WWDC 2025 Recap All Of Apple NEW Features Updates

Apple has recently completed its WWDC 2025 keynote, and they have packed a whole lot of amazing news! The entire event this year was ridden with a single message; to unite all the apple platforms with a standard, renewed identity which now runs a lot deeper.

There is plenty to say including iOS 26, macOS 26, new AI features, and a new framework named after Liquid Glass, but it looks bold. Here we will decipher the major announcements, so you will be able to be updated in several minutes.

Apple’s Unified Platform Numbers and Overview

Over the years, each Apple product was gifted its own release cycle: iPhones, Macs, Watches, iPads, and then some. Apple has finally brought all platforms in harmony with version numbers as well with macOS 26, iOS 26, and the rest all in line. This is not only cosmetic. Apple aims to make your experience on all devices to be familiar, connected, and up to date simultaneously.

So what are the implications of this on you? The updates must be more harmonized so that it does not take so much at keeping up with the new updates. All products will be rolled out, whether it is the iPhone, iPad, Mac, the Apple Watch, Apple TV and CarPlay, and even Vision Pro. The number of tweaks and features is in the hundreds but I am going to concentrate on what I feel will help during day-to-day use.

Introduction to the New Design Language: Apple’s Liquid Glass Design

Apple has never minded altering the appearance, and feel, of things but this is their most radical adjustment in years. In comes the new Liquid Glass design. It is bold, but weirdly discrete: initially you cannot feel how the things have changed; however, when you get deeper into the OS, everything becomes different, and all of it seems lighter, more dynamic, and alive.

You’ll spot the Liquid Glass look everywhere:

Home screen & Lock screen: App icons, controls and widgets now possess a new, layer style glass look.
Glass-like application icons: Opt to apply a glow to any app and make it look unique.
Lock screen fonts: the time expands or contracts to perfectly fit in your wallpaper.
3D wallpaper: The pictures literally bounce out of the screen and they move slightly when you tilt your phone.
Controls and navigation: All the options of interaction are easier, as though they were reacting to the world around itself.

This is more than some good looks. Apple engineering will guarantee that you will notice and experience the Liquid Glass everywhere without delays or huff. It is a giant step in design and design experience of Apple devices.

Key UI changes with Liquid Glass:

Renovated icons of apps and home screens
Lock screen fonts that have a minimal and variant design
In motion wallpapers
Reformed navigation point and controls
Widget and live info that are polished to translucency

This new design may be able to attract your attention subtlety in the beginning. It is not tiring but at the same time it seems to fit into the picture of Apple, that it is the most logical thing that can be done to the design of Apple.

iOS 26: Features and Enhancements

iOS 26 begins with the Liquid Glass appearance on all corners of your phone. The lock and home screens are done completely differently. You can even stretch and shrink the time font in such a way that they can fit in your wallpaper. The icons of the applications resemble grains of frosted glass, and the control centre is made friendlier. Scrolling through pictures is also not the same; there are novel 3D effects which wiggle when you move this device.

Applications have not been left behind. The Camera app is clearer, and Safari gives your content the first priority, cutting the excess out. Music and News receive floating tab bars that disappear when you scroll down, re-appearing when you want it.

Apple Intelligence and Messaging Improvements

Apple put a lot of hype behind new A1 and messaging features this year. This was the focused on element that struck me:

Messages, FaceTime and Phone calls are now integrated to Live translation. When someone is using another language, your iphone converts it at a go either by text or saying it aloud.
It is a game changer to the families who speak several languages. Consider making a call to your grandma overseas and skipping at beat.
Group chats grants more to messages. You’ll see:
Polls (excellent in making fast judgements)
Typing indicators (it lets the user know who is responding in large groups)
Individual backgrounds of each conversation, even ones created by yourself

A new degree of peace of mind is built in there as well: automatic call screening enables spammers and scammers to be selected. And when you have to go on hold then your phone will remain there instead of being subjected to the same music all the time then reconnect once your turn to speak.

Visual Intelligence and Smart Features

Apple has even gone so far as to use AI not only in general intelligence, but also in actual on-phone assistance:

Screenshot recognition: Snap a screenshot of the item you want to get, e.g. a jacket somewhere on the internet and query your iPhone on where to purchase it.
ChatGPT incorporation: Now cooks in to assist in:
Scheduling of the calendar items
Crafting replies
Combining the emojis you like into custom ones of your own (“Genoji”)
Creation of realistic pictures with Image Playground
Event recognition: Your device will be able to bring to the surface reminders, ways of creating appointments, and context.

All this is on-device, quick, and private, so your info stays safe.

