iOS Developer Needs to Know

WWDC 2026

Apple held WWDC 2026

Siri AI

Siri got its biggest update ever — now called Siri AI, rebuilt with system-wide understanding and on-screen awareness. It’s powered by Google Gemini and comes as a standalone app. It can read what’s on your screen and take action across apps.

iOS 27

App launches are up to 30% faster and it supports every device that ran iOS 26 — all the way back to iPhone 11. Liquid Glass got refined with a new opacity/intensity slider.

macOS Golden Gate

macOS 27 is called Golden Gate

SwiftUI Updates

Less code, better performance. @State now initializes lazily. AsyncImage finally has built-in caching — no third-party library needed. Build times in Xcode 27 got faster.

Xcode 27

Device Hub — manage all your connected devices in one place On-device AI code completion — works offline, no internet needed.