At WWDC 2025, Apple announced on Monday artificial intelligence features including opening up Apple Intelligence’s on-device Large Language Model (LLM) to developers in a modest update of its software and services, including a redesign across all of its operating systems that the company calls “Liquid Glass.”
Stephen Nellis and Kenrick Cai:
The presentations at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference focused more on incremental developments, including live translations for phone calls, that improve everyday life rather than the sweeping ambitions for AI that Apple’s rivals are marketing.
A year after it failed to deliver promised AI-based upgrades to key products such as Siri, Apple kept its AI promises to consumers low-key, communicating that it could help with tasks like finding where to buy a jacket similar to one they have seen online.
Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company will offer both its own and OpenAI’s code completion tools in its key Apple developer software and that the company is opening up the foundational AI model that it uses for some of its own features to third-party developers. “We’re opening up access for any app to tap directly into the on-device, large language model at the core of Apple [Intelligence],” Federighi said.
“In a moment in which the market questions Apple’s ability to take any sort of lead in the AI space, the announced features felt incremental at best,” Thomas Monteiro, senior analyst at Investing.com, said. Compared with what other big AI companies are introducing, he added, “It just seems that the clock is ticking faster every day for Apple.”
MacDailyNews Take: Two spontaneous comments we made from our live coverage yesterday describe WWDC25 in a nutshell:
Lots and lots of window dressing so far, as expected.
So. Much. Filler. (Was everyone at Apple on vacation for the past year?)
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Changes in appearance don’t get me excited about new operating systems. I guess we will have to see the impact across all the devices you use with the few actual new features.
Posted by someone that’s typically credible…but cannot believe this actually happened….
https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1932272119586717768
I was seriously considering replacing my 2019 Mac Pro (with it’s added bells & whistles) with the 2026 Mx series Mac Pro and adding what I needed.
However, with this lackluster Mac OS update and the fact that supposedly my 2019 Mac Pro will be supported by Mac OS Tahoe 26, I think I’ll likely hold out until the next iteration of Mac Pro. This old Mac Pro does everything I need it to do and likely will for a couple more years.
For people like me, it really is Apple’s loss.
Very annoying that auto correct replaced “its” with “it’s” and it is even more annoying that I didn’t catch it before I hit post. Auto correct is all to often “auto incorrect”, and all to often I don’t catch it.
Now we know Scott Forstall is back with Apple, out of sight, and traded in his skeumorphisms for liquid glass. The more things change, the more they stay the same
My first impression of this liquid glass is that is just makes everything harder to see and read, all obfiscated with scaled down opacity and more eye strain … a gooey mess on Apple devices. How the hell do they think transparency added with fake glass skeumorphistic treatments could pssibly make this more ‘readable’. Even the background bar at the top is once agains assaulted, but this time completely removed.