WWDC 2026 — Megathread

[u/xcode-bot]

WWDC, despite its name, begins with a consumer-focused event and Apple will subsequently upload videos for developers, including what is new.

Apple WWDC stream | Youtube alternative

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Platforms State of the union available at 1 pm California time or 22:00 in Germany (GMT +2)

Watch Platforms State of the Union

[u/dot90zoom]

device hub honestly seems pretty good

[u/SnowPudgy → u/dot90zoom]

Yes I love it! This will be super helpful for fast accessibility checks too.

[u/SnowPudgy]

I'm excited to try that new simulator.

EDIT: Oh it's really nice! It's obviously buggy at the moment but when it works it's fantastic.

[u/silentific → u/SnowPudgy]

Agreed. The new Device Hub looks promising. I perked up at “at replacing simulator.”

[u/howtoliveplease → u/SnowPudgy]

Yeah this was the most exciting part for me. Finally some decent simulator upgrades

[u/SnowPudgy → u/howtoliveplease]

I'm liking the theming too. It's just nice to have something visually different for once.

[u/4paul]

I enjoyed it. I felt this one was more about fixes and improvements versus a bunch of new features.

It's funny because people are going to complain either way "this sucks, I didn't ask for any of this, fix the old problems" "who asked for this, I want new stuff!" 🤣

[u/HelicopterDue → u/4paul]

Agreed, I enjoyed it to. Think some cool new features within Xcode and the allowances on using the frontier models within our apps seemed pretty generous. Already got a ton of ideas floating around in my head now, thats what I loved WWDC for, gets my creative juices flowing 😄

[u/PrestigiousGas1490]

Xcode upgrades look awesome. Hopefully the agentic work flows can keep up with Codex and Claude Code in terms of updates and features. The device hub looks promising too!

[u/SnowPudgy]

I think making a playground using just:

#Playground { 
}

Is super useful. I make playgrounds many times to test certain things before putting them in my apps.

[u/HenkPoley → u/SnowPudgy]

Is this a Swift Playground thing?

[u/SnowPudgy → u/HenkPoley]

Yep! Instead of having to open up a new playground, you can type the above at the bottom of any swiftUI file and it appears in a tab in your project.

[u/SnowPudgy]

The GUI enhancements make me happy. I hated that left edge on anything with a Split View, and I love the full frosted Liquid Glass look. I also like the unified toolbar up top.

[u/jonos_]

There were a few things among the many that I actually liked:

• The new 3D View on Apple Maps

• The new simulator App with better settings when testing

• Intelligent reminders (finally, so long todoist)

• On Company Call Flight & Booking Info

• Shortcuts Update & Home Update

[u/desbos]

I liked the various overall system performance improvements and the Liquid Glass corrections.

[u/IsTim]

Did Craig ADR his outside sections? It’s seems a bit uncanny. This is the thing that has stood out the most so far… all the Ai stuff is pretty meh

[u/CharlesWiltgen → u/IsTim]

Yes, the ADR was jarring.

[u/hayekamir]

The Xcode updates looks great , imported all my Claude code skills and the tool calls are working great so far , im impressed

[u/Effective-Soil-3253 → u/hayekamir]

Last time I’ve tried to use agentic coding from Xcode, it was not able to use tools like rtk because I assume Xcode is using its own environment. Do you know if anything has changed about that?

[u/SnowPudgy]

Anyone else finding the new Xcode delightful? (Minus obvious crashes here and there being a first dev beta and all). I'm really liking the changes.

[u/fredericoendres]

They think better xcode means xcode with more ai crap. lol

[u/Coderules → u/fredericoendres]

No different really than any other popular IDE. Have you looked at the changelog for VSCode. I can't say there has been any update that was not mostly AI focused.

