Apple WWDC 2026: What to expect, what we don’t know
Apple WWDC 2026: What to expect, what we don’t know
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Publish Date: 2026-05-29 05:00:00
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Apple may not quite be the world’s most valuable company at the moment — that’s Nvidia — but it is still by far the world’s most scrutinized.
Thanks to a robust set of supply-chain leakers revealing every aspect of new Apple products before they arrive, an Apple launch event can often seem robbed of surprise. And in a normal year, Apple’s annual World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) is no exception.
But WWDC 2026 is not a normal year, and an unusual air of mystery still clings to the keynote. That’s not just because we don’t know whether Tim Cook, in his last WWDC as CEO, will hand the baton over to CEO-in-waiting John Ternus during the event.
Will Ternus get on-the-job training, keynoting side by side with Cook? Or will he take a lesser role, like he did introducing the iPhone Air last September?
Beyond that mystery, here are our three big burning questions for the Apple WWDC keynote, which kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Monday, June 8, 2026.
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Will we see the iPhone Fold (or Ultra) at all?
A hypothetical rendering of the iPhone Fold.
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The last we heard about the iPhone Fold, Apple’s late-to-the-party entry into the foldable smartphone market, its official launch date had been pushed back, likely until the holiday season. Given a global memory chip shortage, analysts have warned that the company may not have enough supply to satisfy demand until 2027.
Still, iPhone Fold prototypes exist (or iPhone Ultra, if one report is to be believed — the dueling names being just one example of Apple exerting an unusual amount of lockdown). Cook may reason that it makes sense to wow us with an early look at one, and end that confusion about the name.
After all, that’s what Steve…