CarPlay Updates

Liquid Glass style has been used in CarPlay and CarPlay Ultra now. When you drive a luxury model of the car, Aston Martin, you will get the very same gleam on the surface, as you do on your cell phone. But even good old CarPlay gets much-desired features such as:

Wrights to your regularly used data

Streaming services so that you may keep up with the delivery, sports, or music in your dashboard

Gaming App

It has a new centralized games application that includes all iPhone games (both App Store and Apple Arcade), new suggestions and opportunities to play games with friends.

iPadOS 26: Mac-Like Functionality and Windowing System

For all of you who have hoped that iPad mimics Mac more, iPadOS 26 is the dream come true.

Window Management and Multitasking

Apple completely rethought how multitasking works on iPad:

Scalable windows: Relocate and resize programs in any position, including (partially) off-screen
Mac-style menu bars: zoom in, zoom out, or downsize with special buttons
Expose overview: view the whole bunch of windows simultaneously
Quick tap tiling: Tilt and drag windows on the screen or put them in grid layout in a second

The entire system appeares Macsualistic—flexible, potent & capable for genuine multitasking.

Files App Overhaul

The Files app now has:

The new list view that sorts easily through columns which are resizable.
Folding boxes to keep organizing
Drag the folders right into the Dock so they can be accessed in a haste
File type default app settings, finally

Mac Preview App on iPad

The powerful Mac Preview app finally arrives, fully built for iPad:

Draw pictures in PDF files and pictures
Edit data or annotation in the document.
Pressure sensitive pen assisted editing of graphics

macOS Tahoe (macOS 26): Fresh Design and New Features

macOS Tahoe gets a moniker: macOS Tahoe, named in honour of the famous Californian lake. The actual change is aesthetic functional, thanks to the Liquid Glass style.

Liquid Glass Design Extension

This translucency even graces the menu bar, dock, the toolbars and apps–and makes your entire interface a living work of glass art. Even Apple went so far as to maximize your display by making the menu bar disappear (all but the app icons).

Comparison Table: Mac Menu Bar & Control Center Customization

Old Menu bar/Control centre
Tahoe new in macOS
solve their icons & controls
Fully customizable
Apple only has
Apply 3rd party app controls
Always visible
Only icons remain on the menu bar
Limited settings
All for you personalized

There has never been this much control by you and you can customize your Mac to suit your top bar.

Phone App Debut on Mac

Your Mac, for the first time, receives an entire Phone application. You can answer and place calls, receive voicemail, screen calls and even make the Mac pick up the slack of the hold time. This closes up Apple ecosystem: transferring that call that was on your phone to your laptop and you are good to go.

Productivity & Spotlight Enhancements

Playing much in the same vein as when Spotlight was introduced with iOS 6, the number of new actions that are supported in Spotlight now can now include hundreds of different activities, such as sending emails, or running Apple Intelligence-powered shortcuts that automate other activities.

Searching your files, contacts, and messages became improved as well. Live activities are automatically synced on your iPhone so that they appear in your Mac menu bar, with information on sports or order progress.

Other Platforms: tvOS, watch iOS, and visionOS Highlights

tv iOS 26 Updates

Apple TV’s update is slick if you have a newer model:

Translucent controls in a Liquid Glass design that leave nothing under them when you are watching
With your iPhone, you can use it to serve as the microphone on Apple Music Karaoke, including, guides on how to pronounce the lyrics
New flying screensavers with breathtaking places
Select any AirPlay speaker you want as the default Apple TV speaker

IOS 26 Features

The Apple Watch gets a smarter, more motivating update:

A newly sophisticated AI-based training companion provides real-time information and motivation, as a trainer would do and advise you in your ear
Workout Redesigned Home screen makes the personal routines accessible
Get Apple Music playlists made to suit your training mode
You can just flick your wrist to turn away notifications or calls, which means that the notifications will become a bit less annoying
Notes can now be found directly on your Watch, perfect in getting something handy but want to have a quick reference when you are out and on the go

vision iOS Updates for Apple Vision Pro

This year’s Vision Pro announcements were genuinely jaw-dropping:

Widgets are free to position-dock a photo widget on your (actual or electronic) mantel, or make any area a window into weather conditions
Gaming is now also supported by PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers
Collaborate in apps in mixed reality, game together and watch media together
Redesigned fuller “personas” (your digital avatar) to be much more like you, no longer crossing the uncanny valley
Generative AI currently takes two-dimensional pictures and makes them appear three dimensional
Safari provides novel browsing in real space, where the user can just browse web pages by staring at the 3D models through the web browser and scrolling pages with the movement of eyes only.

vision iOS new features in a nutshell:

Locate the widgets anywhere, and make any surface a source of info or art
VR controls should provide an elite gaming experience
Play, Watch and interact with friends in shared virtual worlds
Avatars which will be more humanlike
AI brings 2d images to life for you
Safari integrates the Internet in your world and provides eye tracking and 3D objects browsing

Conclusion

It was the short yet comprehensive overview of the WWDC 2025 Recap: All of Apple NEW Features Update 2025. The keynote has much more to it and I will explore this more in my posts hereafter

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Manjunath Kumar

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WWDC 2025 Recap All of Apple NEW Features Updates