A few weeks after Google holds its annual developer conference, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, popularly known as WWDC, will take place this year from 10:30 PM onwards on Monday, June 9. This year, the four-day long event will majorly focus on Apple changing things up with iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS and watchOS.
As part of its new strategy, the Cupertino-based tech giant might be planning to ditch version numbers of different operating systems and name them by the year. And while the current year is 2025, Apple is reportedly adopting the +1 strategy approach, meaning new versions of operating systems that may launch later this year in September will be named for the year 2026. This means that the next version of iOS won’t be iOS 19, but instead will be renamed to iOS 26.
Apple analyst Mark Gurman says that this renaming scheme will apply to the company’s other operating systems as well, which means we might see Apple announcing iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, tvOS 26 and watchOS 26 this year. Reportedly, this is being done to bring consistency to the branding.
In the last few years, Apple has unveiled new operating systems for different products like iPadOS, visionOS, watchOS, and tvOS, but since these software weren’t launched in the same year, they currently have different version numbers. You can tune into the Apple WWDC 2025 live stream when it goes live on June 9 by clicking or bookmarking the link below. The event will also be streamed live on Apple’s website.
At the WWDC 2025, Apple is also said to bring major changes for iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems, with some sources claiming that this will be the year the company brings major design changes. Apple might be working on revamped menus, apps, windows, system buttons and icons inspired by visionOS. The UI redesign project, internally called Solarium, also reportedly includes a visual overhaul to tvOS, watchOS and some parts of visionOS.
Unlike Apple’s other operating systems, visionOS is a newly designed operating system that made its debut on Apple’s not-so-popular Vision Pro Mixed Reality headset and uses circular icons and translucent panels for navigation. Speculations also suggest that the tech giant’s upcoming version of operating systems will make the design similar across different products.
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For developers, a Bloomberg report from last month claims that Apple is partnering with AI startup Anthropic to develop a new “vibe-coding” software platform, which will use artificial intelligence to “write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers.” It looks like Apple has changed its tune, as in the early days of generative artificial intelligence, the tech giant had been resistant to using AI for developing software for consumers.
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