Apple's WWDC keynote was jam-packed with AI promises and unbridled ambitions. This year, the tech giant scaled back its Apple Intelligence messaging and made it crystal clear what we'd be getting – and not getting – in its latest software updates.

Apple slapped a new coat of paint on its operating systems at WWDC and called it good — but perhaps there was a chance that it actually had planned something entirely different.

Apple announced updates at a breakneck pace during WWDC 2025, so catch up on the latest Vision Pro news.

At WWDC 2025, Apple changed how we interact with our devices with the introduction of a new user interface it calls Liquid Glass. Apple CEO Tim Cook described it this way: “Expressive. Delightful. But still instantly familiar.”

Apple has yet to deliver on some of the key technology advances that could modernize developers' apps for the AI era.

On The Vergecast: the present, and future, of Apple’s software across all your devices. Siri not included. The tech world is full of cycles. Things are always bundling and unbundling, going from minimalist to maximalist, embracing nostalgia before diving head-first into the future. And right now, it appears, we’re doing glassy again.

If you weren't paying close attention to Apple's WWDC 2025 keynote, it was easy to miss one of the more notable stories out of the event. For a conference where it aims to show itself as an innovator,

Striking a balance between speed and caution, and ambitious and realistic is difficult. Apple may have just nailed it.