welcome to Apple Park and welcome to WWDC Liquid Glass with the optical qualities of glass and a fluidity that only Apple can achieve It transforms depending on your content or even your context and brings more clarity to navigation and controls It beautifully refracts light and dynamically reacts to your movement with specular highlights This material brings a new level of vitality to every aspect of your experience From the smallest elements you interact with to larger ones it responds in real time to your content and your input creating a more lively experience that we think you’ll find truly delightful Elements once considered for rectangular displays have been redesigned to fit perfectly concentric with the rounded corners of the hardware This establishes greater harmony between our software and hardware where thoughtfully considered groups of controls free up valuable space for your content We’re unifying our version numbers across all our platforms Our releases for the fall that will power us through the coming year 2026 will be version 26 We’ve crafted app icons from liquid glass It makes them feel fresh while keeping them instantly identifiable and it allows them to adapt whether you use dark mode or one of our entirely new styles like our all clear look Let’s jump back to the lock screen so you can see how we’ve made wallpapers more dynamic I’ll switch to my photo shuffle wallpaper and watch as I switch images The time now fluidly adapts to the available space We’ve also added new features to help keep you connected while driving like a compact design when you get a call so you can still see what’s on the screen like your upcoming directions along with tapbacks and pinned conversations in messages iOS 26 also gives you widgets in CarPlay They’re quick and glancable ways to get information which is perfect while driving as well as live activities so you can stay on top of what’s important to you like a friend’s flight status All done in a way to help you stay focused on the road CarPlay Ultra lets you choose the layout and design of the most important information for you and adds vehicle controls for features like the radio and climate right in the CarPlay experience This year we’re giving you an exciting new way to bring personality to those shared spaces with backgrounds When you select a background it appears for everyone in the conversation to enjoy You have a variety of dynamic built-in backgrounds to choose from or select one of your own photos And with Apple intelligence you can even generate your own backgrounds in Image Playground Next let’s talk about group chats Group chats are home to so many age-old questions like “What weekend is everyone free?” Instead of dealing with a flurry of responses we’re introducing a delightful way to visualize what the people want with polls You can create a poll for anything And with Apple intelligence messages can detect when a poll might come in handy and suggest one Like if someone asks “Where should we stay for our annual trip?” And when your more particular friends don’t like the options anyone in the group can contribute new ideas Then watch as the votes roll in live For instance in messages live translation can automatically translate text for you So if you’re making plans with some new friends while studying abroad your message can be translated as you type and delivered in their preferred language And when they respond each text can be instantly translated for you When you’re catching up on FaceTime you can follow along with translated live captions while you continue to hear your grandmother’s voice Oh right Yes When you’re on a phone call your words are translated as you talk and the translation is spoken out loud for the call recipients Hi are you available to cater a wedding on December 6th Hello This year the Smart Stack improves its prediction algorithm by fusing ondevice data like points of interest location and more and trends from your daily routine So it can accurately predict features that could be immediately useful to you So when you walk into your gym for that regular morning session a Smart Stack hit will subtly appear And when you open the Smart Stack a widget will be ready for you to start your workout or when Apple Watch detects that you’re in a remote location with no connectivity a hint will appear to start Backtrack to support you while you’re off the grid We’re also making Apple Watch more proactive with enhancements to notifications You might use silent mode to avoid receiving a loud alert at an inopportune moment like that But now Apple Watch can interpret the ambient noise in your environment and automatically adjust the volume of incoming calls and notifications Much better As you settle into a show like Your Friends and Neighbors on Apple TV Plus you’ll immediately notice how playback controls refract the content underneath beautifully complnting the action without distracting from the story This unobtrusive design carries through the control center so when you’re setting a sleep timer the video still shines through And as you browse you’ll see a bold new look with beautiful cinematic poster art making it fun and easy to explore all your favorite shows and movies We’re bringing live activities to Mac So if you’ve ordered Uber Eats on your iPhone the live activity also appears in the menu bar And when you click the app opens in iPhone mirroring so you can take action directly on your Mac We’re also enhancing the calling experience by bringing the phone app to Mac You can conveniently access your familiar content like recents contacts and voicemail synced from iPhone and easily make a call with just a click Incoming calls look beautiful on the bigger screen featuring stunning contact posters of your friends and family And the phone app on Mac includes all the great updates we talked about earlier like hold assist call screening and live translation And now Spotlight is getting its biggest update ever To start Spotlight is becoming the fastest way to browse your content on Mac It puts your most relevant files within easy reach including intelligent suggestions based on your routines or what you’re currently working on You can also see all your apps And thanks to iPhone mirroring you can even launch apps that you only have on your iPhone like Headspace We’re also introducing system and app actions in Spotlight you can take hundreds of actions from creating an event to starting an audio recording or even playing a podcast And you can do this no matter what app you’re currently working in You can even fill out parameters for an action Say you want to send an email You can write the message set the recipient and add a subject All without lifting your hands off the keyboard Let’s start with some of the amazing new spatial experiences coming to Vision OS Like widgets Users love widgets They offer personalized and useful information at a glance In Vision OS they become spatial integrating seamlessly into your space and they are persistent staying right where you place them They’re also customizable Frame width color and depth can all be personalized to your liking Vision OS now has beautiful new widgets like clock with distinctive and exquisitly detailed clock face designs Weather that adapts to today’s forecast music for quick access to your favorite tunes and photos which can transform a stunning panorama into a window to another time or place But now I also have this grab handle in the bottom right to fluidly resize apps into windows If I previously resized apps when I open them again they open back in the exact same size and position and I can place them just where I want them This is designed to work great with touch or with a trackpad And now I also have a pointer that’s more precise and responsive When I use it to hover over these new buttons in the top left they expand into familiar controls I can use these to close or minimize my windows And a tap on their app icon brings them right back Another way I can arrange my windows is with tiling Since this is designed for the unique qualities of iPad I can simply flick Windows towards the edges to tile Our new OS releases will be available as developer betas today with a public beta coming next month And they will be available to all users this fall