Apple Reveals Dates of Tim Cook’s Final WWDC as CEO
Apple fans, mark your calendars: the company announced the dates for its next Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The event, known as WWDC 2026, will begin on June 8 and run through June 12. WWDC 2026 will likely highlight AI news, especially since Apple has already announced that it has chosen Google’s Gemini to power the next iteration of Siri. And this will be the final conference with Tim Cook at the helm of the company.
Apple isn’t expected to announce any iPhone news until at least September. The company typically uses WWDC to highlight software updates. The biggest update announced at WWDC 2025 was Liquid Glass, a glass-inspired design overhaul.
The keynote is scheduled for June 8 at 10 a.m. PT and will be available to stream on apple.com, the Apple TV app, and Apple’s YouTube channel. Other events will include the platforms’ State of the Union at 1 p.m. PT, also on June 8. The conference includes video sessions and guides, Group Labs, which are live online presentations and Q&A sessions led by Apple engineers and designers, the Apple Design Awards, and more.
An Apple representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
WWDC 2026 will be Cook’s final developer conference as CEO. In April, the company announced that John Ternus would take the reins in September. Ternus is the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. Cook became CEO in 2011, succeeding Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died two months later. Cook oversaw a period of record growth for the company.
Although Apple announced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, the company’s rollout of AI features has progressed more slowly than many investors and consumers expected. Rivals Samsung and Google have spent the past two years aggressively integrating generative AI into smartphones, search, productivity tools and mobile operating systems, giving them a significant head start in setting consumer expectations for AI-powered devices.
