Apple Sends Media Invites to WWDC 2026 Keynote

Apple on Monday sent members of the media invitations to this year’s WWDC keynote.

I got one, so I’ll be at Apple Park on June 8. I’ll be covering my 13th (🤯) WWDC.

Apple is expected to unveil the next generations of its panoply of operating systems.

In other WWDC news, Apple revealed the finalists for the Apple Design Awards. The ADAs, as the honors are colloquially known, celebrate numerous apps strewn across different categories, for their outstanding craftsmanship. One area is called Inclusivity, and one of the accessibility apps nominated this year is Hearing Buddy. From United States-based developer Lilly Seay, who has hearing loss, Apple describes Hearing Buddy as “shaped by experience, [as the] thoughtful app uses the Foundation Models framework and on-device speech-to-text features to quickly generate real-time captions and summaries of spoken conversations,” adding Seay’s software is “reliable, supportive, and easy to work with, it’s everything you need in a good buddy.”

Hearing Buddy is available on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.