- No new iPhone anticipated, not even a touch, actually
- No apologies for the dangerous Apple Intelligence launch
- No Holy Grail merchandise like XR glasses or a glucose monitor
Subsequent week Apple hosts its Worldwide Developer’s Convention (WWDC) 2025, bringing collectively builders and media to focus on what’s new and what’s upcoming on the earth of All Things Apple. Apple makes a variety of stuff, and extra importantly, Apple makes the software program that runs all of it. Apple’s developer convention is about software program greater than anything, and {hardware} information will solely serve to broaden on Apple’s software program improvement.
If I have been a betting man, right here’s my secure guess for what new merchandise we’ll see at WWDC 2025: nothing! Apple nearly by no means launches {hardware} at WWDC. The one time we get one thing new at WWDC is when it serves to make the developer information extra fascinating.
After all, this yr’s software program information could possibly be very fascinating, with a serious redesign presumably within the playing cards for each Apple OS, plus a brand new naming scheme that can match the replace to the yr: ie. iOS 26 in 2026. Do we want new {hardware} to go along with the up to date interface? No, however it might generate extra pleasure.
With that in thoughts, right here’s what I don’t expect to see at WWDC 2025
No {hardware}, no new iPhone, not even the iPhone 17 Air
If you have been hoping for a sneak peak at the iPhone 17 Air, I’d extremely doubt that Apple will drop any hints about its rumored upcoming skinny cellphone. Even with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge now out there, I don’t suppose Apple will smash the shock coming in September, when it launches a drastically redesigned iPhone 17 household. Displaying off an iPhone 17 Air would give an excessive amount of away at present.
I additionally wouldn’t expect any new iPad fashions. Apple launched new iPad base fashions and new iPad Air tablets just lately, with sooner processors inside. There’s no motive to launch something new at WWDC 2025. Even the iPad Mini received a current refresh, so it’s uncertain we’ll see something new.
Sometimes Apple proclaims a brand new chipset at WWDC, just like the Apple M4 platform. That will be a superb motive to get a brand new Macbook Professional, or presumably an up to date iPad Professional mannequin. We haven’t gotten hints about this, so we’re not anticipating any new Macbook or iPad’s with an Apple M5, as an illustration.
There’s one lingering rumor about an up to date Apple Homepod, presumably with a constructed-in show. That will make sense for WWDC 2025 as a result of a brand new show means new prospects for builders to load apps. If there may be any {hardware} introduced subsequent week, that will be my high guess.
No apologies about Apple AI, and no backing down
If you suppose Apple Intelligence hasn’t been going properly, you’re proper, however I wouldn’t expect Apple to admit as a lot, and it definitely received’t be apologizing for any of the missteps to this point. The truth is, I expect we’ll see Apple barreling ahead with AI options at each degree of each single OS.
We’re going to get Apple Intelligence on the Apple Watch, together with extra AI on the iPhone, iPad, and MacBooks. The true query is whether or not Apple will preserve promising the identical options that by no means materialized – Siri’s potential to learn your e mail and your private information and supply you with tailor-made recommendation – or if there will probably be some new course, maybe with new partnerships to bridge the gaps in Apple’s capabilities.
I believe the latter is most probably, as builders proper now are eager on methods to combine present apps and options with AI. It is sensible for Apple to associate extra intently with corporations outdoors of OpenAI, whereas it continues to attempt to construct its personal AI infrastructure.
No holy grail, both in your wrist or your face
I expect Apple will discuss advances in Apple Well being on the Apple Watch, however I don’t expect any dramatic new capabilities will probably be introduced. We received’t see enhancements in glucose monitoring, as an illustration, or new {hardware} that may measure metabolic charges in non-invasive methods.
Apple nonetheless has a variety of catching up to do on its watch {hardware}. Google’s Put on OS watches and its companions have added options like zero pulse detection plus extra AI options, and battery life continues to climb on the Put on OS aspect. Apple has been a bit stagnant with its WatchOS progress.
I additionally wouldn’t expect new face wearables. No replace to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, and no new Apple Imaginative and prescient merchandise. It’s attainable that we’ll get improved controls for Imaginative and prescient Professional, and possibly even actual joystick controllers, however no new platform like XR good glasses.