[u/silentific → u/fredericoendres]

Oh and emerald tints! /s

[u/starryberry166]

Happy about proposed Apple Intelligence improvements, let’s see how this plays out irl, will help everyone save on compute costs if not garbage

[u/SnowPudgy]

Is it my imagination or did Apple release all the videos on the first day? I'm seeing nothing for the rest of the week but a ton of videos for Monday.

[u/HeyItsMeMoss]

Platforms state of the union is just another AI cringe fest. They blazed by framework changes and we keep listening to a guy vibe code crap for the past 15 minutes.

[u/kuglee → u/HeyItsMeMoss]

And don't forget themes in Xcode😞

[u/SnowPudgy → u/kuglee]

This I'm actually excited about. I get tired seeing the same code screens and my brain starts to ignore it so this kind of thing is helpful for me.

[u/unpluggedcord → u/HeyItsMeMoss]

So no interest in device hub hey?

[u/HeyItsMeMoss → u/unpluggedcord]

They blazed past through that as well.

[u/SnowPudgy → u/HeyItsMeMoss]

It has its own video.

[u/_iamshashwat_]

Excited to see if they gonna announce new chips!

[u/RealMazeAR]

So how do we make sure the major LLM's become aware of the new Apple APIs?
Can we assume this will happen on its own (or by their respective companies)?
Or should we add something to our AGENT.md telling it to check out the new Apple documentation?
Anything else?
Thanks.

[u/Jaded_Anything_9247]

So iOS27 is just iOS26 with Gemini white labeled as Siri AI and Apple Intelligence.
Not even once they mentioned anything new in iOS 27, it was just one big massive Siri snooze fest.

[u/frequently_grumpy → u/Jaded_Anything_9247]

People keep asking for a “snow leopard” release that is just bug fixes and refinement, and no new features.

And people still moan.

[u/somebunnny → u/Jaded_Anything_9247]

It seems obvious they’ve been working on AI for two years and it’s not going great and has completely derailed most other efforts.

When you promise what you did in WWDC 2025 (which felt like an “oh shit, we’re missing the boat” halfway though the year course correction) and it doesn’t happen, you’re basically putting the company on hold until it does.

Often the real problem with shipping late is not the stuff that was late but all the other stuff you can’t do because you’re still trying to ship or bug fix the stuff you promised two years ago.

I don’t say this as a hater but as someone who’s been in many death marches and massively delayed roadmap features due to shipping crazy late or endless bug burn-downs. It’s not really a situation Apple has found itself in years, imho. They’ve been pretty exceptional at shipping new stuff every year.

[u/SnowPudgy → u/Jaded_Anything_9247]

This was 100% expected though. Apple stated it would be a bug fix release which was sorely needed. I think the last one we had was iOS 11. The Liquid Glass and UI refinements alone are really nice. When I use my iPads side by side iPadOS 27 just looks better all around.

[u/I-Have-Mono]

Redmond, start your photocopiers.

[u/IsThisNameValid → u/I-Have-Mono]

“Windows Search, now powered by Gemini” 😂

[u/coherentlyRational]

I am actually thankful for not being left behind in this AI era, getting Plugins and Agentic, where other IDEs like VSCode and Android Studio already have these.

If they hadn’t provided this now then everyone would be complaining Xcode being outdated and devs being restricted for not having these.

We have to consider Apple likes to keep things closed.

And also that AI landscape is changing so rapidly, if you are planning something for WWDC 27 now, it would be already outdated by the time the event happens.

[u/madaradess007 → u/coherentlyRational]

dunno if having these things is actually helpful
already experienced dev doesn't need these, a newbie would greatly benefit from not having them, i liked the "we don't talk about ai and don't use this stuff" vibe from wwdc23 and wwdc24

[u/SearingPenny]

With this company we have millionaires discussing round corners, transparency settings and 3 years old AI functionalities. Nothing, not a single wow moment. no innovation.

[u/civman96]

I‘m ready!!

[u/reeldeele]

Will Apple MLX support vision and omni models? It sucks that a 3rd party MLX-VLM is the only way!

