Updated: June 2025
Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote delivered a sweeping update across all platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS — all tied together by a dramatic new design language called Liquid Glass and an expanded AI system branded as Apple Intelligence.
Here’s a full breakdown of what Apple announced and how it’s shaping the future of user experience, productivity, AI integration, and hardware continuity.
🧊 Liquid Glass: A Unified Design System
The new Liquid Glass design system brings translucent UI layers, subtle depth, and motion effects inspired by visionOS to all Apple devices. This includes:
- iOS 26: Revamped lock screen, dynamic widgets, and app icon behavior
- macOS Tahoe: Window layering, new dock styles, and control center redesign
- watchOS 26 & tvOS 26: Glassy overlays with adaptive lighting + haptic feedback
This marks the first platform-wide UI refresh since iOS 7 in 2013, and it’s a bold visual evolution.
📱 iOS 26: AI-Powered and Visually Smarter
iOS 26 debuts with a smarter, more connected OS framework — paired with native on-device AI support. Highlights include:
- Dynamic Lock Screen: Background-aware visibility adjustments
- Live Translation in Calls: Real-time subtitle overlays for FaceTime and mobile calls
- Genmoji: Custom emoji generated via AI prompts
- Messages 2.0: Polls, filters, and shared group memories
- Revamped apps: Camera, Phone, and Safari redesigned with gesture-first navigation
💻 macOS 26 “Tahoe”
- Continuity Phone App: Take and make calls natively from your Mac
- Refined Spotlight: More accurate search results with embedded previews
- Games App: New hub for Apple Arcade and native macOS titles
- Metal 4: Upgraded rendering engine for smoother gameplay and 3D workflows
⌚ watchOS 26
The watchOS update turns your Apple Watch into an even smarter daily companion:
- Workout Buddy: AI fitness assistant with adaptive coaching
- Wrist Flick Gestures: One-handed control with customizable actions
- Smart Stack: Enhanced widget behavior based on context
🧠 Apple Intelligence (AI Framework)
Apple Intelligence is Apple’s on-device AI suite and includes:
- Live Translation: Real-time interpretation in multiple languages via device-only inference
- Visual Understanding: Context-aware responses from screenshots, photos, and screens
- Writing Tools: AI auto-editing, tone correction, and summary generation for email & messages
- Image Playground: Text-to-image generation with personalization presets
All processing is done using the new Private Cloud Compute system or locally, ensuring data privacy.
🖥️ tvOS 26 + visionOS 26
- Cinematic UI: Adaptive overlays with content-based color shifts
- Camera Access in Photos App: Seamlessly import and edit live feeds from other Apple devices
- Improved Hand Gesture Detection: For visionOS and Apple TV interactions
🛠️ Developer Tools
WWDC 2025 brings developers:
- Xcode 17.5: Support for Liquid Glass layers, Genmoji toolkits, and AI code completions
- SwiftUI 6: Multi-platform adaptive layout and AI-gesture bindings
- Apple Intelligence API: Text summarization, generation, translation, and visual reasoning APIs