At this meeting, held on 13th June, We discussed Apple’s WWDC announcements including the new Liquid Glass design language coming to all Apple’s platforms. Members also brought up several other topics.
WWDC 2025
We talked about some of Apple’s many announcements from the 2025 World Wide Developer’s Conference. Some the highlights included:
- The new Liquid Glass design language unifying the look of all Apple’s platforms for the first time.
- OS version numbers being standardised on the coming year, so all the new OSes will be version 26.
- Live translation in Messages, FaceTime and Phone.
- New Phone features including call screening and hold assist.
- Major changes to iPad OS including windowing, menus and a pointer.
- A revamped Files app and Preview coming to iPad for the first time.
- macOS Tahoe 26 will be the last to support Intel Macs.
- Improvements to Spotlight on Mac including intelligent file and app suggestions, quick keys and clipboard history.
- Customise folder colours and identify with icons and emoji.
DaveK showed us the new Icon Composer which allows developers to create liquid glass icons for their apps. Apple have an interesting WWDC video about the new icon designs.
Apple also have the full WWDC presentation on their site and also a comprehensive section highlighting the new features and changes.
Member Topics
- DavidB found a USB-C to audio jack adapter (for connecting wired headphones to recent iPhones) for just £2 at Poundland.
- DavidB recommended Fountain of Youth on Apple TV+ and the new series 2 of The Gold on BBC iPlayer.
- DavidB noted that macOS 26 Tahoe is the last to support Apple’s Time Capsule disks (discontinued in 2018) for backups.
- DaveK mentioned searching for “dutch angle” on Google (I won’t spoil what it does, but look closely at the search results page).
- In addition Ben and DaveK mentioned the dolly zoom cinematic technique, famously used in Vertigo and Jaws.