All the pieces Introduced at Apple WWDC 2025: Unified OS Redesign

Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) acts as its annual showcase for all the pieces new the corporate plans to incorporate in its software program for the subsequent yr, offering builders lead time (and incentive) to combine imminent options and capabilities for iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, Apple Watch and Apple TV of their upcoming releases.

Right now’s occasion introduced us a Liquid Glass redesign throughout working techniques, unified model numbers for the OSes (all ending in 26, e.g., iOS 26), besides MacOS Tahoe 26, which nonetheless incorporates a vacationer vacation spot. Plus, the brand new Gaming app — which is generally a hub however with some group options — which we have been ready for.  

Apple prepped buzz for the occasion by releasing new retro merchandise for the nostalgic amongst us.

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The occasion started with a buzz video of Craig Federighi, senior VP of software program engineering, racing in an F1 automobile to advertise the F1 film produced by Apple for its Apple TV Plus streaming service.  

When you’re extra the “moment-by-moment” kind, you’ll be able to take a look at our archived reside weblog. Or simply skip to the memes impressed by the closing track. Or simply go straight to the half the place you complain it bored you.

Public betas of the brand new working techniques shall be obtainable in July, and the first developer beta for iOS 26 is offered proper now. 

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Liquid Glass redesign stole the present

Apple’s “beautiful new design,” for all its platforms the primary overhaul since iOS 7, made doable by higher shows and extra highly effective elements.

Apple’s imaginative and prescient for its subsequent working techniques’ interfaces is sort of actually that: It is impressed by VisionOS. The brand new design system is known as Liquid Glass, and brings a return to extra pervasive translucency for the OS components — the identical aesthetic that informs the software program for its Imaginative and prescient Professional VR/AR headset. Meaning extra lens-like look, with specular highlights and dynamic motion as you modify viewing angle. Navigation conduct modifications as properly.

iOS 26: The brand new working system (and naming) is official

Liquid Glass will in all probability take advantage of influence on Apple’s hottest system. However as well as, there is a new unified format for communications, integrating Telephone and FaceTime. Name Screening will wait till somebody begins to speak and inform you who it’s earlier than ringing via, whereas Maintain Help will preserve the decision linked within the background and ring you when somebody solutions. Throughout the apps, there are many interface components floating and extra options only a faucet away.  

The long-rumored “new vacation spot” for gaming, Apple launched the Video games app. There is a hug for Arcade, and it exhibits occasions and your total recreation library in a single place. There’s Play Collectively for managing co-op and group challenges. Builders can use that for turning single-player video games into group challenges.

And it really works with a controller. Heck yeah.

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Messages will get a customizable background that is shared throughout a chat, group chats can host polls, and you may request or obtain Apple Money in group chats. You’ll filter messages out from current and unknown senders out of notifications. Emoji era will get smarter by letting you mix and modify Genmoji to extra precisely replicate what you wish to convey. New ChatGPT types embody issues like oil portray, or the power to ask for a particular model that is not a preset. 

Dwell Translation is now reside within the communications apps with this model of the OS, and can work while you name somebody who’s not on an iPhone.  

Along with the brand new look, which incorporates issues like dynamic scaling of widgets based mostly on the photograph on the lock display, can routinely make the photograph 2.5D and animated art work for what’s taking part in. There’s lyrics, reside lyric transliteration, mixing through the brand new AutoMix characteristic and music pins in your library. 

The digicam makes it extra streamlined to entry the essential photograph and video modes, plus all of the choices have been made a fast gesture away. Library and Collections tabs are again in Pictures. Apple opens Visible Intelligence to not solely screenshot search, however can use it throughout apps or name up ChatGPT. 

Maps can study your most popular routes and take them under consideration, provides you journey time estimates and remembers the place you have been for a visited-location historical past.

