Everything You May Have Missed At Apple's WWDC 2026

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday, June 8, with a keynote presentation starting at 10 a.m. PT. Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET

Apple's midyear software show, WWDC 2026, is underway after the Monday, June 8 keynote at Apple Park kicked off the event. We're getting a closer look at what the tech giant has in store for the software updates going out to millions of iPhones, Macs and Apple Watches worldwide later this year. It was a big year for Siri, but the various WWDC announcements didn't give many hints for what's coming later this year for its device lineup, like the iPhone 18 and the rumored iPhone Fold.

Aas we expected, we're getting new versions of iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and WatchOS coming later this year, with developer beta versions that developers can download now and public betas planned for next month. Apple historically releases betas of its future software to the public in July.

Apple had a lot of news about Siri -- in fact, mentioning it over 100 times in the course of the around 90-minute presentation. Presenters introduced a lot of its new capabilities now that it's integrated Google's Gemini AI models into Siri and brought other upgrades to Apple Intelligence.

There was indeed some brief honoring of outgoing CEO Tim Cook, who ran WWDC one last time before he turns over the reins to John Ternus in September. Ternus didn't appear for any sort of handover, leaving Cook on the stage for his last big event at Apple's helm.