Here’s everything Apple just announced at WWDC25: 'Liquid Glass,' Tahoe and ChatGPT Playground

Apple is gathering connected its connection translation chops, 5 years aft bringing its ain Translate app to the iPhone.

While radical are having dependable conversations with overseas connection speakers, iOS 26 volition talk retired words successful the different person's autochthonal language, on with a written caption arsenic well. When they reply, the operating strategy volition supply a speedy spoken translation and a caption, Leslie Ikemoto, Apple's manager of input experience, said during the company's WWDC keynote.

FaceTime volition show unrecorded captions portion inactive passing done the audio from the overseas language. When texting, messages are translated close beneath the contented successful the different person's language.

Meta has started offering connection translation successful its Messenger and WhatsApp apps. Google offers a Live Translate diagnostic for its Pixel phones that works successful substance messages and dependable and video calls.

The caller unrecorded translation features that volition look successful the Messages, FaceTime and Phone apps are powered by Apple's ain AI models that tally locally and don't request to entree distant information centers.

The diagnostic volition beryllium constricted to a comparatively tiny radical of languages, however. It volition lone enactment successful Phone and FaceTime for one-to-one calls successful English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain), according to a statement. The messaging diagnostic has enactment for English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain) and Chinese (simplified).

Third-party developers volition beryllium capable to follow a caller programming interface to gully connected Apple's caller translation technology.

— Jordan Novet

A protestor tried to interrupt Apple bundle main Craig Federighi's introductory remarks during the company's WWDC keynote.

It was not wide what the protestor said.

Several important exertion events person experienced a emergence successful demonstrators successful caller months. Many of those protests person targeted Big Tech's contracts with the Israeli authorities arsenic tensions equine pursuing the October 2023 onslaught by Hamas connected Israel.

CNBC antecedently reported that the manufacture has stepped up security, particularly pursuing the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

— Samantha Subin

Apple announced a slate of caller features for engaging with contented successful the Vision Pro augmented world device.

Gamers volition beryllium capable to usage Sony VR2 Sense controllers erstwhile they've updated the Vision Pro to visionOS 26, said Mike Rockwell, vice president of Apple's Vision products group. Sony introduced the VR2 bundle, including the controllers and a virtual world headset, successful 2023. The instrumentality requires a PlayStation 5 console.

Apple's determination to let the Vison Pro to enactment with controllers volition let the instrumentality to amended vie against rival Meta's Quest headsets, which usage carnal controllers for video games.

Those wishing to ticker enactment videos portion utilizing the Vision Pro volition summation a amended acquisition acknowledgment to partnerships with Canon, GoPro and Insta360, starring to autochthonal playback for wide field-of-view contented and successful different formats, Rockwell said.

Third-party developers volition beryllium capable to adhd 3D objects to websites, which radical successful Vision Pro headsets tin past resistance into their ain rooms to analyse much carefully.

Hundreds of companies present usage the Vision Pro, for a assortment of purposes, including design, grooming and sales, Rockwell said.

Apple wants to boost adoption, encouraging a bid of devices to beryllium utilized by galore radical who tin prevention oculus and manus information and different settings.

New programming interfaces volition let developers to adhd a For Your Eyes Only mode to forestall unwanted entree to documents. People volition beryllium capable to usage a caller Logitech Muse instrumentality to gully lines successful abstraction portion wearing the headset. "With fluid question tracking, Muse transforms originative workflows crossed a assortment of disciplines, from designing intricate 3D models to brainstorming successful virtual workspaces and bringing analyzable ideas to beingness with immersive tools," Logitech said successful a statement.

For some user and firm purposes, aggregate radical with Vision Pro headsets tin play games oregon ticker videos together, Rockwell said.

— Jordan Novet

Apple's headset, Vision Pro, is getting a fewer updates, including the quality to enactment caller virtual clocks and windows astir the user's room.

Users tin spot clocks that look a small spot similar an Apple Watch look connected their wall. They tin lone spot them erstwhile they person the headset connected due to the fact that they're virtual. Users tin besides spot virtual windows astir their rooms.

It's a amusive small spot of "spatial computing," and shows a small spot of Apple's imaginativeness for placing virtual objects into the existent world.

— Kif Leswing

Apple is calling its caller Mac operating strategy Tahoe, inspired by the skiing and outdoor destination successful California.

The operating strategy includes galore of the features brought to iOS, and offers ways to customize controls, with a transparent paper bar. Users tin besides alteration folder colors and adhd emojis.

Using shortcuts, Mac users tin besides pat into Apple Intelligence and spotlight to tally shortcuts and different actions connected their computers oregon motorboat apps from their iPhone.

— Samantha Subin

The cardinal plan conception unveiled by Apple is called "Liquid Glass," a virtual solid look that was inspired by the Vision Pro.

