Last Minute WWDC 26 Hopes & Dreams

User Interface

• Liquid Glass is more opaque
• Liquid Glass no longer switches between light and dark automatically (just match the environment settings of the current view)
• Liquid Glass is tappable where you expect it to be
• Support for Action Buttons next to the Tab Bars
• Tab Bars support more than 5 items gracefully (see Indigo’s tab bar)
• Tab Bars support additional interaction (e.g. tap a search tab twice to focus a search field)
• A Sidebar / Drawer style UI Component on iOS
• Animated Zoom Transitions to be more configurable (disable certain gestures, reduce bounce duration)
• Improved SwiftUI List performance
• Improvements to SwiftUI List Scroll Position management
• SwiftUI UICollectionView equivalent
• SwiftUI support for per-view rotation locking
• UI Hierarchy to be less stupid on macOS

Developer

• Generate SF Symbols from text prompts
• Automatic Small Business Program Enrolment
• No more TestFlight App Review
• iOS and Mac builds go through App Review simultaneously
• Vastly improved support for cross-app subscriptions and IAP

Camera & Photos

• Night Mode API
• Photographic Styles API
• API for arbitrary photo metadata (Star Ratings, Tags)

Hardware

• New AppleTV with improved performance and a remote with Precise Find My support
• Apple gives me a free Mac Studio for my troubles
• Apple invents a new kind of RAM that exists

General

• Ethically trained AI models
• Apple get’s less prudish about adult content
• Completely revamp Contacts to make sense for the modern social world
• Apple acknowledges how badly they’ve fucked up developer relations over the last ~5 years