WWDC 2025: Subsequent Discoveries

By Jonathan Reed

Source: Apple.

After the initial rush following a WWDC keynote, the next few days are typically spent mulling over new features and design changes. This is often a fruitful time for discovering modifications and additions that weren’t covered in the keynote. This year is no different, so I’ve collated a roundup of some of the most significant ones below.

watchOS 26: The MacStories Overview

By Jonathan Reed

Source: Apple.

Earlier today, Apple announced watchOS 26 and with it, a selection of updates and new features for the Apple Watch. Alongside all of Apple’s other platforms, watchOS will adopt the new Liquid Glass design language, albeit in a less significant way.

watchOS didn’t feature any Apple Intelligence features when it launched last year, and that continues to be the case, even though it is merely a technicality now. That’s because the new Workout Buddy feature, which you interact with from your Apple Watch, still requires an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone nearby. This is presumably a technical limitation that may be overcome in the future with a more advanced Apple Watch chipset.

iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and Liquid Glass: The MacStories Overview

By Jonathan Reed

During today’s WWDC 2025 keynote, held in person at Apple Park and streamed online, Apple unveiled a considerable number of upgrades to iOS and iPadOS, including a brand-new design language called Liquid Glass. This new look, which spans all of Apple’s platforms, coupled with a massive upgrade for multitasking on the iPad and numerous other additions and updates, made for packed releases for iOS and iPadOS.

Let’s take a look at everything Apple showed today for Liquid Glass, iOS, and iPadOS.

WWDC 2025: All the Small Things (Bento Box Version)

By Jonathan Reed

Source: Apple.

Every keynote, Apple is well-known for summarizing sections of the presentation with immaculately laid-out bento boxes containing key features. They often serve as good, easily digestible overviews of all the new features for each OS.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at all the bento boxes from today’s WWDC 2025 keynote.

WWDC 2025: Apple Publishes Keynote Video

By Jonathan Reed

This year’s WWDC was a packed event by most metrics. Apple introduced a new visual style across all of its platforms called Liquid Glass. Not only that, but the company also announced significant multitasking updates to iPadOS, powerful features for Spotlight on macOS, and numerous other upgrades across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS.

If you missed the event or want to revisit any of the announcements, you can now do so on Apple’s Events site (where it’s also available in ASL) or on YouTube. We’ll be posting coverage of all the new features and more in the coming hours and days, so stay tuned to MacStories.