Of the massive Apple occasions of the 12 months, WWDC is essentially the most dependable: In every of the previous 18 Junes, like clockwork, Apple has held a giant get-together for its developer companions and introduced a raft of vital software program updates. The September iPhone launch, March/April spring occasion and October occasion appear virtually unpredictable by comparability.
On this article, we record the key bulletins (and among the smaller titbits) you possibly can count on to listen to about at WWDC 2025. A few of these–updates to the 5 huge Apple working techniques, most clearly–are as predictable because the timing of the occasion. However we reckon Apple will spring just a few surprises this 12 months.
When is WWDC 2025?
Apple has but to announce when WWDC25 will happen, however we count on it should run from June 9 to 13, with the keynote on Monday June 9.
Apple historically holds WWDC through the first weeks of June. Listed here are the dates from the previous few years:
- WWDC 2024: June 10-14
- WWDC 2023: June 5-9
- WWDC 2022: June 6-10
- WWDC 2021: June 7-11
- WWDC 2020: June 22-26
- WWDC 2019: June 3-7
- WWDC 2018: June 4-8
When is the WWDC keynote?
The keynote is more likely to start, as standard, at 10am Pacific Time. We count on it should happen on Monday, June 9.
If you’re questioning what time will the WWDC keynote begin the place you’re it interprets to:
- US: at 10 a.m. (PDT), 11 a.m. (MDT), midday (CDT), 1 p.m. (EDT)
- Canada: at 2 p.m. (ADT)
- UK: at 6 p.m. (BST)
- Europe: at 7 p.m. (CEST)
- India:Â at 10.30 p.m. (IST)
- Singapore and China: subsequent day at 1 a.m.
- Japan: following day at 2 a.m. (JST)
- Australia: following day at 1 a.m. (AWST), 2.30 a.m. (ACST), 3 a.m. (AEST)
- New Zealand: following day at 5 a.m. (NZST)
Find out how to watch WWDC 2025
When WWDC begins Apple will reside stream the opening keynote on its web site and elsewhere, together with on the Apple TV app. This implies you’ll be capable to watch the presentation on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and even PC.
What’s going to Apple announce at WWDC 2025?
WWDC stands for the Worldwide Builders Convention and is devoted to the third-party software program and {hardware} builders that create apps and equipment for Apple’s platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Imaginative and prescient Professional. If you’re a developer we have now extra details about getting an invitation beneath.
Whereas devs are on the coronary heart of the occasion, it’s additionally a press occasion that Apple makes use of to announce its software program plans and probably some new Macs and different merchandise to the world. Up to now we’ve seen numerous new stuff. Learn on to search out out what we count on to see Apple unveil on the occasion, from software program and {hardware} to some completely new merchandise.
WWDC 2025: Software program releases
WWDC is all concerning the software program, so we could be sure that Apple will reveal particulars of its upcoming working system updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, HomePod, and Apple Watch. These updates will then be issued to builders as a beta to check, after which just a few weeks later a public beta will begin. Find out about collaborating in Apple’s beta software program program so you possibly can take a look at the brand new software program as quickly because the beta arrives.
Finally, the brand new software program might be accessible for everybody to obtain within the fall (often September for iOS/iPadOS/watchOS and both September or October for macOS.
Right here’s what to anticipate:
Apple Intelligence
AI might be on the forefront of WWDC, with the corporate more likely to focus on how it’s rising its AI function set often called Apple Intelligence. At WWDC 2024 Apple Intelligence options had been a big a part of the bulletins arround iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 Sequoia, however Apple is but to ship on a few of it’s guarantees regarding Apple Intelligence, with some Siri associated options being pushed to the iOS 19 launch.
iOS 19
The headliner of the occasion merely due to the sheer variety of iPhone house owners throughout the planet. When you’ve acquired an iPhone made inside the previous 5 years, you’ll probably be capable to set up the brand new model of iOS when it’s launched within the fall of 2025–although the Apple Intelligence options are just for the iPhone 15 Professional or later.
At WWDC Apple will showcase the brand new options coming to iPhones later in 2025. The rumors we’ve heard about iOS 19 thus far point out that we may see a serious design overhaul, enhancements to Siri, extra Apple intelligence options, and Residence app modifications.
However earlier than iOS 19 launches, there’s a complete beta-testing cycle to get by way of. iOS 19 might be introduced at WWDC 2025, after which launched as a developer beta (for registered app builders solely) virtually instantly after the keynote. Builders will then be capable to set up the iOS beta and some weeks later a public beta model might be made accessible for all customers who need to attempt the brand new options. Our recommendation is to be cautious and ready for severe flaws with the beta software program–it’d even brick your system.
Over the course of the following few months, the developer and public betas will undergo a testing course of the place options might be tweaked, modified, fastened, and up to date till we attain the completed iOS 19.0 public launch, almost certainly in September.
Learn all of the rumors and our hopes for iOS 19 in our iOS 19 information.
iPadOS 19
The accompanying replace for iPad house owners, iPadOS 19 is more likely to incorporate a lot of the new options of iOS 19 however tailored to a larger-screen interface. When Apple’s two cellular working techniques break up in 2019 they had been comparable in most respects, however the iPad model is heading steadily into its personal realm.
