The stakes are higher than usual at this year’s WWDC. Major Apple Intelligence features the company teased at last year’s conference are stalled out, the company got a stern talking-to from a federal judge a couple of months ago over its App Store policies, and then there’s everything going on with tariffs. It’s not an entirely enviable position, but the show goes on.
We’re expecting to see a new, spaceship-y design language for iOS and an updated yearly naming convention for the company’s operating systems on the iPhone, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Watch, Vision Pro, and CarPlay.
Will it be enough to distract from the Apple Intelligence train wreck? Will Tim Cook apologize onstage for getting out over his AI skis? Probably not, but it sure will be an interesting show this year.
