Apple’s WWDC keynote was very different, but this will be the new normal

Yesterday’s WWDC 2026 keynote was a very different beast to its predecessors – and not just because the company spent more than ten minutes talking about child safety and screen time in response to growing concerns by regulators.

The structure of the keynote presentation was completely different to what we have seen in the past, but we can expect this to be the new normal …

Previous Apple WWDC keynotes looked at one operating system at a time. Take last year, for example – the sequence was:

Intro

iOS

watchOS

tvOS

macOS

visionOS

iPadOS

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