Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2026

Apple held Annual Worldwide Developers Conference today. WWDC It is an event where a company uses its headline to announce a lot of changes coming to its business programming Platforms on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

apple It has been chasing the AI ​​boom for the past few years, although many of the AI ​​features promised across its platforms have been delayed or not fully implemented. He was criticized To an integrated suite. To correct this, Apple entered into a partnership With Google to use Gemini AI as the backbone to power Apple’s intelligence. After years of wondering how this partnership would work It may manifestApple revealed that vision today.

Apple’s chief software officer, Craig Federighi, said Apple’s keynote presentation will focus on three main things: platform improvements, updates to trust and safety, and a “big leap forward” in Apple and Siri intelligence. The big focus has been on changes made to Apple’s Siri virtual assistant that makes it feel like a modern AI-powered chatbot. The rest of the AI ​​features have been implemented broadly across the Apple ecosystem, in iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and VisionOS.

This was also the last Worldwide Developers Conference for outgoing CEO Tim Cook, who signed off on a personal note saying: “I still believe the best is yet to come.” Apple announced in April that Cook would become CEO starting September 1, and John Ternos, senior vice president of hardware engineering, would take over as CEO.

Here’s everything Apple announced today at WWDC 2026.

Artificial intelligence engineering

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When the slate of new software updates arrives in the fall, Apple’s AI models will be integrated with Google’s Gemini to enhance the conversational capability and contextual awareness of its apps. This means that all Apple apps that use AI — beyond the Siri voice assistant to include Mail, Messages, Safari, Photos and more — will have a better understanding of what you’re trying to do and will be better at delivering meaningful results.

These AI-powered features will be accessible in some way on all Apple devices. AI features will also be able to see what’s stored on your devices, what’s on the screen, and what the camera sees to answer questions, create text and images, and perform basic tasks you ask it to do.

Apple, which has a long He stressed the good faith of privacysays that much of this computational work happens on the physical device (so it’s likely limited to only the highest-performing modern devices) and when it has to send a request to the cloud, it does so securely.