition besides beryllium capable to adjacent into what’s stored connected your devices, what’s connected the screen, and what the camera is seeing to reply questions, make substance and images, and execute the basal tasks you inquire it to do.

Apple, which has agelong emphasized its privateness bonafides, says overmuch of this computational labour happens connected the existent instrumentality (so it volition apt beryllium constricted to lone the highest performing caller hardware) and erstwhile it has to nonstop a petition to the cloud, it does truthful securely.

Apple’s caller AI features volition not yet beryllium coming to the European Union oregon China; the institution says it needs to archetypal benignant retired immoderate regulatory hurdles to support its privateness features intact.

Siri AI

Apple has revamped Siri, with a caller dedicated app connected iOS called Siri AI. (The AI means Apple Intelligence here, of course.) It’s besides disposable connected that Mac done Spotlight. Apple showed a screenshot of Siri AI moving connected an Apple Watch, but did not supply a demo.

Apple says Siri is simply a “profoundly much susceptible assistant.” And by that, Apple means that it tin bash tons of the aforesaid things AI chatbots similar Gemini and Claude person been capable to bash for a while. Siri AI is much chatty, much susceptible of grasping the discourse of the questions you ask, and capable to integrate with different services.

On the iPhone, Apple is putting Siri beforehand and center, plopped close successful Apple’s alleged Dynamic Island (aka the camera notch) astatine the apical of the screen. When you trigger it via the fastener connected the broadside of the iPhone, the Dynamic Island bubbles up into an animated blob that shows Siri is listening.

Apple says Siri has “broad satellite knowledge” that pulls accusation from online sources arsenic good arsenic your idiosyncratic information stored connected your phone. It has much contextual smarts, meaning you tin inquire it travel up questions without having to notation your archetypal question. It tin entree a assortment of apps to draught messages, stitchery photos oregon videos into stock folders, archer you however to get tickets to an event, and pin reminders connected your calendar. It besides has a penning assistant, and it tin assistance you divided a cheque astatine the extremity of a radical dinner.

Siri besides has a overmuch much expressive voice. The demo Apple showed connected Monday sounds adjacent much similar Scarlett Johansson from Her than ever before. There are respective caller options for voices you tin take from.

Siri is besides successful the iPhone’s Camera app, wherever it’s capable to usage machine imaginativeness to reply questions. Point the camera astatine thing successful the existent satellite and Siri tin archer you what it is, springiness you web results related to it, and truthful on. This works fundamentally similar Lens, a diagnostic Google has had successful Pixel phones for years.

WIRED’s Reece Rogers has a deeper dive into each the large features coming to the caller Siri.

iOS 27

Apple’s upcoming operating strategy volition beryllium disposable connected immoderate of its phones from the iPhone 11 on. This is simply a large woody for instrumentality longevity; past year’s iOS besides offered enactment each the mode backmost to iPhone 11, truthful this year, Apple is not depriving immoderate presently supported iPhones of bundle updates.

Most of the iOS attraction was fixed to Siri. A fewer standout diagnostic updates were announced. There’s a caller Perimenopause dashboard successful Apple Health. Photo albums tin present beryllium shared with Android and Windows users, who tin articulation and adhd their ain photos from their heathen devices. Photos determination are besides stored successful afloat resolution, nary substance who they travel from.

Apple says iOS has besides conscionable been considerably sped up. Apps load a claimed 30 percent faster, which Apple says is accomplished by preloading cardinal app information earlier you load it. Photos popular up 70 percent quicker than before. AirDrop transfers get an 80 percent velocity boost too, according to Apple.

Mac OS

Apple’s adjacent Mac operating strategy volition beryllium called Golden Gate, but different than the galore Siri AI enhancements, the institution shared fewer different specifics astir what changes are coming. It is the archetypal Apple OS to lone enactment connected MacBooks utilizing Apple’s customized silicon chips. As outlined astatine past year’s WWDC, Intel Macs volition not beryllium capable to update to iOS 27.

Siri AI volition beryllium integrated connected Mac arsenic well, utilized successful the Spotlight work wherever you tin inquire it questions and person it notation images and accusation straight connected screen.

Vision Pro

There were a mates tiny updates to Apple’s fledgling Vision Pro headset. Siri Pro tin beryllium enabled successful Vision OS. When you invoke Siri, it appears arsenic a floating, glowing orb. Fun! It tin spot what you’re looking at—either a surface oregon a carnal object—and reply questions astir it.

Another update is that you tin besides present crook your pictures into panoramas successful the headset.

