apple is secretive. The firm is understood for staying tremendous tight-lipped round upcoming product launches. But we will all the time depend on the annual Worldwide Developers Conference—which is centered round new software program capabilities throughout Apple’s complete product line—for perception on what to anticipate for its yearly {hardware} occasion within the fall. This 12 months’s WWDC begins with a keynote deal with at 10 am Pacific on Monday, June 5.

Typically, rumors main as much as the occasion are full of latest options for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, a majority of which find yourself being true. And whereas Apple tends to offer a bit extra TLC to some working techniques than others, the checklist of latest options coming to those platforms in 2023 appears moderately mild. It nearly seems like Apple has been focusing all its power on one thing else—like a wholly new product class, maybe.

If you have been maintaining with the Apple rumors, you have seen loads of headlines in regards to the firm’s first mixed-reality headset for augmented actuality and digital actuality experiences. Following years of stories and whispers, it seems to be like Apple is lastly taking the wraps off the extremely anticipated system at WWDC. We may also get to see it in motion on the convention, since it’s reported to make use of a wholly new working system known as xrOS that is been developed particularly for the headset and may have the ability to run a couple of key apps at launch.

Of course, that is all primarily based on hypothesis. We have been anticipating to see the mixed-reality headset at final 12 months’s WWDC too. Regardless of whether or not the corporate will push the reveal again but once more, one factor is definite: We’ll positively see some new software program options for current units. We’ve heard Apple may even throw in some new Mac {hardware} bulletins.

We’ll be following all of the information on WIRED, the place we’ll be working a liveblog and rounding up the massive reveals. To convey you in control earlier than the present, nevertheless, here is a rundown of what you may anticipate at this 12 months’s WWDC. I’ll additionally let you know find out how to tune into the keynote on Monday morning.   

iOS 17

With iOS 16, Apple launched the choice so as to add widgets to the house display to show issues just like the climate, exercise rings, and social media feeds. Building on this function, it is doable we may see a brand new smart-home show mode with iOS 17, in accordance with a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The function will kick in every time the iPhone is locked and positioned horizontally, permitting you to see notifications, climate situations, calendar appointments, and extra—much like Google’s Nest Hub or Amazon’s Echo Show. To make it simpler to learn at a look, it’s going to use shiny textual content towards a darkish background.

As for added updates, Gurman says Apple is rumored to launch a brand new journaling app, the power to sideload apps to adjust to European Union laws, a mood-tracking feature throughout the Health app, and enhancements to its location providers. A report from MacRumors says that extra performance shall be added to Dynamic Island (the pill-shaped cutout on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max that acts as considerably of a secondary show), like Siri integration, so it is much less intrusive on the principle show.

We’re additionally anticipating new accessibility options. In May the company announced will probably be launching software program options for cognitive, imaginative and prescient, and speech accessibility that shall be accessible “later this year.” Among the checklist of capabilities is Point and Speak in Magnifier, which makes it simpler for these with imaginative and prescient disabilities to work together with bodily objects which have textual content labels, and Live Speech, the place customers can kind messages to be spoken aloud throughout telephone and FaceTime calls.

iPadOS 17

As traditional, iPadOS 17 will probably share plenty of the identical options as iOS 17, together with the aforementioned smart-home show mode, journaling app, and the power to sideload apps. It’s doable we may lastly see the Health app on iPad too, full with the mood-tracking function. 

The greatest replace seems to be centered round Apple’s current Stage Manager feature. Introduced final 12 months with iPadOS 16, the multitasking function mimics the expertise of a desktop laptop. You can set up apps to see at a look in addition to group, resize, and overlap home windows. It’s not probably the most intuitive function, although. According to 9to5mac, Apple might introduce extra capabilities to enhance the expertise—like webcam assist for an exterior monitor, sleep mode for the iPad show whereas the exterior show stays on, and a resizable dock (through the exterior show).