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

At yesterday’s Worldwide Builders Convention, Apple unveiled its subsequent era of software program for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, Apple Watch and Apple TV. The annual showcase for all the pieces new from Apple launched a complete bunch of recent options and features on the dwell occasion in Cupertino, California.

Apple’s massive presentation delivered a Liquid Glass redesign throughout working programs and 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. Apple additionally launched a brand new Gaming app — which is generally a hub however with some group options — that 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 automotive to advertise the F1 film produced by Apple for its Apple TV Plus streaming service.  

Should you’re extra the “moment-by-moment” kind, you possibly can try our archived dwell weblog. Or simply skip to the memes impressed by the closing track. Or go straight to the half the place you complain it bored you.

Public betas of the brand new working programs might be accessible in July, and the first developer beta for iOS 26 is out there proper now. 

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Liquid Glass redesign stole the present

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

Apple’s imaginative and prescient for its subsequent working programs’ interfaces is nearly actually that: It is impressed by VisionOS. The brand new design system is named 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. 

Which means 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 affect on Apple’s hottest gadget. However as well as, there is a new unified structure for communications, integrating Cellphone and FaceTime. 

Name Screening will wait till somebody begins to speak and inform you who it’s earlier than ringing by means of, whereas Maintain Help will maintain the decision related 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.  

On Monday, Apple launched the Video games app, its long-rumored “new vacation spot” for gaming. There is a hug for Arcade, and it exhibits occasions and your total sport library in a single place. Play Collectively let’s you managed co-op and group challenges. Builders can use the featued 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’ll 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 mirror what you need to convey. New ChatGPT types embody methods like oil portray, or the flexibility to ask for a selected type that is not a preset. 

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

Along with the brand new look, which incorporates issues like dynamic scaling of widgets primarily based on the picture on the lock display, iOS can mechanically make the picture 2.5D with animated art work for what’s enjoying. There’s lyrics, dwell lyric transliteration, mixing through the brand new AutoMix function and music pins in your library. 

The digital camera provides a extra streamlined course of for accessing the essential picture and video modes, plus all of the choices have been made a fast gesture away. Library and Collections tabs are again in Photographs. Apple opens Visible Intelligence to screenshot search, and you may as well use it throughout apps or name up ChatGPT. 

Maps can study your most popular routes and take them into consideration, provide you with journey time estimates and bear in mind the place you’ve got been for a visited-location historical past.

Apple Pockets will supply passport information 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

Whereas decrease profile than iOS, iPadOS 26 obtained much more architectural modifications other than Liquid Glass and the Stay Translation, communication and AI options from different units.

The substantive modifications for iPadOS 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 appears similar to MacOS. 

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

Recordsdata lastly grows up, like an in depth record view with the flexibility to resize columns, the flexibility to pull a folder to the Dock and extra. 

Preview involves the iPad, and the OS provides assist for choosing a mic and offering a noise-isolation possibility 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 dwell actions, so you do not have to place it down and stroll away for a render.

MacOS Tahoe… 26

This 12 months’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 may add a brand new set of controls to the management heart, change colours or add emoji to folders.

Continuity will get Stay Actions, like on the iPhone, and the Cellphone 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 few 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 options. It retains a clipboard historical past, which ought to make a variety of of us glad.

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

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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 gives vocal teaching (ugh, pep talks) with a abstract of your exercise stats on the finish. Exercise has a brand new structure 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 quantity on the ambient noise in your setting, 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 present exhibits like Sluggish Horses and Basis.

TVOS will allow you to leap again into exhibits extra rapidly 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 might be personalised and persistently overlaid. The OS will bear in mind window placement. Photographs can even create spatial views of images and mechanically convert pictures in articles, for example. Personas will doubtlessly look extra correct. 

Collaborative Professional utilization obtained a co-op sport callout, but it surely’s for enterprise. Should you’re utilizing a shared crew gadget, 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 fascinating new equipment for it.

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