ZDNET's WWDC 2025 recap with Sabrina Ortiz and Jason Hiner

Apple has established itself as a tech-giant with over 2.35 billion active devices worldwide. Much of the devices' appeal lies in the operating systems underlying it -- and that's why Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference is always one to keep up with. 

At this year's WWDC, Apple unveiled a slew of new features across iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, VisionOS, and iPadOS, including the first major iOS redesign in 13 years, which will give your iPhone an entirely new feel and look based on Apple's new "Liquid Glass" motif inherited from the Vision Pro. And this year, the same redesign will propagate across all of Apple's operating systems, which all get a common renaming scheme based on the year (iOS 26, MacOS 26, WatchOS 26, etc.). 

Catering to years of user requests, Apple also released highly anticipated iPadOS features geared toward iPad power users by making the ...