Jonathan Reed

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Jonathan is a freelance graphic designer. As well as being a long-time Apple user he is a huge film and television aficionado and is very interested in the intersection between the two mediums and technology. He lives in London with his wife and daughter and is writing his bio in the third person.

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

Source: Apple.

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.

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WWDC 2025: Apple Publishes Keynote Video

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.

The company has put out some other videos highlight today’s announcements as well:


You can follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2025 hub or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2025 RSS feed.


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