Rock out to WWDC all weekend
Whereas we look forward to the large occasion to kick off on Monday, try Apple’s official WWDC playlist on Apple Music, together with tracks by BTS, sombr, Teddy Swims, and Harry Kinds.
Tim Cook dinner’s final hurrah
Again in April, Tim Cook dinner introduced he’ll step down as Apple CEO on September 1. (He isn’t leaving, by the way in which. His new duties as chairman of the board are more likely to embrace a certain quantity of political wrangling.) This timing means new CEO John Ternus might be in place for the iPhone 18 Professional launch in early September, and Monday’s WWDC26 keynote might be Cook dinner’s swansong: his final Apple occasion as host and compere.
This may certainly be acknowledged ultimately. Maybe Ternus might be invited on stage for a symbolic passing of the torch: a handshake, a hug, a excessive 5. Count on Cook dinner to thank the colleagues and prospects who’ve supported him for the previous 15 years, a lot as he did in this letter to the Apple group.
And right here’s a visit down reminiscence lane. A video of Cook dinner’s very first occasion in cost, again in October 2011. “That is my first product launch since being named CEO,” he says. “It’s a pleasure to host you right this moment.” The pleasure was all ours, Tim.
WWDC preview podcast: macOS 27 and Mac {hardware}
A few weeks in the past, Michael, Jason, and I talked about WWDC and what may occur with macOS 27 and Mac {hardware}. You’ll be able to try that episode of the Macworld Podcast within the YouTube video beneath. Skip to the 12-minute mark when you don’t need to hear us speak concerning the Ferrari Luce.
Apple’s first search engine could energy Siri
In response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will use “an in-house net search product” to energy Siri’s upgraded information base with out leaning on Google or ChatGPT. If true, that’s a serious step towards changing Google in Safari, a rumor we’ve been monitoring for years.
WWDC function highlight: New dwelling for Visible Intelligence
As we prepare for the keynote kicking off on Monday at 10am PT, we’re going to highlight rumored options that we’re enthusiastic about. Right here’s one which I believe individuals will love: Apple is reportedly transferring Visible Intelligence from the Digital camera Management button to the digital camera to present it extra, ahem, visibility. In response to experiences, there might be a brand new “Siri” choice within the Digital camera app that may take you straight into Visible Intelligence to get details about one thing you see.
Visible Intelligence is an underappreciated function that works fairly properly, however I concern most iPhone customers don’t even comprehend it exists. Transferring it to a spot the place individuals will see it daily might be an effective way to promote it. And now that it’ll be utilizing a better Siri fairly than ChatGPT for many requests, it could possibly be the killer function of iOS 27.
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WWDC preview: Prime 5 most needed
WWDC goes to be stuffed with small adjustments and massive options coming to your Apple units later this 12 months. We’ll be highlighting a number of of them all through the weekend, however to get began, right here’s Filipe Esposito with a listing of the high 5 issues he hopes to see on Monday, together with a tease for the folding iPhone. Will it occur? We’ll know in only a few extra days.
Extra adjustments in retailer for notifications
Mark Gurman’s WWDC preview for Bloomberg doesn’t embrace a lot that we haven’t already heard, however we did spot this tidbit: “Notifications throughout iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 have a brand new impact for when alerts arrive. They now slide in from the left facet of the display screen, aligning with the brand new gesture system: Customers swipe down from the left to open the Notification Middle as a result of swiping down from the middle now opens the Search or Ask AI panel.”
So it feels like notifications are altering but once more. Sometime Apple will choose a system it likes, however for now, we’ll be summoning Siri extra usually than we would like till our fingers get used to the brand new system.
What precisely is “coming vivid up”?
Apple loves a great clue, and the advertising and marketing supplies for WWDC26 are not any exception. Invitations function the tagline “Coming vivid up,” whereas the corporate’s developer portal makes use of the phrase “All methods glow.” Good puns, however what do they imply?
The more than likely rationalization is that these are references to an upcoming interface redesign. As soon as iOS 27 is right here, Siri goes to look very completely different, and this may embrace a glow within the Dynamic Island to point that it’s been activated.
We focus on the WWDC taglines in extra depth right here.
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New merch at Apple Park!
For those who occur to be in Cupertino and need to cease by the shop at Apple Park, there’s some particular new gear. In response to Mr. Macintosh on X, Apple has began promoting new rainbow hats and crewnecks, and chrome steel water bottles. After all, they could possibly be for Delight Month, however we expect Apple is simply actually excited for the present Monday,
Google and Nvidia will play a serious position within the new Siri
When Apple broadcasts the brand new Siri subsequent week, you’ll hear loads about what it may well do, how sensible it’s, how far more succesful it’s, and the way cool the brand new interface appears. What you may not hear a lot about is that a minimum of a part of it would run on Google servers, that are powered by Nvidia chips. The burning query is: How will Apple play up the privateness angle, and the way does Non-public Cloud Compute match into all this?
iOS 27 already has a game-changing function
In late Might, Apple introduced a few iOS 27 options early as a part of a highlight on Accessibility. Amongst them is a large improve to Voice Management, which can use pure language to regulate all kinds of issues in your telephone. That’s cool by itself, but it surely additionally speaks to a way more succesful and contextual Siri that may change the whole lot about how we use and work together with our iPhones.
Save $100 on the Apple Watch Sequence 11
Together with iOS 27, we’ll additionally get a have a look at watchOS 27 throughout Monday’s keynote. If you wish to be sure to can get all the most recent options, decide up an Apple Watch Sequence 11 for simply $299, a financial savings of $100 and matching the bottom value we’ve ever seen.
Repair the iPhone digital camera please!
I’m a fairly informal iPhone picture taker, however Filipe Esposito made me understand simply how underpowered the iPhone digital camera is. I don’t hate utilizing it like he does, however I additionally don’t search out many options as a result of they’re simply too onerous to search out. Filipe is hopeful that iOS 27 will sort things.
Macworld’s WWDC Preview podcast: iOS 27 and extra!
Roman, Jason, and myself spend an hour speaking about what we anticipate subsequent week from iOS 27, Siri, and Apple Intelligence—plus a number of predictions on how Apple will begin the present. Be part of us and ship us a remark at podcast@macworld.com along with your ideas.
You would possibly hate iOS 27
If there’s one factor we’re certain of subsequent week, it’s that iOS 27 will function quite a lot of AI. As AI skeptic Jason Cross explains, there’s a little bit of a backlash in opposition to AI proper now. There are hallucinations, confidently fallacious solutions, inappropriate photographs, bias—the record goes on. What sort of AI will iOS 27 convey? And extra importantly, will iPhone customers embrace the brand new Siri or flip in opposition to it?
Will Apple convey any new Macs to the present?
Whereas WWDC is primarily a software program present, we’ve gotten our share of Apple {hardware} bulletins on the occasion, together with Imaginative and prescient Professional, HomePod, and the 15-inch MacBook Air. Nevertheless, very like final 12 months, this 12 months’s present appears to be totally targeted on software program. That’s a bummer, however Filipe Esposito explains why there’s nonetheless loads of time for brand new {hardware} this 12 months.
Welcome to the WWDC 2026 stay weblog!
Come on in, everybody! We’re beginning this 12 months’s stay weblog just a little early this 12 months to be sure to don’t miss a factor. We’ll have full protection of each leak, rumor, and announcement main as much as the keynote at 10 am on Monday, adopted by minute-by-minute reporting of the whole lot introduced because it occurs. So maintain coming again!
