The WWDC 2025 event from Apple featured many useful new updates, refreshing ideas, and exciting news for its future success. Hosted at Apple Park and streamed worldwide, the event was about how Apple is blending AI with privacy and making all its devices work well together. In addition to releasing iOS 26 and liquid glass design, the company also demonstrated its plans to lead the industry with iOS 26, Vision Pro, Siri, and Apple intelligence, which are major draws for both tech and AI fans.
Developers, tech fans, and regular users all have something to get excited about. If you are the one who couldn’t attend WWDC 2025, here is a detailed look at what’s coming to your iPhone, Mac, or Apple Watch. You can read about the top highlights below.
Top Announcements from WWDC 2025
1. Apple Unveils iOS 26
Everyone was shocked at WWDC 2025 because rather than progressing through iOS 19 stages, Apple started its next version of iOS with 26 and adopted a consistent year-based naming system for all its platforms. At the same time, Apple Intelligence within iOS 26 is greatly improved.

- Messages, FaceTime, and Phone now have Live Translation, so you can translate what’s said during a conversation without sharing information with the cloud.
- Visual Intelligence can spot objects and text in images and photos, after which it gives suggestions for quick, sensible actions, for example, adding events according to what the date says or turning recipes into shopping lists.
- With Foundation Models API, third-party developers are able to make use of Apple’s confidential AI for things like summarizing text, sorting files, and setting up custom tasks.
- With Genmoji and Image Playground in the keyboard and photo library, anyone can quickly make emojis and edit images.
- Shortcuts that let you take advantage of several AI actions in one tap for easy automation.
- Advanced privacy is now provided by MailShield, as it will filter email attachments from advanced trackers and manage permission schedules directly on your device without sharing data elsewhere.
Also see: Why Apple Skipped iOS 19 and Jumped to iOS 26
2. Apple’s New Liquid Glass Design
The announcement of Liquid Glass at WWDC on June 9, 2025, is Apple’s biggest visual update since iOS 7. It produces a transparent, glass-like style that smartly responds to the type of content and lighting available.

It makes things shine on buttons, sliders, controls, tab bars, sidebars, toolbars, app icons, widgets, the lock screen, Home screen, and Control Center by reacting to real-time movement and changes to the environment.
3. PSVR2 Controller Support for the Vision Pro
Now, you don’t need to connect any adapters because the Vision Pro supports the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers out of the box. As soon as the Sense controllers are paired over Bluetooth, you can experience the same effects from virtual fighting, such as the vibration from a hovercraft.

Because of the new ControllerKit API, developers can use the PS VR2’s sensors (touchpad, gyroscope, accelerometer, and dual haptics) and apply them in a spatial context, leading to more detailed experiences on Vision Pro. No matter whether you’re doing anything on VR or in the Sense controller games, having these accessories makes your experience more immersive on Apple’s spatial platform.
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4. macOS Tahoe 26: Spotlight Transformed into Your All-In-One Command Center
In macOS Tahoe (version 26), Spotlight has been made much better and can now do much more than just launch files and applications. From the search field, you can start quick actions to send a message, play a music list, or turn on Bluetooth or Do Not Disturb, for example, all without using another window.

You can access the Spotlight menu item anywhere from the menu bar, and you can also conduct searches inside Mail, Notes, as well as some apps created by other developers.
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5. Apple Intelligence Update
Apple strengthened its commitment to privacy in AI by equipping iOS 26 with many intelligent features that operate directly on the iPhone or iPad during WWDC 2025. Thanks to Live Translation, you can now translate text, video, or voice calls from Messages, FaceTime, and voices in Voicemails while keeping your information private on your iPhone. With the Visual Intelligence engine, the Camera and Photos applications can recognize both objects and written text, and take actions automatically by suggesting adding an event or converting recipes found in pictures.

On the technical side, Apple launched a Foundation Models API, allowing third-party developers to use offline AI for tasks such as summarizing content, classifying things, and creating their own generative AI models. Thanks to Genmoji and Image Playground, you can use emojis and edit pictures instantly on your keyboard and in the photo section.
6. Apple Unveiled iPadOS 26
During WWDC 2025, Apple launched iPadOS 26, which features a striking Liquid Glass design and translucent screens, a unique way to organize and size multiple app windows, direct Mac-like controls, and Apple Intelligence for translating in various apps and creating Genmoji. The Files app now features a resizable column and collapsible folders.

7. Siri Gets a Major Upgrade
The most transformative update to Siri happened at WWDC 2025, thanks to Apple Intelligence running all its features on the user’s device.

- Offline, Privacy-First Processing: All questions and commands in Siri are now handled on the phone without going to the cloud, and they respond almost right away.
- Conversational Context & Memory: Utilizing Siri enables you to ask questions across apps, allows it to remember your choices, and tends to recommend actions that you generally carry out.
- Visual Siri: When used in Camera or Photos, Siri can read what’s displayed on the screen and take relevant actions, it can translate content, figure out landmarks, or transcribe anything written by hand into text, all without closing the viewfinder.
- Generative Assistance: Through the new Foundation Models API, Siri can handle the tasks of summing up long text, making suggestions for email messages, and producing fun image options, all using your device’s data.
8. New Music and Camera Experiences on iOS
With iOS 26, Apple is bringing both subtle physical vibrations and special features to the Music app’s playback and to its camera, so you feel the music and all its details, and developers can create the Music Haptics experience in their apps through an API.

As for the Camera app, it now uses a translucent and streamlined design that leaves room for your shots and all controls out of view; it also records spatial videos that show up as dynamic clips when you view them on certain devices.
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9. Brand-new Games Hub
During WWDC 2025, Apple revealed a brand-new Games Hub, which brings together everything the App Store and Apple Arcade can offer to help players uncover, communicate, and challenge each other. The Home page includes recommendations picked by Apple Intelligence, showing you what’s hot among independents, the latest movie releases, and one-time entertainment events.

With a social feed, you can keep up with what your friends are playing, feature games by the community, and try in-game events, while guidebooks from the editorial team include the experts’ favorites and events happening in the community.
10. Apple WatchOS 26
At this year’s WWDC, Apple introduced many changes and features to the Apple Watch with watchOS 26. The upgrade brought a collection of watch faces, improved health and fitness features, faster private Siri, new workouts, improved route mapping, car key support, and extended battery life under challenging conditions. With this update, watchOS is now known for both helping users stay healthy and becoming an everyday essential tool.

Conclusion
From iOS 26 on iPhones to macOS Tahoe’s redesign of Spotlight and iPadOS 26’s improved way of working to watchOS 26’s introduction of new health tools, and the debut of visionOS 26’s sharing of spaces, Apple has brought privacy and seamless operations to a whole new level. WWDC 2025 shows that with Apple Intelligence on smartphones, together with additional developer tools such as ControllerKit, GameCenterKit, and Foundation Model APIs, Apple’s systems are becoming closely linked, intuitive, and more enjoyable to use for everyone.