— Chris Eudaily

Apple has added a instrumentality learning diagnostic that tin crook down the vocals successful an Apple Music song, making it bully for sing-alongs and karaoke.

This year, the Apple TV instrumentality is coming a batch person to becoming a full-fledged karaoke machine.

Users tin inactive crook down the vocals successful the Apple Music app connected TV, but present they tin besides regenerate them with their ain vocals, utilizing their iPhone arsenic a microphone, arsenic the lyrics play connected the screen.

— Kif Leswing

Apple's announcements truthful acold person been airy connected artificial quality features, but the institution did update Visual Intelligence, its diagnostic that uses the iPhone's camera to place objects and events.

The institution said Visual Intelligence provides an "ask" fastener that volition alteration users to query ChatGPT astir what's connected their surface — the illustration Apple offered was to beryllium capable to hunt akin lamps from the net successful apps specified arsenic Etsy.

Apple besides said it tin instrumentality dates and times successful substance wrong an app and adhd it to the user's calendar automatically.

Visual Intelligence tin besides hunt wrong apps from photos the idiosyncratic takes — for example, if you spot a chill point successful a cafe.

— Kif Leswing

Apple said it is enhancing the Image Playground instrumentality it announced past twelvemonth for the adjacent mentation of iOS with assistance from OpenAI's ChatGPT assistant.

In iOS 26, radical tin inquire the app to crook a contact's poster into antithetic styles truthful it shows up that mode during calls and successful substance chats. You tin picture the benignant you want, and ChatGPT volition bash the indispensable enactment to set the image.

Nothing volition beryllium shared with OpenAI without the support of the customer.

Third-party developers volition beryllium capable to gully connected the diagnostic successful their ain apps with the upgraded Image Playground exertion programming interface.

The effort is an illustration of however Apple is leaning connected OpenAI to upgrade its instrumentality capabilities aft a concern announced a twelvemonth agone that led to an integration with Apple's Siri assistant.

Not everyone volition beryllium capable to usage the Image Playground app. It volition lone enactment for iPhone models with Apple Intelligence enabled, and that requires the latest mentation of iOS. Apple Intelligence isn't disposable successful each connection oregon country, either, Apple says connected its website.

— Jordan Novet

Apple announced a caller app called Games. The caller Games app pulls each the games a idiosyncratic has downloaded into a azygous list.

The caller app besides has immoderate societal features, including lists of what your friends are playing, the quality to nonstop a connection to a person to situation them to a game, and high-score person boards.

Apple has maintained a games-focused societal diagnostic called Game Center since 2010.

Games are 1 of the astir profitable parts of the App Store, but Apple has ne'er embraced gaming arsenic a large portion of its business. The institution has besides clashed with developers specified arsenic Epic Games implicit its App Store fees.

— Kif Leswing

Apple said it is bringing lyrics translation to its Apple Music work to assistance users crossed the satellite sing, contempt connection barriers.

The institution besides announced a caller DJ-like diagnostic called Automix that uses AI to conscionable users' euphony tastes. Users tin besides present pin favourite albums, playlists and artists to their library.

— Samantha Subin

Apple is besides bringing caller updates to its CarPlay offering, including an updated widget interface.

The update includes a caller plan allowing users to spot directions and different features erstwhile a telephone comes through.

— Samantha Subin

Apple is changing the benignant of its names of operating systems for each of its devices.

To bespeak the bulk of the twelvemonth erstwhile these bundle updates volition beryllium disposable to customers, the institution volition merchandise iOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26 and iPadOS 26, Craig Federighi, Apple's elder vice president of bundle engineering, said astatine WWDC.

The unification volition code the quality successful operating strategy names that has persisted for years. Today, Apple provides iOS 18 to the iPhone, iPadOS 18 to the iPad, watchOS 11 to its wrist wearable, tvOS 18 for the Apple TV, macOS 15 for the Mac computers and visionOS 2 for the first-generation Vision Pro.

— Jordan Novet

Apple conscionable announced a caller operating strategy that features its archetypal large iOS redesign since 2013.

Alan Dye, Apple's vice president of quality interface design, said the caller operating strategy is inspired by the Vision Pro. The institution is calling the caller look "Liquid Glass"

— Samantha Subin

More than 225,000 radical were waiting to articulation Apple's livestream of its Worldwide Developers Conference lawsuit connected YouTube.

That makes the league a smaller gully than the iPhone maker's September hardware events successful 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

After the watercourse began and CEO Tim Cook stopped talking, the assemblage surged past the 600,000 mark.

— Jordan Novet

The field is acceptable up similar it has been for the past fewer years: Big movie screens are acceptable up successful 1 of the company's four-story atriums. This means the presumption volition apt beryllium pre-recorded, arsenic it has been since the Covid-19 pandemic. Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to springiness immoderate remarks earlier the video starts.

— Kif Leswing