Apple Pockets will supply passport data for digital IDs (for all the pieces however flying). Pay will supply in-person redemption of Rewards and use of Installments.

iPadOS 26 will get extra Mac-like yearly

Although in all probability not the most well-liked updates individuals care about, iPadOS 26 did get much more architectural modifications except for extra Liquid Glass prettiness and the Dwell Translation, communication and AI options from different gadgets.

The substantive modifications embody a brand new windowing system to enhance multitasking. There is a seize deal with to resize full-screen apps to home windows, utilizing the flick gesture to tile — it really works with a trackpad in addition to contact. It seems to be similar to MacOS. 

Expose brings up thumbnails of open home windows so you’ll be able to choose the one you need. There’s additionally a persistent menu bar on the high of the display, like a desktop OS. Heck yeah. And it would not require a particular high-performing iPad; it really works with Stage Supervisor and on a number of shows. After all, some persons are questioning (dreading?) what it is going to be like to make use of on an iPad Mini.

Information lastly grows up, like an in depth checklist view with the power to resize columns, the power to tug a folder to the Dock and extra. 

Preview involves the iPad, and the OS provides help for choosing a mic and offering a noise-isolation choice throughout apps. There are additionally extra instruments for creators, resembling native seize through video conferencing apps, with mic choices for higher sound. 

Background duties — sure! — will present up as reside actions, so you do not have to place it down and stroll away for a render.

MacOS Tahoe… 26

This yr’s location identify is Tahoe, and the replace consists of the identical communications look updates as iOS 26. MacOS Tahoe incorporates the Liquid Glass design, too. You possibly can add a brand new set of controls to the management middle, change colours or add emoji to folders.

Continuity will get Dwell Actions, like on the iPhone, and the Telephone app involves the Mac with shared historical past and the opposite new AI options.

Shortcuts now have clever actions, like summarizing textual content or evaluating issues. Highlight provides a number of the annoying options of Home windows search, like mixing outcomes throughout varieties you don’t need. Fast Keys are two-letter shortcuts for apps and actions, together with ideas. It retains a clipboard historical past, which ought to make lots of of us joyful.

The Video games app on Tahoe has the identical options because the app on iPhone, plus an in-game overlay. Updates to Apple’s Metallic graphics framework, Metallic 4, add body interpolation, denoising and extra for doubtlessly higher recreation efficiency and high quality. Upcoming video games embody Crimson Desert and Inzoi. 

Watch this: Apple’s WatchOS 26 Will get a New Look and Extra Options at WWDC25

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Exercise Buddy makes its debut in WatchOS

The Apple Watch OS incorporates AI in a brand new Exercise Buddy, which retains your health historical past and provides vocal teaching (ugh, pep talks) with a abstract of your exercise stats on the finish. Exercise has a brand new format and customized exercises. 

Good Stack makes use of extra information to prioritize and predict which options you may need quickly. It is smarter about notifications, basing the amount on the ambient noise in your atmosphere, and provides a Wrist Flick gesture for issues like dismissing notifications.   

The brand new design additionally permeates Apple TV Plus and TVOS. Apple additionally introduced some new upcoming originals and new seasons of current exhibits like Gradual Horses and Basis.

TVOS will allow you to leap again into exhibits extra shortly and get into karaoke along with your iPhone because the mic. 

VisionOS 26 provides extra for enterprise

This working system already had the look, however Apple’s taken VisionOS 26 deeper and extra into-the-real-world. Widgets may be customized and persistently overlaid. The OS will keep in mind window placement. Pictures may create spatial views of images and routinely convert photographs in articles, as an illustration. Personas will doubtlessly look extra correct. 

Collaborative Professional utilization received a co-op recreation callout, nevertheless it’s for enterprise. When you’re utilizing a shared workforce system, it can save you your settings in your iPhone. There’s additionally a brand new Eyes Solely mode for privateness. Logitech Muse 3D stylus and PSVR hand controllers are two of the attention-grabbing new equipment for it.

You’ll edit Premiere Professional video and playback native 360-degree playback for standard motion cams.