Apple WWDC 2026 starts June 8: iOS 27, the new Siri, and more expected at this year's Apple's developers conference

Apple has confirmed that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will run from June 8 to June 12 this year, with a keynote on the opening day at Apple Park in Cupertino. The event will stream live on Apple's website, the Developer app, and YouTube—so no ticket required for most people.This year's conference is shaping up to be one of Apple's more important ones in recent memory, even if the software itself is rumoured to be relatively restrained.The biggest story heading into WWDC 2026 is what Apple is not planning to do. Rather than stack in new features, iOS 27 is said to be a stability-first release—similar in spirit to macOS Snow Leopard from 2009, which Apple used to quietly clean house after years of accumulated code debt. Engineers are reportedly rewriting chunks of the OS, squashing bugs, and targeting better battery life even on older iPhones.That said, iOS 27 will still lay the groundwork for the iPhone Fold, which is expected to launch later this year. Side-by-side multitasking support is in the works, though it'll be tied to the foldable hardware and likely won't mean much for standard iPhone users at launch.The feature everyone's actually waiting for is the new Siri. Apple reportedly wants to turn it into a full conversational chatbot—complete with an app-style interface that goes head-to-head with ChatGPT and Gemini. Internally, Apple has been testing it under the codename "Campos." The activation method stays the same, but what happens after you trigger Siri is supposed to look very different.Google's Gemini is reportedly serving as the foundation for Apple's next generation of AI models, which also ties into a planned replacement for the CoreML framework—to be called CoreAI. Whether all of this lands in polished form at WWDC or remains a work-in-progress is the big question.On the Mac side, macOS 27 will be Apple Silicon-only. Every Intel Mac is now more than five years old, so the cut wasn't unexpected—but it's still a line in the sand. Rosetta 2 will stick around for one more cycle, keeping Intel-era apps running on M-series hardware.Hardware announcements aren't expected to dominate the show, though updated Mac mini and Mac Studio models—powered by M5 and M5 Pro chips respectively—could make an appearance if Apple hasn't released them before June.WWDC 2026 kicks off at 10:30pm IST on June 8.