Apple’s subsequent builders convention will kick off on June ninth, and as anticipated, some notable software program bulletins are on the horizon. The massive reveals will likely be iOS 19, macOS 16, iPadOS 19, watchOS 12, visionOS 3, and tvOS 19, persevering with the corporate’s custom of asserting main software program upgrades halfway by way of the yr.
The stakes this yr, nonetheless, are greater than anticipated. All eyes will likely be on Apple and what it has to say about its AI strategy, after having missed the early momentum towards Google’s Android and a few well-documented missteps with Apple Intelligence.
In response to Bloomberg, the corporate will even be extra cautious with characteristic bulletins this time round, focusing extra on experiences that may be shipped on time as a substitute of the bold goalposts that it set with iOS 18 and did not ship. Primarily based on what credible stories have put out to this point, here’s what we count on to see at WWDC 2025:
A contemporary design language
It appears aesthetic overhauls are the large focus throughout each side of the ecosystem. Google launched Materials 3 Expressive at I/O 2025 a barely over per week in the past, pairing daring colour results with deeper UX customization. Apple is predicted to tug off one thing comparable this yr at WWDC for its OS portfolio.
“The revamp — due later this yr — will essentially change the look of the working methods and make Apple’s varied software program platforms extra constant,” says a Bloomberg report. Apple is reportedly eyeing a system-wide makeover that features altering the look of apps, icons, and home windows, amongst different components.
The overarching inspiration is VisionOS, the software program expertise Apple developed for its Imaginative and prescient Professional XR headset. The main target will reportedly be on simplifying the navigation expertise and making it simpler for customers to entry essential controls.
The report provides that customers are in for the most important redesign ever since iOS 17 landed in 2013. We expect to see extra rounded icons, clear design components, smoother animations, and extra such tweaks. Whether or not a practical overhaul can also be within the pipeline stays to be seen.
iPadOS borrows Mac magic?
iPadOS has lengthy remained considerably of a limiting issue for Apple’s highly effective tablets, particularly these powered by the identical M-series silicon because the Mac {hardware}. In its present avatar, it’s extra like a stretched model of iOS, with a number of productiveness apps thrown into the combination for energy customers.
Many have been clamoring for some type of dual-boot expertise with macOS, however that seemingly won’t ever occur. It appears, nonetheless, that Apple has been listening to all that suggestions and can tackle a number of of them with iPadOS 19.
In response to Bloomberg, the subsequent iteration of iPadOS will make a handful of adjustments to the multitasking and windowing expertise centered on enhancing productiveness. Leaker Majin Bu additional added {that a} macOS-like menu bar is coming to iPadOS.
It can tie in with the next-gen Stage Supervisor expertise, which jumps into motion when the pill is related to the Magic Keyboard. The concept is to supply a extra Mac-inspired computing expertise, although it’s unclear whether or not Apple will preserve the expertise locked to its personal or MFi-certified keyboard equipment.
Subsequent-gen well being perks
Apple has been on the vanguard of wellness tech for some time now, however previously few years, competitors has grown hotter, and rivals like Huawei have leapfrogged Apple at well being tech innovation. This yr, it appears Apple is hoping to get again within the highlight.
Below the codename “Mission Mulberry,” Apple is reportedly planning a significant overhaul of the Well being app that will even introduce an AI well being coach. “The service can be powered by a brand new AI agent that will replicate — no less than to some extent — an actual physician,” says a Bloomberg report.
Now, AI-driven personalised well being strategies will not be precisely a brand new development. The companion apps powering smartwatches and good rings from totally different manufacturers already provide tailor-made strategies primarily based on well being knowledge and customers’ bodily standing.
What Apple is doing in a different way is that the corporate is deploying its in-house staff of physicians to coach the AI coach. Moreover, the corporate is roping in medical doctors from totally different areas of experience to create movies geared toward guiding customers on well being situations and making the required way of life enhancements.
AI, in a extra sensible form
Apple’s present AI stack — shipped as a part of the Apple Intelligence bundle — has been on the lagging finish of the competitors. Moroever, pushing well-publicized missteps with AI summarization and dependence on ChatGPT to fill Siri’s intelligence gaps haven’t helped the trigger both. Then now we have a number of unfulfilled bold guarantees, which even compelled Apple to tug advertisements from the web.
AT WWDC 2025, Apple is predicted to point out off a number of AI options which are steeped in practicality. Amongst them is an AI-driven well being administration characteristic that can assist customers extend the battery mileage of their iPhones.
“The enhancement will analyze how an individual makes use of their gadget and make changes to preserve power,” stories Bloomberg. The system will intelligently scale back the facility uptake by purposes to maximise the battery life.
Along with a digital coach, Apple’s AI will even assist customers with vitamin planning, as nicely. Apart from an AI physician, Apple will even use the digital camera feed in order that the onboard AI can help customers with train and counsel enhancements in real-time.
There are many AI apps on the market that may gauge the dietary worth of meals by simply it by way of the digital camera, and some that may do the identical whereas figuring out. Apple’s adoption isn’t groundbreaking, however a unified integration throughout the Well being app will definitely be extra handy (and safer, from an information privateness perspective) for customers.
All of it sounds fairly thrilling and one thing that customers can extract significant utility from. Nonetheless, don’t count on Apple to take the stage at WWDC 2025 and reveal…
The true evolution of Siri
Apple is reportedly operating into some important delays with overhauling the Siri expertise. Apple failed to offer Siri the identical type of evolutionary remedy as its Android rival achieved by changing Google Assistant with Gemini.
Apple’s personal try to offer a generative AI and chatbot-like makeover, presently in improvement underneath the codename LLM Siri, is operating into delays. Apple is working to someway get previous the constraints of a hybrid structure the place the legacy codebase of Siri co-exists with the LLM-driven stack.
In response to stories, the true generative AI makeover of Siri remains to be a yr, or two, away. To make up for it, Apple is reportedly planning to companion with Google and someway combine Gemini throughout the iOS expertise, considerably like its Siri-ChatGPT bonhomie.
Extra importantly, the corporate is planning to let third-party app builders faucet into its in-house AI fashions in order that the onboard digital assistants can get work finished throughout totally different apps. Google has already laid the inspiration of such Gemini interaction with a system known as “apps,” previously often called “extensions.”
Fancy new {hardware}
Don’t maintain your breath for Apple to drop any {hardware} bombshell. This yr, the theme of the builders convention will likely be extra about harm management and fixing gaps, as a substitute of dropping any machines, although we would get a tease of what comes subsequent.
Apple’s next-gen M5 silicon is predicted to land this yr, powering a contemporary slate of tablets and Mac {hardware}. Nonetheless, stories counsel that they’ll land within the second half of the yr, as a substitute of creating an look at WWDC 2025.
Along with the silicon leap, the large focus will likely be on the iPhone 17 collection within the fall season. Apple will introduce its extremely anticipated ultra-slim iPhone “Air” mannequin later this yr. Chatter about good glasses has additionally grown, however we don’t count on Apple to speak about them at its occasion subsequent month.