Apple will be hosting its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference at its headquarters in Cupertino, California from Monday, June 5 through Friday, June 9, the company announced on Wednesday.
The conference will begin with a “special all-day event”that includes the usual keynote presentation and state of the art talks on the platform. The language on Apple’s website suggests that, like last year, some or all of these will be presented as a pre-recorded video rather than a live presentation on stage.
After this first day, Apple will likely have various discussions about how developers can work with the company’s toolkits and APIs to support new and old features across Apple’s various platforms.
The main purpose of the annual WWDC keynote is usually to announce and explain the new features coming to the next versions of Apple’s operating systems for various platforms – in this case, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS 14.
It will almost certainly be the same this year. Sometimes Apple also announces new hardware or consumer services at WWDC, but not always.
There have been many reports over the past few months from reliable sources that Apple is looking to unveil its long-awaited mixed reality headset and related software for the first time at this WWDC. If so, we expect this to be the bulk of the keynote.
Even if that’s the case, the headset probably won’t be released this June. It’s far more likely that Apple will let you know what to expect from a future release (perhaps in September alongside new flagship iPhones, but possibly even later) so that developers can get started building apps, games, and experiences for the new platform.
WWDC also coincides with the Apple Swift Student Challenge, a coding competition for students. The deadline for applying for this challenge is April 19.
We will cover announcements as they come in on keynote day.