The latest news from Apple’s keynote at WWDC 2017

Jun 5, 2017 15:45 GMT  ·  By

Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2017 event is about to start soon, and, as usual, we invite you to be part of our live blog if you want to find out what Apple has in store for the next major versions of its operating systems.

Apple has already announced that it will live stream its keynote speech on June 5, 2017, at 10 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) or 5 PM GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), where the Cupertino company will reveal some of the most exciting new features upcoming to the new iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, along with new services and products.

WWDC is Apple's annual developer conference that application developers from all over the world can attend and where they can take part in the future of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, as Apple prepared over 100 technical sessions, hands-on labs, and Apple Design Awards sessions during a five-day-long event that takes place between June 5 and June 9, 2015, in San Francisco, USA.

Many other events hosted by more than 1,000 Apple engineers are awaiting you at WWDC 2017, but today we'll try to cover the hottest moments of Apple's keynote speech in real time on this web page, so make sure that you bookmark it right now to be informed about the latest news from the two-hour event that's about to start very soon.

Please keep in mind that our live blog will update automatically, so you won't have to manually refresh the page every few minutes to see what's going on at the event, just watch and enjoy. Of course, you can also see the event live on Apple's Events page, but you'll need to meet some requirements first.

These include an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device running Safari 7.0 or later, a Mac computer powered by OS X 10.8.5 or higher and running Safari 6.0.5 or later, 2nd or 3rd generation Apple TV devices with tvOS 6.2 or later, 4th generation Apple TV, or a Windows PC running the latest Windows 10 operating system with the Microsoft Edge web browser.

That's wrap! Thank you everyone for following our live blog.

HomePod will cost $349 USD and will be available this year in December first in US, UK and Australia, and it's coming next year to the rest of the world.

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HomePod also acts as a home assistant.

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HomePod has direct access to the entire Apple Music library.

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HomePod is powered by an A8 chip to provide real-time acousting modeling, audio beam-forming and multi-channel echo cancellation.

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Meet HomePod!

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Apple is reinventing home music!

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The sixth and last announcement is about music.

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iOS 11 developer preview is available today!

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iOS 11 is also bringing better Apple Pencil support to iPad devices.

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iOS 11will provide a new app switcher, dock, drag and drop of images, links, text, etc., as well as a file manager on iPad devices.

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The new iPad Pro is available for preorder today and will be shipping next week with iOS 10, but you'll be able to upgrade it to iOS 11 this fall.

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iPad Pro is powered by an A10X Fusion chip that's extremely powerful.

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iPad Pro to feature ProMotion to enable a display rate of 120Hz.

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This is the new iPad Pro.

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Tim Cook is back on stage taking about iPad (5th announcement).

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We're now watching a demo of the augmented reality features coming to

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Augmented reality goodies are also coming to iOS 11.

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Thanks to CoreML, iPhone 7 is 6 times faster than Google Pixel or Samsung S8.

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The new App Store on iOS 11 looks really great!

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And here's the Games tab in action.

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We're now watching a demo of the new App Store's Today tab.

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This is how the new App Store looks like.

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The biggest change of iOS 11 is the new App Store.

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Apple Music will show you what your friends are listening to.

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You can now configure your home speakers on HomeKit.

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Apple puts safety first when driving your car so that iOS won't disturb you anymore.

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Maps is getting some new features too, supporting major airports and malls, along with navigation improvements and lane guiding.

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The Control Center is getting a revamp in iOS 11. It will be available as a single page on the entire screen.

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Various improvements are also coming to Live Photos.

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HEVC support is coming to the Camera app for video recording in iOS 11.

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Siri is now available in 21 languages and will get an improved voice engine.

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Send and recieve money from Messages app.

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Always synced messages, on all of your devices.

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Redesigned app drawer.

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Let's talk about iOS 11 and its amazing new features! (4th announcement)

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iMac Pro will boast Radeon Vega graphics, up to 18-core Xeon processor, 128GB ECC memory, and much more! Will be available for purchase in December 2017 for $4,999 USD.

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Here's the most powerful Mac ever made, the iMac Pro.

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New iMac and MacBook Pro line up is available starting today!

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John Knoll from Industrial Light & Magic is on stage to demo the new VR capabilities supported by the new iMacs.

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iMacs are getting a major update later this year, powered by macOS High Sierra.

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A developer Beta of macOS High Sierra is available today for all registered developers if they choose to install it from their Apple Developer accounts!

Apple is bringing Metal for VR (Virutal Reality) with macOS High Sierra, working with Valve to offer SteamVR support, as well as with Epic Games to provide support for Unreal Engine.

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Metal 2 graphics engine is coming to macOS High Sierra too for amazing gaming, machine learning, and video playback capabilities.

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Apple is bringing APFS (Apple File System) to macOS High Sierra!

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Mail and Photos app will get major updates as part of the macOS High Sierra operating system too.

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macOS High Sierra is coming later this year with a major update of the Safari web browser, which promises to be the fastest of them all, especially Google Chrome.

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Apple now introduces macOS 10.13 codename High Sierra. (3rd announcement)

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Tim Cook is on stange teasing us about the next major release of macOS.

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A developer preview of watchOS 4 is available today for registered developers!

New music app, three new faces, multiple outdoor activities, and much more are coming to watchOS 4 later this year. We're now watching a demo of some of these new features.

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Apple now introduces us to watchOS 4 and it's new features.

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The second announcement is about Apple Watch, which is now the number one selling smartwatch.

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The announcements start with tvOS, as Tim Cook just announced that Amazon is coming to Apple TV.

"We have a lot to talk about today" says Tim Cook teasing us with six big announcement about iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.

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This is the youngest application developer. He's only 10 years old and already has 5 apps on the App Store.

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"This will be the biggest ever WWDC" says Tim Cook.

Tim Cook is now on stage to kick off WWDC 2017 and welcome all developers that made it to the event this year!

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We're watching some sort of promotion video right now...

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And we are live at WWDC 2017. The event is about to start in a few moments so get ready for some hot announcements about iOS 11 and macOS 10.13.

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WWDC 2017 starts in a little over an hour with Apple's keynote. Stay tuned!

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