Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
Key takeaways
- Apple has been chasing the artificial intelligence boom for the past few years, though many of its promised AI features across its platforms have been delayed or have not quite panned out into a fully-fledged suite.
- Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said that Apple’s keynote presentation would focus on three main things: Platform improvements, updates in trust and safety, and a “big leap forward” in Apple Intelligence and Siri.
- This was also the final WWDC for outgoing CEO Tim Cook, who signed off on a personal note, saying, “I still believe the best is yet ahead."
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Photograph: David Paul Morris/Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer Conference today. WWDC is the event in which the company uses its keynote address to announce lots of changes coming to its software platforms on i Phone, i Pad, Apple Watch, and Mac.
Apple has been chasing the artificial intelligence boom for the past few years, though many of its promised AI features across its platforms have been delayed or have not quite panned out into a fully-fledged suite. To rectify that, Apple entered into a partnership with Google to use its Gemini AI as a backbone to power Apple Intelligence. After years of wondering how that partnership might manifest, Apple revealed that vision today.
Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said that Apple’s keynote presentation would focus on three main things: Platform improvements, updates in trust and safety, and a “big leap forward” in Apple Intelligence and Siri. The big focus was changes to Apple’s Siri virtual assistant that make it feel more like a modern AI chatbot. The rest of the AI features have been implemented broadly across Apple’s ecosystem, in iOS, iPadOS,MacOS, WatchOS, and VisionOS.