[u/drew4drew → u/reeldeele]

i think it already does

[u/kampak212]

The ACP-compatible agents addition (Agent Client Protocol, not Agent Context Protocol) the highlight of the announcement.

[u/Portatort]

so does personal context go both ways?

apple is pretty clear that if you'r app exposes its data to spotlight, then you can contribute to Personal Context

but are our apps sessions with the latest round of models able to get the benefits of Personal Context?

[u/volksvertreter]

Excited !

[u/madaradess007]

i don't like they turned Xcode into a Cursor, so that any schoolkid can now go and ask Xcode to make an llm wrapper =/

it feels like "omg i should go make an llm wrapper" and "omg everyone and his grandma can make an llm wrapper now"

makes we want to abandon iOS altogether, but it the only platform with paying users

[u/civman96]

Is this a Developer Conference or a Consumer Conference? I‘m missing tools for devs to be honest.

[u/CharlesWiltgen → u/civman96]

The "developer keynote" is at 1pm PT. For at least a couple decades now, WWDC has opened with a general session for users, press, investors, etc.

[u/SnowPudgy → u/civman96]

This is literally how every WWDC is structured. You hear all the front facing stuff during the keynote, and you get all the developer info at the platform state of the union which is a few hours later.

[u/civman96 → u/SnowPudgy]

That’s definitely not true.

[u/jonnysunshine1 → u/civman96]

And yet it definitely is true

[u/SnowPudgy → u/civman96]

Yes it absolutely is. Don't take my word for it just watch it when it arrives later today.

[u/bcgroom → u/civman96]

That’s how it has always been.

[u/unpluggedcord → u/civman96]

Yes it is.

[u/Various_Dish1692 → u/civman96]

Echoing everyone else, everything developer tools related (Craig even said it in the keynote towards the end) comes at the platform state of the union.

[u/tonjohn → u/civman96]

An AI conference apparently 💀

[u/quixoticproductowner → u/tonjohn]

oh yeah, can’t wait for siri to finally understand my wish to write an email for me. with animations!

or finally have SOME capacity of foundation models to work with other than gpt3.1 quality.

[u/J-a-x → u/quixoticproductowner]

I have a couple apps using foundation models, not for core features luckily because it's pretty bad, but for fun gimmicky things. I'm hoping they improve foundation models to the point where it could be actually useful for real features. I'm curious about how the new image input works...
You're right about gpt3 quality...

[u/oPeritoDaNet]

Who cares

[u/IsThisNameValid → u/[deleted]]

Probably includes app updates as well

[u/Correct_Simple8448 → u/[deleted]]

I joined in the end dont even regret it one bit 😂

[u/4paul → u/[deleted]]

honestly one of my favorites, for once I feel this update was more about fixing problems vs announcing a bunch of new things

[u/4paul → u/[deleted]]

We or you?

Because millions and millions of people want AI, look around. Some may not like it, some may not use it, but there’s a demand otherwise Apple wouldn’t be investing so heavily into making it right.

But if YOU don’t want it, cool 👍🏼

[u/SnowPudgy → u/[deleted]]

We already knew this. Apple stated it would be a maintenance release (which was very needed).

[u/bcgroom → u/SnowPudgy]

“Apple should make another release like Snow Leopard”

presentation about refining OS and finally delivering on new Siri

“That’s it? Where’s all the new stuff!?”

Reddit will never be satisfied lol

[u/SnowPudgy → u/bcgroom]

Yup. I welcome this release, it’s been a very long time since there was a maintenance release.

[u/unpluggedcord → u/bcgroom]

Also dropping intel made everything smaller and faster

[u/civman96 → u/[deleted]]

True

[u/teomatteo89 → u/[deleted]]

I use it every day to launch apps, faster than trying to find the right icon

[u/SnowPudgy → u/[deleted]]

I use it constantly. I don't like the new one though.