Apple’s annual Worldwide Builders Convention begins this Monday, June 9. Though the five-day occasion has traditionally been aimed toward builders, Apple’s client followers usually can’t wait to tune in to the keynote handle that kicks off the occasion. That’s when Apple provides the world the primary preview of its upcoming software program launches—the working programs that may energy its gadgets when they’re launched to the general public as free downloads within the fall.
This 12 months, Apple’s software program modifications are more likely to be extra transformative than they’ve been in over a decade, radically reshaping the look of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac OSes. However simply what is going to Apple reveal at WWDC25? Right here’s what—and what not—to count on.
Rebranded working programs
In late Could, Bloomberg revealed that Apple can be rebranding its numbering scheme for all of its working programs.
They may not be numbered sequentially (for instance, iOS 16, iOS 17, iOS 18). As a substitute, they are going to be numbered by 12 months. For instance, the brand new iOS Apple will introduce on Monday at WWDC25 will not be known as iOS 19, and as an alternative can be often known as “iOS 26.” The “26” stands for the 12 months 2026. Although Apple is debuting the brand new OS in 2025, it should stay the newest OS by fall 2026, and the “26” moniker signifies that.
Meaning as an alternative seeing iOS 19, iPadOS 19, macOS 16, tvOS 19, watchOS 12, and visionOS 3, count on Apple to debut iOS 16, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26.
Unified visible design
Apple can also be making a unified visible search for all its working programs. At the moment, iOS and iPadOS are the one two Apple working programs that look considerably comparable—macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS have distinct designs for his or her UI parts, similar to home windows and pop-up menus.
Nonetheless, the “26” model of the working programs will set up a common design throughout all of them. Quick Firm has beforehand detailed what the design might look like: clear UI parts that allow the varieties and colours of background content material bleed by like mild by a glass window, floating toolbars, reflective and shimmering lighting results, rounder icons, glassy keyboards, and extra. The brand new OSes are stated to take heavy inspiration from the present visionOS, which powers the Apple Vision Pro.
iOS 26
Apple will doubtless use iOS 26 in its WWDC25 keynote to showcase the unconventional design modifications coming to all its working programs earlier than going into element on different modifications coming to its OS’es.
However there’s not a lot identified about what we are able to count on apart from a couple of enhancements, which embody a dedicated gaming app, new accessibility features, and the addition of Stage Manager for iPhone, which can permit customers to show iPhone apps on a monitor related to the iPhone through its USB port. There may also doubtless be some Apple Intelligence enhancements, however extra on that beneath.
iPadOS 26
The iPad’s new working system will obtain the identical new visible redesign iOS 26 and Apple’s different OSes are getting. It’ll additionally obtain the identical accessibility upgrades and new gaming app that iOS 26 is getting.
However Bloomberg reports that iPadOS might really get extra “Mac-like” this 12 months. Whereas the iPad’s {hardware} is sort of universally praised, customers incessantly criticize its software, which is little totally different than iOS, an working system designed for a smartphone. Nonetheless, customers have a tendency to consider their tablets as being nearer to computer systems than telephones—and this 12 months, Apple is reportedly making iPadOS extra like desktop software program, moderately than cell.
Bloomberg says that the iPadOS 26 “improve will deal with productiveness, multitasking, and app window administration—with an eye fixed on the gadget working extra like a Mac.”
macOS 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26
It not clear what new options Apple will reveal within the new working programs for Mac, Apple TV, Imaginative and prescient Professional, and Apple Watch. However all of them are more likely to undertake the brand new solarium-like visible design of iOS 26.
And there’s a risk that tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26 may additionally convey Apple Intelligence—Apple’s synthetic intelligence platform—to the Apple TV, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, and Apple Look ahead to the primary time. But, for the Apple Watch, Bloomberg experiences the gadget may rely on offloading the precise processing of Apple Intelligence requests to a related iPhone for the reason that Apple Watch’s {hardware} lacks the processing energy to run Apple Intelligence on-device.
Apple Intelligence
Final 12 months’s occasion, WWDC24, centered closely on Apple Intelligence. But, since the AI platform’s rollout in October, Apple’s foray into synthetic intelligence has been met with indifference from most shoppers. Apple additionally confronted criticism for delaying previously announced Apple Intelligence changes to Siri till later this 12 months—and even into 2026.
For that cause, Apple isn’t anticipated to announce many new Apple Intelligence options. It received’t wish to disappoint folks in the event that they once more must be delayed.
Nonetheless, there are experiences that Apple will give customers a couple of new Apple intelligence upgrades, together with AI battery management on the iPhone and the choice to select Google’s Gemini because the chatbot of alternative in Apple Intelligence. At the moment, the one third-party choice Apple Intelligence provides is OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
New Macs and iPhones?
WWDC is traditionally a closely software-focused occasion. So if you happen to’re hoping to see new iPhones introduced at WWDC25, count on to be let down. Apple will unveil its new iPhone vary within the fall, as common. However whether or not the brand new iPhone household can be known as “iPhone 17” or as an alternative can be rebranded as “iPhone 26” is but to be seen.
As for different {hardware}, there may be an out of doors likelihood that Apple might unveil a brand new Mac Professional—its highest-end, skilled desktop laptop at WWDC25, for the reason that occasion remains to be, ostensibly, one centered on professionals. The present Mac Professional was launched at WWDC23 in June 2023, making it two years outdated this month. New Apple TV hardware can also be a risk, or that launch might wait till the autumn.
Nonetheless, we received’t want to attend for much longer to know for sure precisely what Apple will unveil at WWDC25. The convention kicks off on Monday, June 9, with the WWDC keynote scheduled for 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET.
Can a visible redesign result in an AAPL inventory increase?
The visible redesign stands out as the most important announcement at WWDC from an investor perspective. Visible redesigns are eye-catching to even non-techie shoppers, they usually might spur patrons to spend on a shiny new iPhone—one thing traders are little question hoping for, as a rise in iPhone gross sales might assist increase the corporate’s struggling inventory.
As of shut on buying and selling on June 6, Apple inventory (Nasdaq: AAPL) has fallen over 18% for the reason that starting of the 12 months. Nonetheless, a lot of that inventory worth decline has little to do with Apple’s gross sales or monetary fundamentals and is as an alternative resulting from President Trump’s tariff threats against China and Apple itself. Apple sources a majority of its merchandise from China, and any tariff that Trump implements on items from the nation might considerably affect Apple’s backside line, regardless of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s best efforts.
Nonetheless, if you happen to take a look at the whole lot of the previous 12 months, AAPL inventory remains to be up practically 5%, with the inventory worth slightly below $204. If the visible redesign of its working programs certainly helps promote extra iPhones and different gadgets, it might assist the corporate’s shares transfer again within the course of their all-time excessive of simply over $260 apiece, reached in December 2024.