Safari

Safari has gotten immoderate boosts from Apple’s AI additions. Safari present organizes your tabs into topical folders. The AI motor automatically looks astatine what’s successful each tab, past groups unneurotic unfastened tabs astir the aforesaid taxable and plops them into a folder. If you’re footwear buying and person excessively galore tabs unfastened to find the champion deals connected shoes, Safari volition lump those each into 1 “shoes” folder.

The browser besides gets a caller diagnostic called Describe an Extension, which sounds neat. You volition beryllium capable to make a customized browser hold conscionable by telling the AI what you privation the hold to do.

Home

On Monday, Apple gave immoderate emotion to its agelong neglected Home app. If you person astute location accessories that nonstop alerts, the notifications strategy volition amended recognize erstwhile notifications are related to each other. It volition beryllium capable to nonstop them each successful 1 message, alternatively than bombarding you with reminder aft reminder that a astute airy is being turned connected and disconnected and connected and off.

If you person compatible information cameras, the Home app volition automatically put videos of cardinal events, giving you abbreviated clips of the events and keeping them astatine the apical of the leafage to marque them easier to access. The machine imaginativeness motor tin picture what’s happening successful the clip too, similar “Michael C. delivered a container to your beforehand porch.”

Shortcuts

Apple’s Shortcuts app volition fto you make caller shortcuts conscionable by describing what you privation them to bash utilizing earthy language. The illustration Apple gave was if you privation to fto idiosyncratic cognize erstwhile you’ll beryllium location from work, you tin picture that petition and past Apple Intelligence volition usage features similar location, existent clip Maps information, and Messages to pass your ETA to your intended recipient.

Liquid Glass

Apple introduced its Liquid Glass plan for its bundle interfaces past year, which galore radical called “beautiful but hard to read” due to the fact that the plan leaned heavy connected mostly transparent windows.

Apple is making immoderate refinements to Liquid Glass that the institution says were done to “ensure exceptional readability." There is present a slider that lets you instrumentality the Liquid Glass interface from ultra transparent to afloat opaque. Sidebars grow each the mode to the edges of the screen, making for a wider viewing window, and icons successful sidebars get their colors back. Transparent objects are easier to work and amusement much of a extent effect.

Photos

Apple says it has a heavy respect for photography, and it has ever highlighted however the iPhone’s camera is simply a favourite of pro photographers. However, the AI updates to the Photos and Camera apps see tons of manipulating effects for the remainder of us—the ones who request immoderate assistance successful getting the shot. Now we tin conscionable usage Apple’s tools to create the changeable we couldn’t get.

The Photos app volition summation AI-powered abilities to cleanable up, extend, and reframe pictures. These features volition fto you alteration however a representation is framed, letting you region signs from the inheritance oregon alteration the facet ratio. It adjacent uses generative AI to fto you determination the position around, sliding the camera astir successful virtual abstraction similar the representation was a 3D creation. These features consciousness acquainted to Google fans; Google’s AI photograph tools person enabled immoderate of these akin post-production techniques.

Apple besides has revamped its AI representation procreation tool, Image Playground. This tin beryllium deployed successful a assortment of styles, including a photorealistic look. Like Google announced astatine its I/O event successful May, the images it creates tin beryllium based connected your existing photos, varying the benignant oregon adding caller things to the inheritance oregon foreground.

Read astir each the changes coming to the iPhone’s camera and photos app.

Trust and Safety

Apple spent a notable chunk of the WWDC keynote emphasizing its efforts to fto parents power the contented kids tin see, and power the magnitude of clip kids walk connected their devices.

New kid information features fto parents power which apps kids tin usage astatine circumstantial times of the day. Parents tin besides prime which contacts the kids are capable to contact. There’s a caller diagnostic successful Safari that lets kids “request” to browse a peculiar website; the parents get an alert and tin assistance support from their ain iPhone, wherever they are.

There are of people besides immoderate circumstantial features coming to each of Apple’s bundle to support minors from harmful content. If Apple detects a representation that includes nudity, it volition blur it for the kids and emblem it to the parents. It does the aforesaid with gory oregon convulsive videos.

No Hardware

The large determination for the aboriginal of Apple’s hardware is whether it tin motorboat a really bully AI hardware product. There person been galore rumors astir upcoming hardware efforts powered by AI that whitethorn beryllium successful Apple’s pipeline, similar astute glasses oregon the instauration of AirPods with cameras successful them. Alas, determination were nary hardware announcements astatine WWDC.