Apple WWDC 2023 is official, with the beginning date for Apple’s weeklong occasion set for June 5, 2023.

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Convention is the corporate’s main {industry} occasion, usually chock stuffed with panels and tech demos for Apple software program builders to find out about new adjustments to OS options and the underlying programming languages. However often we do get additionally get massive product bulletins through the occasion.

The 2 most certainly {hardware} bulletins are a brand new Mac Professional and the long-awaited Apple VR headset, which is rumored to be known as the Apple Actuality Professional. However some current rumors have thrown the announcement of the latter in date, with the AR/VR headset probably now pushed again to later within the yr.

Whereas that may be disappointing – notably because the WWDC 2023 invite seems to trace on the lenses utilized in VR goggles – there shall be loads of software program treats on the occasion to maintain Apple followers completely satisfied. These ought to embody iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 14, watchOS 10 and tvOS 17.

The occasion shall be on-line for all registered builders, with a particular in-person occasion on June 5 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California.

Final yr, Apple unveiled the Apple M2 chip, together with the brand new MacBook Air and MacBook Professional 13-inch. In 2019, Apple debuted a brand new Mac Professional as properly, and it’s extremely doable {that a} new Mac Professional with M2 Extremely chip could be proven off. 

Apple is being characteristically tight-lipped about it, so we will not say something for certain but. Nonetheless, there are any variety of merchandise that Apple may exhibit on the occasion, and these are among the most certainly in our opinion.

Reduce to the chase

• What’s it? Apple’s annual developer convention
• When is it? June 5 – 9, 2023
• How can I register or watch? House for the in-person occasion is proscribed however you may request to attend on Apple’s Developer website (opens in new tab). The net model shall be free for everybody to look at.

Newest WWDC 2023 information

March 30: Rumors from dependable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo counsel that some delays to manufacturing of the Apple AR/VR headset have created “uncertainty” across the machine showing at WWDC 2023.

March 29: Apple broadcasts the dates for the WWDC 2023, which is able to begin on June 5 and run by to June 9. The keynote, which traditionally comprises all the massive information, will happen on June 5.

WWDC 2023 dates

Apple has introduced that its developer convention will happen Monday, June 6 by Friday, June 10. 

Apple recurrently schedules its annual five-day convention for June, so it wasn’t a shock to anticipate to see WWDC round this time once more. 

For those who’re primarily within the massive bulletins, Apple has mentioned the WWDC 2023 keynote will happen on June 5 – we’ll replace this web page with the precise timings as quickly as they’re introduced.

Newest WWDC 2023 rumors

The {hardware} rumors

Possible: Mac Professional (2023)

Final yr, hopes have been excessive for a brand new Mac Professional at WWDC 2022, which is historically an {industry} convention greater than a client product occasion. 

A Mac Professional, which is an industry-grade workstation costing a gajillion {dollars} (okay, not actually), is completely fitted to a debut earlier than all of the builders who may fairly be engaged on one or at the very least growing with that workstation in thoughts.

It is also the final main Apple product that hasn’t converted to Apple’s in-house silicon, so it is sensible to lastly lower ties with Intel and put out a brand new Mac Professional 2023 workstation PC.

Possible: Apple M2 Extremely

Along with the brand new Mac Professional, we anticipate that an M2 Extremely SoC may even be proven off at WWDC 2023. Apple has already revealed the M2, M2 Professional, and M2 Max chips, with an M2 Extremely the final remaining tier of silicon to debut.

If it is something just like the M1 Extremely, it is going to be two M2 Max chips interconnected to successfully double the ability of that chip, which makes it applicable for a workstation PC just like the high-end Mac Studio. The latter machine makes use of the M1 Extremely, but it surely’s not clear that this type of chip is highly effective sufficient for the form of factor that industrial customers want.

The 2019 Mac Professional had a max capability of 1.5TB of reminiscence. The M-series chips use unified reminiscence and if the M2 Extremely is 2 M2 Max chips fused collectively, then its max unified reminiscence would solely be 256GB. That is not practically sufficient to edit a significant Hollywood movie or rating an orchestral piece with a whole lot of samples, all of which require a number of reminiscence.

Nonetheless, if the M2 Extremely goes to seem, WWDC 2023 makes essentially the most sense.

Potential: A brand new iMac

Lastly, on the computing facet, there actually is simply the iMac.

The iMac (24-inch) debuted two years in the past powered by the then-new M1 chip, so it is positively due for an improve. Its daring colour choices positively made it successful, particularly with me, however that colour pattern appears to have all however vanished ever since.

We might like to see a purple iMac (M2), however this one is much less probably than a Mac Professional in our e book.

Potential: Apple Actuality Professional

Rumors about an Apple VR headset have been rising steadily this yr – and the WWDC 2023 invite seems to trace on the lenses utilized in some VR goggles. 

However whereas many dependable analysts have urged that the Apple Actuality Professional headset (because it’s rumored to be known as) would debut at WWDC 2023, some newer rumors counsel manufacturing delays may see it miss Apple’s massive developer convention.

Proper now, its look at WWDC appears within the stability, however we anticipate to listen to extra within the run-up to June. 

The software program rumors

iOS 17

Apple will nearly definitely be introducing iOS 17 at WWDC 2023, which would be the subsequent leap within the iPhone’s working system.

It now feels like iOS 17 could possibly be a much bigger replace than we initially thought, with one analyst claiming that it will ship a number of of the “most requested options” from Apple followers.

Precisely what these are stays to be see, however anticipate to see some vital updates to current iPhone staples, like CarPlay, Siri and Messages. For some deeper evaluation of the way you’re iPhone may quickly change, take a look at our seven needs for iOS 17 information.

macOS 14

Yearly for the final decade, Apple has introduced a brand new model of the software program that powers its Macs – and we anticipate it to be an analogous story at WWDC 2023.

Whereas macOS typically lags behind iOS in the case of new options, that does imply we’ve got some hints of what could be coming to Apple’s desktop OS. This might embody extra versatile desktop widgets which might be allowed to interrupt free from the Notification Heart, or possibly even a model of the Dynamic Island for Apple laptops.

It is nonetheless early days for macOS 14 rumors, however we’re anticipating to listen to extra as we get nearer to WWDC 2023 and the working system’s probably full launch date in October or November 2023.