WWDC 25 Keynote (Jun 09 2025)

Foundation Models Framework - access to Apple Intelligence

Liquid Glass UI
- Unified design across all Apple platforms
- rounded buttons
- glass-like: partially see-through

(I imagine there will be criticism that some/many modes make it harder to read button text/icons. Probably there will be Accessibility settings to make the text/icons more contrasting to the background. Also I feel that better displays/screens mitigate this potential issue.)

Unified OS version numbers: e.g. iOS 26 and macOS 26

iOS 26
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Camera, Safari, FaceTime and other apps
- Content shown edge to edge, less controls shown OOTB
- Tap or drag up to show more controls
- Controls and control sheets translucent so content still mostly visible

Phone
- Unified layout: favorites on top, recents below, controls at bottom
- call screening: silently answer call, ask and get a response, if valid ring phone with transcribed response
- Hold Assist: detects hold music, will mute music, live agent causes phone to ring

Messages
- conversation backgrounds that everyone in conversation will see
- polls: manual or AI suggested, everyone can add options
- screen unknown senders: moved to separate section which you can check later, AI will suface important messages (codes or alerts)

Live Translation
- built into all Apple communication apps (Messages, FaceTime, Phone)
- read what a foreign speaker is saying in video/voice call
- speak in English and have it automatically translated to receiver
- Call Translation API

Apple Music
- Lyrics Translation
- Lyrics pronunciation
- AutoMix - mix songs for you like a DJ
- Music pins: pin favorites to top of library

Maps
- iPhone will learn preferred routes and offer alternatives if needed
- Visited Places (data protected with end-to-end encryption so Apple can't see it)

Wallet
- Keeps track of orders by noticing tracking emails (only for Apple Pay paid orders?)

Games app
- Home page has news from games you've installed
- Apple Arcade page
- Library shows all games you've ever downloaded (in case you want to re-install)
- Play Together: see what friends are playing, invite them to play, challenge friends

Visual Intelligence
- Now for anything shown on iPhone screen
- Take screen shot, on bottom will be Visual Intelligence options
- Also has ChatGPT option to ask a question about image

watchOS 26
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Workout Buddy
- analyses your data and does TTS encouragement and suggestions

Smart Stack
- improvements using Apple Intelligence

Wrist Flick gesture
- for no/later gestures, like ignore incoming Message

tvOS 26
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TV app
- Liquid UI
- Apple TV+ promo trailer
- Profiles
- Automatic Signin API

Music app
- Lyrics and Karaoke (Apple Music Sing)

macOS 26 (macOS Tahoe)
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Liquid Glass UI

Folder customization (color and icon)

Continuity
- Live Activities
- Phone app in macOS

Shortcuts
- Run shortcuts automatically (time or from an activity)
- Intelligent actions

Spotlight
- Intelligent suggestions
- Find an launch apps from iPhone
- Actions from Spotlight
- Find app commands and activate them
- Quick Keys: key shortcuts for commands (e.g. "sm" to Send Message)
- App Intents API to make your app actions discoverable in Shortcuts and Spotlight

Games app

Metal 4

visionOS 26
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Widgets
- spatial and persistent (e.g. a picture frame on a table)

Spatial Scenes
- automatically adds 3D to 2D photos

Shared Vision Pro view so two people can interact with the same objects.

Support for multiple users.

iPad OS 26
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Lots of new stuff that are the same as in iOS.

New Windowing system
- apps open in full screen
- bottom right grab handle to resize app, then move window around
- re-opening app shows window as you last left it
- pointer
- with pointer windows have macOS style close/minimize/full-screen
- flip window to tile
- with pointer there is an invisible menu bar, drag pointer to top to see it

(The new windowing system is pretty cool and more like a regular desktop computer whilst keeping in mind that it's both a smaller screen (some UI elements hidden until needed) and that not everyone has a pointer device (you can do stuff just with your finger). Lot of power users have been wanting something like this so hopefully they'll finally be happy.)

Files app
- updated list view
- folder customization
- choose default app for a file
- add folder in the Dock

Preview app
- new in iPad OS

Audio and Video
- Audio input selector: can choose a different input for each app
- Voice Isolation in all apps
- Record studio-quality audio with AirPods
- Local capture: capture your side of a video call
- Background Tasks: video exports will continue to run even if app is in background
- Background Tasks API

Journal app with Pencil support
- new in iPad OS