The last Apple conference was long in new products for your devices. Between transparent design and intelligent features, here is our summary of the evening.
If you have not followed the WWDC conference, you have missed a whole bunch of new products on your favorite Apple devices. The Cupertino firm has multiplied the announcements concerning the next versions of its operating systems on smartphone, computer, TV, watch and mixed reality headset.
First of all, a big change in the name of the versions of the Apple bones. The firm has made the choice, like Samsung in its time with its Galaxy smartphones, to assign operating systems the number of the coming year. You will therefore not see any mention of iOS 19 in this article, but iOS 26! This applies to all the operating systems of the company with the upcoming arrival of Watchos 26, TVOS 26, MacOS 26, etc …
Liquid Glass, a new look for your Apple devices
Among the new features inherent in the entire Apple range, there is a big change of designs concerning the menus and buttons. This completely unprecedented design is baptized Liquid Glass and is inspired by the transparent of the glass to offer much more rounded and floating menus rather than simply juxtaposed at a corner of your device. A URL bar on Safari, for example, will no longer be attached to the bottom of your iphonebut floating above your web page.
Apple Intelligence is enriched
Although many Internet users awaited ads on Apple Intelligence, the firm’s AI will not have been at the heart of the keynote. Several new features have still been announced, notably with live translation or an integrated Google Lens with Visual Intelligence which allows you to find objects that you have photographed on the net. The shortcut application will also be able to use Apple Intelligence in order to be able to use AI in a thousand and one ways. Finally, Apple Intelligence now integrates eight additional languages with Chinese (traditional), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
iOS 26 emphasizes messages and the phone
The new features of iOS 26 are particularly thought of around communications. If the firm has communicated some updates to come on Carplay, Apple Music and Apple Cards, the majority of new functions can be found in Imessage and Phone.
Your discussions on iMessage are enriched like WhatsApp with the integration of themes. Users will be able to establish wallpapers according to their choice but also take advantage of polls directly integrated. The messages of unknown numbers will now be grouped in a single file to favor your contacts.
On the phone side, iPhone owners will now be able to take advantage of a real -time translation, especially in FaceTime, in telephones communications, but also in messages.
On your iPhone, it will now be possible to indicate the reason for a call. Your interlocutor will then be able to see the latter during the ringtone and decide whether or not to answer. It is also possible to put a call and notify yourself when the latter is supported.
MacOS 26 has a facelift with Tahoe
The new version of MacOS is called Tahoe. She joined the Liquid Glass design for her menus, her control center, her dock, but also her widgets. The menus also benefit from a more rounded design.
The phone application for Mac integrates more on the computer. Users will now be able to find their voice messages, their contacts, but also make a call or answer directly from their Mac. Difficult to know, however, whether this feature will be available in the European Union.
The Spotlight research is also enriched with the integration of all directly visible and integrated applications. Are you on an application? Use Spotlight to make an action from another application without leaving the previous one. It is also possible to search for a functionality of your application through Spotlight. Practical when you are looking for a particular parameter.
Finally, live translations and the improvement of shortcuts with Apple Intelligence are also added to MacOS 26 for more possibilities for users.
iPados 26 transforms your tablet into a computer
The iPados 26 update also benefits from the new Liquid Glass design with transparent designs, especially on the hours of the lock screen which also incorporates a new 3D effect into your photos.
The big novelty to come on ipad comes from the application window system that can now be resized or placed as you see fit in the way of computer windows. Users can always take advantage of a display of multiple windows in order to increase their productivity, but also to connect their iPad to an external screen as a real computer. The iPad also becomes able to manage large tasks in the background.
iPados 26 also incorporates live translations, improved shortcuts and new better integrated and transparent menus. Message and telephone applications take advantage of the same news as on iOS 26.
Watchos 26 wants to encourage you to move
The features announced for the Apple Watch are a little wiser. In addition to the new Liquid Glass design, the integration of real -time translation and the improved control panel, Watchos 26 puts the emphasis on “Workout Buddy”.
“Workout Buddy” is a voice assistant available in sports training on your connected watch. This assistant can speak to you during your exercises to motivate you or remind you of your progress in relation to your previous sessions. Among the sentences mentioned by Apple, “Workout Buddy” can motivate you with in particular: “Sixth kilometer. You have improved your look and ran the last kilometer in 5 minutes and 45 seconds.” or “Do you realize? Your total race distance for the year has just passed the 350 km mark. It’s a great performance!”.
A new gesture also appears. When you receive a notification that you want to put on hold, simply rotate your wrist up or down to ignore the notification without erasing it from your watch.
Your airpods get richer and control your camera
The AirPods also take advantage of the Apple Keynote to have new features. The firm first announced that AirPods audio recordings will be “quality studio” to help people who perform interviews, music or podcasts with the microphone of their airpods.
Finally, if you want to take a photo from your iPhone, it is now possible to control the camera by pressing the rod of your airpods.
Visionos 26 enriches the possibilities of the vision pro helmet.
Finally, Apple has also announced several small innovations for its vision pro helmet. The latter now benefits from widgets fully integrated into your environment. It is, for example, possible to place a weather widget in a corner of your kitchen and the latter will remain there. The Persona also makes a facelift with large improvements for the return of your face within the applications that support them.