In 2022, Apple launched iPad OS 16 a month after iOS 16, so it’s doable that the 2 variations don’t arrive on the similar time.
macOS 16
What’s Apple acquired in retailer for its follow-up to macOS Sequoia? We’ll discover out at WWDC 2025.
This model might be numbered macOS 16, however what’s much less predictable is the California landmark Apple will identify the model after. Thus far we’ve had: Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, Excessive Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Huge Sur, Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma. Based mostly on the emblems Apple has utilized for, macOS Rincon or Skyline could possibly be probably.
We’ll share all of the rumors and our hopes for macOS 16 in our macOS 16 information.
visionOS 3
Now that the Imaginative and prescient Professional has been on sale for a when you can count on to listen to about new software program options coming to the system at WWDC. Apple is more likely to have issues to say about new apps being made for the system in addition to third-party software program that’s being created for Imaginative and prescient Professional.
watchOS 12
The brand new working system for the Apple Watch might be revealed at WWDC 2025. That is extra of a distinct segment than the iPhone, iPad, and Mac updates mentioned above however may deliver extra well being and health options to Apple Watch house owners around the globe. Anticipate AI to have an effect right here as properly.
tvOS 19
The bottom-profile of the massive Apple working techniques, tvOS is the platform that runs on the Apple TV. tvOS is usually mild on new options, however the push into AI may change that, with new discovery and search instruments.
HomePod software program model 19
Apple can also be more likely to replace the software program on the HomePod and HomePod mini alongside the opposite working techniques. We might hear extra about Apple’s plans for the HomePod through the WWDC occasion–particularly as Apple is rumored to planning huge modifications to the HomePod.
Different software program
You can even count on Apple to replace its developer-focused apps, like Swift, Xcode, and TestFlight.
WWDC 2025: {Hardware} releases
WWDC tends to be a software-focused occasion, however Apple has typically discovered time throughout its WWDC keynotes to launch {hardware} merchandise too. The primary few iPhone revisions—iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S—had been all launched at WWDC, and the HomePod had its unveiling on the occasion in 2017 as properly.
Nevertheless, the occasion has targeted on Mac releases lately. Apple unveiled the iMac Professional in 2017 alongside updates to the iMac, MacBook, and MacBook Professional, and introduced a brand new Mac Professional and the Professional Show XDR in June 2019. At WWDC 2020, Apple introduced the transition from Intel to Apple silicon, and WWDC 2022 noticed Apple launch the M2 chip within the MacBook Air and MacBook Professional. WWDC 2023 noticed Apple introduce the Imaginative and prescient Professional, 15-inch MacBook Air, and the Mac Studio and Mac Professional with M2 Extremely chip.
What’s within the {hardware} pipeline for Apple proper now? {Hardware} appears unlikely for this occasion as a consequence of a heavy deal with AI, however there are nonetheless some potentialities for surprises:
New Macs
We have already got M4, M4 Professional, and M4 Max, however no M4 Extremely but, and updates to the Mac Professional are lengthy overdue.
Mac Professional
Through the years, together with in 2023, new Mac Professional fashions have been launched at WWDC. Apple up to date the Mac Studio in March 2025, however notably Apple gave the Mac Studio an M3 Extremely chip choice somewhat than an M4 Extremely: is the M4 Extremely being saved again for the Mac Professional? It seems to be prefer it.
Learn what we all know concerning the M4 Mac Professional.
Find out how to attend WWDC
If you wish to attend the WWDC Keynote in individual it’s worthwhile to be ready to enter a lottery and apply for a ticket alongside different builders. There’s lots of competitors for these tickets, that are randomly chosen from these to use and aren’t transferable. The excellent news is that tickets are free.
The lottery for ticket allotted for 2025 will in all probability begin across the finish of March and people might want to apply earlier than a date across the starting of April. (In 2023 the deadline was April 4).
It is possible for you to to request to attend the keynote – at the moment that hyperlink isn’t reside, however we count on it is going to be across the finish of March. In 2024 you would requests to attend right here.
Apple invitations builders to take part in a collection of lessons, workshops, and classes to study concerning the system-wide modifications coming to the key software program platforms within the coming 12 months to allow them to replace their apps. Some fortunate builders even get to look at the occasion reside in individual.
- Present Apple Developer Program members.
- Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni.
- Swift Scholar Problem winners; 2024 problem candidates might be included in a separate random choice course of for winners (in early Might 2023 Apple started alerting the fortunate few of their standing as winners).
- Present Apple Developer Enterprise Program members.
The fortunate candidates had been notified of their success in getting a ticket in the beginning of April 2024.
You could find out extra about tips on how to get tickets to WWDC in our FAQ.
WWDC keynote tickets have been free and randomly distributed for the previous few years, nevertheless it beforehand price $1,599 for builders to attend and people tickets bought out in a short time.
Even with no ticket, all registered Apple builders get on-line entry to session movies, slides, and pattern code all through the week.
Apple will share extra convention info upfront of WWDC24 by way of the Apple Developer app.
Additional studying
We’ll replace this text frequently within the run-up to WWDC, so verify again to see the newest information.
For a broader view of the 12 months’s plans, take a look at our information to the new Apple merchandise coming in 2024.
