Apple’s WWDC starts today, with its keynote at 10 a.m. PT. Historically, the massive developer-focused occasion has been the place the corporate offers us a primary have a look at new software program for iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and Macs. However often we get some new {hardware}, too.
This 12 months appears set to be the latter, with loads of rumors circulating across the tech large’s mysterious augmented reality headset, a new 15-inch MacBook Air and the long-teased Apple silicon-powered Mac Pro.
As we depend down the remaining time till Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner pops up on stage and makes issues official, here is what we count on on the keynote tackle on June 5 and methods to watch it.
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When is WWDC?
This 12 months’s WWDC runs June 5 to 9. The opening keynote speech is ready for Monday at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. BST, 3 a.m. Tuesday AEST).
As with previous years, Apple will probably be streaming the keynote on its website and its YouTube web page. You may also comply with alongside on CNET’s WWDC 2023 live blog or tune in to our watch party.
What can we count on?
Apple headset
The largest rumor heading into this 12 months’s WWDC is, after all, the Apple headset. Rumored to be operating on a new “XROS,” the system may make the most of combined actuality, a mixture of digital actuality and augmented actuality. There could also be eye and hand monitoring, high-resolution shows and… a possible $3,000 price ticket.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recently detailed how Apple plans to include sports activities, gaming, exercises and iPad apps into the headset to point out off what the brand new platform can do. Whether or not that is sufficient to excite customers and persuade them to drop three grand or for builders to decide to constructing apps for it stays to be seen.
Learn extra: How Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset Could Immerse You in Sports
MacBook Air 15
The MacBook Air has lengthy been one in every of Apple’s hottest laptops. Continuously offered with a 13-inch display screen, Apple has experimented with totally different sizes of Airs previously, together with providing an 11-inch mannequin for years. Rumors as of late, nevertheless, recommend that the corporate has a bigger, 15-inch M2-powered Air raring to go. That when once more comes from Bloomberg’s Gurman, who expects the new laptop to be announced at this year’s event. It is about time.
Whereas rumors level to an imminent announcement, it is unclear how a lot Apple would possibly cost for the brand new Air or the way it would possibly match into the corporate’s current MacBook lineup. The 2020 M1-powered 13.3-inch MacBook Air remains to be offered for $999, whereas the up to date M2-powered 2022 13.6-inch MacBook Air begins at $1,199. A 16-inch MacBook Professional, in the meantime, begins at $2,499. May the 15-inch Air match someplace within the center?
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The 2019 “cheesegrater” Mac Professional is due an replace.
Oh, the Mac Professional. Apple final up to date the Mac Pro at WWDC in 2019. Regardless of some teases that confirmed it is engaged on a brand new one powered by its Apple Silicon chips, the corporate has largely been quiet concerning the tremendous highly effective pc. May the “one other day” be June 5? It is doable and Mac Professional followers could wish to tune in, however with tempered expectations.
In an April look on The MacRumors Show, Gurman, the Apple savant, means that it nonetheless could arrive this 12 months however not at WWDC.
New software program: iOS 17, WatchOS 10 and extra
Along with all of the {hardware} rumors, we will count on Apple to element the newest updates coming this 12 months to its iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS and TVOS platforms.
Among the many greater iOS modifications, Apple would possibly lastly add assist for putting in apps not downloaded from the App Retailer. The iPhone maker has long resisted opening up its mobile software to allow for sideloading, however new European rules could have pressured its hand.
Learn extra: iOS 17: Everything We Want Apple to Add to the iPhone
Different software program modifications Apple would possibly unveil embody a new mental health app in addition to widgets returning to the Apple Watch. Bloomberg has additionally reported on Apple possibly turning locked iPhones into smart displays with iOS 17.
For extra, take a look at our expectations for WatchOS 10 and iOS 17. Plus, every feature we think Apple should steal from Android 14 and will Apple enter the generative AI race?
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