WWDC 2026: How to watch live stream and what to expect of Apple’s first biggest event of 2025

Apple’s highly anitcipated annual Worldwide Developer Confrecen (WWDC) 2026 is set to begin today, Monday, June 8, with the tech giant poised to unveil significant andvancemnets across its software platfroms. Developers and Apple enthusiasts across the world are waiting to see what new featueers and design overhauls will be introduced in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS. Running through June 12, the event will feature keynote from Apple CEO Tim Cook at 10 a.m. PT (10.30 pm IST), streamed on Apple’s website, Developer app, and YouTube channel, alongside an in-person experience for select developers at Apple Park. Like every year, the event will be big of software. The keynote will be livestreamed on apple.com, the Apple TV app, and YouTube, with on-demand playback available afterward. Apple will also host more than 1,000 developers and students at Apple Park for a special in-person celebration on opening day.Following the keynote, Apple will present its Platforms State of the Union at 10 AM PT (10.30 PM IST) on June 8, offering developers a deeper dive into new tools and technologies across Apple's software platforms. The presentation will stream via the Apple Developer app, website, and YouTube channel.The Swift Student Challenge will again recognise 50 Distinguished Winners who will visit Apple Park for a special three-day experience.The Siri rebuild is the centrepiece, and the privacy asteriskInternally called Campo, the new Siri is meant to act less like a voice remote and more like an actual assistant. Per Gurman, it can pull data from across your iPhone—notes, calendar, contacts, past emails—and stitch it into a draft email or a scheduling reply. Ask if you're free Thursday before booking something, and Siri will check. You can also chain multiple commands into one prompt: weather, calendar event, message, all in a single ask. For a company that has spent years marketing on-device privacy, the Google-hosted backbone is the awkward bit—and something Apple will likely have to address on stage. Bloomberg also notes that Apple is labelling the assistant a "beta" internally, hinting at a slow rollout, possibly behind a waitlist.A new Search or Ask panel changes how you use the iPhoneSwipe down from the top centre of the iPhone and you'll no longer get notifications—you'll get Search or Ask, a typing-first AI interface that can launch apps, run shortcuts, search the web, or hand the query off to a chatbot. Notifications move to a top-left swipe. Per Bloomberg, users will be able to toggle between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini inside this panel—a first for Apple, which has so far only integrated ChatGPT. A standalone Siri app is also coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a chat-thread layout, iCloud sync, photo attachments and auto-deleting conversations. Apple is building its own web search engine inside Siri too, putting it on a collision course with Perplexity—a startup Gurman says Apple once considered acquiring.iOS 27 is Apple's Snow Leopard moment, with India quietly in the frameBeyond Siri, the release is being pitched as a stability pass. Gurman compares it to Mac OS X Snow Leopard and iOS 12—better battery life, fewer Liquid Glass readability quirks in macOS, faster Macs on Apple silicon. The Camera app gains a customisable widget bar and a Siri shortcut for Visual Intelligence, which now reads nutrition labels and contact cards. Photos picks up Extend, Reframe and Enhance tools. Wallet gets bill-splitting and a Create a Pass option. iOS 27 also quietly lays groundwork for a foldable iPhone later this year, and Bloomberg notes Apple is building more features for users in India, Indonesia and Malaysia—markets it has been actively trying to grow in.