On Monday, June 9, Apple will announce an avalanche of software updates for all of its platforms at its annual WWDC 2025 developer conference. We’ll see new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS—all of which are rumored to jump straight to version “26.”
Apple is expected to introduce all-new visual looks, inspired by the Vision Pro’s glassy and translucent visionOS, to unify the interfaces and make them more consistent across devices. For its largest and most important platform—iPhone—that means the first major software facelift since Jony Ive’s iOS 7 flattened software in 2013.
The elephant in the room is going to be AI—specifically, Apple’s brand of artificial intelligence called Apple Intelligence. Will Apple address its big fumbling of its next-gen Siri voice assistant that was supposed to have arrived by now but still hasn’t? Or will it downplay its lagging AI features as Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI companies drop new and more advanced LLM-powered chatbot and generative features at a seemingly rapid-fire pace?
Senior Consumer Tech Editor Raymond Wong will be in Cupertino, Calif. to bring live WWDC 2025 coverage from Apple’s spaceship-shaped Apple Park. The Gizmodo consumer tech team, including Senior Writer James and Staff Reporter Kyle Barr, will be on deck breaking down the news announcements, too. Be sure to come back on Monday for live updates!
Hey Siri, Do You Still Suck?
Apple announced Apple Intelligence at last year’s WWDC. Generative AI features like Genmoji, notification summaries, and writing tools rolled out, but the big one—a revamped Siri with on-screen awareness and agentic functionality to help do things on your behalf—failed to materialize even after months of delay. Reports have claimed that the new Siri features were fictitious and Apple’s marketing had pushed for them to be shown off before the Siri team had even gotten them working.
Our Senior Writer James Pero thinks Monday is going to be looked upon as Apple’s make-or-break AI—it’ll be largely about optics. Will Apple emerge as an innovator or a laggard?
