Steve Jobs might have loved Liquid Glass; the battle to keep the iPad from turning into a Mac seems to be over; and other takeaways from a keynote that wasn’t so short on news after all.

Liquid Glass design, Apple Intelligence APIs, and visionOS 26 tools highlight Apple’s 2025 State of the Union for developers.

On The Vergecast: the present, and future, of Apple’s software across all your devices. Siri not included. The tech world is full of cycles. Things are always bundling and unbundling, going from minimalist to maximalist, embracing nostalgia before diving head-first into the future. And right now, it appears, we’re doing glassy again.

Apple kicked off WWDC 2025 with its keynote presentation at its annual World Wide Developer’s conference, and it was a bumper affair. We were treated to a raft of updates across all of the firm’s software platforms, as we were introduced to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS 26 and visionOS 26.

Apple's 2026 operating systems will be unified and see a major visual upgrade called the Liquid Glass design language.

Apple's WWDC 2025 kicks off at 1 p.m. ET with a keynote featuring Tim Cook, who is expected to detail the new iOS update and other new products.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is expected to highlight updates to the company operating system and AI services.

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