On this week’s particular episode of The MacRumors Present from Apple Park, we focus on the recap Apple’s main bulletins from WWDC 2025.
Apple launched a uniform naming scheme throughout its platforms—iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and macOS are actually versioned by the calendar 12 months. This consists of macOS 26, titled “Tahoe.” The replace marks the ultimate macOS launch to help Intel-based Macs.
Liquid Glass is a brand new translucent design language impressed by visionOS. It dynamically refracts and displays its environment throughout icons, menus, widgets, and controls, introducing a transparent, immersive house display expertise. That is Apple’s most sweeping visible refresh since iOSÂ 7.
Almost the entire new options in iOS 26 carry over to Apple’s different platforms. Messages beneficial properties chat backgrounds, polls, and typing indicators in group threads. A brand new Video games app aggregates occasion feeds, group tabs, and “Play Collectively” social options. The Images app returns to a Library/Collections tabbed interface and introduces spatialized photograph results. Battery settings now embrace recharge‑time estimates and adaptive energy mode. The Telephone app is redesigned (and prolonged to iPad and Mac) with unified design, name screening, and Maintain Help. Apple Music provides animated album artwork full-screen, Music pins, AutoMix DJ transitions, and lyric translation. Lastly, Maps introduces a “Visited Locations” characteristic leveraging on‑gadget intelligence.
watchOS 26 debuts a refreshed Exercise app format and introduces Exercise Buddy, an AI health coach that makes use of voice steering to mark milestones, ship stats, and have fun data. The Apple Watch can now recommend exercise music, and the Good Stack UI adapts extra intelligently. A wrist‑flick gesture dismisses notifications, and notification quantity auto‑adjusts. Plus, the Notes app makes its debut on watchOS.
In visionOS 26, customers can place widgets in bodily house, and the system retains their place. A “Look to scroll” gesture permits extra intuitive navigation, and customers can now unlock iPhones through Imaginative and prescient Professional. The replace introduces new customizable Personas and enhanced visitor‑mode collaboration. New equipment such because the Logitech Muse (a 6‑DoF pen) and PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers are actually supported.
iPadOS 26 embraces macOS‑type windowing—full‑display with resizable seize handles, visitors‑mild controls, flick‑to‑tile window placement, and Exposé. A persistent menu bar and revamped pointer introduce desktop-like navigation. The Recordsdata app options customizable columns, default‑app settings per file kind, folder personalization, and drag‑to‑Dock help. Apple provides a standalone Preview app and the Journal app (additionally now on macOS). Builders acquire native audio‑enter APIs, video‑name recording instruments, and background‑activity help.
macOS 26 Tahoe adopts Liquid Glass all through, introduces coloration‑and‑emoji folder customization, and brings help for Shortcut automations. Highlight turns into a full‑featured launcher—full with clever strategies, inline app actions, Fast‑Key shortcuts, clipboard historical past, and developer App Intents integration. A brand new Purposes expertise replaces Launchpad.
Apple Intelligence expands with developer entry to its basis mannequin through a brand new API, supporting non-public, offline AI integration. Visible Intelligence extends throughout screens, permitting direct in‑screenshot actions, whereas Picture Playground beneficial properties help for ChatGPT picture‑creation. Reside Translation is inbuilt for Messages, calls, and FaceTime captions, and these instruments are actually accessible by developer APIs.
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