I’m back for another year with a grab bag of my favorite announcements from this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference. It was a great week with lots to be excited about from Apple. Here’s what I’m looking forward to most.

Liquid Glass: The design of Apple’s operating systems developed iteratively from iOS 7 to the point that it felt like it had reached its logical end point – that is, until visionOS showed up and brought something totally new. I’m excited to see the other platforms adopting the nicest visual cues from visionOS, and I’ll be interested to see how the new design language develops over the beta period. It’s very pretty and has the potential to be an amazing next step for Apple design.
Widgets on Vision Pro: One of the low-hanging wishlist items I had when reviewing visionOS 2 last year was for the platform to add widgets. I love having glanceable information on my phone’s Home Screen and in the Smart Stack on my watch, but extending that capability to the real world with visionOS makes so much sense. I’m going to be spending a lot of time with these widgets over the summer to see what they can do and how developers implement them in a spatial setting.
iPad Multitasking: iPad fans have had our hearts broken one too many times to believe that this could actually be the year iPadOS gets a fully baked multitasking solution, but the folks at Apple really did it. The new multitasking framework is intuitive and powerful, and it even works on my fifth-generation iPad mini. We’re in the best timeline, people.
Spatial Scenes: It’s no secret that I adored spatialized photos when they debuted on visionOS last year. Spatial scenes take that technology up a notch and expand it to all of Apple’s platforms. I can already tell I’m going to be tearing up at new perspectives on old photos in no time.
Apple TV Profile Picker: Getting someone else’s watch queue mixed up with mine is one of my pet peeves, so I’ll definitely be enabling the profile picker by default when waking up my Apple TV from now on.
Live Activities and Widgets in CarPlay: I’ve long wished for these glanceable bits of information to carry over from the phone to the car, and now they’re here – no CarPlay Ultra required. Having my day plan from Structured on my dashboard is going to be awesome.
Order Tracking in Wallet: If Apple Intelligence can automatically track all of my packages for me, the AI boom will have been worth it.
Third-Party Controls on Apple Watch and Mac: The expansion of Control Center to include third-party apps on the iPhone last year led to a lot of fun tinkering and, ultimately, utility for me. Now, the Apple Watch and Mac are set to get the same third-party app support, and I think I’ll find them just as useful.

Those are my favorite announcements from WWDC. As you can tell, I’m really happy about them. My colleagues and I are going to have a busy summer testing and reviewing these updates before they release to everyone this fall.

What were your favorite new feature announcements from WWDC? I’d love to hear what you’re looking forward to!