WWDC2025 - iOS26....

eeloe

WWDC next week, really looking forward to this.

Reports say a full redesign of the OS across all platforms.

VisionOS26, supposed to have a big emphasis on gaming?

Lets see what Monday holds.

PaulT21

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058415120/wwdc2025-ios26

As an  fanboy, I'm also looking forward to tonight announcement but I feel another let down coming. Apple really seem to have lost their edge in my opinion and I could be proved wrong. Everything is buggy and a new skin on the OS is not going to make this any better. The ongoing spat with the European regulators, which reduces functionality, is certainly not helping either 😐️

eeloe

I wonder are we going to get some of the Apple Intelligence features that never actually made it?

VisionOS should be big too, fingers crossed.

One eyed Jack

I think too a lot of the focus will be on gaming, it’s a market Apple have been trying to break into for a long time. I don’t think there will be much said about Vision OS, apart from its style now being carried over to Apple’s other product lines. I dunno where they might go with Apple Intelligence, they might want to avoid it altogether for fear it will undoubtedly draw attention to their previous over-promising and under-delivering. They might just leave any Apple Intelligence features till the announcement of the new iPhone later in the year (I could see Apple naming it the iPhone 26 to correspond with the rest of the branding makeover).

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123527793#Comment_123527793

You think?

I think Vision has been a massive flop for them and Apple are back to the drawing board on that, I'd be surprised if there's anything substantial spoken about. It's a confused and incredibly expensive mess.

eeloe

They need to give something to the early adopters who paid top dollar to get the original run of units, their excitement will them give them support to produce a cheaper "SE" unit for the regular consumers.

eeloe

Okay, here we go…

eeloe

I bet this f1 movie is going to be an immersive movie for VisionOS.

Itssoeasy

It really is amazing how all these people can use a load of words yet saying nothing.

eeloe

The new camera menu's look pretty great.

Itssoeasy

liquid glass and intuitive drinking game.

eeloe

Irish delivery drivers 100% aren't going to wait around for that call screening stuff….haha

One eyed Jack

The hell was that? 🤣

eeloe

The workout buddy looks good.

eeloe

Logitech Muse and PSVR2 controllers can be used with VisionOS26.

eeloe

Okay, iPadOS26 looks like a complete game changer.

Metalpanic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123529422#Comment_123529422

They’ve been talking about making it more like MacOS for a long time. I really like the implementation. It looks like it’ll be a big help for those using iPad for work.

One eyed Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123529422#Comment_123529422

It's as close to having macOS on iPad as people are going to get, I think.

Difficult to concentrate on the presentation with the dramatics and emphasis in speech all over the place; it's too rehearsed, would make me wish for the days when it was live, and not just pre-recorded before broadcast.

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123529444#Comment_123529444

I don’t like the way they do it now. We got about twenty people to cover a few things on each update.

Metalpanic

creates the illusion lots of things were released! I’m downloading the iOS beta now. 15GB, it’s a chonky one.

eeloe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123529748#Comment_123529748

i'm probably gonna wait for Public Beta 2 before installing on my phone. Use the phone as my car key and don't want to be stranded anywhere if it bugs out.

Metalpanic

Yeah good thinking. If you rely on it that much, better off waiting. So far beta 1 is ok, few visual glitches on springboard nothing major wrong that I’ve noticed so far. Keyboard a little less responsive too.

awec

Can pretty much guarantee that the transparency glass effect will be significantly reduced during the beta when Apple realise that nobody can actually read text on their phone.

The new design is seriously fugly, current one is miles better.

Eire Go Brach

I like what the have done with the apps. That you only see what you need. Camera app is a great example.

On the fence with the with the liquid glass. Fonts seem smaller.With the keyboard, characters are to small and to much space between them.

It feels like quite a same update apart from the gloss